Czech Police have named the perpetrator of a mass shooting that left 14 people dead in Prague on Thursday. The killer, identified by police as David K., a 24-year-old student, allegedly killed his father in his hometown of Kladno on Thursday before traveling to the Czech capital on a suicide …
Read More »Videos of alleged Donetsk strike aftermath emerge online
Videos published on social media on Monday appear to show the damage inflicted by Ukrainian attacks on the capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic earlier in the day. Dozens of projectiles fell on the city, according to local officials and journalists on the ground, including RT’s correspondent. Authorities in Donetsk …
Read More »Details emerge about ‘explosive device’ at Russian media site in Germany
An improvised explosive device (IED) discovered late on Friday on the grounds of a Berlin compound that houses journalists from Russia’s RIA Novosti and Sputnik Germany media outlets, had been stuffed into a remote basement ventilation shaft, Sergey Feoktistov, editor-in-chief of Sputnik Germany, has said. According to the journalist, the …
Read More »Details of Russia-Donbass cooperation treaty emerge
While the treaties of friendship and cooperation between Russia and the newly recognized republics of Donetsk and Lugansk are still in the draft stage, the Russian State Duma has released the proposed documents on Monday, showing that they will include common defense against external aggression and the right to use …
Read More »Covid strain as deadly as Ebola may emerge, top physician warns
Frank Ulrich Montgomery, chairman of the global physicians’ society (WMA), shared his fears with Germany’s Funke media group’s newspapers on Saturday. He stressed the importance of not “giving the virus a chance” to mutate any further. To achieve this, it may be necessary to keep “vaccinating the world for years” …
Read More »‘She’s bleeding, the camera’s on’: Horrifying details emerge of US mom shot & KILLED by toddler during Zoom call with colleagues
“One of the girls passed out! She was bleeding. She has the camera on. Her baby is crying in the back,” a frightened online witness to what later appeared to be a terrifying accidental killing told a 911 operator. The confused woman said she was “on a live with a …
Read More »Did he jump or was he pushed? Claims emerge from Kiev that Ukrainian Interior Minister Avakov was ordered to quit by Americans
That’s according to Ukrainian news outlet Strana, which claims it was informed by a number of lawmakers that Kent himself had asked Avakov to resign, since both the Americans and Ukrainian anti-corruption activists believe the interior minister to be halting reforms. They also reportedly think Avakov is one of the …
Read More »Facebook & Amazon emerge as 2 biggest corporate lobbyists, as big tech breaks own spending record in 2020 election cycle – report
Facebook and Amazon are now the two biggest corporate lobbying spenders in the country, according to a new report by Public Citizen, a progressive nonprofit group. Facebook spent nearly $20 million during the 2020 election cycle, with Amazon splurging just under $19 million. Behind them were telecoms giant Comcast in …
Read More »Regular ‘booster’ shots will become commonplace as new variants emerge, says UK’s Covid-19 genomics chief
“We have to appreciate that we were always going to have to have booster doses; immunity to coronavirus doesn’t last forever,” Sharon Peacock, UK Covid-19 Genomics (COG-UK) chief, told Reuters at the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s Cambridge campus on Monday. Peacock, whose COG-UK programme has sequenced half of the world’s mapped …
Read More »Germany considers extended lockdown as new Covid-19 variants emerge, Merkel spokesperson warns of ‘risk of mutation’
“We still have a big risk… that is the risk of mutation,” Steffen Seibert, Angela Merkel’s spokesman, said at a news conference, revealing that the chancellor had brought forward a meeting with the leaders of Germany’s 16 states to Tuesday. The country has reported multiple cases of the Covid-19 variant …
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