EU businesses have lost at least €250 billion ($266.6 billion) due to the sweeping sanctions imposed on Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Wednesday. According to the top diplomat, these are “very conservative estimates” of the damage that the West has inflicted on its own businesses over the …
Read More »Moscow hits back at Blinken’s ‘history lesson’
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has denounced remarks by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Moscow’s involvement in Kazakhstan, telling Washington it should know better about coming uninvited and overstaying its welcome. Asked about ongoing protests and rioting across Kazakhstan during a Friday press briefing, Blinken argued the situation there is …
Read More »‘We will do this again’: Watchdog warns US learned no lesson from Afghan war as govt swept failures under the rug
John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), pointed to a pattern of disastrously managed American wars over the decades, telling reporters on Thursday that Washington is all but guaranteed to make the same mistakes again, even as it extracts itself from the longest conflict in US history. …
Read More »Based Nigeria: African country teaches US lesson in how to handle Big Tech tyranny
The government in Abuja announced on Friday it had “indefinitely suspended” the US-based platform, following Twitter’s censorship of Buhari. The move was made because of “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence,” said Information Minister Lai Mohammed. Nigeria’s TV and press …
Read More »‘We don’t know who did it, but Israel will be taught a lesson,’ Iranian army chief warns after oil tanker attack
A fire erupted aboard an Iranian oil tanker off the Syrian coast on Saturday, after what the Syrian Arab news agency described as a suspected “attack by a drone from the direction of Lebanese waters.” Some reports said three people were killed, but others insisted there were no fatalities and …
Read More »The takedown of the Union Jack is a lesson in the moral cowardice of Britain’s cultural elite
Britain is one of the few places in the world where schoolchildren have permission to express contempt for their nation’s flag. So it is hardly surprising that pupils at Pimlico Academy in South London protested against their school’s policy of flying the Union Jack. Nor is it surprising that the …
Read More »Labour’s Lammy lambasted with history lesson after claiming Churchill was ‘human rights pioneer’ in Tory-bashing article
In a comment piece for the Telegraph newspaper – titled ‘Tories used to understand the importance of human rights’ – the shadow justice secretary painted the former prime minister as a champion of human rights because of his involvement in the creation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). …
Read More »War and destruction are what REALLY need to be put on lockdown amid this pandemic. But that lesson has YET to be learnt
On Monday, Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the following day’s ceremony at the White House, calling it “a dark day in the history of the Arab nation and of the Arab League.” Indeed, it is a dark day for the world as it faces one of its greatest challenges in the Covid-19 …
Read More »In Russia, the schoolboy broke his neck on the lesson
He broke his neck at the request of the teacher. Ten-year-old fifth-grader Alexander K. broke the cervical vertebrae in gym class at school in the New Moscow Video from surveillance cameras placed telegrams channel Mash. The record shows that at the request of the teacher Sasha makes power tumbling, jumping …
Read More »Russian schoolgirl died on Informatics lesson
The girl died before the arrival of the brigade “first aid”. The grade 11 student lost consciousness and died before arrival “fast” the school of Bashkir town of Neftekamsk, told the SUCK of the Russian Federation in the region. According to authorities, on Tuesday, the 17-year-old student lost consciousness at …
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