The embassy’s Twitter handle, created in 2013 and boasting more than 109,000 followers, appears to have been deactivated sometime on Friday, leaving observers online baffled as the government has yet to offer any reasoning for the decision. The official website for the embassy notes that operations at its Kabul mission …
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Invited onto the Washington Post’s ‘Please Go On’ podcast on Friday to expand on his proposed “solutions” to the “problem” of Afghan withdrawal as set out in an op-ed for the paper earlier this week, Bolton began by sneeringly dismissing the idea that the US could ever truly leave Afghanistan …
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During a Friday press conference, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked about recent documents uncovered by the conservative group Judicial Watch that showed the president’s dog, Major, was responsible for multiple bites against Secret Service agents. One of these incidents had previously been acknowledged by the White House. …
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“Now is the time to start,” Cantrell said at a press conference on Friday as she urged New Orleans residents to pack up supplies and leave before the storm hits. She particularly ordered everyone living outside the levee system that protects the area from flooding to evacuate to safer places. …
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The team of Russian researchers analyzed the data from nearly 14,000 patients who had tested positive for the virus and were referred for a lung scan at two outpatient clinics in the country’s second most populous city between July 3 and August 9. The study has shown that full vaccination is 81% …
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It’s extremely unlikely Biden will be removed from office on a wave of righteous indignation alone. Despite the nationwide rage at his lackluster performance safeguarding American troops and civilians from terrorists as they desperately await rescue with just four days to go before the Taliban declares open season on them, …
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The latest salvo in an ongoing one-sided war of words was prompted by a letter an Amazon subsidiary sent this week to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in which it urged the agency to reject SpaceX’s plans to deploy another group of satellites to power Starlink. Earlier in the …
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Prosecutor Hulda Karlsdottir told Reuters on Friday that Breivik’s request for parole would be heard in court at an unspecified date in the near future. She said the “central question for the court during the hearing will be whether there is an imminent danger” of Breivik committing further serious offences. …
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On Friday, RIA Novosti reported that military chiefs had penned the deal with rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyenia. Under the terms of the agreement, deliveries of the Zircon complex will be received next year, marking the first time a serial anti-ship hypersonic missile has been routinely deployed. Last month, a …
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After a remarkable 24 hours in which Ronaldo seemed destined to head to United’s bitter crosstown rivals Manchester City, the Old Trafford giants announced that they had been the ones to capture the 36-year-old’s signature after he informed Juventus he wanted out of Turin with a year remaining on his …
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