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The Green Room is dedicated to wildlife and features a special glass panel hanging in each of the two windows – one featuring a deer and one a duck – that the light can shine through. The panels are made of multilayers of glass, giving them a stained glass effect. … [Read more...] about Good luck with that! Melania Trump invokes sense of national unity as she shows off White House Christmas decorations for last time (unless her husband really does run again)

Sea change – Governments responsible for 40% of the world’s coastlines have pledged to end overfishing, restore dwindling fish populations and stop the flow of plastic pollution into the seas in the next 10 years. The countries – Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Ghana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Palau and Portugal – will end harmful subsidies that contribute to overfishing, a key demand of campaigners. The countries’ leaders have set out a series of commitments that mark the world’s biggest ocean sustainability initiative, in the absence of a fully fledged UN treaty on marine life. Each country has pledged to ensure all their exclusive economic zones in the ocean are managed sustainably by 2025. That amounts to an area of ocean roughly the size of Africa. … [Read more...] about Wednesday briefing: Barr holds no concerns over election

He also offered a 'one-off' payment of £1,000 to 'wet' pubs – that do not serve food – this month as recognition of 'how hard they've been hit by this virus'. In a last-gasp Zoom call with mutinous Tories before the division, Mr Johnson warned they must not be like children in the back of a car saying 'are we nearly there yet?' … [Read more...] about Matt Hancock delivers another hint low-infection areas WILL be downgraded in two weeks as PM reels from 55-strong Tory revolt amid warnings he faces ‘problems by Christmas’ unless tiers are eased

In 2008, while accompanying Clinton on her first presidential campaign to an interview, she punched reporter Faiz Shakir - the chief editor of ThinkProgress website - in the chest after he asked her a question about the Iraq war - an issue that dogged her candidacy because she supported it.  … [Read more...] about Lindsey Graham calls Joe Biden’s OMB pick Neera Tanden ‘a nut job’ as Republicans step up pressure on her (and also says he hopes Donald Trump comes to Joe Biden’s inauguration)

The Somali pirates, in a classic game of cat and mouse with western warships, are targeting new areas and avoiding the Gulf of Aden. Foreign governments have deployed more than 20 warships from more than a dozen countries, including Russia, China, France and India, to patrol busy sea lanes in the Gulf of Aden and parts of the Indian Ocean through which about 16,000 ships pass each year.The closest US ship at the time of the hijacking was 345 miles away. … [Read more...] about Somali pirates seize ship and US crew off Horn of Africa