China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant. Residents are required to remain at home, with one family member permitted to venture out to… Read More
Putin censorship campaign has sprung some leaks
Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China’s so-called Great Firewall. So when Western tech companies began cutting ties with Russia following its invasion, Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov was alarmed. He’d… Read More
Warsaw overwhelmed as it becomes center for Ukrainian refugees
Warsaw’s mayor is appealing for international help as the city becomes overwhelmed by refugees, with more than a tenth of all those fleeing the war in Ukraine arriving in the Polish capital. Some seek to wait out the war or settle in the city, while others merely use Warsaw as… Read More
Stocks waver amid Russo-Ukraine hopes
Stocks are wavering between gains and losses on Wall Street Friday, as uncertainty about the war in Ukraine and inflation continues to knock markets around. The S&P 500 was 0.4% lower in afternoon trading, European stocks were up more solidly and crude oil prices were climbing more than 2% after… Read More
Russia blocks Instagram amid censorious crackdown
Russian regulators said Friday that internet users will be blocked from accessing Instagram because it’s being used to call for violence against Russian soldiers, in Moscow’s latest move to tighten up access to foreign social platforms. The communications and media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said in a statement that it’s restricting national… Read More
New poll shows THE main difference between Republicans and Democrats
“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes Sometimes an individual will say something—a comment, an aside—that instantly reveals his character. Bill Clinton said, “I didn’t inhale,” and “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” O.J. Simpson said if he had butchered his ex-wife and her new boyfriend, he… Read More
Russia expands airstrikes after hospital attack
Russia widened its military offensive in Ukraine on Friday, striking near airports in the west of the country for the first time, as observers and satellite photos indicated that its troops, long stalled in a convoy outside the capital Kyiv, were maneuvering in an attempt to encircle the city. Previously,… Read More
Lava flows as Ring of Fire volcano continues to erupt
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi continued to erupt Friday, forcing authorities to halt tourism and mining activities on the slopes of the country’s most active volcano. The volcano on the densely populated island of Java unleashed clouds of hot ash shortly before midnight Wednesday into early morning Thursday and fast-moving pyroclastic flows… Read More
Twitter unveils version of site that can bypass Russian censorship
Twitter has launched a privacy-protected version of its site to bypass surveillance and censorship after Russia restricted access to its service in the country. Russia has blocked access to Facebook and has limited Twitter in an attempt to try to restrict the flow of information about its war in Ukraine…. Read More
Russia airstrikes hospital as ceasefire talks stall
A Russian airstrike on a Mariupol maternity hospital that killed three people brought condemnation down on Moscow on Thursday, with Ukrainian and Western officials branding it a war crime, while the highest-level talks yet yielded no progress toward stopping the fighting. Emergency workers renewed efforts to get food and medical… Read More
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