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A musical video by an Iraqi rapper calling out the US on its abuses at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in the war-ravaged country following the 2003 invasion has gone viral, racking up over 500,000 views. The video was filmed by rapper I-NZ as another parody of Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America.’ While Gambino took on […]
The US is expelling those who’ve been building bridges between Russia and America in business, science and culture, Russia’s US envoy Anatoly Antonov said in an address as Russian diplomats and their families left Washington, DC. “The US authorities have expelled American friends,” Antonov said of the departing diplomats in a video address. “They are […]
Three-quarters of Yemenis, including over 11 million children, are in a desperate need of humanitarian aid while over a half are suffering dire food and water shortages, UN agencies are reporting, fearing the worst is yet to come. The bloody conflict marked 1,000 days earlier this month since the Saudi-led military intervention in March, 2015. […]
(credit: NS Newsflash / flickr) The News Media Alliance, a trade group representing almost 2,000 news organizations, has asked US Congress for an exemption to antitrust law so that it can “negotiate collectively” with Google and Facebook. The Alliance, formerly known as the Newspaper Association of America, complains that the two dominant Internet companies form a “de facto […]
Enlarge (credit: Stephen Brashear / Getty Images News) Two days after a National Security Agency-derived ransomware worm infected 200,000 computers in 150 countries, Microsoft on Sunday criticized the stockpiling of exploits by government spies, warning it results in damage to civilians. The unusually blunt message from Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith came […]
In response to US media hysteria over Russian outlets obtaining photos of Donald Trump’s closed-door meeting with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov, the White House says both a Russian and an American photojournalist were present. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with US President Donald Trump was widely anticipated by the media, and while it happened […]
Dutch police treated a Turkish delegation in a “harsh and rude way” despite the members’ diplomatic immunity, Turkey’s expelled family minister said upon her return in Istanbul. Quoted by Anadolu news agency, Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya told reporters at Istanbul Ataturk airport that Dutch police had detained the entire Turkish delegation, including the chargé d’affaires […]
The mayor of the Latvian capital Riga, has hit out at the Baltic country’s State Language Center (VVC) after being fined for posting in Russian on Facebook. On Monday, Nils Usakovs, took to the social media platform to condemn the center and its policies, which he described as “medieval savagery”. “The Latvian State Language Center […]
