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After at least 90 people were reportedly killed on Saturday – as the military celebrated its annual Armed Forces Day – the leader of the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) Yawd Serk said, “(It) isn’t an armed forces day, it’s more like the day they killed people.” “The ethnic …

Netanyahu’s decision – reportedly influenced by a souring of his personal relationship with Jordanian King Abdullah II – went against the security services recommendation to avoid risking historic water-sharing agreements critical to peace in the region. According to the Haaretz newspaper, Netanyahu did not “respond positively even though professionals in …

In an article recently published by The Independent, the initial first headline read, “I became the ‘face’ of the Sarah Everard vigil – and I’m demanding change”. The so-called “face” is Patsy Stevenson, the protestor claiming she fronted the vigil of a murdered woman, Sarah Everard. Make no mistake, the …

Enoch Powell, the divisive right-wing Conservative MP famous for his Rivers of Blood speech, once said that all political careers end in failure. And he was proven right after he became a figurehead for Britain’s racist, far-right political movements in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. There was little clamour to …

“This is what was done with the Fund of Advanced Studies – an electric airplane based on superconductivity principles,” Borisov said. The electric motor is part of the hybrid powertrain demonstrator that Russia’s Central Institute of Aviation Motors (CIAM) is developing. An innovative electric motor based on high-temperature superconductors with …

For years now, Western society has been on a slippery slope towards total rejection of the old philosophy of ‘live and let live’. And that slope is a slip’n’slide with a brick wall at the end of it. It was only a matter of time before society slammed into it. …

Russian hero Povetkin engaged in a slugfest with Whyte during the high-tempo brief fight, with the unusually ripped-looking Londoner intent on revenge for the shuddering finish that curtailed his title hopes in the fifth round of their first fight in August. Although he is not known for his showmanship, Povetkin seemed somewhat …

The Cameroonian-French powerhouse, whose remarkable personal journey saw him move to Paris to initially pursue his MMA dream in poverty, admitted he was struggling to “find the words” to describe the impact of his devastating defeat of Miocic. Hugely-experienced Miocic was floored by a straight left in the second round, only …

The explosion went off at the Makassar Cathedral Church on Sunday morning as the people who flocked to the church to attend the service were on their way out, a pastor at the church was quoted by the local media as saying. “We were finishing the service and people were …

Appearing for the first time since losing on his UFC debut in November 2019, the welterweight made light of Gooden’s pre-bout claims that all Russian fighters had the same reliance on going to ground, mixing it up while appearing to wobble his opponent on a few occasions. Nurmagomedov had cheekily suggested that …