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“I can confirm that this is authentic,” Hrafnsson told RT from Reykjavik on Thursday, referring to the recording of Assange’s conversation with State Department lawyer Cliff Johnson, released by the conservative outlet Project Veritas earlier this week.  “This should have tremendous weight” when it comes to Assange’s extradition, the Icelandic …

Good news is rare these days but we can all take heart from the government’s move to scrap all that unconscious bias training across the civil service on very simple grounds: it doesn’t work. In fact, according to a Behavioural Insights Team study commissioned by the Government Equalities Office, it …

The officers were seen demonstrating in the streets of Paris on Monday night in footage captured by RT’s video agency, Ruptly, some protesting in uniforms and from emergency vehicles, their flashing blue lights illuminating the city’s iconic Place de l’Etoile. “I speak on behalf of the colleagues who are behind …

Last week, it was announced that Moscow had revoked the residency of Vanessa Kogan, a US national who heads the NGO Stichting Justice Initiative (SJI) in Russia. If her appeal against the decision isn’t successful, she’ll be forced to leave the country, where she has lived for over a decade, …

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK government’s resource for all of the figures and data on Covid. But it seems to have been caught red-handed retroactively changing figures that Boris Johnson cited when announcing the second lockdown at the end of October. Of that announcement, Peston said …

“Venezuela’s electoral fraud has already been committed. The results announced by the illegitimate Maduro regime will not reflect the will of the Venezuelan people,” Pompeo tweeted on Sunday. Nicolas Maduro is expected to regain control of the National Assembly, as most candidates running are either allies or supporters of his …

“My son, my family, will not be involved in any business, any enterprise, that is in conflict with or appears to be in conflict, with the appropriate distance from, the presidency and government,” Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview on Thursday. The business ties of both Hunter and …

The attacker may have also intended to target houses of worship, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said on Thursday. “It cannot be ruled out that the perpetrator also wanted to deliberately seek out victims in churches,” Nehammer told reporters, citing the investigation’s findings. “There will therefore be a reinforced protection of …

Michael O’Leary told BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday that the government should rethink its decision to shorten the travel quarantine to five days if the passenger tests negative. O’Leary said the plans aren’t well thought out, as they allow people with Covid-19 into the country. He claimed that “test before …

For the first time since 2014, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a rare special fraud alert highlighting allegations that major pharmaceutical companies have been throwing billions at doctors as part of questionable ‘speaker programs’.  These programs have been accused of offering thin cover for …