Speaking on Wednesday, Ian Blackford, SNP leader in Westminster, said that Scotland would soon be heading back into the European Union, having seen the PM’s “bad Brexit deal.” “It’s the people of Scotland that are sovereign, and it’s the people of Scotland that will determine to take them back into …
Read More »Argentina’s leader says ‘trade war’ unleashed against Sputnik V as country starts immunization campaign with Russian vaccine
Competitors are eager to “discredit each other,” Fernandez told TV Publica in an interview broadcasted on Monday, adding that the coronavirus vaccine market is worth “tens of billions of dollars.” “A trade war has been unleashed and, as everyone hopes for a vaccine, there is a geopolitical debate about who …
Read More »‘Interviews with over 400 officials & 5000 pages of documents’: Pentagon pushes back against Biden’s claim it obstructs transition
Shortly after Biden took a swipe at the Department of Defense, among other agencies that he accused of obstructing the transition, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller shot back, saying that the Pentagon has gone to greater lengths than “recent administrations” in facilitating the process. “The Department of Defense has conducted …
Read More »Water cannon and mounted police deployed against ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting over conscription case in Jerusalem (VIDEO)
A clip published by the Ruptly video agency shows mounted police and water cannon being used against the protesters. Activists from the hardline Jewish religious community sat on the ground and crawled under parked vehicles as hundreds blocked traffic on the major Sarei Yisrael-Jaffa intersection in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Officers …
Read More »190 officers deployed in raid against suspected Islamist in Berlin after tip-off about ‘imminent’ bombing
The operation in the German capital’s Marzahn district was directed at a person suspected of being on the “Islamist spectrum” and preparing “a serious crime,” Berlin police said, adding that 190 officers were involved in the raid. According to the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, police were searching the apartment of a …
Read More »Google & Facebook to team up in fight against govt accusations of secret pact to rig online ad market – report
In a complaint filed last week, Texas and nine other states accused the tech duo of striking a deal to divide the lucrative market, with Google agreeing to give Facebook perks if the latter backs off from direct competition. The secret pact was codenamed after a ‘Star Wars’ character, and …
Read More »UK lockdown laws may help against the new Covid-19 strain, but the strain on kids’ mental health is too high a price
As the dread sunk in following Boris Johnson’s announcement at 4pm on Saturday that London and large parts of the southeast of England would be placed under Tier 4 of the pandemic lockdown’s draconian measures I felt an irrational urge to pack the family in the car and flee to …
Read More »Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine effective against new mutation of Covid-19 first observed in UK, says RDIF CEO Dmitriev
Dmitriev revealed that the Russia-produced vaccine is as effective against the new mutation as it is against other existing strains. “Sputnik V has repeatedly shown its effectiveness, despite previous mutations in the S-protein,” Dmitriev told the press, on Monday. Earlier Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed that Russia is following the …
Read More »Former Miss Belarus released from jail after 42 days behind bars for protesting against government
Khizhinkova was arrested on November 8, and had her original 12-day sentence extended twice after evidence linked her to being at two other anti-government protests. Her release date was supposed to be December 11, but she ended up serving an extra nine days. The former Miss Belarus has been very …
Read More »Mask warning: don’t get lax because you’re vaccinated against Covid-19, say China’s health authorities
The emergency vaccination program will continue in the country during the winter period, the director of the State Council’s vaccine research and development work group, Zeng Yixin, said on Saturday. “During the winter and spring seasons, carrying out novel coronavirus vaccination work among some key population groups is of great …
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