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MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ Each September, Mexicoβs president appears before a crowd of tens of thousands in the nationβs central square to perform the grito, the shout of independence commemorating the countryβs break from colonial rule. This year, for the first time, a woman will lead the masses in chants of βLong live Mexico!β Mondayβs ceremony in Mexico…
A senior Labour MP has written to the foreign secretary demanding answers about the vetting process for UK diplomats in the wake of Peter Mandelson’s sacking as US ambassador. Emily Thornberry, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, has outlined a series of questions in a letter to Yvette Cooper about the appointment of Lord…
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The UK government has announced more than Β£1.25bn in private US investment in the UK’s financial services sector ahead of US President Donald Trump’s second state visit. The new US investments are expected to create 1,800 jobs and boost benefits for millions of customers across the country, the UK government said. The deal secures Β£20bn…
The cultural legacy of the 1984 rock-mock-doc βThis Is Spinal Tapβ is of sufficient amplitude that, to give the bandβs guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) his knob-twiddling due, itβs gone way past 11. Perennially quotable, ad-libbed to Brit-accented perfection by co-creators Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer and finessed into an iconic spoof by director…
π Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app π He may have described himself as a “fighter not a quitter”, but even Peter Mandelson couldn’t survive new and lurid revelations about his relationship with convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The ultimate political animal, Lord Mandelson was no stranger to scandal – having twice been…
What seemed like an impossible matchup a few years ago is now a reality: SaΓΊl βCaneloβ Γlvarez and Terence βBudβ Crawford will face off in a fight that promises to break audience records. The highly anticipated duel will take place on Saturday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, where the Mexican will put his WBC,…
Britain’s biggest online diamond jewellery retailer is exploring the sale of a stake in the business to outside investors for the first time in its 69-year history. Sky News has learnt that The Diamond Store, which is owned by its founding family, is working with advisers on a process to bring in new backers amid…
Professor Kevin Waite had just finished a seminar on the run-up to the American Civil War on Friday morning when a student cautiously raised her hand. βCan I ask about the Charlie Kirk situation?β she said in Waiteβs classroom at the University of Texas at Dallas. The student, he said, wondered whether recent events carried…
In βAm I Roxie?,β a world premiere one-woman-show at the Geffen Playhouse, Roxana Ortega, a working actress and alum of the Groundlings Theatreβs Sunday Company, revisits the period in her life when she was the caregiver for her mother, whose memory was unraveling. When Ortegaβs father died of a sudden heart attack outside the post…
