Maradona, 60, had been treated for a blood clot earlier this month and undergone brain surgery. He reportedly suffered a heart attack while recovering at home and passed away on Wednesday. While many celebrated the 1986 World Cup winner’s life on Twitter, others proved just how little they knew of …
Read More »After years of relying on Roscomos to deliver its astronauts to space, Washington now plans sanctions on Russian space agency
As well as Roscosmos, the proposed sanctions would also target Rosatom, the federal nuclear energy agency, as one of 28 organizations in the aviation, rocket, space, nuclear, instrument and engine industries. According to news agency RIA Novosti, which has seen the document, the suggested measures are also aimed at Chinese …
Read More »‘Will you be issuing a pardon for yourself?’ Jeering media can’t resist bad puns after Trump pardons Thanksgiving turkeys
A tradition dating back to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, the pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey was made an annual event by President George HW Bush in 1989. Trump carried on the tradition as usual on Tuesday, bestowing a pardon on a turkey named Corn, and remarking that “Thanksgiving is …
Read More »France’s interior minister launches probe after ‘shocking images’ of police clearing migrant camp
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has announced an investigation after ‘shocking’ images circulated on social media of violent clashes, as police broke up a migrant camp in a central Paris square. After the incident, Brut stated that it would be demanding explanations from the police prefecture and the Ministry of the …
Read More »Are you invading, or just lost? Russian navy threatens to ram US warship ‘John McCain’ after it crosses border near Vladivostok
The USS John S McCain, a specialist combat ship designed to hunt submarines, was operating in the Sea of Japan (also called the East Sea), off the coast of the Russian Far Eastern capital, Vladivostok. Authorities say it was more than two kilometers inside Russia’s internationally recognized maritime border. A …
Read More »‘We will never concede’! Trump doubles down on fraud claims after GSA green-lights power transfer, says lawsuits moving ahead
“What does GSA being allowed to preliminarily work with the Dems have to do with continuing to pursue our various cases on what will go down as the most corrupt election in American political history?” Trump said in a tweet late on Monday night, hours after the General Services Administration freed …
Read More »Maryland’s Republican governor attacks Trump after president tweets report about faulty Covid-19 tests he ordered from South Korea
“If you had done your job, America’s governors wouldn’t have been forced to fend for themselves to find tests in the middle of a pandemic, as we successfully did in Maryland,” Hogan said Sunday on Twitter. “Stop golfing and concede.” But ironically, Hogan’s tweet taking credit for finding tests came …
Read More »Chaos erupts after all cargo staff at Shanghai airport ordered to undergo testing following detection of Covid-19 cases (VIDEOS)
The airport’s cargo handlers were corralled in a nearby parking lot to undergo an unannounced testing regime, reportedly after several of their colleagues and close contacts were found to be positive for Covid-19, the Global Times reported. The sudden decision initially sparked frustration and anger, with videos posted to social …
Read More »Trump’s legal team distances itself from Sidney Powell after she suggests that Georgia’s GOP governor conspired to help Biden win
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own,” senior Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said on Sunday in a joint statement. “She is also not a lawyer for the president in his personal capacity.” Giuliani and Ellis gave no explanation for the statement. Trump last week named Powell, …
Read More »WATCH clashes break out in Germany after rally against Covid-19 lockdown canceled last minute
Leipzig has been one of the centers of the anti-lockdown movement in Germany in recent weeks. On November 8, the ‘Lateral Thinking’ group, which insists that Covid-19 is a hoax, was able to gather thousands of people in the city center. A large rally was also expected on Saturday after …
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