Footage has emerged on social media showing thick plumes of smoke and columns of fire billowing from the burning building that used to welcome international arrivals. The airport is named after the village of Ignatyevo, located some 12km north-west of the region’s administrative center of Blagoveshchensk, which is home to …
Read More »Bitcoin worth more than JPMorgan as crypto sets new historic peak above $22,000
Bitcoin jumped nearly 15 percent in one day and reached $22,327 early on Thursday, setting a new historic high. It was trading at around $22,200, according to Coindesk data as of 6:57am GMT. After the recent rally, believed to be driven by demand from larger institutional investors, bitcoin’s market cap …
Read More »‘Hard lockdown’ in Australian state ‘violated human rights’ & was ‘contrary to the law’ – ombudsman
A summary issued by Victoria Ombudsman Deborah Glass on Thursday found that a strict lockdown implemented over nine public housing towers in July violated civil liberties and may have been illegal. It confined residents to their homes for nearly a week, leaving some without food or medicine. “The rushed lockdown …
Read More »WATCH: Scottish MP kicked out of UK Parliament after shouting, grabbing ceremonial mace in Brexit protest
During a debate on the UK Internal Market Bill, Drew Hendry, an MP for the Scottish National Party (SNP) could be heard shouting, “this is an outrage!” Deputy Speaker of the Commons, Dame Rosie Winterton, ordered the MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey to sit down, accusing him of …
Read More »Pasture bedtime: Gang of farm animals escapes pen in middle of the night, terrorizes Turkish city center (VIDEO)
CCTV footage shared by the city government shows the unstable animals threatening locals and charging security officers who attempted to round up the rural ruffians. According to the animals’ owner, Hasan Unbulan, the gate to their pen was blown open by the wind during the night, at which point the …
Read More »‘Trump is the monster, not my father’: Daughter of slain Iranian General Qassem Soleimani speaks to RT
General Soleimani, commander of the Quds force within Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed outside the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad early in January on a direct order of US President Donald Trump. The general was targeted by a US drone strike which obliterated a car Soleimani …
Read More »Critics remind Cuomo of the First Amendment after he bans sale of Confederate flag & ‘other hate symbols’ on state property
The law bans the sale of Confederate flags, swastikas and other so-called hate symbols – a restriction that would require the government to determine what speech is hateful. Announcing the bill on Tuesday, the governor argued that the legislation will “safeguard New Yorkers from the fear-instilling effects of these abhorrent …
Read More »‘No unfair advantage’: Vietnam rejects US ‘currency manipulation’ charge, but vows to work with Washington to resolve row
The State Bank of Vietnam responded to a new US Treasury Department report in a statement on Thursday morning, rejecting charges that it manipulated its currency to create “unfair advantages for foreign competitors” but saying it is nonetheless willing to discuss the matter with US officials. Arguing that its monetary …
Read More »Twitter to scrub posts claiming vaccines ‘cause harm’ or ‘used to control populations’ in latest ‘conspiracy’ crackdown
Starting next week, the social media giant will excise all posts that “invoke a deliberate conspiracy” or “advance harmful, false or misleading narratives” about vaccines, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday, putting particular focus on inoculations against the coronavirus. “Using a combination of technology and human review, …
Read More »‘Breathtaking, isn’t it?’ Russian cosmonaut shares video of his first spacewalk
“It’s breathtaking, isn’t it?” wrote Sergey Kud-Sverchkov on his VK page above a short video of the spacewalk. The four-minute clip shows Kud-Sverchkov and ISS-64 Expedition Commander Sergey Ryzhikov working on dismantling parts of the ‘Pirs’ (Pier) module during a November 18 spacewalk that took 6 hours and 47 minutes. This …
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