The Pentagon has blocked Ukraine from striking deep inside Russia with American-supplied missiles, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Saturday, citing US officials. According to the paper, the Department of Defense has been preventing Kiev from firing long-range ATACMS missiles since late spring. On at least one occasion, Washington reportedly …
Read More »Russia’s biggest bank blocked from SWIFT
Russian banking giant Sberbank has been disconnected from the SWIFT global financial messaging system under a new set of sanctions approved by European Union leaders on Monday. “This sanctions package includes other hard-hitting measures: de-Swifting the largest Russian bank Sberbank,” European Council chief Charles Michel announced following the EU summit. …
Read More »Tor blocked in Russia
The Open Observatory of Network Interference, or OONI, reported last week that Tor’s system of proxy servers in Russia had partly stopped working at around 5:21pm Moscow time on December 2. While Russian authorities had not yet commented officially on the block, on Monday, politician Anton Gorelkin addressed the matter on …
Read More »Gaddafi’s son blocked from Libya election
Gaddafi had announced his candidacy on November 14 and looked like one of the front-runners in the contest, scheduled for December 24. On Wednesday, however, the election commission ruled him ineligible. It is a preliminary decision and can be appealed in court. A military prosecutor in Tripoli had urged the …
Read More »‘P**** blocked me’: UFC’s Petr Yan denies ‘talking sh*t’ about crock Aljamain Sterling and his fiancee as bitter title row rages
A rematch between the Jamaican-American and Yan had been planned for October 30 at UFC 267 after Sterling became the elite MMA championship’s bantamweight king earlier this year when his rival was disqualified for an illegal knee in the fourth round of their clash, when the dethroned champion appearing to be ahead …
Read More »Hactivist jailed in ‘Little Guantanamo’ says prison blocked him from contacting wife, covering for ‘sexually abusive’ guard
Gottesfeld is serving a 10-year sentence for a “cyberattack” on Boston Children’s Hospital in 2014 – which he says he did to help end the “torture” of the teen girl Justina Pelletier, who was being administered the wrong treatment while her parents lost custody of their daughter to the state …
Read More »No jab, no phone: Unvaccinated to have SIM cards blocked, Pakistan’s Punjab govt says
The extreme decision was made during a meeting of high-ranking civil and military officials chaired by Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid. Rashid said that the policy would disable SIM cards belonging to those who fail to get vaccinated “beyond a certain time.” “We are doing all we can to compel …
Read More »US Capitol riot probe blocked as Senate Republicans use FILIBUSTER to stall action on bill creating 9/11-style commission
All but six GOP senators voted against cloture on Friday, keeping the House bill from getting the 60 votes it needed to end floor debate and elude a filibuster. The legislation calls for creation of a 10-member commission, much like the one that studied the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, …
Read More »House overrides Trump’s veto of defense spending bill that blocked Afghanistan withdrawal
After aligning with Trump to approve raising the coronavirus stimulus payments to $2,000 per American, the House also voted 322- 87 to override Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $740 billion military spending bill, which passed both chambers of Congress earlier this month. Trump objected to …
Read More »The protesters blocked the highway in the center of Minsk, three journalists arrested under ugroza
The protesters blocked the highway in the center of Minsk, three journalists detained under threat of deportation Two days before the presidential elections in Belarus residents, the opposition to Alexander Lukashenko, blocked Lenin Avenue in the center of the capital. Outside pulled police. The situation is calm. Protesters chanted “long …
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