The scare occurred approaching half time in a 1-1 draw with Alaves at Camp Nou. Signaling that he wanted to be taken off by interim manager Sergio Barjuan, the Argentine then laid on the turf and was attended to by medical staff who raced onto the pitch. Well enough to at …
Read More »Will Beijing be worried by the CIA setting up a special unit to focus solely on ‘the global challenge’ China poses?
America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced a new group that will focus solely on China and the strategic challenges posed by it. In a statement released on Thursday, the agency said the new China Mission Center has been formed “to address the global challenge posed by the People’s Republic …
Read More »‘I was so worried’: F1 king Hamilton praises ‘courageous’ mechanic after plowing into him with car in pit at Russian GP (VIDEO)
The unwitting team member suffered the unenviable agony of being thrown backwards into the air by the front of Hamilton’s car, shunting him up and back onto the ground as the Brit cruised in to the pit. Bravely picking himself off the floor, the unnamed man signaled that he had not suffered …
Read More »Despite US humiliation in Afghanistan, Russia not gloating over chaos & only ‘worried about region,’ Moscow’s top diplomat says
Speaking as part of a campaign event ahead of next month’s parliamentary elections, Sergey Lavrov warned that regional instability is far from a cause for celebration. “People have written that we are gloating over events in Afghanistan,” the top diplomat said. “But there has been no such feeling.” “We are …
Read More »EU more worried about Russia & China gaining from Western defeat in Afghanistan than future of country, Moscow’s FM Lavrov says
Speaking at a press conference following talks with his Hungarian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov said it was regrettable that the bloc’s officials weren’t as preoccupied with the humanitarian situation in the country. The top diplomat turned fire on Brussels’ foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, who claimed last week that “what we …
Read More »‘I am worried about my safety’: Athlete fears she will go to jail if she returns to Belarus, could seek asylum in Germany, Austria
Runner Timanovskaya was preparing to run in the 200m at the Games on Monday when she was abruptly told she would be escorted to the airport, put on a flight to her homeland and play no further part in the competition in the wake of her public criticism over an …
Read More »Politicising the shooting of a black activist in the UK is wrong. We should be more worried US’s casual gun crime has hit Britain
Over the last weekend, there were 12 mass shootings in US cities across eight states – Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Minnesota – which left 11 dead in just another routinely violent display of America’s gun problem. Meanwhile, the UK saw a single senseless shooting …
Read More »UN chief ‘particularly worried’ about power of social media giants & calls for laws to keep them in check
When asked during a press conference on Thursday if Twitter was “right” in permanently suspending rump, then still a sitting US president, Guterres did not answer directly, instead suggesting that social media behemoths should follow a clear set of rules – to be created – instead of wielding unchecked power. …
Read More »The Anglosphere countries hoping for China’s collapse should be more worried about their own economic prospects
Most people have heard of Gordon Chang’s infamous book ‘The Coming Collapse of China’, which was authored more than 20 years ago. Say no more. The text is not so much a standalone theory as it is a representation of a broader train of thought on China that persists in …
Read More »OPCW director worried truth about Syria ‘chemical attack’ report would feed ‘Russian narrative’
“I fear there is little one can do since the report is final and out – unless one wants to feed in the Russian narrative and that I would never do as they really are not bona fide friends of this organization, that’s for sure,” was the message of one …
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