China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced the ban on Thursday, stating that the BBC’s reports “violated the requirements that news should be truthful and fair, harmed China’s national interests and undermined China’s national unity.” The “reports” in question likely refer to BBC Newsnight’s coverage of China’s Xinjiang Province, …
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Serial lockdown breaker and prominent coronavirus denier Hannah Dean, 30, has been banned from all the hospitals across the country following her new endeavors over the weekend. On Saturday, she entered the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, roaming it for about 10 minutes before getting caught by a nurse and being kicked …
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“Jack Dorsey is trying to cancel me (Mike Lindell) out,” Lindell tweeted through MyPillow’s account on Sunday, in a message thanking supporters who ordered pillows after Kohl’s and other major retailers stopped carrying the company’s products. “We are extremely busy and hiring as fast as we can to handle all …
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Royal Family, the 1969 fly-on-the-wall BBC documentary that chronicled a year in the life of Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family – which the Queen banned in 1972 for ‘cheapening’ the royals by ‘removing their mystique’ – recently resurfaced briefly on YouTube and has caused much consternation at Buckingham Palace. …
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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been permanently banned from Twitter for what the company is calling “repeated violations” of its civic integrity policy, which was implemented last September for the purpose of combating online disinformation. Lindell’s Twitter ban comes just three days after, during an interview with Axios, he discussed …
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The ex-FLOTUS issued a lengthy statement on Thursday – some 24 hours after a crowd of rowdy Trump supporters forced their way into the US Capitol to protest the results of the 2020 election – blaming the president for the disturbance, which she said “desecrated the center of American government.” …
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A first in the 116-year history of the traditional ‘ball drop,’ Times Square will be closed to spectators as the city rings in the New Year, an event that’s previously drawn crowds in excess of 1 million. Instead, revelers will have to watch the show from afar via live broadcast, …
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Russia’s state quality control watchdog, Roskachestvo, issued a warning on Thursday after a survey of black sturgeon caviar on sale revealed a number of safety concerns. Out of 14 Russian brands, and one each from Armenia and Belarus, only one tin of the luxury fish roe was found to pass …
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Gaining the support of Prime Minister Jean Castex’s cabinet earlier this week, the bill proposes to deny “access to transport or to some locations, as well as certain activities” to those unable to prove that they received a “preventative treatment” for Covid-19, including a vaccine, or produce a negative virus …
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CAS announced on Thursday that it had reduced Russia’s ban from four to two years on appeal, but the decision still means the Russian flag and anthem will be absent from the next two editions of the Olympic Games – Tokyo in the summer of 2021, and the Winter Games …
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