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In a statement posted to her Telegram channel on Friday, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the timing was now being decided by regulators in Germany, where the underwater link terminates. “We expect that millions of European consumers in the near future will be able to receive Russian gas …

“Even during the pandemic period we have all been enduring for most of the last two years, we have had to disrupt six late-stage attack plots,” Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence and security service, told the BBC Radio 4’s Today show. McCallum said 31 late-stage attack …

It’s the sort of mistake that anyone can make… If they’re a complete and utter tool. UK Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, a man not known for his intellectual fortitude, has become the latest senior Tory politician to make an ass of himself after mistaking Saracens and England rugby player, Maro …

“The Daily Wire does have more than 100 employees but we won’t be enforcing Joe Biden’s unconstitutional and tyrannical vaccine mandate,” the website’s co-founder and co-CEO Jeremy Boreing said in a video on Twitter. “That’s it. We’ll use every tool at our disposal, including legal action, to resist.” Boreing argued …

There’s a lot to criticize, from soldiers patrolling state borders and policing the streets of Sydney, to people being arrested for merely posting about lockdown protests on social media, to police accessing QR-tracing information and firing projectile weapons at lockdown protesters, to news broadcasters naming and shaming Covid patients who violate isolation orders, to the frequently ineffective hotel quarantine system …

As if it was not enough for India to face the Covid-19 catastrophe, a new matter for concern has emerged. On Sunday, a 12-year-old boy died from Nipah, a rare but a very deadly virus, sparking fears of a possible outbreak. “Nipah is a virus from the Paramyxoviridae family, a …

In a statement issued on Friday, Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Saint Petersburg-based energy giant, said that “at 8.45am this morning Moscow time, work on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been completed.” Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed that the laying of pipes under the Baltic …

As if to lend credence to the far-right conspiracy theory that the woke mob is determined to cancel the United States into oblivion, the National Archives website has attached “Harmful Language Alert” notices to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. The stated reason for the …

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice reached the landmark ruling on social media advertising on Thursday. The decision, which was portrayed in some German media as a win for social media savvy celebrities and other influencers, allows content-creators to forgo advertising labels even if they tag companies in their posts as …

The board for the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to mandate jabs for students on Thursday, with no members dissenting. The move will require all eligible students “to become vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination” to school administrators, while kids who just turned 12 will be made to receive …