Taiwan has accused the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of its largest incursion of the nation's air defense zone with jets and nuclear-capable bombers, as joint US-Philippines military drills begin in the South China Sea... 25 PLA aircraft (Y-8ASW*2, KJ-500 AEW&C;, J-10*4, J-16*14 and H-6K*4) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on Apr. 12, 2021.
Boris Johnson allegedly signed the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement on a "fraudulent" basis, the Court of Appeal heard on Monday. Senior judges were told the Prime Minister acted in bad faith because he never intended to keep to the terms of the UK's departure from the European Union...Barry Macdonald QC contended ... Mr Macdonald added ... .
MOSCOW — A feminist artist went on trial Monday in Russia on charges of disseminating pornography after she shared artwork online depicting female bodies. Human rights groups linked her prosecution to the Kremlin’s conservative stance promoting “traditional family values.” ... ADVERTISEMENTSkip ... Petersburg ... “It is terrifying.
TEHRAN – Iran has vowed to replace damaged centrifuges at Natanz nuclear enrichment plant with advanced ones after the plant suffered a problem involving its electrical distribution grid ... .
Microplastic pollution is now “spiralling around the globe”, according to a study of airborne plastic particles. The researchers said human pollution has led to a global plastic cycle, akin to natural processes such as the carbon cycle, with plastic moving through the atmosphere, oceans and land ...Photograph ... Read more ... Stohl said ... Reuse this content. .
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — The police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, as the man struggled with police, the city’s police chief said Monday ... She draws her weapon after the man breaks free from police outside his car and gets back behind the wheel ... ....
The US military has used dozens of tanker trucks to smuggle crude oil from the Jazira region in the Arab country’s northeastern province of Hasakah to western Iraq as Washington is pushing to further plunder energy resources in the conflict-stricken Arab state... US helicopters transport weapons, logistic material from Iraq to Syria’s Hasakah. Report ... .
Israeli spy agencies accused Iran of using fake social media accounts to lure its citizens abroad to harm them. Israeli spy agencies accused Iran on Monday of using fake social media accounts to lure citizens of the Jewish state abroad "to harm or abduct them" ... "The person was warned by (Israeli) intelligence and returned (home)," the official said.
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The cryptocurrency market has been described as matured by Hester Peirce, a Commissioner for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), otherwise known as Crypto Mom. Peirce remarked during an interview with a correspondent of Bitcoin.org. Cryptocurrency Market Has Greatly Matured ... 04/09/21 UPDATE ... TotalAUM ... ....
TL;DRBreakdown. MicroStrategy non-employee directors to get paid in BTCFirm’s aggressive BTC investment. Business intelligence firm and emerging number one crypto institutional investor MicroStrategy has again endorsed Bitcoin. This time, the firm announced it would be paying its board of directors with Bitcoin ... ....
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A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed 'Monkeydactyl', has the oldest true opposed thumb—a novel structure previously not known in pterosaurs ... It is a small-bodied darwinopteran pterosaur, with an estimated wingspan of 85 cm. Most importantly, the specimen was preserved with an opposed pollex ("thumb") on both hands ... Rodrigo V.