“We are asking everyone to do a lateral flow test before mixing with people from other households and on every occasion that you intend on doing so,” Sturgeon said during a Tuesday address to Parliament. This testing should be done before a visit to another household or to a pub, …
Read More »Russia tells US embassy staff to leave Moscow
Speaking at a briefing on Wednesday, diplomatic spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that “by January 31, 2022, employees of the US embassy in Moscow who have been on assignment for more than three years must leave Russia.” The news comes after Washington reportedly denied extending the visas of dozens of family …
Read More »GOP senators say MEGHAN MARKLE has called to press for support on paid leave measure in Biden’s spending bill
Two GOP senators, Shelly Capito of West Virginia and Susan Collins of Maine, said they received calls from Prince Harry’s wife recently, according to reports in Politico and the New York Times on Wednesday. “I’m in my car. I’m driving. It says ‘caller ID blocked.’ Honestly … I thought it …
Read More »Southwest pilot placed on leave, could face charges after alleged assault on flight attendant during ‘dispute over masks’
The fight broke out at a hotel bar in San Jose, California on October 18 during a layover stay, according to police records cited by USA Today. “The event involved a disagreement over mask wearing or masks,” a spokesman for the San Jose Police Department told the outlet, but declined …
Read More »Kuwait orders Lebanon’s top diplomat to leave country in regional row over comments on Yemen
The diplomatic crisis in the Gulf region further worsened on Saturday, when Kuwait evicted Lebanon’s senior diplomat and also recalled its ambassador from Beirut. On Friday, Saudi Arabia gave a Lebanese ambassador two days to leave and imposed a blanket ban on all imported goods from the country. Hours later, …
Read More »All the money in America won’t bring children back, US must just leave Afghanistan in peace – Kabul drone strike victim’s brother
Not a single terrorist was hit, but seven children – some as young as two – as well as three adults, perished in the charred ruins of their own family’s backyard. In a cruel twist of fate, Zemari Ahmadi, the man whom the US intelligence somehow took for a terrorist …
Read More »American Marines told to leave Russia or face the law after elite embassy guards stagger out of Moscow bar with ‘stolen’ backpack
Diplomatic spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday that authorities had made a protest to the consulate over the incident. “Given that the suspects turned out to be employees of the US Embassy and have immunity, a note was sent from the Foreign Ministry,” she said. “As part of this, the …
Read More »It’s time for NATO to leave Kosovo before it does any more damage
As the last US military helicopters were leaving Kabul, Afghanistan, many, including myself, emphasized the similarities with America’s embarrassment in Saigon, South Vietnam – but one parallel that few dared to draw was with Kosovo. When I merely asked “Is Kosovo next?” on Twitter, it sent Albanian media outlets into …
Read More »China requests emergency power from Russia as coal shortages leave cities without electricity & factories grind to a standstill
On Wednesday, the Inter RAO energy conglomerate revealed that it had received a request from authorities in the East Asian nation to help relieve its flagging national grid. While no details have yet been given of the potential deal, it is understood that the firm, which has a monopoly on …
Read More »Putin and Erdogan are all smiles in Sochi, but leave summit without press conference
The summit was hotly anticipated as Russia and Turkey appeared at odds over the current situation in Syria’s Idlib province, and following Erdogan’s speech at last week’s UN General Assembly calling Crimea a part of Ukraine “whose annexation we do not recognize.” Its results, however, remain veiled in mystery as …
Read More »