U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing challenges in gaining lawmakers’ approval for his plan to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda. Lawmakers are set to vote on a bill aimed at overcoming a U.K. Supreme Court block on the Rwanda plan. Around 60 members of Sunak’s Conservative Party rebelled, leading to the resignation of two…
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News Shane MacGowan, Pogues Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Dies at 65
Shane MacGowan, the brilliant but chaotic former songwriter and frontman for the Pogues, who reinvigorated interest in Irish music in the 1980s by harnessing it to the propulsive power of punk rock has died. He was 65. Mr. MacGowan’s wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, announced his death on Instagram. Mr. MacGowan emerged from London’s punk scene…
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