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China’s stunning Google secret

“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes Conservatives have another good reason to distrust Google, the world’s most powerful search engine: The Chinese Communist Party is filling your search results with lies about itself, conspiracy theories about the U.S., and the CCP’s line on COVID-19. Those are the results from… Read More

UK conservatives suffer election blow

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a double blow as voters rejected his Conservative Party in two special parliamentary elections dominated by questions about his leadership and ethics. He was further wounded when the party’s chairman quit after the results came out early Friday, saying Conservatives “cannot carry on with… Read More

Ukraine withdraws in face of Russian advance

After weeks of ferocious fighting, Ukrainian forces will retreat from a besieged city in the country’s east to avoid encirclement, a regional governor said Friday. The city of Sievierodonetsk, the administrative center of the Luhansk region, has faced relentless Russian bombardment. Ukrainian troops fought the Russians in house-to-house battles before… Read More

Biden ignores Iran nuclear build-up

by Frank Holmes, reporter Nuclear watchdogs warn that, thanks to weak U.S. foreign policy, Iran’s nuclear program has crossed a dangerous threshold, taking a quantum leap forward in its efforts to get its hands on a nuclear weapon. While Iran revs up its missile development, Israel is systematically assassinating the… Read More

Deadly earthquake kills 1,000+ people

Villagers rushed to bury the dead Thursday and dug by hand through the rubble of their homes in search of survivors of a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that killed at least 1,000 people. The Taliban and the international community that fled their takeover struggled to bring help to the… Read More

Russia’s slow, bloody march through eastern Ukraine

The Russian military expanded its bloody territory grab in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, capturing two villages and vying for control of a key highway in an offensive that could cut supply lines and encircle some frontline Ukrainian forces, British and Ukrainian military officials said. Britain’s defense ministry said that Ukrainian… Read More

Drone strike hits Russian oil refinery near Ukraine

A drone strike caused a fire at a refinery in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday, but no one was hurt and the blaze was contained quickly, officials said. The fire engulfed industrial equipment at the Novoshakhtinsk oil processing plant in the Rostov-on-Don region. The authorities said… Read More

Saudi crown prince visits Turkey as countries relax tensions

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is scheduled to arrive in Ankara on Wednesday, making his first visit to Turkey as the two regional heavyweights press ahead with efforts to repair ties following the slaying of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. The crown prince will meet President Recep Tayyip… Read More

World’s largest-recorded freshwater fish caught this month

The world’s largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. The stingray, captured on June 13, measured almost 4 meters (13 feet) from snout to tail and weighed slightly under… Read More