Impressively, Urban free-climbed the 58-floor building in less than an hour, as onlookers viewed the daring feat from below. Multiple reporters captured footage of Urban scaling the massive building. Urban previously climbed the Eiffel Tower, as well as the Engie and Ariane skyscrapers. He posted images to Instagram of his …
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Pro-Trump demonstrators who gathered outside Washington State Capitol faced off with counter-protesters who attended an event labeled“Squash fascists”. Violence followed, with videos on social media showing supporters of the president beating Antifa with American flags. WARNING: VIDEOS MAY CONTAIN EXPLICIT LANGUAGE Other footage appeared to depict masked protesters using tear gas against …
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The Washington Post surveyed the 249 Republicans in the House and Senate and reported on Saturday that only 25 responded saying Biden had won the presidential election; the report was later updated to 26 after Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) referred to “President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris” in …
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Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) does not believe Republicans could have handled the workload of her extensive history in the service industry. “Republicans like to make fun of the fact that I used to be a waitress, but we all know if they ever had to do a double [shift] they’d be …
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Some 3,000 people in Nantes joined Saturday’s nationwide protest action against the draft security policy bill introduced by President Emmanuel Macron’s government. The rally mostly went off peacefully, but things started rapidly heating up as evening drew in. As the rally spilled over into clashes between the demonstrators and police, …
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The so-called “millionaires’ tax” was approved in the Senate late on Friday in a 42 to 26 vote. The measure targets Argentinian citizens with declared personal wealth of over 200 million pesos ($2.5 million). It will apply a progressive tax rate of at least 2 percent on their total fortunes, …
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Thousands of demonstrators set out from Porte des Lilas on the northeastern edge of the French capital on Saturday and headed to the Place de la République in the city center. The marchers sought to express their discontent over police violence and President Emmanuel Macron’s security policy plans. The marchers …
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The US is so bitterly divided that some wonks are calling for a formal split – either into an arrangement giving states more autonomy to govern themselves, or a two-nation solution. Neither will prevail because the pain of remaining ‘together’ is still insufficient. In the latest issue of its publication …
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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was gunned down last week in what many, including top Iranian officials, believe to be a clandestine Israeli operation. RT’s Going Underground spoke to Efraim Halevy, the former head of Israeli secret service Mossad, to discuss the high-profile assassination, criticism of the move coming from some senior intelligence …
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People have to sign up online before receiving the first dose of the Sputnik V vaccine at one of the city’s 70 clinics. The vaccine consists of two separate injections, the second dose must be administered 21 days after the first one. The whole procedure, which includes the time needed …
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