US President Joe Biden this week telephoned Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The call was the first direct contact between the two men since February. Fairly unremarkable, right? Not quite. The exchange did not produce any solid commitments between the two countries, yet a White House readout of the conversation stated …
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On Thursday evening, Twitter user Juan Mac apologised to Harry Potter writer JK Rowling for a “defamatory” tweet sent on July 16 which quoted an earlier post by the author. In the now-deleted post from July, Mac, citing Rowling, wrote “I ignore porn tweeted at children,” attributing the quote to …
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The conventional wisdom, oft-repeated in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is that it is extremely difficult to recruit informers and deploy infiltrators against Al-Qaeda, due to its extremely compartmentalised cell structure. In reality, in the run-up to 9/11, British, French and American intelligence all had spies capable of …
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On Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a video on his Twitter account, claiming Afghanistan was the “graveyard of EMPIRES and their WAR MACHINES.” As highlighted by the outspoken Foreign Ministry diplomat, the video shows Taliban troops tying a rope to the wing of a captured aircraft and …
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Starting from midnight on September 10, the deadly virus is no longer classified as a “socially critical disease” by the Danish government, meaning no special measures will be applied to deal with Covid-19 in the European country. All restrictions previously enforced by authorities, including ‘coronapass’ requirements to enter night clubs …
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In a statement issued on Thursday evening, officials demanded that Apple and Google, as well as VPN service providers Cloudflare and Cisco, stop allowing users to access banned sites. “During the pre-election campaign, it is prohibited to enable the violation of Russian legislation, including those related to election campaigning on …
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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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
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