At least 20 people went missing after a collapsing cliffside in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais crushed three tourist boats on the river below, killing five people and injuring others. The navy is investigating the tragedy. The rockslide occurred at around midday on Saturday, in a canyon along Furnas …
Read More »Britain has a choice on Freedom Day: Embrace liberty or slide into total biosecurity tyranny
Freedom has been restored in Merrie England after 16 months of unremitting grimness the likes of which we’ve not seen since the days of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth and Matthew Hopkins’ witch-hunting. Well, sort of. No more state-mandated face masks. No more state-mandated restrictions on crowd sizes at sports venues. No …
Read More »India’s oil imports slide to nine-month low amid renewed lockdowns
The country imported some 3.9 million barrels a day in June, which was 7% less than the month before, Reuters reports citing trade sources. India’s fuel demand showed a steady increase in February and March this year, but then dropped significantly in April and May, after the government issued new …
Read More »Slide into the PM’s DMs: Boris Johnson’s mobile number being scrubbed from the internet after widespread exposure
Johnson, according to media reports this week, had a habit of handing out his mobile number to whoever he met, and has reportedly used the same number since at least 2006, two years before he became mayor of London and 13 before he became prime minister. The number itself is …
Read More »‘We must not let anything slide’: French govt ministers outraged by slew of anti-Semitic comments about Miss France contestant
“#MissFrance2021 is not an anti-Semitic competition,” Citizenship Minister Marlene Schiappa tweeted, sending her support to April Benayoum, Miss Provence and the first runner-up in this year’s Miss France contest. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he was “deeply shocked” by the hate directed at the beauty queen. “We must not let …
Read More »State of emergency in Poltava: the child broke his spine on a slide. Video
To look for blame in the injury of his daughter, her mother is now going through the courts. While riding on a slide a compression fracture of the spine received a 4-year-old girl in Poltava. Now the child is in the hospital and the mother was going to sue, says …
Read More »State of emergency in the United States: the child flew off the slide at the water Park
The attraction was closed. The incident occurred on may 27. The child came with his parents to the newly opened water Park. The boy decided to ride the three-level attraction Emerald Plunge. During the descent he fell out of slides and skidded a few meters back on the concrete. He …
Read More »Instead of slide: NERC wants to increase the price of electricity
Earlier it was planned to reduce electricity prices by 5.8%. The national Commission, carrying out state regulation in energy and utilities, plans from 1 April 2017 to increase the wholesale market price of electricity by 1% instead of the previously approved reduction of 5.8%. This is stated in the materials …
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