Japanese immigration officials have been accused of forcibly removing a crying five-year-old boy from the lap of his Vietnamese mother before she was deported from the country. The mother was among 46 Vietnamese deported by immigration officials in February for staying illegally in Japan, with members of 12 families reportedly separated as a result. Nguyen…
South Africa’s government accused Donald Trump of hysteria on Thursday after he questioned its plans to seize white-owned agricultural land and asserted that white farmers were being murdered on a “large scale”. Stirred into action after watching a television programme on land reform in South Africa, the US president instructed his secretary of state, Mike…
A weekly show glorifying Vladimir Putin’s political acumen, physical fitness and love of children has made its debut on Russian state television, raising concerns of a Stalinesque “personality cult”. The hour-long show, titled “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin.,” comes after the president’s popularity took a hit over an widely loathed plan to raise the pension age. Hosted…
Nintendo Switch has supported video recording for a few weeks now (simply hold down that capture button). It was introduced just in time for the launch of Super Mario Odyssey but only a handful of Nintendo’s own games have supported it. That all changes today with the release of Skyrim, developed and published by Betheseda….
More than 60,000 cars are set to be banned from the streets of Frankfurt next year in Germany’s toughest diesel ban yet. The German financial capital has been ordered to prohibit all but the newest diesel vehicles from its streets despite opposition from the city authorities, following a court ruling this week. More than two-thirds…
Click:2 ATA Hyperbaric Chamber For Sale Emmanuel Macron returned to the political fray this week after a long summer by kicking off a battle royale against populists in Italy and Hungary who he branded his “main opponents” in the fight for the future of Europe. Long seen as France’s reformist boy king able to turn…
Firaxis has announced the first big expansion for strategy game Civilization 6. It’s called Rise and Fall, it costs £24.99 and it’s out 8th February 2018. The fancy trailer, below, shows poor old Sean Bean, Civilization 6’s narrator, die once again, this time from some bastard plague. Civilization 6 trailer fans will remember poor old…
Italy spent hundreds of thousands of euros in European Union funds to escort the Aquarius migrant boat to Spain after refusing it permission to land at Italian ports. The new populist coalition government in Rome used the turning away of the Aquarius to signal a new tougher anti-migrant stance shortly after the far-right League and…
With Brexit now less than a year away, the European Union finds itself under assault from a new populist revolution. This six-part series examines the major challenges facing the continent. From immigration to defence, economy to enlargement and, indeed, to the very meaning of democracy itself: ‘The Future of Europe’ is now at stake… On day three of the series,…
They don’t make them like they used to. Except, of course, when they do – such as with Inti Creates’ lovingly crafted homages to 8-bit classics. Or, indeed, to some of the games that are embedded deep within this developer’s blood; this is a studio, after all, formed from a team of Capcom veterans some…