Navalny has been in court for the last two Fridays, and both hearings were adjourned at the end of the working week after long, drawn-out sessions with multiple interruptions. The activist was charged in June 2020 after a Twitter post in which he called Artemenko a “corrupt lackey.” The veteran, …
Read More »Texas braces for water & cell service outages as massive blackout leaves MILLIONS freezing in the dark ahead of 2nd snow storm
Ravaged by the first storm on Sunday night, Texas’ power grid has taken a beating over the last 24 hours, leading to rolling blackouts across the state for around 4.3 million residents as officials rush to repair ailing infrastructure. The power outages have set off a cascade of other problems, …
Read More »‘Don’t you like to party?’: Model ex-wife of Man City star says police fined her for ‘being too hot’ after Covid-19 breach (VIDEO)
The model and aspiring pop star took to social media, where she has more than half a million followers, to share the story of the incident, posting a video which showed her being surrounded by police officers who fined her for breaking lockdown rules. According to videos uploaded by the 28-year-old, …
Read More »New Mexico cop injured as suspect almost runs him over during attempted arrest (VIDEO)
The incident happened on Monday near a Sonic Drive-In restaurant in the central part of the New Mexico city, police reported. Three officers were “conducting a welfare check” on a driver when they deemed it necessary to take the man into custody. Eyewitness footage of the incident published by local …
Read More »Israel announces Covid-19 lockdown ease for ‘vaccine passport’ holders
The country’s Covid-19 cabinet approved an easing of the shutdown measures after a meeting on Monday night, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, putting Israel on track to enter the “second phase” of the Health Ministry’s exit plan this Sunday. With some 43 percent of Israeli citizens inoculated with at …
Read More »Hello darkness my old friend…Peter Mandelson is back advising Labour, why not just go the whole hog and bring back Tony Blair?
Lord Peter Mandelson is not a name that will resonate beyond the UK, but he is one of Britain’s most infamous spin doctors. The type of character who has seemingly exerted an extended sphere of influence without it ever being clear exactly what he does. He arrived into the Labour …
Read More »Los Angeles police hunts for alleged ‘Valentine’s Day meme’ mocking George Floyd’s death as lawyer demands APOLOGY
“This is beyond insult on top of injury – it’s injury on top of death,” attorney Benjamin Crump said in a statement on Monday, demanding an apology and that anyone who is involved with the meme be held accountable. “The type of callousness and cruelty within a person’s soul needed …
Read More »Indian climate activist arrested & accused of circulating farmers protest ‘toolkit’ shared by Greta Thunberg
Disha Ravi, a young activist from Bangalore, was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with sedition and criminal conspiracy on grounds that she was a “key conspirator” in creating and disseminating the toolkit, which police say advocated “disaffection with the Indian state” and “economic, social, cultural and regional …
Read More »Tehran blasts Washington’s ‘act of piracy’ for attempting to seize oil shipment ‘belonging to private sector’
“This is an obvious act of American piracy and it is a great shame for the US to commit such acts under false pretenses,” foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a weekly news conference on Monday. Khatibzadeh also said that the shipment belonged to Iran’s private sector and not the …
Read More »EU has been breaking off relations with Moscow for years, says Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov amid growing tension with Brussels
Speaking at a press conference in St. Petersburg on Monday and citing what he called Brussels’ failed political intervention in Ukraine during the country’s 2014 Maidan protests, Lavrov said that “it was then that the real humiliation of the EU took place.” Since then, Lavrov said, its politicians have been …
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