Preliminary results from Türkiye’s presidential election show the incumbent, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with a comfortable lead over his opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. However, the majority of the ballots remain to be counted. Polling stations closed at 5pm local time on Sunday, with the first results announced several hours later by Anadolu …
Read More »Russia counting on China – Moscow
In the face of strained relations between East and West, Russia is depending on China more than ever to help establish an equal playing field between global powers, one of Moscow’s most senior envoys has revealed. Speaking as part of an interview with RIA Novosti on Friday, Russia’s deputy permanent …
Read More »245 days and counting: Melbourne surpasses Buenos Aires and sets world record for most time spent in lockdown
Melbourne residents endured their 245th day under restrictions on Sunday evening, the country’s national broadcaster ABC reported, adding that it is now the longest cumulative lockdown for any city in the world. Argentina’s capital was under continuous lockdown between March and November 2020. This was then followed by a short …
Read More »‘You’re counting it wrong’: Readers blast New York Times for putting US at top of Olympic medal rankings
On the fifth day of the 2020 Olympics, the US paper of record showed a chart captioned “here’s where the medal count stands now,” showing the US in first place with a total of 30, ahead of China with 27 and Japan with 22. Except under the traditional method of …
Read More »‘19 Kids and Counting’ reality star Josh Duggar charged with possessing child pornography
After pleading not guilty to the charges at a hearing at the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas via Zoom due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Duggar’s attorneys released a statement promising to “defend this case aggressively.” “In this country, no one can stop prosecutors from charging a …
Read More »Conservatives cry FOUL over Detroit video showing ballot counting center covering windows, keeping challengers out (VIDEOS)
Footage of ballot counting officials covering up windows so onlookers cannot see inside at the center has been widely spread across social media, with Trump supporters latching onto it. “Nothing says an open and transparent process like COVERING UP WINDOWS,” Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro tweeted. “Imagine the reaction from …
Read More »Minsk is counting on $70 million in compensation for the supply of “dirty oil” from Russia
Belarus hopes for compensation because of the incident associated with the supply of contaminated hlororganika of Russian oil through the pipeline “Druzhba”, said the Ambassador of Belarus to Russia Vladimir Semashko. According to him, this issue was discussed on 7 December in Sochi at the talks, Lukashenko and Putin, reports …
Read More »Russia is counting on the unprecedented gas exports
The largest buyers of “Gazprom” are Germany, Turkey and Italy. Russia’s Gazprom expects record export performance of gas in 2017 – about 190 billion cubic meters this was stated by the head of the Russian company Alexey Miller at the session of the Eastern economic forum (WEF). “It will be …
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