The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued at least two warnings to SpaceX during the company’s testing of its reusable Starship system in Texas last year, US news website The Verge reported, citing “exclusively obtained” documents. The documents, which apparently include confidential letters between the FAA and SpaceX chiefs, among other things, …
Read More »As it happened: Putin & Biden meet for first time since US president took office to discuss stability, hacking & Covid-19 (PHOTOS)
The two leaders, along with Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Washington’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken, sat down behind closed doors to discuss a range of geopolitical issues. The agenda included the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation in Eastern Ukraine, allegations of Russian meddling in recent US elections and the …
Read More »Big Brother spy agency claims ‘extremism’ is Germany’s new virus… but it’s only the far-right variant it seems to be worried about
One of the problems public health officials face with treating Covid-19 is that it presents in so many ways, and the increasing number of variants all have their own characteristics – high temperature, continuous cough, loss of taste and smell, and in Germany’s case, apparently, a tendency towards political extremism. …
Read More »A Western-backed war couldn’t destroy Syria, now sanctions are starving its people
As Syrian analyst Kevork Almassian noted, “Were it not for the CIA regime change war, arming & training tens of thousands of multinational terrorists, draconian sanctions, foreign occupation of North & East, looting the oil & burning the wheat, Syria would’ve now a brilliant economy & high standard of living.” …
Read More »Biden talks to press after discussions with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin
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Read More »Chinese ministry dismisses CNN report on radioactive leak at nuclear power plant as ‘NOT TRUE’
The ministry published an interview with “the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (National Nuclear Safety Administration)” who answered questions from reporters, on its website on Wednesday, without giving the name of the official. The publication refers to CNN’s report on the Taishan Nuclear Power …
Read More »Putin takes to stage for press conference after discussions with American counterpart Joe Biden & his team in Switzerland
Biden will speak to reporters at a conference held nearby, while Putin is addressing the cameras from inside Villa la Grange, the stately manor in the Swiss city where the summit was held. The two leaders spoke for around 90 minutes in a slimmed-back format, with only Russian Foreign Minister …
Read More »‘The Return: Life After ISIS’ shows Shamima Begum has regrets, but no remorse. It’s time we heard less from her
“I was just a dumb kid who made one mistake.” Shamima Begum thinks she was a normal teenager. Wearing a baseball cap, skinny jeans and white t-shirt, looking – and sounding – every inch the trendy young Londoner, she tells interviewer Andrew Drury that she was simply “really naive” when …
Read More »IDF ‘neutralizes’ Palestinian woman who rammed and stabbed Israeli troops in West Bank
In a series of tweets on Wednesday, the IDF stated that an attack had taken place against Israeli troops near the village of Hizma, southeast of Ramallah, the main city in the West Bank. The IDF described the event as a “combined car-ramming and stabbing attack” and said that the …
Read More »‘I hope our meeting will be productive’: Putin & Biden share handshake, photo-op and optimistic words before high-stakes summit
The two heads of state were met by Swiss President Guy Parmelin at Villa La Grange, a historic 18th-century villa with a beautiful view of Lake Geneva. Parmelin made a short speech, in French, to welcome his guests. Both leaders listened as the opening remarks were translated into Russian and …
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