The US intended to use the threat of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines to dissuade Russia from attacking Ukraine, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has argued. In an exposé published online in February, Hersh claimed that the US orchestrated the September 2022 bombing of the Baltic Sea pipelines …
Read More »Luxury hotel boots famous chef who sought to turn restaurant vegan
In a statement on Friday, Claridge’s announced that it had “mutually agreed” to separate with Daniel Humm, the chef and owner at its award-winning, Michelin-star restaurant Davies and Brook. “We completely respect and understand the culinary direction of a fully plant-based menu that Daniel has decided to embrace and champion …
Read More »Tokyo subway attacker wore ‘Joker’ costume and sought death sentence, stabbed 17 people before starting fire – reports
The 24-year-old suspect was arrested on Sunday night after allegedly stabbing 17 people on a train heading toward Shinjuku, the world’s busiest train station. The Tokyo Fire Department told AP that three of the 17 victims were seriously injured. The suspect also doused parts of the train car with a …
Read More »Hunter Biden sought to sell ‘analysis’ of Russian businessman Deripaska for $55,000, emails show
According to a June 3, 2011 email from Hunter Biden to the US aluminum conglomerate Alcoa, he offered a “statistical analysis of political and corporate risks, elite networks associated with Oleg Deripaska” and a “map of OD’s networks based on frequency of interaction with selected elites and countries.” His asking …
Read More »Hunter Biden sought $2 million annual retainer from donors to help get Obama-Biden admin to unfreeze Libyan assets – media
Hunter Biden sought the fees in 2015, after the donors requested his help on freeing up assets that the Obama-Biden administration had frozen before Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi was murdered by NATO-backed rebels in 2011, Business Insider reported on Thursday. The media outlet cited recently obtained emails, including one in …
Read More »Texas passes voting bill that Democrats sought to block by fleeing the state to Washington
On Tuesday, Governor Greg Abbott hailed the passage of Senate Bill 1 in the emergency session of the state legislature and said it was now on its way to his desk for signature. The law will “solidify trust and confidence in the outcome of our elections,” said Abbott, thanking its …
Read More »Suspect in Tokyo train stabbing in which 10 were injured sought to kill ‘women who looked happy’ – media
“I have been wanting to kill happy-looking women for the past six years. Anyone would have been OK,” said the suspect, Yusuke Tsushima, 36, Japanese media reported, citing police sources. Tsushima was further quoted as saying that he had chosen a rapid express Odakyu Electric Railway train because the passengers …
Read More »NSA spied on Fox News host Tucker Carlson because he sought interview with PUTIN
Carlson was talking to “US-based Kremlin intermediaries” about an interview with Putin, the Washington, DC-based political gossip outlet reported on Wednesday evening, citing anonymous “sources familiar with the conversations.” Earlier in the day, Carlson appeared on a Fox Business show and revealed that a journalist in Washington had quoted him …
Read More »Bolivia’s ex-interior minister who sought Evo Morales’ arrest for ‘terrorism’ is arrested in US on bribery charges
The US Justice Department announced on Wednesday that Murillo and his ex-chief of staff, Sergio Mendez, were arrested last week on criminal charges related to bribery and money laundering. The pair is accused “of receiving bribes paid by a US company and individuals to secure a Bolivian government contract,” and …
Read More »China furious as new report suggests Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care weeks before Covid-19 outbreak was disclosed
According to a US intelligence report cited by the paper, three staff members from the institute became so ill that they required hospital care weeks before Beijing acknowledged the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. One source told the Wall Street Journal that the intelligence was provided by a foreign ally …
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