“Tragically, we’ve seen one older person die and I want to extend my deepest condolences to their families and loved ones,” NSW State Premier Gladys Berejiklian told a daily press conference on Sunday. The victim was a woman in her 90s who apparently contracted the disease in her household and …
Read More »Tehran police & firefighters respond to reports of ‘loud explosion’
A state television reporter on the scene of the blast – located at Park Mellat in northern Tehran – claimed an “unknown object” exploded, but no injuries have been reported, according to Reuters. Fars News Agency was among the first to report the incident, though no details have been given …
Read More »Microsoft reports previously undetected security breach while investigating SolarWinds hack
The group, which Microsoft refers to as Nobelium, gained access to Microsoft customer support tools that allowed the cyber thieves to view billing contact information, as well as what services customers were paying for. In some cases, Nobelium – described as a “sophisticated Nation-State associated actor” in a document seen …
Read More »Leaked ‘confidential’ intel reports on RT DE only prove that German media are working with special services
The Russian hacker must have been hibernating for the past four years, but now he wakes up just before the federal elections to attack German computers. At least that’s what the ARD political magazine Kontraste would have us believe. Once again, Kontraste got this information from a current “situation report …
Read More »Chinese military has its own UFO task force… and it’s been ‘overwhelmed’ by surge in sighting reports – media
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) uses a three-tiered system to investigate instances of “unidentified air conditions” – a euphemism reminiscent of the US military’s term for UFOs, “unidentified aerial phenomena,” the South China Morning Post reported. The PLA relies on reports from military radar stations, air force pilots, police stations, …
Read More »Facebook to stop exempting politicians from censorship, building on Trump ban – reports
Facebook – which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp – will treat accounts of politicians and public figures just like everyone else’s, and disclose when special newsworthiness exemption gets invoked to shield them from having “violating” content deleted, The Verge reported on Thursday. The Verge cited “two people familiar with the …
Read More »UK reports ZERO Covid-19 deaths for first time in pandemic, but infections still creep up amid lockdown easing
The last time there were no fatalities from the virus in the UK was March 7, 2020, before the four nations entered lockdowns to control the spread of infection. The positive news comes amid an uptick in Covid-19 cases, with a further 3,165 reported on Tuesday. The UK’s virus incidence …
Read More »RT reports from the thick of war in Central African Republic as Russian instructors aim to help local troops bring lasting peace
A bloody civil war has been raging in the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2012. The country, which gained independence from France in 1960, has had a tumultuous history of various factions seeking to usurp power, and the violence in the resource-rich nation has dragged on well into the 21st …
Read More »Denmark helped NSA spy on Merkel & other European leaders, new reports reveal, as Snowden says Biden was ‘deeply involved’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank Walter-Steinmeier are among those who were spied on by the NSA with the cooperation and help of the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (FE), according to the European media investigation. The US spying on not only its own citizens, but also leaders in foreign …
Read More »US reports it has imported sanctioned oil from Iran, a first after 30 years of sanctions
The department did not provide information on how the Iranian imports showed up on its log, despite current US restrictions banning any nation from purchasing oil from Iran. The US reportedly imported an estimated 36,000 barrels per day in October 2020, according to data tracked by the US Energy Information …
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