A prominent activist and professor of African American history at George Washington University has admitted that she has been pretending to be a black woman. Jessica Krug, 38, wrote on the blog website Medium that her...
COVID’s comeback | Spike in EU cases, Turkey braces for new peak
A new wave of the deadly coronavirus is on Europe’s doorstep, it seems. For a second day, France clocked up 7,000 new infections, and neighboring Spain recorded almost 9,000. Meanwhile, Turkish authorities have admitted...
Vessel ablaze | A tanker with 2mn barrels of oil on board catches fire off Sri Lanka coast
Fire rages for a second day on the Panama-flagged ‘New Diamond’ tanker east of Sri Lanka. According to a navy spokesman, one crew member is missing and presumed dead, and the rest have been evacuated.
Snowden’s Triumph | US court rules NSA harvest on Americans’ phones illegal
A US federal appeals court has ruled that the National Security Agency broke the law with its telephone metadata collection program. The scheme was exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden seven years ago, resulting...
A bad day | Aussie ‘COVID dissident’ arrested after backing Melbourne anti-lockdown protest
Knock knock! Who’s there? It’s the Melbourne police. The Melbourne police who? The Melbourne police who are going to break down your door if you don’t open it, ‘cos you said some bad stuff on Facebook. This terrible...
NATO demands probe into Moscow’s Novichok programme after Navalny poisoning
NATO on Friday called for an international probe into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and demanded Moscow reveal its Novichok nerve agent programme to the global chemical weapons watchdog.