As Germany’s biggest news outlet appoints Johannes Boie, 37, its new editor-in-chief today, having finally sacked former boss Julian Reichelt over allegations of sexual impropriety at work, those young female interns and junior reporters might claim victory. But his departure was really all about the business. Nothing more. The publishing …
Read More »After ‘burying’ idea of discussions with Moscow, NATO must take first steps if it wishes to improve relations – Russian FM Lavrov
That’s according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who told the press at the annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi on Tuesday that Moscow is not to blame for the ever-worsening relationship between Russia and the military bloc. “We didn’t start the deterioration of relations, either …
Read More »Colorado middle school launches probe after teen says teacher TAPED masks to students’ faces in class
Colorado Springs’ Academy School District 20 said it would conduct a probe over allegations that some staff at Chinook Trail Middle School had taped masks to students’ faces, according to a local media report. The charge originated after photos emerged online showing one female student with a taped-on mask, who …
Read More »North Korea launches TWO ballistic missiles less than a month after ‘hypersonic’ missile test – reports
The reported missile test took place around 10.17 a.m. local time on Tuesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported. The South Korean military said that at least one missile was fired from a launch site near the North Korean port city of Sinpo in central South Hamgyong Province. There …
Read More »‘All you had to do is let us know’: Telegram CEO Durov PURGES Snowden impersonator after NSA whistleblower’s Twitter tirade
Telegram “knows” he doesn’t have an account, Snowden tweeted on Sunday, complaining about an impostor account named ‘Official_EdwardSnowden’ sharing “a swastika” to 80,000 followers. “Great job, guys. Just super,” he said. Snowden added that Telegram knew “ages ago” about the “scam-ring running this account,” having refused to respond to media …
Read More »Isn’t it odd that ‘whistleblowers’ keep popping up just after Facebook announced it wanted to ‘reduce the presence of politics’?
Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, who claims she was fired after highlighting the tech giant’s failure to tackle election interference across the globe, has just given evidence to the Draft Online Safety Bill Committee in the UK’s Parliament. Upon leaving Facebook in September 2020, she wrote “I’ve … found …
Read More »After 19 years of beatings & losing an eye, America’s innocent ‘forever prisoner’ may be about to spill the secrets of CIA torture
In a landmark move, the Biden administration has advised the US Supreme Court that Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian man who has been in US custody for nearly 20 years, can provide limited testimony for use in a Polish criminal investigation into his torture at a CIA “black site” in that …
Read More »Far-right anti-LGBT group Male State banned in Russia after court brands group ‘extremist’ amid string of harassment campaigns
On Monday, a court in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod handed down the designation, meaning its operations and activities will now be banned in the country. A lawsuit against Male State’s actions was brought before the court earlier this month. However, the group’s founder, Vladislav Pozdnyakov, failed to appear …
Read More »‘Disgraceful’: Fans hit out at Son for celebrating goal shortly after medical emergency at Newcastle-Tottenham match
In the struggling northeast English outfit’s first match since being taken over by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, all was going well for the home side when Callum Wilson put them ahead on two minutes. Their bliss lasted for just a quarter of an hour, however, as Tanguy Ndombele leveled …
Read More »UN’s reputation is in pieces after it pulled from MP Matt Hancock the offer of a global role made in breach of its own rules
We shouldn’t really blame disgraced former Health Sec Matt Hancock for thinking he’d landed that big United Nations job, only to have the offer withdrawn just a few days later when someone suddenly found the paragraph in the rulebook that explicitly ruled him out of the post. Seems someone at …
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