Bars
“The Barman of the Ritz” Is No “Casablanca”
Frank experiences nothing terrible himself, but he hears atrocious tales of the city from people who come in for a drink. He’s a rather forlorn fellow, stateless, cut off...
Late Summertime Idylls by the Water
For the past two hundred years, summer in New York has best been spent by the water. “Circumambulate the city,” Melville writes in “Moby-Dick,” and you’ll find “thousands upon...
How Nicolas Sarkozy Survived Twenty Days Behind Bars
Sarkozy is assigned prisoner number 320535. “Four days earlier, I had been Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of the Republic, being received by President Emmanuel Macron himself at the...
Catholic altar wine replaced after becoming a favourite in Kenyan bars
The Kenyan Catholic Church has introduced a new brand of altar wine for Holy Mass after the previous one became widely available in local bars.Simply labelled Mass Wine, the...
Slovenia bars far-right Israeli cabinet ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich
Slovenia has banned far-right Israeli cabinet ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country.Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon declared the pair personae non gratae on Thursday in what...
Opec bars five leading news organisations from oil conference
[LONDON] Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has excluded five of the world’s leading news organisations from covering its biennial oil seminar in Vienna, attended by the group’s...
Nvidia CEO visits Beijing after US bars chip sales to China
[HONG KONG] Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang arrived in Beijing on Thursday (Apr 17), shortly after the Trump administration barred the company from selling H20 artificial intelligence (AI)...
The Common Thread Between Abrego Garcia and the EPA’s “Gold Bars”
The main connection between the Garcia case and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund case would seem to be the Trump administration’s disregard for the rule of law. But they...
A nation behind bars: Why has Israel imprisoned 10,000 Palestinians?
On April 17 every year, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is commemorated to highlight the plight of those held in Israeli jails and their struggle for freedom against Israel’s continued occupation...
