The 33-year-old woman from Yekaterinburg, in the country’s Ural Mountains region, was charged with aggravated murder on Saturday and now faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted, local police revealed. According to authorities, in late May, Anna Shekhereva poured flammable liquid onto a 22-year-old homeless man, who had …
Read More »Germany Olympic footballers walk off in final warm-up after ace suffers racial abuse in game behind closed doors against Honduras
As confirmed by the German FA, the incident occured after Felix Udokhai equalized for the 2016 finalists. With the score tied at 1-1, Stefan Kuntz’s men then exited five minutes before full-time in solidarity with their team-mate. Thrust in Group D with their Rio conquerers Brazil, the Ivory Coast and Saudi …
Read More »Top diplomat’s comment on Moon ‘masturbating’ causes scandal as South Korea summons Japanese envoy
South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun summoned on Saturday the head of the Japanese diplomatic mission to Seoul, Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi, to formally protest what one of his deputies said to a local television station. The cable TV broadcaster, JTBC, said on Friday that a senior Japanese diplomat made …
Read More »British health secretary Javid tests positive for Covid-19, says he’s glad he was vaccinated
The news came from the health secretary himself in a video statement which he tweeted out on Saturday. Javid, who took office three weeks ago after the ignominious resignation of Matt Hancock over a scandal involving his female aide, said he decided to take a test after feeling “groggy” on …
Read More »Accuracy at any cost? Gamer leaks British military secrets to Russia-born company to prove its tank model is wrong
A funny and potentially criminal episode unfolded this week on the forums of ‘War Thunder’, a popular competitive video game in which players take control of various real-life military vehicles. Projects like this one attract the attention of accuracy nerds, who push designers to get every little detail right. It …
Read More »My life in a US death-row prison complex plagued by killings, Covid and abuse, while the executioners get busy
“You’re killing an innocent man,” uttered Daniel Lewis Lee. He could feel the IV tubes in his arms as he maintained that he was at “the other end of the country” at the time of the murders he was being killed for. He asked that, after his death, the 10 …
Read More »France to require 24-hour negative Covid test for unvaccinated travelers from UK & 5 EU countries
The deadline for a negative Covid-19 test was reduced from 48 hours before departure to 24 hours for unvaccinated travelers from the UK to France. The same deadline for visitors from Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus was reduced from 72 hours to 24. The change is set to …
Read More »Conservatives blast Cori Bush for hiring private security while advocating defunding police; her supporters don’t see a problem
The security spending by the Missouri Democrat was highlighted by several right-wing news outlets this week, after the second-quarter campaign records were published on Tuesday by the Federal Election Commission. More than a third of the Bush campaign’s $197,000 expenses – or $69,120 – went to private security, the filings …
Read More »Belgium sets day of mourning as death toll from catastrophic floods in Europe rises to 153
German authorities confirmed that 90 people have died in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, and 43 have died in neighboring North Rhine-Westphalia. Rescue helicopters, fire crews and the military were deployed to the western German regions after rivers burst their banks due to heavy rainfall. The powerful flow of water swept up …
Read More »Russia’s about-face on Syria’s Idlib is the opening gambit of a larger diplomatic chess game
In a rare display of diplomatic cooperation, the US and Russia agreed last week on a one-year extension of the UN Security Council authorization for humanitarian aid supplies to reach northern Syria through the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the border with Turkey. The Biden administration had made the extension of …
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