The ongoing government crisis in Italy is playing into the Kremlin’s hands, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has claimed. The turmoil is hampering Rome’s ability to provide military support to Ukraine, as well as to secure new energy contracts, the minister told POLITICO in an interview on Friday. Critics of …
Read More »UK points finger at Moscow over hoax calls
Downing Street has accused the Russian government of orchestrating hoax video calls to the UK defense and interior ministers in an alleged attempt by Moscow to “distract” from its “illegal activities in Ukraine.” On March 17, a prankster pretended to be Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and managed to engage …
Read More »China points finger over Ukraine offensive
China has blamed the US for creating the tensions which led to Thursday’s Russian attack on Ukraine. Beijing further called on the international community to avoid “stoking panic” over the situation. During a press briefing, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the key question was the role played by …
Read More »Brazil and Argentina point the finger at each another, but there’s plenty of blame to go around after their global embarrassment
Europe may snatch its best talent for their clubs, who take advantage of the poor finances and organization of its counterparts across the Atlantic, and the desire youngsters in the favelas and barrios have to play in the Champions League while establishing financial security for generations to come through astronomical salaries …
Read More »As Afghanistan finger-pointing begins, Biden blames Trump and US intelligence say ‘no one listened’ to their warnings
The Biden administration has been wrong on just about every aspect of the US’ final departure from Afghanistan. Just last month, Biden himself described the Afghan National Army – funded by the US to the tune of $88 billion – as capable of defeating the Taliban, and “as well-equipped as …
Read More »Indonesia halts ‘two-finger’ virginity tests on female military recruits
“There’s no more of that,” Army Chief of Staff Andika Perkasa declared, discussing the so-called ‘two-finger’ virginity tests which had examined “whether the hymen was ruptured or partially ruptured” before female cadets could be admitted. Addressing concerns raised by Human Rights Watch (HRW), which investigated the process in 2014 and …
Read More »Saudi Aramco says its data being held for $50 MILLION in ransom on dark web, points finger at ‘contractor’
The company confirmed to AP on Wednesday it “recently became aware of the indirect release of a limited amount of company data which was held by third-party contractors.” The contractor was not identified, and it was unclear whether the data was obtained through hacking or leaking or some other way. …
Read More »‘Huge middle finger’: YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged AMERICAN tax
The video platform, owned by Google, actually updated its terms of service to tax US creators shortly after the 2020 election, but the change went largely unnoticed in the uproar about censorship. On Tuesday, however, YouTube announced that the taxes will soon be taken out of earnings by creators outside …
Read More »Israel’s defense minister points finger at Iran over explosion on Israeli-owned vessel in Gulf of Oman
Based on the Saturday statement, it would appear that the claim by Gantz wasn’t backed by any actual intelligence, but was rather based on the geography of the incident and the current geopolitical situation in the Middle East. “Iran is looking to hit Israeli infrastructure and Israeli citizens. The location …
Read More »Lockdown without end in the UK? Boris Johnson has shown Brits the finger
In Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1935 film adaptation of ‘The 39 Steps’, Richard Hannay (played by Robert Donat) tells seemingly ‘respectable citizen’ Professor Jordan (Godfrey Tearle) that the dastardly criminal mastermind he is after has the top joint of the little finger of his left hand missing. “Sure it’s not this …
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