The US on Friday broadened the list of export sanctions against Russia and Belarus in connection with Moscow’s operation in Ukraine. According to the list published on the website of the US Department of Commerce, Washington is banning US-made fertilizers, pipe valves, ball bearings, and hundreds of other materials and …
Read More »How to access RT.com
Serious attempts have been made in Western nations to silence RT, following Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine. The EU Commission has given regulators in the bloc’s nations powers to ban the media outlet. If you’ve faced difficulties accessing RT’s content due to those restrictions, here are some steps you can …
Read More »Facebook restricts EU users’ access to RT and Sputnik
Social media behemoth Meta will restrict access to Russian state-backed media outlets on its Facebook and Instagram platforms throughout Europe, the company’s vice president Nick Clegg announced Monday, citing “requests from a number of governments.” “Given the exceptional nature of the current situation, we will be restricting access to RT …
Read More »Turkey restricts Russian Navy access
Turkey is set to restrict the access of Russian warships to the Black Sea over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, its Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday. “It is not a couple of air strikes now, the situation in Ukraine is officially a war… We will implement the Montreux …
Read More »Russian bullet manufacturers set to lose access to their biggest export market due to US ‘Navalny’ sanctions on ammo purchases
The measures, imposed on September 7, could catastrophically affect Russian manufacturers’ shipments to the US, which exceed $100 million annually. American importers bought more than 765 million rounds of ammunition from Russia in 2020. The sanctions restrict the “permanent import” of small arms and ammunition to the US by automatically …
Read More »Facebook plunged into chaos as employees ‘CAN’T ACCESS’ servers – or even their workspaces
As the major Facebook outage dragged into hours, a Reddit poster claiming to be a member of the “recovery/investigation team” wrote the companywide snafu was indeed a “global outage for all FB-related services/infra[structure]” and explained that while repairs were underway, “the people with physical access is [sic] separate from the …
Read More »At explicit content site OnlyFans, ex-employees kept access to private customer information, including ID & credit cards – reports
OnlyFans is used mostly, but not exclusively, by amateur sex workers to sell pornographic content. The platform uses Zendesk to track and respond to customer support requests, from both creators who post content and customers who pay for it. However, multiple people continued to have access to the software – …
Read More »CNN denies Australians access to its Facebook pages, citing defamation risk after court says publishers responsible for comments
On Wednesday, CNN, which is owned by AT&T Inc., became the first major media firm to remove its Facebook presence from Australia. CNN’s main Facebook page showed an error message on Wednesday when people tried to access it from Australia. The move to prevent Australians from accessing its content came …
Read More »Taliban vows to respect rights of Afghan women, will allow access to work & education provided hijabs are worn – spokesman
Suhail Shaheen told the BBC on Sunday that the group, which subscribes to Sharia law, would respect the rights of women. Under the new government that is being formed, women will be allowed to leave home alone, work, and have access to education, so long as they wear hijabs, Shaheen …
Read More »Biden calls Cuba ‘failed state,’ says ‘reinstating’ internet access there is one of the things US is considering
“Communism is a failed system, a universally failed system. I don’t see socialism as a very useful substitute, but that’s another story,” Biden told a reporter on Thursday, answering a question on Cuba during his joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was visiting Washington. “Cuba is unfortunately …
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