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President Trump was being treated in the hospital for COVID-19 on Saturday, and at least nine of his party’s top officials had contracted the virus—but it made no difference to many GOP officials and campaign aides who continued to flout social distancing guidelines and host maskless, indoor events. On Saturday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who tested positive for COVID-19 late Friday night, doubled down on his criticism of mask mandates. While they may help mitigate infection risk, he claimed, they are “certainly not a cure-all.” Instead, Johnson pointed to “individual responsibility.” After his test on Friday night, Johnson said he didn’t […]
The UK events sector has warned the government of the “existential threat” it is facing, claiming 90,000 redundancies will follow unless the industry receives tailored support. In an open letter to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak on Thursday, the Events Industry Alliance (EIA), an umbrella group for trade bodies, asserted that the industry would face mammoth job losses when the government’s furlough scheme finishes at the end of October. The letter has been signed by 334 companies across the events and exhibitions supply chain, as well as the Labour Party. The EIA calls for a tailored “events industry hibernation support package,” […]
A federal judge has rejected a request to repeal statewide restrictions on religious gatherings in Colorado, insisting the coronavirus still poses too great a risk to residents. The move was scorched by civil liberties advocates. US District Judge Christine Arguello ruled this week that allowing such gatherings would “present a high risk of harm to the state of Colorado as well as the public in general,” declining to overturn a 175-person limit on religious events imposed by Governor Jared Polis. “Numerous courts have considered, and persuasively rejected, nearly identical arguments,” Arguello wrote in her decision, referring to the case brought by […]
UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – A former lead investigator from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Ian Henderson, said the final report of the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) into the alleged use of toxic chemicals in an attack in Douma, Syria, in 2018, may not reflect what happened on the ground. Henderson was speaking at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council, organised by the Russian Mission, to openly discuss the treatment of the Syrian chemical dossier, in contrast to traditionally closed gatherings of the council on the issue. “I speak for myself, but I know there are other […]
Russia is closely following events in Belarus, gripped by post-election protests, but while doing so it’s shown much more prudence than the West, President Vladimir Putin said, firing back at the claims of Moscow’s meddling. “We believe this is, first and foremost, an internal matter of the Belarusian society and the people of Belarus,” Putin told the ‘Rossiya 1’ channel in an interview aired on Saturday, speaking about mass protests in Belarus that have rumbled on weeks after a landslide victory of incumbent Alexander Lukashenko in the August 9 presidential elections prompted accusations of electoral fraud from the opposition. Also on […]
Prominent Russian figure skater Oleg Ovsyannikov has spoken in favor of a widely-discussed initiative to change the age limit in women’s skating, suggesting that 15-year-old girls spend two more years at junior level. The Olympic silver medalist, who also won two world titles together with his partner Anzhelika Krylova, said that women’s skating should not be converted into a competition between kids who are allowed to enter senior events from the age of 15. READ MORE: Anticipated comeback? Alina Zagitova to take part in pre-season ‘Test Skate’ event in Moscow “I want the International Skating Union (ISU) to address the matter of […]
KOKTEBEL (Sputnik) – Koktebel Jazz Party founder Dmitry Kiselev suggested on Friday reviving certain traditions as part of the festival, including those involving nudists. “Koktebel implies a certain free spirit. You know that Maximilian Voloshin is considered to be the grandfather of Russian nudism: he believed that clothing makes a person sexier, so you need to take it off and think about the sublime. Since then, there has been a nudist tradition here, it passed through the Soviet era and has been preserved until now. There is a special spirit here, in Koktebel, a special attitude to the body”, Kiselev said […]
Last week, Israel and the United Arab Emirates struck a historic deal that established diplomatic relations between the two states. But for some, the agreement is just a sign of a coming doomsday. The Israel-UAE peace deal may be linked to Biblical prophecies that describe events leading to the end of the world, observers from the Bible Prophecy – Signposts of the Times blog claimed. As the United Arab Emirates became the first ever country in the Persian Gulf to normalise ties with Tel Aviv, conspiracy theorists rushed to link this development to what is known as the Gog-Magog alliance, the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/19/1079984042_0:288:3130:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_c1f059fafc18be459683fd11d0ecb28d.jpg.webp Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007261079984024-protest-continues-in-portland-following-tense-events-of-previous-night—video/ Portland has been home to one of the most intense anti-racism demonstrations following the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, with the downtown federal courthouse being the focus of continuing unrest over several weeks. Citizens gather for another night of protest in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, after federal agents used tear gas to prevent a violent minority of protesters from attacking the federal courthouse. On Friday, several dozen protesters shook the metal fence around the courthouse and hurled petards and various incendiaries over it. Earlier, they set fires in the area. US President Donald Trump […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump is replacing his campaign rallies with “tele-rallies,” he told his supporters in Wisconsin. “I wanted to be with you, and this is really replacing our rallies that we all love so much,” Trump said during his first tele-rally on Friday, as quoted by CNN on Saturday. He told his Wisconsin supporters dialed into a telephone call that “we’re doing really well with the therapeutics and vaccines, but until that gets solved it’s going to be tough to have those big massive rallies, so I’m doing telephonic rallies, and we’ll call them the Trump rallies, […]
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has banned all large public events for the next three months, citing the Covid-19 pandemic – only to make a belated exception for Black Lives Matter rallies, incensing Americans far outside the city. Fresh off painting a giant “Black Lives Matter” mural on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower, the mayor took to CNN to expand on his office’s order to cancel all large gatherings through September 30 on Thursday. But when host Wolf Blitzer asked him about “protests,” de Blasio couldn’t resist taking the day’s pandering even further. “We understand, at this moment […]
Penn State health sciences librarian volunteers for WHO Librarian Reserve Corps WE ARE Helping the World Health Organization by News: Penn State University UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Several months ago, the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) — a partnership of the World Health Organization (WHO) that mobilizes resources to respond to acute public health events — was overwhelmed with the amount of literature being published related to the COVID-19 pandemic. To get the help they needed to manage this information, GOARN formed the Librarian Reserve Corps (LRC), an organization composed of volunteer librarians. When the call for volunteers went out, Brad […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107940/94/1079409431_0:196:3045:1908_1200x675_80_0_0_cbf2bf4b0831da83d5ba264c84f66104.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006121079597813-beijing-authorities-reintroduce-ban-on-sporting-events-due-to-new-covid-19-cases-in-city/ BEIJING (Sputnik) – Beijing sports authorities said on Friday that all sporting events would be temporarily suspended again as new COVID-19 cases were detected in the Chinese capital. At the end of May, China’s General Administration of Sport allowed to partially resume holding sports tournaments suspended over the pandemic. “Due to the changes in the epidemiological situation and the need to carry out work to prevent the epidemic, reduce movement- and crowds-related risks, ensure the health and safety of citizens, all kinds of sports competitions are temporarily suspended citywide starting Saturday”, the Beijing sporting […]
Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has unveiled ambitious plans to get around the COVID-19 restrictions currently decimating the global sporting calendar – by holding large-scale boxing events in his back garden. Hearn has revealed plans to stage successive boxing events on the grounds of his 15-acre mansion in Brentwood, Essex. The plan is understood to be in advanced stages and will cost in the region of £1 million ($1.2 million) to get off the ground. Also on rt.com Behind-closed-doors boxing: Eddie Hearn planning ‘unique environment’ to host shutdown shows this summer No more than 90 people will be permitted on site in accordance […]
Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor has paid tribute to the UFC for successfully hosting three events in the space of eight days in Jacksonville, Florida. The UFC kicked off their Jacksonville triple-header with UFC 249, which took place on May 9 at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in the city as they became the first major sporting event to be held in the United States since the COVID-19 lockdown. Also on rt.com ‘It’s ironic he’s on his knees’: Gaethje mocks McGregor for ‘losing clout’ as newly-crowned UFC interim champ targets Khabib During that event, Justin Gaethje defeated Tony Ferguson to […]
Northwestern University is facing backlash for hosting a series of controversial virtual events for their “online sex week.” Events include topics such as “Masturbation for Manifestation,” a burlesque workshop and a drag makeup tutorial. The student-led “Sex Week” began on Monday and will run through May 15. It is described by the organizers as “a series of events put on by NU College Feminists over the course of a week that is designed to increase awareness of issues related to sexuality and sexual health. Sex Weeks exist at colleges across the nation; ours was founded in 2007. For this year’s Sex […]
The NG-13 Cygnus resupply vehicle has been released from the grip of the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) to begin its EOM (End Of Mission) events. Cygnus will spend two weeks on orbit, deploying a pair of nanosatellites and conducting experiments before ending its life with a destructive re-entry at the end of the month. NG-13’s mission began with a launch atop the Antares rocket that launched from Wallop’s Pad OA back in February. Antares launches the NG-13 Cygnus – NASA photo Taking just over two days to arrive at the International Space Station (ISS), Cygnus’ berthed mission followed the […]
The organizer of the canceled Massive Adoption crypto conference, which boasted a potential audience of 1,500, is being sued over allegations that ticket refunds are too slow. The putative class action lawsuit was filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado by Ashley Gentry, a would-be attendee of Massive Adoption, and alleges fraud, breach of contract, conversion and unjust enrichment. The suit is calling for the organizer, Jacob Kostecki, to refund would-be attendees, as well as punitive damages and the costs of the lawsuit. David Silver, the attorney who filed the lawsuit, told CoinDesk he was doing […]