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Xi, who chairs China’s Central Military Commission, ordered the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to maintain “full-time combat readiness” and to be ready to “act at any second.” “The commanders and the soldiers of the whole army must… carry forward the spirit of combat without the fear of hardships and the …

The clip came soon after Benfica’s match at Santa Clara was abandoned with just six minutes gone due to storm conditions weather. In an apparent bid to fill time on the broadcast, the local television network sent a cameraman into the depths of the stadium to collect some shots of both teams – and …

The apparent plagiarism was noticed on Monday, with netizens pointing out that during an interview with Elle magazine over the fall, Harris told a story that is nearly identical to a memory shared by Dr. King some 56 years ago in a sit-down with Playboy. While speaking with Elle in …

When Boris Johnson extended his open invitation to Hong Kongers to come and live in Britain as a grand humanitarian gesture towards those wishing to flee a Chinese crackdown, the world was a very different place. China was then the international bogeyman, blamed universally for the outbreak of Covid-19 and …

2020 was a year to forget, but it was also immensely geopolitically significant. The outbreak of Covid-19 was a world-changing event which will profoundly alter the globe. Not least because the political shockwaves it created have brought relations between the United States and China to their lowest ebb in modern …

The man identified as the main suspect behind the bombing, 63-year-old Anthony Warner, mailed the strange missives to several people he knew before carrying out the attack late last month, federal investigators said. One of the letters, sent with a package containing multiple USB drives, went on for at least …

“Let the man begin to live,” Waters said in an interview with RT on Monday, insisting Assange must be freed from custody at London’s maximum security Belmarsh Prison without delay, hours after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled against extradition for the anti-secrecy activist. We, [Assange’s] supporters, have to be saying ‘Bail. …

The commander-in-chief denounced Republicans who failed to back his challenges to November’s vote totals as the “Surrender Caucus,” describing them as “weak and ineffective ‘guardians’ of our nation” on Monday via Twitter. Trump’s continuing insistence that voter fraud stole the presidency has fractured the Republican Party, with establishment stalwarts such …

Assange, 49, is charged with 18 counts of conspiring to hack US government computers and the publication of confidential military records, including a video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad. A dozen people, including two Reuters journalists, were killed in that attack. In a surprise ruling on Monday, …

Ferrier admitted in October that she’d journeyed from Scotland to Westminster, London in September while feeling ill. After arriving in the capital, she tested positive for Covid-19, but instead of immediately isolating, returned to Scotland the following day. London’s Metropolitan Police launched an investigation, Ferrier was suspended from the SNP, …