When he first waded into the domestic affairs of France, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan probably thought he could rely on the muscle of fellow Muslim leaders, including bellicose Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to help see off complaints about over-reach. However, in just six months, the relationship between Islamabad …
Read More »Beijing tells Japanese politicians to drink Fukushima’s wastewater to prove it’s safe before they dump it into the ocean
Speaking on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian reinforced Beijing’s opposition to Tokyo’s decision to dump more than one million tons of “treated” nuclear wastewater into the ocean. “Japan’s claims that the safety of nuclear wastewater relies only on unilaterally obtained data, which is completely unconvincing… The Tokyo Electric …
Read More »Israel tells International Criminal Court it doesn’t have authority to investigate crimes in Palestinian territories
“Israel has decided to respond to the notice sent by the ICC and make clear it is acting without having the jurisdiction to do so,” the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in a statement carried by Israeli media on Thursday. “Moreover, it should be noted that Israel is …
Read More »Green mayor tells French children to give up on their dreams of aviation as Air France accepts a €4 billion state rescue package
A provincial French mayor has ignited a nationwide controversy by trashing the dreams of children who long to fly because of aviation’s use of fossil fuels, just as a €4 billion ($4.7 billion) rescue plan has been approved for Air France by the EU and President Emmanuel Macron’s government. On …
Read More »Ready, steady, STAY! Confusion as CDC director tells Americans NOT TO TRAVEL after her agency clears vaccinated for traveling
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a set of updated guidelines on Friday, which allow Americans to travel internationally and domestically without a negative Covid-19 test, as long as they received their last vaccine shot no less than two weeks before departure. Walensky announced the new …
Read More »UK minister tells Brits to ‘call out’ others for doing ‘odd’ things like HUGGING loved ones as lockdown eases
During an interview with BBC Breakfast on Monday, Huddleston said, “Despite the temptation, please don’t risk the health of your loved ones by actually hugging them.” “Also, if you see somebody behaving in a slightly odd way, then maybe call them out on it in a respectful way, because sometimes …
Read More »Dr. Birx tells CNN hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 deaths ‘could have been mitigated,’ blasted as ‘complicit’
“The first time, we have an excuse, there were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge,” Birx told CNN in a documentary that will air Sunday. “All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.” Birx believes that if cities and …
Read More »Biden tells migrants ‘don’t come over,’ downplays own DHS chief’s warning of biggest immigration surge in 2 decades & blames Trump
During an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that aired on Tuesday night, Biden was asked for clear advice to the thousands of migrants hoping to enter the country through its border with Mexico, suggesting they do not make the effort. “Yes, I can say quite clearly: Don’t come over,” Biden …
Read More »NATO changes tone: Chief of US-led bloc tells EU officials its members face ‘no imminent military threat’ from Russia or China
Stoltenberg made the statement – somewhat unusual given NATO’s typically harsh anti-Russia rhetoric – during an address to the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Monday. “I was asked about whether I see any threat against NATO allies from China or from Russia. I don’t see any imminent threat …
Read More »‘Huge middle finger’: YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged AMERICAN tax
The video platform, owned by Google, actually updated its terms of service to tax US creators shortly after the 2020 election, but the change went largely unnoticed in the uproar about censorship. On Tuesday, however, YouTube announced that the taxes will soon be taken out of earnings by creators outside …
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