Long-serving Thomas will make history by helping to keep charge of Super Bowl LV between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, when she will oversee the likes of NFL superstars Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes as they pursue glory. The Mississippi mother-of-three was initially hired after a 45-minute …
Read More »Just in time for Joe? US Covid-19 cases drop a record 35 percent over last three weeks
The New York Times posted the encouraging statistics on Thursday, crediting “the very early stages of herd immunity” and a possible increase in mask-wearing and social distancing. The paper did not provide evidence for any of the claims, calling them “possible explanations.” “The United States has never experienced a sharp …
Read More »BBC blasted for spending £1 MILLION in THREE YEARS on equal pay and discrimination legal fights
The publicly-funded media organisation has defended its decision to, so far, spend £1,121,652 on legal bills as part of its commitment to being a “truly inclusive employer” due to the complex nature of equal opportunity cases, arguing they required qualified professionals to manage them and address the concerns raised. “While …
Read More »Ethiopia’s former FM among three Tigray leaders killed in crackdown on region
Seyoum, Abay Tsehaye, Asmelash Woldeselassie and Colonel Kiros Hagos were killed “in fire exchanges undertaken with the criminal clique’s personal security” after refusing to surrender to the Ethiopian military, the government’s crisis center tweeted on Wednesday. Five “key” officers of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) were captured in the …
Read More »Three killed after massive avalanche hits ski resort in Russian Arctic city of Norilsk (VIDEOS)
The avalanche hit the Gora Otdelnaya (Separate Mountain) resort complex outside the city, which lies some 300km (190 miles) inside the Arctic Circle, late on Friday. The snow mass covered an area of around 300 square meters, crushing several huts that hosted skiers. The incident prompted a massive overnight rescue …
Read More »Arabian slights: How a deepfake video caused a rift in the Arab world and led to a three-year blockade of Qatar
In early June 2017, a major fissure in the already fragile relations between the six members of the GCC (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar) emerged, leading to a total blockade of Qatar. The crown princes of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), and the …
Read More »‘This is gonna be a long three weeks’: Pin-up football presenter claims she was sent penis snaps within hours of UK’s new lockdown
The presenter for the Premier League and Leeds – the club at the center of controversy over a row involving pundit and former England player Karen Carney – made the shocking revelation shortly before the UK officially entered the toughest possible restrictions, announced by the government earlier in the evening. …
Read More »Feeling triggered? More than one in three Latvians feel urge to ‘SHOOT’ fellow citizens who make life in the country worse
Local media in the Baltic nation reported on Sunday that a new study by public pollster SKDS found a large proportion of those surveyed felt aggression towards those “who make life in the country what it is at the moment.” More than one in ten respondents said they often experienced …
Read More »101-year-old Italian grandma gets Covid THREE times
Orsingher first tested positive back in the early days of the pandemic in February. “In February, mother was hospitalized in Sondalo and then also the doctor of the hospital in Sondalo, where she was treated, told us that she had never had such an elderly person come out of the …
Read More »Three Iranian bomb plotters freed by Thailand in apparent exchange for release of Australian-British ‘spy’ scholar
The prisoner swap was first reported on Wednesday, when the Iranian government agreed to release 33-year-old Kylie Moore-Gilbert. She was serving a 10-year prison sentence after being tried and convicted as an Israeli spy in 2018. Iranian media said her release was made in exchange for securing the freedom of …
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