At least eight people have been killed and ten more wounded in a shooting at a Jerusalem synagogue on Friday evening, Israeli media reported. The attacker was killed by security forces while attempting to escape. The armed assault took place in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood of Jerusalem, in the territory …
Read More »Russia reports destruction of eight Ukrainian warplanes
Two separate attacks by Russian forces have destroyed or disabled eight Ukrainian Air Force planes, the Defense Ministry in Moscow claimed on Thursday. In one sortie, Russian warplanes launched precision munitions at a Ukrainian airfield near the city of Mirgorod in the central Poltava Region, military spokesman Lieutenant General Igor …
Read More »President goes eight months without pay
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has confirmed that he has not received any payments since becoming the country’s head of state in August. “The issue of the salary is a non-issue because money was not our motivation for seeking public office and not that the government was not willing to pay,” Hichilema …
Read More »Cargo plane, with eight on board, crashes in Siberia — reports
“At 2.50pm Moscow time, the An-12 aircraft, flying between Yakutsk and Irkutsk, disappeared from the radar,” a source told RIA Novosti. According to TASS, officials believe that the plane belongs to Belarusian airline ‘Grodno’ and was operating a cargo flight. “According to preliminary reports, the crash site has been found …
Read More »NATO to expel eight Russian diplomats, allegedly over claims of ‘undisclosed espionage’ at military bloc’s Brussel headquarters
Writing on Twitter on Wednesday, Sky News security editor Deborah Haynes wrote that “NATO has decided to halve the size of Russia’s mission to the alliance.” According to Haynes, the move is “in response to suspected malign Russian activities, including killings & espionage.” Haynes went on to say that eight …
Read More »Light plane crashes into building in Milan, killing eight on board (VIDEOS)
The accident occurred on the southwestern outskirts of Milan on Sunday. The light aircraft, believed to be a Swiss-made Pilatus PC-12 turboprop plane, crashed into an empty building near the San Donato metro station. Footage from the scene captured shortly after the crash shows how the plane was obliterated on …
Read More »Mutations have made coronavirus EIGHT times more infectious than original Wuhan variant – study
The new research into the D614G mutation on the spike protein in SARS-CoV-2, present in all the latest variants currently plaguing healthcare systems the world over, was led by researchers at New York University, the New York Genome Center, and Mount Sinai. “Confirming that the mutation leads to more transmissibility …
Read More »National lockdown will last for another six to eight weeks, UK cabinet minister suggests
With the Covid-19 vaccine rollout underway, the UK government has been forced to field questions about when the national lockdown will be lifted. Lewis explained that there is “still a long way to go” and people cannot expect the jab to come to the rescue at this stage, as it …
Read More »Eight German care home employees jabbed with 5 TIMES Pfizer vaccine dose, 4 hospitalized with Covid-like symptoms
A group of care home employees in the northeastern town of Stralsund was accidentally dosed with five times the prescribed amount of Pfizer-BioNTech’s newly approved Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday – the first day Germany began vaccinating healthcare workers and nursing home residents against the virus. Eight employees received five times …
Read More »Who will be Russia’s next president? Veteran nationalist Zhirinovsky names eight possible candidates to eventually succeed Putin
Famous for his passionate, patriotic rhetoric and confrontational style, Zhirinovsky is often mocked as a clown by the media and intelligentsia, but is Russia’s most popular political figure outside of the government. A recent Levada poll put his ‘trust rating’ at 13 percent. That’s more than four times higher than …
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