Liverpool born poet and writer Michael Walsh traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. This was the year his Irish great-grandmother arrived in the Second City of Empire. His parents were born at the turn of what was to become the most tumultuous century in history. Michael's father, Patrick, fought in three major conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. His mother, Kathleen, was a former nun turned gun-running renegade.
On leaving school at 15 years of age, Michael spent 12 weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. During his years at sea, he was to visit and work in over 60 countries.
The journalist and broadcaster since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded Writer of the Year by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest-circulation newspaper of its kind. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 70 book titles.
A senior Russian lawmaker has revived discussion about how Russia could level the playing field by basing Russian military equipment close to the United States to balance out NATO forces positioned near Russia’s borders despite promises made on March 6, 1991according to documents published in Der Spiegel (The Mirror) today.
America’s wilful ignorance of atrocities being committed against Russian-speaking people in Ukraine is causing outrage and indignation in Moscow and is an example of Washington’s double standards, Russia’s ambassador to the US claimed on Thursday.
BREAKING NEWS: Eleven passengers were missing and two missing after a blaze engulfed a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy early on Friday. Firefighters were still battling to rescue people trapped on the ship, authorities said.
Demonstrators demanding an end to vaccine mandates and the sacking of the government. Several anti-vaccine-mandate marches were organized by the Convoy to Canberra movement in the Australian capital of Canberra on Saturday. Groups of civil rights activists moved in several directions in the city centre, blocking traffic and converged near the parliament buildings.
Ottawa Police accuse anti-mandate protesters of bringing violence upon themselves by refusing to obey orders and being assaultive and aggressive toward officers and horses. The statement comes after shocking video footage showed the officers beating protesters and mowing them down on horseback.
What is a directed-energy weapon? A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices.
A document confirms US told Russia NATO won’t expand. Russian President Vladimir Putin was right, NATO head Stoltenberg lied: NATO brazenly deceived Russia about NATO expansion. A newly discovered document from March 1991 shows US, UK, French, and German officials discussing a pledge made to Russia that NATO will not expand to Poland and beyond. Its publication by the German magazine Der Spiegel on Friday unarguably proves Moscow right and NATO wrong on the matter.
One of the fishermen feared dead when a Spanish fishing vessel sank off the Newfoundland coast earlier this week was the sole survivor of another maritime tragedy in Galway Bay over two decades ago. In October 2000, Ricardo Arias Garcia, a native of Marin in Spain, was plucked from the Skerd Rocks in outer Galway Bay by the Irish Coast Guard helicopter operating from Shannon.
In April last year, there were not enough chairs for von der Leyen to sit down at a meeting in Turkey with Erdogan and Michel. The Turkish side explained back then that the meeting may have taken place in a room not prepared for the event. The discomfiture continued after von der Leyen was relegated to a sofa, thus giving it the name ‘sofagate.’
MOSCOW, 17 February 2022: Maria Zakharova called the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s assessments of mass graves in Donbas blasphemy. Statements by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about mass graves of civilians in Donbas are irresponsible and blasphemous. This was announced on February 17 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
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