The report from the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, updated on Wednesday, welcomes a new civil liberties strategy put in place by President Volodymyr Zelensky in March. However, in practice, it found numerous worrying examples of the state exceeding its powers. Specifically, it blasted a decree signed …
Read More »‘Intelligence services drawing scientific conclusions’: China slams US plans to publish new report on Covid-19 origins
The US decision to task its intelligence services with digging into the origins of coronavirus shows that the country is fixated more on blaming China rather than establishing the truth, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday. “This only suggests that the …
Read More »With 200K households a year opting out of TV license, parliamentary report slams ‘complacent’ BBC bosses
In a report published on Friday, the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts warned the BBC is at a “critical juncture” having “lost its place as the media provider that young people spend most time with” due to the rise of on-demand streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon …
Read More »China slams Western double standards over rocket debris and NASA criticism, with reminder about SpaceX rocket that fell on farm
Speaking on Monday during a regular press briefing, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying dismissed NASA’s comments that China wasn’t fulfilling its duty to “act responsibly and transparently in space.” The spokeswoman said that Beijing is displeased by the double standards on the reporting of space exploration, noting the hysteria …
Read More »Sputnik V sponsor rejects Bild report that vaccine deal with Germany is ‘dead’, slams ‘disinformation campaign’
The talks with Germany are ongoing and the vaccine may be supplied to the country in June, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) pointed out in a statement on Telegram. Any German supplies will not affect other countries that also rely on Sputnik V in their Covid-19 vaccination campaigns, it …
Read More »Greenwald slams liberal reporter Julia Ioffe as ‘censorship advocate’ after suggestion to strip Fox News of First Amendment rights
“At what point does the defense start being invoked enough for the authorities to determine that what Fox News does is like yelling fire in a crowded theater and is no longer protected by the First Amendment?” GQ writer Julia Ioffe tweeted this week. The take was in response to …
Read More »‘Moving in the wrong direction’: White House slams new Florida voting law as ‘built on a lie’
“Florida is moving in the wrong direction,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Thursday about the new voting laws. Jean-Pierre went on to call the 2020 presidential election one of the most secure in US history and claimed there was no reason for new voting laws unless one …
Read More »‘He hasn’t earned the right’: Manager slams the door on Nick Diaz vs. Khamzat Chimaev UFC rumors
Fight fans had been licking their chops at the prospect of the elder Diaz brother taking on the highly-rated Chimaev in what would be the former Strikeforce welterweight champion’s first fight in more than six years, but any chance of it becoming a reality appears to be dead in the water …
Read More »‘Not binding for the court’ – Moscow slams Dutch court ruling that backed $57 billion settlement for Yukos gas empire oligarchs
On Friday, Paul Vlas, the chief legal advisor to the court, issued an independent advisory opinion stating that the original ruling, which Russian lawyers describe as “non-binding.” It backed a previous decision which handed the colossal sum to oligarchs who lost cash when Yukos was bankrupted, should be upheld. The …
Read More »‘We can and should get out earlier’: Trump slams Biden for using September 11 as Afghanistan withdrawal date
“I wish Joe Biden wouldn’t use September 11th as the date to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, for two reasons,” Trump said in a Sunday statement. The first, Trump says, is that the US “can and should get out earlier.” “Nineteen years is enough, in fact, far too much and …
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