The outspoken Czech leader wasn’t shy about sharing his views on gender-identity issues during an interview on Sunday. “I can understand gays, lesbians, and so on. But do you know who I don’t understand at all? The transgender,” Zeman said. “If someone undergoes a sex-change operation, he commits a crime …
Read More »‘It’s anti-science, and it’s anti-me’: Fauci calls email controversy ‘nonsense,’ says ‘far-right’ trying to ‘discredit’ him
Fauci has found himself facing new waves of criticism since thousands of his emails were released via Freedom of Information Act requests through Buzzfeed and The Washington Post. Critics have timed what Fauci has said in some of the emails during the pandemic to what he was saying publicly and …
Read More »Biden calls for access to Wuhan labs to determine whether Covid-19 was result of ‘experiment gone awry’
During a press conference at the G7 conference in Cornwall, England on Sunday, Biden called on China to start acting “more responsibly in terms of international norms on human rights and transparency.” The president then revealed that one of the concerns he and other leaders at G7 had raised was …
Read More »Biden administration calls on Nigeria to unblock Twitter for sake of ‘freedom of expression’ and ‘democracy’
“The United States condemns the ongoing suspension of Twitter by the Nigerian government and subsequent threats to arrest and prosecute Nigerians who use Twitter,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday, adding that “unduly restricting” people’s right to “report, gather, and disseminate opinions and information has no place in …
Read More »Amanda Nunes vs… Kim Kardashian?! UFC queen calls out reality TV megastar after Dana White’s celebrity boxing jibe (VIDEO)
Staunchly against such spectacles, and goaded by one of the YouTuber Paul siblings, Jake, over fighter pay, White was speaking on celebrity boxing after Logan took on Floyd Mayweather at the weekend. “If you’ve got people that are stupid enough to spend that kind of money, then they deserve to …
Read More »Trump calls bitcoin ‘scam’, denounces it for ‘competing against the dollar’
During an interview on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney asked Trump for his thoughts on the popular cryptocurrency and whether he would invest in it. “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam,” Trump declared, adding, “I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar.” “I want the …
Read More »‘It would be deserved’: Paul Pogba backs calls for N’Golo Kante to WIN the Ballon d’Or after dragging Chelsea to European glory
Pogba, who is likely to comprise the center of France’s midfield alongside Kante at this summer’s European Championships as they look to add further silverware to the World Cup they won together three years ago in Russia, says that there is currently no better player in world football than the …
Read More »‘You couldn’t make it up if you tried’: Twitter censors at home, but calls access to platform a ‘human right’ in Nigeria
Nigeria’s government “indefinitely” banned Twitter on Friday, after the US tech giant temporarily suspended President Muhammadu Buhari for a tweet promising a crackdown on armed separatists. Telecoms networks in the West African nation began enforcing the ban on Saturday morning, according to multiple media reports. “We are deeply concerned by …
Read More »Ex-envoy to UN Nikki Haley calls VP Harris ‘unprofessional and unfit’ over Memorial Day tweet, gets pilloried by blue checks
Haley, who served as the US permanent representative at the UN under Donald Trump, joined a chorus of conservative voices criticizing the way Harris chose to tweet about the upcoming Memorial Day without spelling out the name of the holiday. She dismissed the VP as “unprofessional and unfit” for her …
Read More »David Mitchell calls Martin Bashir an unwitting ‘executioner’ of the BBC in TV rant against corporation’s ‘tabloid tactics’
On Friday’s episode of the BBC One comedy show, Mitchell – of ‘Peep Show’ fame – took aim at the Conservative Party, Bashir, and the BBC in one hit. After the show’s panellists discussed the recent controversy surrounding Bashir, who was found to have falsified bank statements to secure a …
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