Protesters flooded the streets in the city center carrying banners and placards that read: “No absolute monarchy” and “Reform is not abolition”. People took part in the massive march to protest what they described as a return to absolute monarchy under King Maha Vajiralongkorn. Some activists were seen spray-painting graffiti on …
Read More »‘Most absolute of evils’: Investigation estimates up to 3,200 pedophile priests in French Catholic Church since 1950
The independent commission led by former vice president of the Council of State Jean-Marc Sauve was set up by the French Catholic Church in 2018 to study sexual crimes against minors within its ranks. After going through church archives across the country and conducting interviews, the commission, known by its …
Read More »Sopranos fans of the world rejoice, ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ is… an absolute triumph
Dum, dubba dum, dubba dum, dubba dum… that rolling bass at the start of The Sopranos TV show was a cast-iron guarantee. It meant strict quality control, a promise that a genius had his hand gripped tight to the tiller – upon the characters, upon the plot and upon the …
Read More »‘Absolute legend’: Ex-Russia & Chelsea football ace Smertin plays keepy-uppy on ice – then wins notorious extreme marathon (VIDEO)
Dressed in gloves and a woolly hat, brave Smertin showed nifty knee and footwork to keep a ball up on the ice with friends ahead of the annual Baikal Ice Marathon, a remarkable 26.2-mile race which takes place on a lake surface. The daring 45-year-old showed he still possessed some of …
Read More »Universal healthcare ‘absolute necessity’ during pandemic, Dems have ‘no excuses’ not to provide it – Bernie Sanders’s son to RT
Sanders, a campaign policy strategist, told RT’s Afshin Rattansi on Going Underground that the single-payer system Americans call Medicare-for-all enjoys popular support in the US and is needed now more than ever. “It is absolutely a necessity amidst the worst pandemic that we had, probably, in a hundred years. It …
Read More »‘Absolute meddling’: Kremlin condemns US embassy’s support for unauthorized rallies, Foreign Ministry demands explanation
Statements coming from the US embassy regarding Saturday’s demonstrations in Russia were “inappropriate,” Vladimir Putin’s press secretary told TV channel Rossiya-1. “Of course, indirectly they represent absolute meddling into our domestic affairs,” he said. With those publications, the American diplomats also showed their de facto “support for the violation of …
Read More »‘Absolute nonsense’: Iranian FM rejects French claim that Tehran is building up nuclear weapons capacity
The top Iranian diplomat took to Twitter on Sunday, sending an angry message to France’s foreign minister. Zarif signaled that Paris is in no position to lecture Tehran on anything, pointing fingers at French arms sales to Saudi Arabia – and getting quite personal with Le Drian as well. “Dear …
Read More »‘Restrict contact to absolute minimum’: Merkel extends German national lockdown until at least end January
“We need to restrict contact more strictly… We ask all citizens to restrict contact to the absolute minimum,” Merkel told journalists on Tuesday. Shops, bars, and restaurants in Germany, as well as schools, will remain shut at least until the end of January, Merkel announced, following a video conference with the …
Read More »Absolute ‘cowboys!’ Kremlin compares US attempts to sink Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to ‘raider attack’ as construction continues
Speaking to journalists on Sunday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Rossiya 1 news channel that the new wave of sanctions against companies involved in the construction are “an absolutely naked, cowboy-like raider attack.” While many European firms had been anticipating a gold rush as a result of the $18 …
Read More »The cost of gasoline AI-95 has reached the absolute record for the entire history of observations
The cost of gasoline AI-95 at the St. Petersburg international Mercantile exchange (SPIMEX) reached its absolute record for all history of observations. The attention it drew to “Interfax”. According to the exchange, at the end of trading on 17 June, the price of AI-95 on the national index came in …
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