The men were found guilty of arson with risk to human life, the court said in the verdict on Saturday. The defense claimed that their clients had been framed by a witness, saying that the ruling was “an inconceivable conviction without evidence.” The lawyers earlier filed a request for three …
Read More »Gaddafi’s son seeks Libyan presidency 10 years after NATO-backed campaign plunged country into chaos – media
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has begun to reach out to Western and other diplomats as he seeks to re-enter public life, the Times reported. Once viewed as his father’s successor, he is preparing to stand in Libya’s December 24 presidential contest. Speaking to the paper via telephone, he said he was …
Read More »Trying to skewer someone for dumb social media posts made 9 years ago as a teen is a new low for cancel culture
I don’t know about you, but I was apt to say lots of extremely dumb things as a teenager that I didn’t believe then and I certainly don’t believe now. Come to think of it, even as a fully grown if-not-exactly mature adult, I am still apt to say idiotic …
Read More »‘Turkey must learn’: Duo ‘given thousands of years in jail for conspiring on match-fixing charges against football giants’
Hidayet Karaca, who was the head of the Samanyolu media group that was later shut down by the government, is said to have been given a whopping 1,406-year term after being accused of organizing the tapping of phone calls and forging of documents. Ex-police chief Nazmi Ardic also copped 2,170 …
Read More »Russia’s current supply of gold deposits should last for next 40 years, minister says
“Russia is first in the world in terms of gold reserves (13%) while, in terms of production, third, after China and Australia. The country’s supply at the current level of output is about 40 years,” he told Izvestia newspaper. The minister pointed out that the Russian government is constantly replenishing its …
Read More »Facebook suspends Trump’s account for two years following oversight board report
When it initiated the suspension in January, Facebook declared Trump’s tweets, posted before his supporters rioted at the US Capitol, “a severe violation of our rules.” The term of the suspension was announced by Facebook on Friday. Earlier, the company’s oversight board – a body convened by Facebook to weigh …
Read More »US reports it has imported sanctioned oil from Iran, a first after 30 years of sanctions
The department did not provide information on how the Iranian imports showed up on its log, despite current US restrictions banning any nation from purchasing oil from Iran. The US reportedly imported an estimated 36,000 barrels per day in October 2020, according to data tracked by the US Energy Information …
Read More »Alabama drops public school yoga ban after 27 years, but ‘namaste’ greeting still ‘expressly prohibited’ over link to Hinduism
After sailing through the Alabama State House in a 75-14 vote earlier this week, Governor Kay Ivey signed the legislation into law on Thursday, dropping a 27-year prohibition on yoga instruction in the public school system. Parents will still have to give permission under the new law, acknowledging that yoga …
Read More »‘No immigration for five years’: Ex-EU negotiator Barnier’s bid for French presidency is straight from the Brexit playbook
There is clearly no chance that lofty, self-regarding political careerist Michel Barnier, the former EU chief negotiator on Brexit, will ever understand the sweet, sweet irony of the shameful politicking behind his bid to become president of France. The 70-year-old former minister under Presidents Chirac and Sarkozy, who spent nearly …
Read More »End of an era: LiveLeak self-destructs after 15 years of providing unmitigated gore & all things NSFW
Hayden Hewitt, co-founder of LiveLeak and now ItemFix, did not directly confirm in any of his statements that the site was being dropped because of censorship, or that it was bowing and scraping before the deadly monolith of deplatforming, or any of the other grim fates that befall sites like …
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