While Britain’s Tory government wobbles under the weight of its own incompetence, one of the oddest features of its half-baked response to the Covid crisis has been the gaping loopholes it’s handed to citizens who have the wit, guile and means to ‘get out of Dodge’. Like the organiser of …
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China’s National Health Commission announced on Monday that the WHO team would begin its work in the country on January 14. The health authority did not elaborate on locations that the experts might visit or the activities they might carry out during their stay in China. The team was initially …
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Responding to a tweet by Ben Mezrich, the author behind the movie ‘The Social Network’, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX said he’s now on board with accepting payment in bitcoin. “I’ll tell you one thing, I’m never turning down getting paid in bitcoin again,” Mezrich wrote, prompting Musk to …
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The group of left-wing protesters gathered at the Frankfurt Gate in Berlin’s borough of Friedrichshain on Sunday morning, as part of an annual ceremony honoring Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, who were murdered by right-wing paramilitaries in 1919. With many waving red hammer-and-sickle flags, the demonstrators then marched to Friedrichsfelde …
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In a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Sunday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) urged them to adopt Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin’s 25th Amendment resolution by unanimous consent – which is poised to be blocked by Trump’s remaining Republican allies. Pelosi previously complained that she and Sen. Chuck …
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Dern went 3-0 in the UFC octagon last year, getting herself firmly back on track as she aims to put herself into the frame for a potential shot at the 115lbs women’s world title. The 27-year-old American-Brazilian is set to face the returning Nina Ansaroff in April, in a bout …
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League Two outfit Crawley claimed a sensational scalp of Bielsa’s highly-praised Leeds side on Sunday after a trio of second-half strikes from Nick Tsaroulla, Ashley Nadesan and Jordan Tunnicliffe secured an unexpected 3-0 win for John Yems’ side. Crawley’s win was made all the more impressive (though, perhaps not to Leeds fans) by …
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Lost in the gleeful conversation was any sense of the danger that putting citizens on the no-fly list without due process can eventually get around to people of different political stripes. Lawmakers have urged the FBI and TSA to expand the nation’s no-fly list to include everyone who took part …
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The latest Fight Island extravaganza gets underway with the card headlined by Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar on January 16, followed by a Fight Night show topped by the welterweight contest between Michael Chiesa and Neil Magny on Wednesday, January 20. The action in Abu Dhabi culminates with the eagerly-awaited …
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The millions of investors betting on bitcoin, including big guns such as Paul Tudor Jones and BlackRock, don’t have to fear their investment being extinguished by financialization, unlike the gold and bond “vigilantes,” Max said in the latest episode of the show. That’s why their investment is increasing in value, …
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