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Officers wearing helmets and carrying shields are seen cordoning off streets in Istanbul, while police in lighter gear infiltrated the crowds and forcefully dragged away some protesters, in footage from RT’s Ruptly video agency. There was a massive police presence as people flooded the streets of the Turkish city on …

Two Cuba-bound An-124 large cargo planes carrying food, protective gear, and more than a million masks have taken off from Chkalovsky Air Base, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken with his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Diaz-Canel, several times by phone in recent months. The …

The large mural in Withington – a suburb of Manchester near Rashford’s hometown – was marred with insults and daubs of blue paint on Tuesday, just minutes after Rashford and two teammates missed crucial penalties in the final Euro 2020 match against Italy.  Though the three players, who are all …

This week, when asked whether the US mission in Afghanistan was a failure as American and NATO troops handed over Bagram airfield to the Afghan army, President Joe Biden replied by citing purportedly achieved goals: “One, to bring Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell as I said at …

Talk about being triggered. Boris Johnson’s press conference on Monday sent #wearamask Twitter into a hyperbolic meltdown of epic proportions. The PM announced that the public would have independence from burdensome domestic Covid restrictions- which were supposed to have lasted for only three weeks but instead have lasted for sixteen months- on …

The events that transpired at Al-Aqsa mosque (Temple Mount) compound last Friday, when hundreds of armed Israeli police attacked Palestinian worshippers, injuring 200, triggered an explosion of violence that had been close to boiling point since the beginning of Ramadan.  But the escalation did not begin there. Since the start …

The wildly destructive tidal wave of #METOO agitation that has washed over Australian politics in the past few weeks shows no sign of abating just yet. The politicisation of #METOO ferment that has occurred here could just as easily have occurred in the UK or America. In fact, the Sarah …

Over 35 years in policing, I lived and worked through some of the most infamous crimes of racial or homophobic bigotry. You will have heard of many of them. If I was not involved in the investigations or managing the tragic aftermath, I knew those who did personally. I met …

Frankfurt Airport’s Terminal 1, along with its adjacent train station, was shut down on Saturday evening amid a large-scale police operation, involving both state and federal law enforcement.  It was reported initially that the evacuation was triggered by a piece of abandoned luggage. In an update on Sunday, however, police …