‘The suspect conducted surveillance of military facilities and seaports,’ Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński says. Poland’s intelligence services have detained a man accused of spying for Russia, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński said Monday. “The suspect conducted surveillance of military facilities and seaports,” Kamiński said. “He was systematically paid by the Russians.” European intelligence services have…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that the company’s new social media platform Threads hit 100 million sign-ups over the weekend, less than a week after the app’s launch. “Threads reached 100 million sign ups over the weekend. That’s mostly organic demand and we haven’t even turned on many promotions yet. Can’t believe it’s only been…
MOSCOW, July 10 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin held Kremlin talks with Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin days after denouncing an armed mutiny he had led as treasonous, Putin’s spokesman said on Monday, as Russia’s top general resurfaced for the first time. The meeting with Prigozhin, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, was held on…
Greetings from Tyler, Finding out anything about the news is, well, disgusting. The Church of England is trying to figure out how to handle so-called gay marriage. All kinds of contortions are necessary to accommodate weird holy men, some of whom are miffed, since the sacrilege is the law of the land in England. The…
Archbishop of York tells General Synod that ‘Our Father’ has patriarchal connotations The archbishop of York has suggested that opening words of the Lord’s Prayer, recited by Christians all over the world for 2,000 years, may be “problematic” because of their patriarchal association. In his opening address to a meeting of the Church of England’s…
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) – The United States announced on Friday that it will send Ukraine widely-banned cluster munitions as part of a security assistance package, a move Ukraine said would have an “extraordinary psycho-emotional impact” on occupying Russian forces. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, laid out the case on Friday for…
Switzerland and Austria have signed a declaration of intent to join the European air defence system Sky Shield. The system was initiated by Germany following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and is designed to allow European countries to buy defence systems together, and train together. It’s being viewed as a historic moment for neutral Switzerland. But…
July 2 (UPI) — The first dose of a drug developed by artificial intelligence has been delivered to its first patient. Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company based in Hong Kong, announced that human patients have begun receiving the drug INS018_055, an anti-fibrotic small molecule inhibitor. The company said the drug was discovered and designed with…
In his 155-page ruling, Judge Terry Doughty said there is “substantial evidence” the government violated the First Amendment by engaging in a large-scale censorship campaign targeting content that questioned or countered establishment narratives on COVID-19. In a landmark ruling Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily barred several Biden administration officials and federal agencies from communicating with…
Israel’s military says it responded with artillery fire after a rocket was launched from southern Lebanon. A statement said the rocket “exploded adjacent to the Blue Line in Israeli territory”, referring to the UN-demarcated frontier between the states. Lebanon’s state news agency reported that more than 15 Israeli shells had hit the outskirts of the…