The AAA Mega Championship will be on the line on AEW Dynamite this week. AEW has announced that Kenny Omega will defend his AAA Mega title against Sammy Guevara on Dynamite this Wednesday. It will be the first time the title has been defended on Dynamite and the second time it’s been defended in AEW. Omega became the AAA Mega Champion by defeating Fenix at Heroes Inmortales in October. He defended the title against Jack…
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Boris Johnson addresses the United Nations Johnson speaks about the power of technology, for good and bad Johnson flies home immediately after to deal with Supreme Court ruling Donald Trump addressed UN first thing on Tuesday morning Trump later found himself the target of an impeachment inquiry Both men have brushed off the political crises Boris Johnson joked on Tuesday that if some members of parliament had their way Brexit would be an endless process…
The disgraced former leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party, Heinz Christian Strache, has announced that he is leaving the party and quitting politics, after a whirlwind of scandals centred around him led to a drubbing in national elections on Sunday. Speaking to a hastily gathered press conference on Tuesday morning, Mr Strache said that he had been brought down by a “smear campaign” that had been orchestrated in “cowardly anonymity”. Speculation had been swirling that the…
A "zombie" disease which makes deer become emaciated and more aggressive may sound like the opening to a horror film. But experts have warned the deadly disease has already affected 24 US states – and could spread to humans next. Nevada has now become the latest US state attempting to block the highly contagious disease from taking hold with experts warning the outbreak could destroy deer and elk populations. Chronic wasting disease (CWD), as it…
Early results suggest Poland’s conservative government has retained its parliamentary majority, allowing it to forge ahead with a controversial programme of reforms that has put the country on a collision course with the EU. The ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party was in the lead in Sunday’s parliamentary election with 49.3 per cent of votes, according to partial official results calculated on the basis of 42 per cent of the constituencies and published early on Monday. The…
Three people have died in a fire inside a supermarket during a second night of violent protests in the Chilean capital. Santiago’s mayor Karla Rubilar confirmed they were killed when a store was looted in the suburb of San Bernardo, the first deaths in a wave of unrest that has seen metro stations destroyed, buses set alight and shops ransacked across the city. The violence was sparked by rise in metro fares to 830 pesos (£0.90),…
On a continent where political parties have mostly either been anti-colonial liberation movements or vehicles created to propel their leaders to power, South Africa’s Democratic Alliance has been an exception. It is one of the few to promote a liberal agenda that espouses economic growth and reform as the best way to redress apartheid’s legacy of gross inequality. Yet, after the resignation of its two most prominent black leaders this week, the future of South…
Venezuela is being kept afloat by hundreds of millions of dollars shipped from Russia, reports suggest, as it struggles to survive crippling US sanctions. A total of $315 million (£245 million) in dollar and euro notes were sent in six separate shipments from Moscow to Caracas from May 2018 to April 2019, according to data from ImportGenius, which compiled Russian customs records obtained through private sources. The data was reviewed by Bloomberg. The cash came from…
People have been warned to be careful when talking themselves up on dates as Australia’s biggest state considers law reforms that would mean sexual consent obtained through lying would be invalid and potentially lead to lengthy prison terms. The New South Wales Law Reform Commission has recommended reforms to the state’s laws on consent, including: "We propose that the law should provide that a person who is fraudulently induced to participate in sexual activity does…