Boris Johnson has become the first UK Prime Minister to be questioned under police caution, according to a leaked version of Scotland Yard’s Partygate questionnaire reported by ITV on Tuesday. As part of the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into allegations of lockdown-breaching parties in Downing Street, Johnson and all those suspected …
Read More »Local Donbass TV crew claims to have come under fire in eastern Ukraine
A local TV channel operating in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine said on Sunday that its reporters came under fire amid an ongoing military escalation between Donbass rebels and Kiev. Union TV, which is run by the local authorities, said the incident occurred in the village …
Read More »Ukrainian minister, MPs, and journalists come under fire in Donbass – Kiev
Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky, along with a group of lawmakers and 25 foreign journalists, has come under fire in Donbass, his advisor said on Saturday. The alleged incident took place near the village of Novoluganskoe in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. “The Minister of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky, a …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg could face jail time under new law, minister warns
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Big Tech executives risk ending up in jail if their social media platforms do not block content deemed harmful under upcoming online safety laws, UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has warned. Speaking to Times Radio on Saturday, Dorries said Zuckerberg, who heads Meta, Facebook’s …
Read More »Ottawa under ‘siege’ amid nationwide ‘insurrection’ – authorities
Ottawa police services board held an emergency meeting on Saturday afternoon, but failed to devise a clear plan of action against truck drivers and their supporters protesting the country’s Covid-19 mandates for over a week now. “We are on day eight of this occupation. Our city is under siege. What …
Read More »Professor under probe for defending sex with children
A New York university is investigating one of its professors after he appeared to defend sex between adults and extremely young children in a series of videos which went viral online. Stephen Kershnar, a philosophy professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia), received heavy backlash …
Read More »4th Mossad commander resigns in under a year – media
Unnamed commander of Mossad’s special operations division has resigned, accoridng to Israeli media. He reportedly became the fourth high-profile official to leave Mossad in seven months since David Barnea became director of the Israeli intelligence agency in June 2021. According to a Channel 13 News report on Sunday, the commander …
Read More »NASA missions under threat because of astronaut shortage
NASA has enough astronauts to meet “the current needs” of International Space Station missions but might soon discover that it lacks a “sufficient number of additional astronauts” for future projects. According to NASA’s Office of Inspector General report, the astronaut corps is projected to fall below its targeted size or …
Read More »Russia says it will never make concessions under pressure
Russia harbors no illusions and does not expect “swift progress” from this week’s security talks with the US and NATO, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said, adding that the collective West does not understand Moscow. “We have realistic expectations,” he told Interfax, on Sunday, adding that it would be …
Read More »Prison term reduced from 110 to 10 years under public pressure
Following public outcry, the governor of Colorado commuted the sentence of truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who was involved in a crash that killed four in 2019, from to 110 to 10 years with eligibility for parole in five. “The length of your 110-year sentence is simply not commensurate with your …
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