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It was after my youngest daughter, a TikTok devotee, kept asking if I’d seen the video of al the young children being rescued from slavery thanks to Donald Trump that I realised the social media storm created by QAnon had landed on our doorstep. The videos she had come across …

The New South Wales Health Ministry issued a new coronavirus alert overnight, providing a list of venues where visitors may have been exposed to coronavirus.The notice is a warning to get tested for the disease and to isolate immediately for 14 days regardless of the test results for both the …

Berry booked a spot at this summer’s Tokyo Olympics by finishing third behind DeAnna Price and Brooke Andersen on Saturday in Eugene, Oregon, sending the 31-year-old to her second successive Games.   But that achievement was overshadowed by what happened on the podium after the competition. As the three athletes …

Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra, the hall-of-fame New York Yankee, won 13 World Series wins as either a player or manager. He is perhaps better known for his humorous quips, including one of most frequently cited – “It’s déjà vu all over again.”  Many Americans who experienced the end of America’s …

The 50-page dossier, containing classified information about the HMS Defender’s journey through the Black Sea, was reportedly discovered in a “soggy heap” behind a Kent bus stop on Tuesday morning. The person who discovered the documents contacted the BBC upon realizing their sensitive nature. The dossier includes emails and PowerPoint …

This week, the United States launched one of the most outrageous attacks on the press and foreign media in recent times.  On June 23, the US government seized the websites of several broadcasters and news outlets, including Iran’s Al Alam, Iraq’s Alforat, and Yemen’s Al Masirah, just to name a …

Law enforcement personnel fired tear gas at a crowd that gathered in central Istanbul on Saturday to support gay rights in the country. Local authorities had refused to authorize the event.  Footage from RT’s video agency Ruptly shows helmeted police officers with riot shields pushing protesters off the street. A …

According to the report, the number of US-listed initial public offerings from mainland China increased by 31 from January to June, with the IPOs raising $8.82 billion.  The first day return rate of the so-called China concept stocks listed on US exchanges was 131% on average, also a multi-year high, …

According to the prosecutors, Roman Yurkov made 220 different transactions on the night of June 1, 2020, after discovering a technical error while taking money out of his bank account at a bookmaker. He later went on to buy four apartments, a new iPhone, a BMW, and a Mercedes, before …

Thanking the “patriots” attending the event for the “incredible turnout,” Trump then immediately attacked the Democratic administration of his successor. He did, however, claim credit for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, which the Biden administration plans to complete by September 11. “I started the process. All the troops are …