The US State Department greenlit a potential sale of 300 Patriot missiles and related equipment to Saudi Arabia to bolster its defenses for an estimated cost of $3.05 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Tuesday. The agency said that the kingdom requested to buy 300 Raytheon Technologies-made MIM-104E …
Read More »Biden ‘clears the air’ on insulting reporter
Appearing on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, Doocy said the president called his cell phone “within about an hour of that exchange.” “He said, ‘It’s nothing personal, pal,’” Doocy continued. “And we went back and forth, and we were talking about just kind of moving forward, and I made …
Read More »Internal police probe into Capitol riot clears officers in 20 cases, ‘disciplinary action’ recommended in 6
In a statement on Saturday, the USCP said that while it had originally launched 38 investigations into potential transgressions by the force members who responded to the Capitol riot, the investigators were able to identify officers only in 26 cases. In 20 of these cases “no wrongdoing was found,” while …
Read More »Brazilian court clears ex-President Lula of corruption charges in another legal win
In 2017, Lula was accused of having granted political favors to automobile companies in exchange for donations of 6 million reals (around $1.2 million) to the campaign of his Workers’ Party (PT). The charges against the ex-president and other officials were filed after ‘Operation Zelotes’, which was launched by police …
Read More »A triumph for bullies – school clears teacher of ‘deliberate offence’ in Prophet Mohammed cartoon row, but bans use of image
A West Yorkshire grammar school that suspended a Year 9 religious studies teacher for showing pupils a caricature of the prophet Mohammed might feel it has done enough to draw a line under the incident having just announced the findings of an external inquiry. But the reality is that this …
Read More »‘I like what I like’: UFC’s Katlyn Chookagian clears up mystery of Twitter porn deluge (VIDEO)
Former flyweight title challenger Chookagian outworked Araujo on the way to a unanimous decision victory on the main card at the Toyota Center in Houston as ‘Blonde Fighter’ made it three wins from her last four trips to the octagon. “My Twitter got hacked like two months ago, or I …
Read More »‘Appalling injustice’ overturned as UK court clears names of Post Office workers wrongfully convicted due to faulty software
Some 39 subpostmasters were cleared on Friday of wrongdoing after being accused of stealing from their offices. Their cases hinged on a software programme called Horizon. The system, developed by the Japanese firm Fujitsu, was used by the Post Office to keep track of transactions and accounting. There was one …
Read More »Sputnik V prepares for EU launch: Russian Covid-19 vaccine clears 1st hurdle for roll-out as regulator EMA accepts application
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) told Russian media on Tuesday that the scientific consultation process was now finalized. “As a next step, the company can prepare an application for a registration certificate” for the EU market, a source at the agency informed RIA Novosti. Later that morning, the Russian Direct …
Read More »Report clears UK’s largest Muslim charity of institutional anti-Semitism despite controversy over hateful posts on social media
“We found absolutely no evidence that the reputational issues that have arisen over the conduct of a few individuals has had any link to the way IRW carries out this charitable work,” Dominic Grieve, who led the review, said. On the contrary, the charity has made a lot of effort …
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