The back and forth between Borussia Dortmund and Manchester United over the transfer of English star Jadon Sancho seems to be at an end after Dortmund’s CEO drew a firm line underRead More…
15Aug/20
15Aug/20
‘Cancel yourself’: Twitter battle erupts after Marge Simpson feels ‘p***d off’ at being compared to Kamala Harris
Conservatives have bashed ‘The Simpsons’ on Twitter, after the show released a clip in which cartoon matriarch Marge said she felt “disrespected” when a Trump associate argued that Kamala Harris sounds exactlyRead More…
‘Muscular liberalism’: Washington Post columnist roasted after using strange label to describe Biden/Harris strategy
A piece on how the Biden and Harris ticket sticks it to the Democrats has drawn an outpouring of mockery after describing the duo’s foreign policy platform as ‘muscular liberalism’. A WashingtonRead More…
15Aug/20
Russia starts production of Covid-19 vaccine – Health Ministry
Production of the Russian vaccine for Covid-19 has been launched, the Health Ministry says. It was dubbed ‘Sputnik V’ after the world’s first artificial satellite launched by the USSR but its officialRead More…
15Aug/20
Go East! Investment guru Jim Rogers bullish on Russia’s Far East & Siberia
The Russian market offers a lot of investment opportunities in this time of global economic uncertainty, says legendary investor Jim Rogers. He called for a closer look at Russia’s domestic tourism andRead More…
15Aug/20
Protest group StandUpX fights against ‘undemocratic’ Covid-19 measures, mixing real concerns with conspiracy theories
British protest group StandUpX is gaining in numbers. They mostly protest restrictive anti-Covid-19 measures, but members also oppose 5G and vaccines, among other things. The overarching belief is that democracy is underRead More…
15Aug/20
‘They got a fitting response from our soldiers in their own language’: India’s Modi warns China and Pakistan on Independence Day
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to continue defending the country, while sending a veiled message to both China and Pakistan, with whom India clashed along disputed borders this year. AddressingRead More…
15Aug/20
‘Our options are unlimited’: Iran vows tit-for-tat response if US enacts sanctions under nuclear deal it single-handedly upended
Tehran has vowed a swift pushback to the US if the Trump administration moves to trigger “snapback” sanctions envisioned by the 2015 nuclear deal, arguing that they would be “illegal” since theRead More…
15Aug/20
Trump ups pressure on ByteDance, demanding it sell US assets & delete all TikTok data in 90 days with new order
US President Donald Trump has ordered Chinese firm ByteDance to divest from its US-based assets within 90 days and to scrub all data linked to the company’s popular app TikTok, arguing bothRead More…
Trump supporter Bill Mitchell, with over half a million followers, permanently booted from Twitter for ‘opposing masks’
Conservative pundit Bill Mitchell has been kicked off of Twitter for good, with the controversial Trump fan saying his opposition to face masks did him in. The perma-ban has stoked cries ofRead More…