British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday cancelled a planned trip to India, scheduled to take place next week, saying it was a sensible move in light of a surge in COVID-19 infections there.
India is enduring a second wave of the virus, with infections passing the 15 million mark, second only to the United States. Delhi is due to go into lockdown on Monday night. read more "(Indian Prime Minister) Narendra Modi and I have basically come to the conclusion that, very sadly, I won’t be able to go ahead with the trip," Johnson told reporters. "I do think it’s only sensible to postpone." Johnson had already postponed the trip once from January, when COVID-19 infections were high in Britain. A joint statement from the British and Indian government said the trip had been cancelled. "Instead, Prime Ministers Modi and Johnson will speak later this month to agree and launch their ambitious plans for the future partnership between the UK and India." Relations with India are seen as a key component of both Britain's post-Brexit ambitions to reinvigorate trade with countries outside the European Union, and a diplomatic push to gain more influence in the Indo-Pacific region. "Of course it will be frustrating, but we’ll try and replicate as much as we can remotely, and then look forward to doing it in person as and when circumstances allow, and hopefully before the COP (climate) summit in November, and hopefully we’ll get Narendra Modi over for the G7 in June," Johnson said. Britain has invited India to attend the G7 summit it is hosting in June. British health officials said on Sunday they were investigating a COVID-19 variant originating in India, but they did not yet have enough evidence to classify it is as a variant of concern.
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Last week, an IT contractor for Dominion Voting Systems was called upon by the Trump campaign to testify at a Michigan hearing on so-called voter fraud. Video of Mellissa Carone’s over-the-top testimony, which included accusations that she saw “hundreds if not thousands of dead people vote,” soon went viral, and she was lampooned on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend.
But Inside Edition spoke with a woman who doesn’t find anything funny about Carone at all. Jessica Stackpoole, 44, told Inside Edition that she has been in court with Carone over the past three years “probably 40-50 times.” It all stems from a 2018 case in which Carone was charged with obscenity for allegedly emailing sexually explicit videos to Stackpoole, who is Carone’s fiance’s ex-wife. "There were three different video clips, they are approximately three to seven minutes long,” Stackpoole told Inside Edition. - Inside Edition President-elect Joe Biden reaffirmed his commitment to racial justice and pledge to create an administration that reflects the diversity of America during a meeting with civil rights leaders Tuesday, said Marc Morial, the president of the National Urban League.
He told reporters after the meeting that the civil rights leaders "heard the reaffirmation of a commitment by President-elect Biden to make history when it comes to appointments" by selecting more Black and Latino people for his administration than any before. "We pushed very hard on that. We will continue to push very hard on that. It is central to, we think, his ability to make progress on racial justice," Morial said.Asked about prospects for attorney general, civil rights leaders said they want to see Biden select a Black appointee or someone with what Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, called "a clear and bold record when it comes to civil rights and racial justice." Attendees, though, said they did not offer or discuss names of potential nominees. Sherrilyn Ifill, the president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, specifically named former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who once helmed the Justice Department's civil rights division, and Sally Yates, the former deputy attorney general. One person whose name did not come up, but who prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan members responsible for the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four Black girls, is outgoing Alabama Sen. Doug Jones. Morial said he was "looking for the profile of Eric Holder, and a preference for an African American, civil rights-focused attorney general." On the first week of December 2020, an IT contractor for Dominion Voting Systems was called upon by the Trump campaign to testify at a Michigan hearing on so-called voter fraud. Video of Mellissa Carone’s over-the-top testimony, which included accusations that she saw “hundreds if not thousands of dead people vote,” soon went viral, and she was lampooned on “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend.
But Inside Edition spoke with a woman who doesn’t find anything funny about Carone at all. Jessica Stackpoole, 44, told Inside Edition that she has been in court with Carone over the past three years “probably 40-50 times.” It all stems from a 2018 case in which Carone was charged with obscenity for allegedly emailing sexually explicit videos to Stackpoole, who is Carone’s fiance’s ex-wife. "There were three different video clips, they are approximately three to seven minutes long,” Stackpoole told Inside Edition. - Inside Edition |
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