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For weeks now, there have been warnings that Moscow’s deployment of tens of thousands of troops on the border with Ukraine could be a precursor to invasion and all-out war in Europe. While Russian officials have insisted the move was a response to increased activity by NATO forces, and Ukraine’s …

Boris Johnson is battling to keep the UK intact at next month’s local elections. Scottish and Welsh independence movements are firmly entrenched in the mainstream. Now another party wants to annex the northern part of England known as Northumbria, once an Anglo-Saxon kingdom.  The Northern Independence Party (NIP) was formed six months ago …

Speaking with the US Council on Foreign Relations via video link on Friday, Wang offered a series of suggestions that he said would improve bilateral relations between the two nations. He called on the US to seek peaceful coexistence with Beijing and accept that China has chosen an independent path …

The results of second-phase trials of the vaccine, known as R21 / Matrix-M and developed by the University of Oxford in cooperation with pharmaceutical giant Novax, were published in Preprints with The Lancet earlier this week. The researchers claim that the immunization has proven effective in a trial that involved …

This week, Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon again attracted headlines for basically telling English people not to come to Scotland for fear of spreading Covid. While Sturgeon would no doubt pass this off as a sensible measure to combat the pandemic, the reality is that a latent …

The consistently cold relations between the West and Russia have been heightened by a series of major scandals recently, despite these being based on imaginary grounds. For instance, massive military drills in Russia’s southeast have prompted hysteria in multiple NATO countries and a fresh wave of doomsday predictions regarding an …

Chelsea were among the 12 rebel teams to rock world football at the start of the week when they declared they were breaking away to form a new European Super League. After a massive backlash from fans, the media, and governing bodies UEFA and FIFA, the six English clubs involved …

Sitting at the analyst’s desk with Flores, former six-weight world boxing champion De La Hoya was clearly under the influence and drew mockery worldwide online for slurring his words and embarking on lengthy rants.  Yet Flores for one won’t join the pile-on. “Oscar was funny,” Flores insisted to MMA fighting. “He …

Takashi Miyagawa, 39, a part-time worker from the Kansai region in southern Japan, is suspected of being in a relationship with 35 women at the same time and lying about his date of birth to defraud them. According to the police, Miyagawa’s birthday is on November 13. However, three of …

There’s no pleasing some people, especially when their ideas are completely and totally unreachable. Either that, or their demands can’t be met without screwing over the rest of your populace. Enter Extinction Rebellion, who decided to take wheelbarrows of cow manure to the White House because they thought the Biden …