The ‘Level 4’ social distancing rules – the most restrictive under South Korean public health guidelines – were announced on Friday for Seoul and the neighboring densely populated Gyeonggi Province and Incheon. The decision was taken following a meeting of officials from several governmental agencies chaired by Prime Minister Kim …
Read More »DOJ says it will no longer seize reporters’ records as White House denies knowledge of gag order against New York Times
The revelation follows recent scrutiny over the somewhat regular practice of seizing journalists’ records after reporters at CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post were all informed that their phone records have been accessed during the final year of Donald Trump’s presidency. The New York Times released a …
Read More »Sweden records 30,000 suspected side effects from Covid vaccines, with AstraZeneca’s jab linked to more than half of all reports
According to the Swedish Medical Products Agency, as of last week, the Scandinavian nation had received 31,844 reports of adverse reactions linked to the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. Sweden is currently offering three variants of the drug. There are currently 2,103 reports of side effects from the Moderna shot, while …
Read More »New day, new all-time high: Bitcoin beats its own records again, rising above $64,000
The price of bitcoin rose more than 6% on Wednesday to reach $64,829, a new record high. The new milestone comes less than 24 hours after it broke past $63,000. The cryptocurrency has more than doubled its value since the beginning of the year, and has already hit $1.2 trillion …
Read More »‘Didn’t they have backup?’ UK accidentally wipes 150,000 arrest records in major security blunder
The details of the blunder were first reported by the Times on Friday. The glitch affected the Police National Computer (PNC), the law enforcement database that stores millions of records of individuals, vehicles and crime evidence and allows various government agencies real-time cross checks. According to the report, a weekly …
Read More »A deadly cocktail: Spies, cell phone records and the poisoned Negroni behind Bellingcat’s Navalny ‘expose’
The slightly bewildered-looking man who closed the door in their face is at the center of a new investigation published on Monday by US government-funded digital investigations outfit Bellingcat in collaboration with CNN, Germany’s Der Spiegel, and Russia’s the Insider. They claim that his footprints lead all the way from …
Read More »The Parker probe Solar Probe sets new records approach to the Sun
National Board of the USA on Aeronautics and space research (NASA) has reported that the station Parker Solar Probe successfully made the second closer to the Sun. Named the probe was launched in August last year. Its objectives are the study of plasma particles near the Sun and their …
Read More »It looked like the cover of Yugoslav records. Photo
These plates were produced in the 70-ies. Gidroperitny blonde Fox tails, languid women in leopard costumes among birches, shocking men with red hair and solid uncles in horn-rimmed glasses. No, it’s not a bunch of freaks at the next Comic Con. It’s just album covers from different artists and groups …
Read More »SBU has published the results of the examination of the records Saakashvili and Kurchenko
Examination confirmed the authenticity of the voices on the recordings. Press Secretary of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Larisa Sargan said that examination confirmed the authenticity of the voices on the audio recordings of conversation between Mikheil Saakashvili and fugitive businessman Sergei Kurchenko. “Ukrainian scientific-research Institute of special equipment and …
Read More »Bitcoin price continues to break records
During the year the first cryptocurrency has risen 14 times. The exchange rate of bitcoin on Thursday, December 7, close to the mark of $ 15,000 USD. This is evidenced by the data service Coinmarketcap. As of 9:30 am on Thursday, bitcoin exchange rate reached 14 773 USD. In this …
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