The accident took place on Saturday morning. The Albuquerque Police Department said that the balloon appeared to hit a power line. Four people were killed when the basket hit the ground and a fifth was taken to hospital, where he later succumbed to his wounds. Video footage shows the basket …
Read More »‘I’ve never been in such good shape’: Miesha Tate shows off killer body ahead of UFC comeback (PHOTOS)
Known as ‘Cupcake’, Tate uploaded visual proof of remarkable progress to her 2 million followers on Instagram. Taking a selfie in the bathroom, it shows Tate with a ripped six-pack which is even more impressive considering she only gave birth to her second child, son Naxton, just over a year …
Read More »The silence on Canada’s indigenous deaths shame shows there are double standards on global human rights
Yesterday 751 graves were found at a residential school in Canada, adding to a growing national scandal following the discovery of 215 bodies at a school several weeks ago. The findings reveal a darker side of Canada’s history, one the world has known little about. Over a lengthy period of …
Read More »Seizure of Iranian websites shows Biden is happy for America’s long history of bullying Tehran to continue
There were those who thought a new US presidency would mean a reset in America’s relations with Iran after the catastrophe of the Trump era. But clearly that’s not the case. Talks between Washington and Tehran over returning to the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear …
Read More »The increasingly arbitrary nature of Covid-19 restrictions shows that politics has trumped science
How many people are choosing to take a Covid-19 vaccine for the reason for which it was brought into existence – that is, to lessen the chance that one has to deal with a more serious form of illness if one catches the virus? Because that particular message doesn’t seem …
Read More »Biden-Putin meeting shows Russia-US relations are set for a return to the Cold War-era. Strangely, that might be an improvement
While the fears were originally bigger than the hopes, the worst possible outcomes failed to materialize, and the summit served its purpose of getting Moscow and Washington to sit down and do business. Both leaders signed up to a well-polished joint statement that denounced nuclear war and signaled their determination …
Read More »Trial of Germany’s CureVac vaccine shows only 47% effect against Covid-19, falling short of great expectations
Preliminary results from second and third-phase trials on 40,000 subjects in 10 countries of Europe and Latin America show that CureVac’s jab “did not meet pre-specified statistical success criteria,” the company announced on Wednesday. “In the unprecedented context of at least 13 variants circulating within the study population subset assessed …
Read More »After Geneva summit, Biden shows his preference for fantasy narratives extends beyond the US to Russia as well
Parsing Biden’s words is a thankless task, because whatever he actually says, his White House handlers and the compliant media will quickly ‘clarify’ if it clashes with their narrative. With that caveat in mind, some of his remarks at Wednesday’s solo press conference in Geneva, following the meeting with Russian …
Read More »‘The Return: Life After ISIS’ shows Shamima Begum has regrets, but no remorse. It’s time we heard less from her
“I was just a dumb kid who made one mistake.” Shamima Begum thinks she was a normal teenager. Wearing a baseball cap, skinny jeans and white t-shirt, looking – and sounding – every inch the trendy young Londoner, she tells interviewer Andrew Drury that she was simply “really naive” when …
Read More »VIDEO shows car bomb tear through Colombian military base, leaving at least 36 injured
The blasts hit a facility used by 30th Brigade of the National Army on Tuesday afternoon, injuring 36, Defense Minister Diego Molano told reporters, noting that three were seriously wounded. “We reject and repudiate this vile and terrorist act which sought to attack the soldiers of Colombia. Thirty-six people were …
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