Days out from his UFC 257 rematch with Dustin Poirier which will top the UFC’s latest Fight Island residency on Saturday night, one would be forgiven for thinking that Conor McGregor may well have gotten his hands dirty in an Abu Dhabi hotel lobby this week had he arrived for …
Read More »Turkey slaps Twitter, Periscope & Pinterest with advertising bans, vows to fight ‘digital fascism’
Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest over their failure to comply with the country’s new social media law that requires foreign companies to have an official representative in Turkey. The decision came into effect on Tuesday, with the country’s top officials praising it as a great …
Read More »‘Help is coming’: Conservatives howl as Covid fight-touting Team Biden tells migrant caravans at the border to hang in some more
Biden has promised to provide a pathway to citizenship for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the US and to end the strict measures that President Donald Trump put in place to block the influx of new migrants. However, an anonymous transition team official said in a recent …
Read More »Return to UFC Fight Island: Can Dana White twist Khabib’s arm – and will we see fireworks if Russian champ & McGregor cross paths?
The latest Fight Island extravaganza gets underway with the card headlined by Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar on January 16, followed by a Fight Night show topped by the welterweight contest between Michael Chiesa and Neil Magny on Wednesday, January 20. The action in Abu Dhabi culminates with the eagerly-awaited …
Read More »Trump pledges ‘orderly transition’ to Biden, vows to ‘continue our fight’ against election outcome
“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th,” Trump said in a short statement. He said he will continue to fight “to ensure that only legal votes were counted.” He added …
Read More »‘We will never concede’: Trump vows to fight on during DC rally as Congress set to certify election for Biden
Trump delivered his remarks in front of a large crowd of supporters, many of whom were in Washington for the ‘Save America’ rally to protest the allegedly stolen election. “We will never give up, we will never concede,” the president said. “You don’t concede when there’s theft.” Trump focused on …
Read More »Toss-up in Georgia run-offs as Republicans fight to retain slim majority in US Senate
With about 95 percent of the total vote in, incumbent David Perdue was ahead of his Democrat challenger Jon Ossoff by mere 0.4 percentage points, while Raphael Warnock led Republican Kelly Loeffler 50.2 percent to 49.8 percent, according to Edison Research. Democrats hope to win both seats in what was …
Read More »Georgia’s GOP senators join fight against Biden’s victory certification, demonstrate loyalty to Trump amid runoff election
One of the senators, Kelly Loeffler, waited until literally the 11th hour to announce her plans, saying in a statement Monday night that she will join in trying to block formalization of Biden’s victory when Congress convenes on Wednesday to certify electoral results from across the nation. “We must restore …
Read More »‘Without fear of death’: Xi Jinping orders Chinese army to be ready to fight ‘at any second’
Xi, who chairs China’s Central Military Commission, ordered the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to maintain “full-time combat readiness” and to be ready to “act at any second.” “The commanders and the soldiers of the whole army must… carry forward the spirit of combat without the fear of hardships and the …
Read More »Russia ready to ‘fight off’ Western attempts to seize its assets in $50bn battle with oligarchs over collapsed Yukos oil empire
In an interview published by Moscow news agency Interfax on Tuesday, Deputy Justice Minister Mikhail Galperin said that litigation over the collapsed Yukos oil empire and fallout from Russia’s 2014 reabsorption of Crimea means that “a tough year” is on the cards. The long-running dispute over Yukos, once among Russia’s …
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