The ink’s barely dry on #Beijing‘s new National Security #Law for #HongKong and already it’s all coming to a head. US tech giants Facebook and Google are among those announcing they’re...
Algerians stranded in France, unable to return home over coronavirus fears
More than 5,000 Algerians have been left stranded in France after Algeria shut its border over coronavirus fears, even to its own nationals. The EU announced it was reopening flights to Algeria on June 30, but Algeria...
Bubonic plague is coming? | #PollyBites
Apparently, there’s a case of bubonic plague in Mongolia. And because it’s 2020, that means we’ll probably all have a dose of it by the weekend. Or not. Because, despite a few scare stories, it turns out that small...
Congress Sells Out US Troops, Refusing Again To End Afghanistan War
While the New York Times and other media outlets are deeply concerned about evidence lacking and unverified reports of Russian bounties on U.S. troops, they all but ignore that the U.S. Congress has once again sold out...
‘Stop right there!’ | Russian FSB agents takedown ‘drug lord’
3 Russian interregional drug couriers were detained by FSB carrying at least 45 kg of amphetamine and 10 kg of MDMA in the form of 23k tablets
Iraq’s ‘Valley of Peace’ | World’s biggest cemetery captured by drone
The sheer vastness of the world’s largest cemetery, Wadi al-Salam in Najaf, Iraq, has been captured using a drone. The seemingly endless burial site is home to many coronavirus victims, which is said to be a...
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive for Covid-19
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus. Here’s how he got to this point