Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Kirchner was threatened by an armed person near her home in Buenos Aires, with a gunman seen pointing a firearm at the VP’s face before she was whisked away to safety. No shots were fired and the official was not injured. The apparent attempt on Kirchner’s …
Read More »Former KGB general in apparent suicide
Retired Russian intelligence officer Lev Sotskov has been found dead at his Moscow apartment, authorities said on Wednesday. Police say that initial information suggests the 90-year old retired major-general used a pistol he’d received as a gift from Mongolian colleagues to commit suicide. Sotskov’s body was discovered by his wife …
Read More »Kidd on the deck: US Navy ship’s Facebook page streams ‘Age of Empires’ in apparent hacking incident
A Facebook page of the USS Kidd (DDG-100) which typically posts updates from the ship’s deployments in international waters, such as its most recent mission in the Indo-Pacific, treated followers to far more entertaining content, albeit for only a few days. Until Thursday morning, the page featured a series of …
Read More »Apparent war crimes committed during 11-day Israel-Gaza conflict, Human Rights Watch says, urging international probe
On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that forces from Israel and Palestine carried out attacks during the May 2021 conflict that violated the laws of war and “apparently amount to war crimes.” In their report, which brings together data from 30 interviews with eyewitnesses of Israeli attacks, video footage, …
Read More »The LGBT lobby’s apparent obsession with influencing children could spark an American cultural backlash nobody wants to see
Isaac Newton’s third law of motion holds that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Though this does apply to physics, it can also apply to culture and society. Back in the early 2000s, the religious right in America pushed for the government to canonize traditional marriage …
Read More »WATCH: Israeli jets escort American B-52 bombers in apparent ‘show of force’ to Iran
Israeli F-15 fighter jets escorted US bombers during part of the trip through Israeli airspace, the Israeli Defense Forces confirmed in a tweet on Sunday, releasing some rare photos and video of the drill. On other parts of the route the US strategic bombers were escorted by Saudi and Qatari …
Read More »Twitter labels Chinese newspaper as ‘UK government official’ in apparent bizarre algorithmic blunder
The China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, with a global distribution managed by offices in cities like New York City, Washington, D.C., London, and Kathmandu. In December 2012, it also established an African edition, published out of Nairobi, Kenya. …
Read More »Apparent Anti-Navalny protestor pulled down from Moscow lamppost during rally for holding sign objecting to activist (VIDEO)
A video, shared widely on social media, shows four men climb up the lamppost to get the supposed anti-Navalny demonstrator down. In the clip, one man punches the protester, while another holds onto his leg, eventually dragging him down. The crowd responds with cheers. The protest, taking place in Moscow’s Pushkinskaya …
Read More »Calls for PROBE as Germany’s apparent failure to pre-order enough vaccines sparks rift within Merkel’s govt coalition
Germany’s mass vaccination against Covid-19 began just days ago but is already marred by Berlin’s and the EU’s failures, according to its critics. Of all issues with the Pfizer jab’s distribution, the apparent lack of doses at hand has raised the most questions. On Monday, the German Health Minister Jens …
Read More »Three Iranian bomb plotters freed by Thailand in apparent exchange for release of Australian-British ‘spy’ scholar
The prisoner swap was first reported on Wednesday, when the Iranian government agreed to release 33-year-old Kylie Moore-Gilbert. She was serving a 10-year prison sentence after being tried and convicted as an Israeli spy in 2018. Iranian media said her release was made in exchange for securing the freedom of …
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