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China’s advancing efforts to influence the US election raise alarms
Published on 01/04/2024
» Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of former President Donald Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions and attacking President Joe Biden ahead of the election in November, according to researchers and government officials.
Once more into the upside down
Life, Published on 03/06/2022
» Six years ago, Matt and Ross Duffer whipped up a perfect streaming video dessert, low on nutrition but high in sweet pop culture calories. Season 1 of their Netflix series Stranger Things was an expertly assembled and precisely calibrated souffle of Generation X nostalgia, Spielbergian family melodrama and more intense-than-expected sci-fi-horror adventure. It was a delicious, entirely guilt-free indulgence.
Risking jail and Church ire, Russian priests condemn Ukraine conflict
AFP, Published on 01/05/2022
» Father Georgy Edelshtein is keen to debate those who disagree with his opposition to Russia's military campaign in Ukraine.
On liberty, conspiracies and vaccination
Oped, Hugo Drochon, Published on 08/07/2021
» Although countries like Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States have done particularly well getting Covid-19 vaccines into arms as fast as possible, vaccine hesitancy remains a serious hurdle. In the US, it has already derailed President Joe Biden's goal of administering at least one vaccine dose to 70% of the US population by July 4.
US police warn of new militant plot to 'breach' Capitol
AFP, Published on 04/03/2021
» WASHINGTON - US police said they have bolstered security in Washington after intelligence uncovered a possible plot to "breach the Capitol" on Thursday, when some conspiracy-believing supporters of Donald Trump predict he will be inaugurated for another presidential term.
YouTube suspends Trump channel for week over violence fears
AFP, Published on 13/01/2021
» WASHINGTON: Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday temporarily suspended President Donald Trump's channel and removed a video for violating its policy against inciting violence, joining other social media platforms in banning his accounts after last week's Capitol riot.
Mysterious vandal attacks at Berlin museums
AFP, Published on 21/10/2020
» BERLIN - Vandals have damaged dozens of artworks and artifacts at some of Berlin's most renowned museums, police said Wednesday, in a stunning attack kept quiet by authorities for more than two weeks.
QAnon conspiracies go global in pandemic 'perfect storm'
AFP, Published on 06/10/2020
» HONG KONG: Powered by fear, anger and big tech's algorithms, the QAnon conspiracy movement has exploded from the US political fringe into the global mainstream during the pandemic.
Songs in the key of death
Spectrum, Jim Algie, Published on 23/03/2014
» Black metal musicians are more infamous for wreaking havoc than they are for making music. That legacy includes arson attacks on historic churches, murders, suicides and a police investigation into a Norwegian band called Gorgoroth who staged a Satanic black mass in Poland in 2004, complete with dozens of severed sheep heads on stakes, 80 litres of sheep blood and four nude models tied to crosses.
Black metal band killer turns himself in
Online Reporters, Published on 19/02/2014
» The killer of a black metal band singer has turned himself in to police but denied intending to murder the musician.