Source link Friday’s Euro 2024 draw in Germany was temporarily disrupted by what appeared to be graphic sounds of a sexual nature in what was the latest live event to have been disrupted by a pornographic prankster. The interruption, which saw loud sounds of female moaning echo through the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, was […]
Source link Big names have been hiking prices faster than their costs increased, says Competition and Markets Authority Many popular grocery suppliers have been pushing up prices by more than their cost, fueling ‘greedflation’, according to a recent report by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). ‘Greedflation’ refers to artificial price increases introduced by […]
Source link The IDF will only prevail in urban warfare against Hamas if it protects civilians in Gaza, Lloyd Austin says Israel’s victory over Hamas will turn into a “strategic defeat” if the country doesn’t work to prevent civilian casualties during its military operation in Gaza, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said. Washington […]
Source link Moscow should take seriously the US threat to halve Russia’s energy revenues, billionaire Oleg Deripaska said on Saturday, citing last year’s sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines and a recent train derailment in Siberia. The Russian aluminum magnate urged the government to focus on transport networks and port infrastructure in the country’s Far […]
Source link Jens Stoltenberg said the military bloc’s defense industry has yet to reach the level of cooperation needed to satisfy Kiev The Ukrainian military has failed to achieve any breakthroughs on the battlefield over the past several months, but the West should stand by the country regardless, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has argued. […]
Source link Back in October, it seemed that Vladimir Zelensky’s days as president were numbered. Time magazine and other publications accused Ukraine’s leader of being responsible for failures at the front. He was described as having lost touch with reality, being unwilling to negotiate, with increasingly dictatorial and narcissistic tendencies, and so on. Prior to […]
Source link Lasting security in the region cannot be achieved at the cost of Palestinian lives, the French president has said French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Israeli authorities to “more precisely define” the end goals of the war with Hamas, while arguing that the stated aim of totally eliminating the Palestinian militant group may […]
Source link Fighting always ends with a diplomatic agreement, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown Jr. says The conflict between Russia and Ukraine will not have a purely military solution, Charles Brown Jr., the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has suggested. During his appearance at the Reagan National Defense […]
Source link Bhutan, a South Asian nation nested in the Himalayas, has secretly developed world’s largest state-owned cryptocurrency mines, Forbes has revealed. According to the magazine’s investigation released last week, the Bhutanese government has quietly spent millions of dollars to build its bitcoin-mining operation. Forbes used satellite imagery from Planet Labs, Satellite Vu, and Google […]
Source link The country supplied 170,000 tons of confectionary in January-September, according to a RIA Novosti report Russian chocolate exports rose 9% in January-September year-on-year, making the country the 11th largest supplier worldwide, RIA Novosti reported this week, citing data from UN Comtrade and the national association of confectionary makers (Askond). In total, 170,000 tons […]
Source link Klete Keller will spend six months under house arrest for his role in the US Capitol riot US five-time Olympic medalist Klete Keller has been sentenced to six months of home detention for participating in the storming of the Capitol compound on January 6, 2021. The sentence read in a Washington court on […]
Source link American naval aircraft have intercepted an Iranian drone that was flying over the Persian Gulf, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday. The UAV was “operating in an unsafe and unprofessional manner” near the strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, CENTCOM said on X (formerly Twitter). The […]
Source link Israel and its Western backers should focus on a two-state solution instead, the Turkish president said Israel’s goal to destroy Hamas or expel the Palestinian militants from Gaza is unattainable, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, as the fighting in the Middle East has resumed following a brief truce. “The Western […]
Source link The veteran statesman’s global legacy is extremely polarizing, and one paradox is the admiration he enjoyed in Beijing Earlier this week, the famed former secretary of state and national security adviser Henry Kissinger passed away. This news was put out by a statement from his consultancy firm, without naming a cause of death. […]
Source link The US has the third-largest number of coal-burning power stations in the world and hopes to pressure allies The US will close all its coal-fired power plants, climate envoy John Kerry pledged at the COP28 climate conference on Saturday, announcing the country will join the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) to phase out […]