French former biathlon star Simon Fourcade has revealed that he has been subjected to “hundreds of messages of hatred” after speaking out against the suspensions imposed on Russian and Belarusian athletes. Fourcade, 37, made a show of support for Russian biathletes when he rearranged a French flag into a Russian …
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Sajad Gharibi, better known by his social media moniker of the ‘Iranian Hulk’, has hit out at his rival Martyn Ford for accusations that his Instagram fame has been built on heavily-edited photographs. Gharibi, who is set to tangle with Ford – who has been tagged by some as the ‘world’s …
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Notorious Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, whose most recent high-profile targets were UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel, saw their channel removed by YouTube on Saturday. The duo shared, on social media, a message they had received from the US social media giant, citing unspecified violations of …
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A Formula 1 marshal who wrote on Twitter that he ‘hoped’ Lewis Hamilton would become involved in a similar accident to the one which engulfed F1 driver Romain Grosjean in 2020 has been removed from his post ahead of Sunday’s Grand Prix in Saudi Arabia. Writing on Twitter in a …
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Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov has said he is feeling “cautiously optimistic” following talks with key US government figures, led by President Joe Biden, in the Polish capital, Warsaw, on Saturday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken also joined the meeting, along with Kiev’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba. Speaking afterwards …
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China Eastern Airlines and its subsidiaries have temporarily grounded 223 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, the company’s spokesperson Liu Xiaodong said in a press conference on Thursday, according to CNN. On Monday, China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashed in a remote, mountainous region in the south of the country as it flew …
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The US Treasury Department on Thursday issued guidance on its website warning that gold-related transactions involving Russia may be subjected to sanctions by US authorities. The move is aimed at stopping Russia from evading existing sanctions, the statement said. “Our purpose here is to methodically remove the benefits and privileges …
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Russia’s stocks continued to rise sharply on Thursday as the Moscow Exchange reopened for limited trading this week, after suspending most of its transactions on February 28. The ruble-based MOEX benchmark went up more than 11% to 2,743 points. The dollar-denominated RTS index of leading Russian stocks was down slightly, …
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Global economies will be rethinking how safe it is to rely on the US dollar in their foreign currency holdings, the deputy head of the International Monetary Fund, Gita Gopinath, said on Tuesday. The statement comes after half of Russia’s forex holdings were effectively confiscated by international financial institutions amid …
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China has rejected claims that it is engaged in a major military buildup after a senior US commander accused the country of deploying an arsenal of weapons to several islands in the South China Sea and “destabilizing” the region. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin responded to …
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