Ankara maintains its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, the office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. The president is expected to reiterate the position to the leaders of NATO states during an upcoming summit in Spain. Erdogan will say that “Turkey will not compromise its …
Read More »Saudi Arabia calls upcoming Blinken visit fake news
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will not be making a trip to Saudi Arabia in the “near future,” the country’s foreign ministry said, formally denying a recent report citing a local official. In a missive carried by the Saudi Press Agency on Saturday, the FM “denied reports circulated in …
Read More »DC’s first major trans character confirmed for upcoming ‘Batgirl’ film
Transgender actress Ivory Aquino has joined the star-studded cast of HBO’s upcoming ‘Batgirl’ film to portray Alysia Yeoh – one of DC’s first openly trans characters, and the best friend of Leslie Grace’s titular hero. News of the casting was initially leaked online when Grace posted a photo from the …
Read More »US envoy to Afghanistan Khalilzad RESIGNS amid reports of upcoming State Department probe into botched Kabul withdrawal operation
Khalilzad’s resignation was announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, noting that he will soon be replaced by his deputy Thomas West, a holdover from the Barack Obama administration. “I thank Ambassador Khalilzad for his service and welcome Special Representative West to the role,” Blinken said in a …
Read More »Opium of the masses: Russia’s Communists are flirting with faith in God but, in upcoming elections, can they hope for a miracle?
In the aftermath of the 1917 revolution, and during the “Great Terror” of 1937/38, Soviet communists declared war on religious belief, razed churches to the ground and murdered priests by the thousand. Communism’s hostility to religion, and particularly to the Russian Orthodox Church, isn’t just a matter of historical record …
Read More »Four snails & 90 clams could be killed in upcoming hypersonic missile test, US Air Force warns
The Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) test may finally take place next month after a previous failed attempt, Gen. Timothy M. Ray, head of Global Strike Command, said in early June. And those paying the price will not only be the American taxpayers, but also the marine life of the …
Read More »Putin & Biden may discuss US re-entry into Open Skies treaty at upcoming summit, as Russia also prepares to leave spying agreement
Speaking to the press on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained that time was of the essence to find a solution for the future of the spy-plane treaty. “This topic can surely be touched upon somehow, but time is running out fast. We are already carrying out procedures for leaving …
Read More »‘You are not a one-person show’, says Pelosi in continuing feud with AOC’s ‘Squad’ in upcoming book – reports
In a series of 10 interviews conducted for the biography ‘Madame Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,’ out later this month, Pelosi reportedly targeted numerous political opponents, including Ocasio Cortez and the controversial ‘Squad’ of younger, more left-leaning Democrats including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Michigan), Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), and …
Read More »Academics bash draft plan to SWAP biological sex for gender identity in upcoming Scottish census
In a letter published by the Times, several professors from across the UK said they had deep concerns about how data will be collected for the nation’s upcoming census. When the UK census kicks off in March, the Office for National Statistics will ask if a person’s gender identity is …
Read More »Academics bash draft plan to SWAP biological sex for gender identity in upcoming Scottish census
In a letter published by the Times, several professors from across the UK said they had deep concerns about how data will be collected for the nation’s upcoming census. When the UK census kicks off in March, the Office for National Statistics will ask if a person’s gender identity is …
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