If Tehran responds to the Damascus embassy attack by bombing Israel, West Jerusalem will launch strikes against the Iranian nuclear program, a London-based Arabic outlet has reported citing an anonymous Western security official. Two generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and several other officers were killed …
Read More »Russia suspends US inspections of nuclear military sites
Moscow has informed Washington of a “temporary withdrawal” from the inspection regime under the START nuclear disarmament treaty, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Citing treaty provisions for “exceptional circumstances,” Russia is saying the Western sanctions have prevented its inspectors from performing their duties, thus giving US inspectors an …
Read More »US & Israel mull drills to strike Iran’s nuclear sites – reports
The drills will be considered during a meeting between US military officials and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz scheduled for Thursday, Reuters reported, citing a senior member of the Joe Biden administration. While the US official declined to discuss details of the potential exercises, a report by Israel’s Kan broadcaster …
Read More »Children offered secret rides to vaccination sites
The row began on Friday, after a Saskatchewan community organizer named Julian Wotherspoon posted a Twitter message offering to assist any 13- to 17-year-olds who want to get vaccinated despite opposition from their parents. “I’m your ride to the clinic,” she said. “If anyone asks, I’m taking you and my …
Read More »Art museums turn to OnlyFans to display nudes as social media sites censor artistic expression, but is it just canny marketing?
Leading museums in Vienna have turned to OnlyFans in a bid to circumvent social-media restrictions on institutions that exhibit nude paintings and sculpture. Adults only The museums in Vienna feature many nudes. In particular the Leopold Museum, which houses art by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, has many explicit erotic …
Read More »It pays to hold out? NYC mayor dangles $100 ‘incentive’ before those who give in and get Covid-19 jab at city sites
“We wanted to supercharge it by saying we’ll give you extra, direct personal incentive to get this done now,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told the city on Wednesday, making it clear that New York’s future was one in which “more and more things are going to be determined by whether …
Read More »Web down: Thousands of sites worldwide go dark after cloud services provider Akamai reports DNS ‘issue’
Google, AT&T, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and GoDaddy domain services were among the companies that started reporting outages on Thursday morning. Gaming platforms Steam and PlayStation Network, travel services Expedia and Airbnb, shipping giants UPS and FedEx, and banking and financial institutions such as Chase, Discover, Capital One, …
Read More »Outage: Users report major sites down, including Amazon, Guardian, NYT & Reddit
Some of the internet’s most visited websites, including Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, GitHub, eBay, Etsy, Pinterest, and Stack Overflow, went offline, leaving many users from around the world wondering what happened. American and European news outlets were particularly hard hit, with websites including the New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent, …
Read More »No full access for UN inspectors to nuclear sites after stopgap deal expired – Iranian parliament speaker
The Iranian government must not “compromise the technical achievements of the nuclear industry with its political goals and objectives,” and must implement a law that sets a roadmap for moving away from the international nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iranian lawmakers said. This includes …
Read More »Fire at Kuwait’s largest oilfield is latest in series of blazes at oil sites across Middle East, but ‘no impact on production’
In a statement on Monday cited by state-run media, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) spokesman Qusay Al-Amer said a fire had broken out at dawn and all relevant teams had been dispatched to bring it under control. Al-Amer said two workers, both of whom worked for a service company contracted to …
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