Due to launch in October 2021 after years of delays, the new cutting-edge telescope could allow humanity to detect life signs on distant planets in as little as 60 hours, according to early calculations. “What really surprised me about the results is that we may realistically find signs of life …
Read More »‘System irregularity’ leaves Twitter users in the dark & support accounts down as outage continues
Twitter users first experienced problems logging in and loading tweets on Friday night. Amid tens of thousands of error reports, the company’s support team said they were “working on fixing a problem,” and that users would be “back on the timeline soon.” These problems continued into Saturday morning, and affected …
Read More »West cited ‘fake news’ to justify bombing Syria, MEP tells RT after confronting ‘compromised’ OPCW chief over Douma report
Arias addressed the European Parliament Subcommittee of Security and Defence on Thursday, an occasion that Wallace used to put some tough questions to the chief of the UN chemical weapons watchdog. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has repeatedly suggested that President Bashar Assad has deployed chemical weapons …
Read More »Portland rioters torch Apple store as another police killing sparks wave of destruction (VIDEOS)
Another night, another riot. Protesters assembled on Friday afternoon in Lents Park, where police had shot a man dead hours earlier. The man, who local media identified as “white” to ward off any potential “social unrest,” was carrying a replica firearm when he was killed. “Social unrest” soon broke out …
Read More »‘Blue hair & f*cks people up’: MMA stunner Lucero Acosta lands BRUTAL KO win (VIDEO)
Fight fans are beginning to sit up and take notice of novice fighter ‘La Loba’, who improved her record to 2-1 as she swarmed Breeden with a flurry of strikes against the cage to rebound from defeat in her last bout as part of Friday’s Combate Global ‘Mexico vs USA’ card …
Read More »The great British garden-gnome famine: Elf is on the way after Suez Canal snarl-up & Covid deprive UK of beloved ornaments
Garden centres were open during all the three lockdowns in the country, encouraging a real boom in sales of lawn gnomes and other outdoor furniture when Brits were forced to stick to their homes. “We haven’t seen a gnome in six months now, unfortunately,” Ian Byrne, assistant manager of Highfield …
Read More »Over a year and $85bn later, US spies still don’t know ‘where, when or how’ Covid-19 hit the world – but it ‘could’ve been a lab’
On April 14, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines revealed that after over a year of determined sleuthing, US spying agencies had no concrete answers on basic questions regarding the origins of the 2019 coronavirus. “It is absolutely accurate the intelligence community does not know exactly where, when, or how …
Read More »Cruise ship helps evacuees flee new blast from St. Vincent volcano that was visible from space (PHOTOS)
The rescue operation came at the end of a week of eruptions that began on April 9 and has already forced some 20,000 people to flee. Royal Caribbean Cruises’ Celebrity Reflection moored in the harbor in the capital, Kingstown, as families with young children in tow, as well as groups …
Read More »US state-run RFERL ‘knowingly violated’ Russia’s laws, now tries to block fines in European court, FM spokeswoman tells RT
The US state-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) earlier this week, asking it to block Russia from enforcing fines on the outlet. RFERL has accumulated dozens of unpaid fines, stemming from its refusal to be properly labeled as a …
Read More »China denounces US-Japan statement in which Washington vows to defend its Asian partner with NUCLEAR ‘capabilities’
The statement by US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the first foreign leader to officially visit Biden at the White House, was released on Friday. It criticized China, suggesting its actions “are inconsistent with the international rules-based order” and impact “peace and prosperity” in the region. …
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