Law enforcement officers in the French capital used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowds as the situation on the streets spiraled out of control during the massive demonstrations provoked by the government’s plans to extend health passes for public places and enforce mandatory vaccination for certain jobs, …
Read More »Web down: Thousands of sites worldwide go dark after cloud services provider Akamai reports DNS ‘issue’
Google, AT&T, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and GoDaddy domain services were among the companies that started reporting outages on Thursday morning. Gaming platforms Steam and PlayStation Network, travel services Expedia and Airbnb, shipping giants UPS and FedEx, and banking and financial institutions such as Chase, Discover, Capital One, …
Read More »Southern Netherlands ravaged by floods as thousands evacuated from ‘disaster zone’ in hard-hit Limburg province (VIDEO)
A number of towns and villages along the Meuse and Rur rivers in Limburg were advised to evacuate on Thursday, after water levels reached record highs following the downpour, Reuters reported. The national government deemed the province a disaster zone late on Thursday night, invoking a law which allows victims …
Read More »Confronted with the fact their policies are ruining US cities and killing thousands, Dems give the usual reply: ‘Shut up, racist!’
And here’s one of the most predictable parts of the gaslighting: If you dare to say that violent crime is rising, and especially if you suggest that it’s scary and out of control, you’re a flaming racist. Of course. Might as well don the white hood. That was the message …
Read More »‘People above profit’: Thousands take to streets in Brazil, angry with President Bolsonaro in new wave of major protests (VIDEO)
Demonstrations were organized in over 300 locations across Brazil and abroad, local media reported on Saturday. In Sao Paulo, one of the most populous cities in the world, demonstrators flooded the streets, as seen in footage from RT’s video agency Ruptly. They carried huge banners reading ‘People above profit’ and …
Read More »Campaign to show that ‘not everyone in the UK is horrible’ raises thousands for crying German girl who was mocked during Euro 2020
The young Germany fan, who wore her team’s shirt and nation’s facepaints for the game at Wembley, was jeered and cheered as her tearful face loomed on TV screens across the UK while she was comforted as the shock of watching her side’s round of 16 defeat sunk in. After the …
Read More »It’s an assault on freedom, this scandal of thousands of people wrongly prosecuted for Covid ‘offences’ like not wearing a mask
A Crown Prosecution Service review has found that, in almost one-in-five cases brought for breaches of health protection regulations in England and Wales, people were wrongly charged. But, with an additional 4,000-plus people prosecuted under the fast-track ‘Single Justice Procedure,’ this figure is likely to be even higher. Covid and …
Read More »Tens of thousands gather in Madrid to protest plans to pardon jailed Catalan independence leaders (VIDEOS)
Some 25,000 people gathered in central Madrid on Sunday, according to estimates by Spain’s National Police. Local law enforcement estimated a higher figure, however, stating that at least some 126,000 demonstrators had shown up for the rally. The activists decried government plans to grant a pardon to the Catalan separatist …
Read More »‘Under-resourced & under-supported’: Tens of thousands of New Zealand nurses go on strike for better pay, safer work (VIDEOS)
Around 30,000 nurses, midwives, and healthcare assistants walked off the job on Wednesday, marching on the streets and rallying across the country for better pay and a safer workplace environment. They carried placards saying, “Good health needs valued nurses” and “Fair wages = more nurses.” The New Zealand Nurses Organisation …
Read More »‘Turkey must learn’: Duo ‘given thousands of years in jail for conspiring on match-fixing charges against football giants’
Hidayet Karaca, who was the head of the Samanyolu media group that was later shut down by the government, is said to have been given a whopping 1,406-year term after being accused of organizing the tapping of phone calls and forging of documents. Ex-police chief Nazmi Ardic also copped 2,170 …
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