The U.S. Air Force has released an impressive photo of a joint flight of Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 Raptor fighter jet and Royal Australian Air Force E-7A Wedgetail aircraft during the Pacific Edge 21 exercise. According to a recent service news release, total Force Airmen from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam completed a multi-faceted, air-combat exercise April 22, flying more than one hundred sorties alongside partners from the Royal Australian Air Force and other U.S.-based units. The exercise, Pacific Edge 21, was hosted over three weeks to provide cost-effective and realistic training, tailored to equip multi-national warfighters with skills to fly, […]
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Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has shared new footage that shows the production process of South Korea’s next-generation fighter jet, known popularly as KF-X. South Korean aerospace giant has released new photos of the KF-X assembly line in Sacheon, south of Seoul. According to new photos, the first prototype of future fighter aircraft has vertical stabilizers installed, and the second prototype is being assembled with an automated Fuselage Automated Splice System (FASS). – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The KF-X (Korean Fighter eXperimental) is a next-generation stealth aircraft that combines elements of a 5th-gen fighter jet. KAI says the KF-X is […]
Images of a possible Russian mobile, high-power laser weapon system have appeared on social media. Leaked images shared on social media this morning are currently stoking speculation about a possible new Russian high energy laser directed energy weapon system designed to destroy hostile targets with ranges of up to 5 kilometers. Multiple news outlets report that new laser gun systems based on BAZ chassis and was spotted at NPO Advent’s facility in St. Petersburg. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Supposedly, the new weapon system is designed for detecting, tracking, hitting air targets and incinerating enemy drones at a distance […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/13/1080814234_0:0:3015:1695_1200x675_80_0_0_d6b85609c9fedddf5b8445d7b93f8467.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/latam/202010191080814083-churches-set-ablaze-amid-protests-in-chiles-capital-photo-video/ The protests in Santiago come a week ahead of the impending constitutional referendum in the country, slated to take place on 25 October. The recent protests in the Chilean capital Santiago were marked by the devastation of two churches as the initially peaceful rallies that started on Sunday, 18 October, ended up being marred by violence, vandalism and looting. One of the churches, located close to Plaza Italia, got “burned to the ground as hooded protesters cheered”, while the second church, which also “sustained fire damage”, was looted, according to AFP. The […]
Guardian: This month Arctic sea ice reached its second lowest extent on record, and modeling shows it will completely melt in summer by 2035. But where many see a disaster, some global powers discern an opportunity to secure geopolitical and commercial interests – and military ones. Canadian pilots and air crew seen after a week of Arctic survival training for military personal from Canada, the UK and France at the Canadian Forces Crystal City training facility near Resolute Bay in Nunavut, Canada. These military personnel are in a tracked ground vehicle taking them back to heated facilities after a week of living outdoors in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106258/90/1062589096_0:225:2842:1823_1200x675_80_0_0_07dacd9718ec0ba939336ad46f9af329.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/viral/202010141080768568-lord-why-did-you-make-me-so-stupid-cardi-b-comments-on-leaking-topless-photo-on-instagram/ The 28-year-old, who is an avid supporter of Joe Biden, is no stranger to finding herself in controversial situations. Recently, the singer was criticised for speaking about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Cardi B has commented on accidentally posting a topless photo of herself on Instagram. Taking to social media, the singer said she had intended to send a nude photo of herself to her soon-to-be-ex-husband, the rapper Offset, in order to show him her bruised lip, but accidentally uploaded the image to social media. When she realised what had happened, […]
A glamorous photo of Finland’s 34-year-old Prime Minister Sanna Marin with a plunging neckline has sparked an uproar on social media. While many argued this conduct was unbecoming of someone in her position, others started posting similar photos in support of her. Finland’s Social Democrat Prime Minister Sanna Marin has found herself in the midst of a controversy after suggestively posing for the fashion magazine Trendi in a blazer with a plunging neckline, no shirt and no bra. The magazine’s Instagram page was quickly flooded with scathing criticism from social media users, with many suggesting that the image was highly unbecoming […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107958/33/1079583365_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_bc81b907036eddc2a266aa6ed8a1b40d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Maxim Minaev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202010121080743150-protesters-throw-red-paint-on-australian-pm-scott-morrisons-car—photo/ Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was accompanied from a University of Queensland building by police officers after his car was splashed with red paint by refugee rights campaigners. A group of pro-refugee protesters at the main campus of the University of Queensland in Brisbaine poured what appeared to be red paint on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s official Government car, according to the SBS News. After the incident Morrison was escorted by the police to another vehicle as the protesters followed him chanting “free the refugees”. Morrison, who has long been criticised […]
A stolen, 9-foot Chinese calligraphy scroll believed to have been written by former Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong has been found sliced in half by an unsuspecting, second-hand buyer. Hong Kong authorities announced Thursday that they had located the whereabouts of a Mao calligraphy scroll valued at around $645 million. “Someone thought the calligraphy was too long – 2.8 meters in length – and it was difficult to show and display it. That’s why it was cut in half,” said Tony Ho Chun Tung, senior superintendent of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, as reported by the […]
Abraham Lincoln was photographed 130 times during the course of his life. But a new Discovery Channel special asks, what if there’s an additional snapshot of the 16th commander-in-chief—on his deathbed? Even setting aside the debatable importance of such a photograph—which wouldn’t prove anything, or provide insights into his final moments—the likelihood that this image could have remained unknown and hidden for 155 years seems very low. Nonetheless, The Lost Lincoln (premiering Oct. 4 as part of Discovery’s new “Undiscovered” series) embarks on a thorough examination of the photograph to determine whether it’s the real deal. The results are, to put […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107829/68/1078296826_0:0:980:607_1200x675_80_0_0_0d00d51ad85032b2aafbd522c1197783.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202010011080628685-jeremy-corbyn-and-his-wife-may-get-250-fine-each-for-breaking-rule-of-six—photo/ Coronavirus restrictions previously led to mass protests across the UK, with at least 10,000 people rallying in London’s Trafalgar Square a month ago, for which Piers Corbyn – an older brother of the ex-opposition leader – was fined 10,000 pounds (around $13,000). Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faces a 200-pound fine (over $250) for breaking the “rule of six” by visiting a dinner party at a friend’s house. A photo from the party shows Corbyn and his wife Laura Alvarez sitting at the table, as at least nine people are present at the event. This […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/17/1080553773_0:0:1423:800_1200x675_80_0_0_0e883722abeffd3efec5284049e93de4.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Morgan Artyukhina . Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009231080553813-photo-taiwan-has-cruise-missiles-capable-of-reaching-china-stationed-at-base-in-straits/ A recent news report from Taiwan’s Makung Air Force Base in the Taiwan Strait revealed Taiwan’s air force has stationed air-to-ground cruise missiles within striking distance of the Chinese mainland. On September 22, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing Wen paid a visit to Makung Air Force Base, a Republic of China Air Force installation on the Penghu archipelago, which sits in the Taiwan Strait. At the highly publicized meeting, she greeted several F-CK-1C/D Indigenous Defense Fighter pilots and thanked them for their “heroic performance” in deterring dozens of Chinese aircraft that crossed […]
International online marketplace Amazon has found itself at the center of another racist merchandise debacle after allowing a third-party vendor to sell trucker hats emblazoned with “Black Lives Don’t Matter.” “THIS IS NOT OK,” Alexandra Wilson, a criminal and family barrister from Essex, England, said in a Twitter post condemning the dehumanizing trucker hat on sale via IMERIOi for £12.96 ($16.51). “Multiple people reported it, and racist material should be removed immediately,” Wilson told the BBC. “Websites like Amazon definitely need to have better checks in place for both their descriptions and photos because this isn’t the first time something like […]
In yet another lawsuit, Facebook is now being accused of allegedly spying on Instagram users through the cameras on their mobile phones. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in a US federal court in San Francisco, California, by New Jersey-based Instagram user Brittany Conditi and accuses Facebook, Instagram’s parent company, of employing users’ mobile cameras while they are using the photo-sharing app to collect “lucrative and valuable data on its users that it would not otherwise have access to.” The lawsuit came after an Apple iOS 14 privacy feature showed that Instagram was apparently activating iPhone cameras and microphones even when they […]
A female Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy shot in Saturday’s attack was able to administer first aid to her partner and call for help despite a bullet going through her jaw, a report accompanied by a shocking image reveals. The unidentified deputy, who was described as a 31-year-old woman with a six-year-old son, radioed for help and applied a tourniquet to her partner’s wounds, according to reporting by Bill Melugin of Fox 11 Los Angeles. The other deputy was described as a 24-year-old man. A screen capture from surveillance video of the incident shows the female deputy standing over her partner, […]
A movement calling to “defund the police” seeks to reduce the amount of financing for law enforcement and for the dismantling of police departments amid nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United States. The Michigan Republican Party said its headquarters in the city of Lansing was vandalised with “radical anti-police statements”, posting photos of graffiti on the walls of the buildings that say “f**k police”, “f**k you”, “abolish the police” and more. A party tweet stated that “we will not be intimidated”, promising to continue to work so that the incumbent US […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107824/47/1078244743_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_eb788ecd957e034ea7037c7352d2487a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009071080393967-better-salon-mitt-romney-posts-home-made-haircut-photo-mocking-pelosis-set-up-incident/ Last Tuesday, a leaked surveillance video featured US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visiting a San Francisco hair salon without a face mask, in violation of guidelines for the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, despite having urged Americans to stay home and abide by safety rules. The lawmaker claimed the incident was a “set up”. US Republican Senator Mitt Romney on Monday posted a photo of himself getting a haircut from his wife at home, saying that it was a “better salon” than the San Francisco, California, salon visited by US Speaker […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104933/22/1049332266_55:0:1255:675_1200x675_80_0_0_836df1024285b0535470adc2cc47aa98.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202008311080331930-photo-nasa-begins-assembly-of-asteroid-exploring-lucy-spacecraft/ The US space agency NASA announced on Friday it had begun assembly of the Lucy spacecraft, which will visit the mysterious Trojan asteroids near Jupiter that are believed to harbor water. In a recent news release, NASA announced the Lucy mission had passed a key milestone, which marks the transition from development to assembly for the spaceship. “During this part of the mission’s life cycle, known as Phase D, the spacecraft bus (the structure that will carry the science instruments) is completed, the instruments are integrated into the spacecraft and tested, and the spacecraft […]
CNN’s Chris Cillizza has become the butt of the joke online after he said that designating unrest in Kenosha and Portland as “riots” is a ploy by Trump. The photo in the article seems to be at odds with the spin, though. CNN’s political commentator Chris Cillizza has faced a torrent of mockery from conservatives, who accused him of whitewashing violence festering in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Portland, Oregon after he opined that referring to the looting, vandalism and arson in both cities as rioting is unjustified and a “desperate” political ploy by US President Donald Trump. “To hear Trump and his […]
Protesters have taken to the streets of Minsk for another day of protests, marching towards the residence of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk. The Belarusian president’s Press Secretary Natalya Eismont, when asked about the whereabouts of Alexander Lukashenko and whether he was following the situation in Minsk, shared a photo of him with an assault rifle in front of the Palace of Independence. Media reports have emerged suggesting the photo circulating on social media platforms could have been taken days before the Sunday protests. The statement comes after armoured personnel carriers approached a police cordon outside the residence of Lukashenko […]
Here in Michigan, over 100 militia with assault weapons surrounded our governor’s home in Okemos, Michigan. More than screaming went on but our 40 something female governor never said a word, never went crying to the press and pulled down Michigan’s COVID numbers allowing the state to mostly reopen in June. Michigan is enjoying the end of a massive tourist season with up to one million out of state visitors each weekend, restaurants open, beaches open…which two dozen red states are locked down. Rand Paul is a fucking coward. — Pé (@4everNeverTrump) August 28, 2020 Like Donald Trump Exactly what I […]
Cohen, it seems blackmailed Falwell for a Trump endorsement while the pool boy was passed around like a party favor, not just Falwell but he went elsewhere as well. Doesn’t Trump Tower have a swimming pool? Taking a break between sessions of exhibitionist cuckold sex with the pool boy, Becki Falwell interviews with Lara Trump for “Women for Trump.” Yes, there once was a “Trump TV”. pic.twitter.com/Dzl3CVd7dr — Puesto Loco™ (@PuestoLoco) August 25, 2020 The story isn’t that Jerry Falwell Jr’s wife had sex with someone other than him, it’s that the guy she was having sex with had photos of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107607/63/1076076364_0:101:1920:1181_1200x675_80_0_0_96795bef8ba20eacff868cf817e816ba.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008241080266132-you-now-have-covid-us-cops-hunt-for-man-who-allegedly-gave-out-coronavirus-hugs—photo/ A Massachusetts police department is searching for information it hopes will lead to the capture of a man who allegedly forced fellow grocery shoppers, including one cancer survivor, to give him a “COVID hug.” The Springfield Police Department (SPD) detailed in a Friday social media post that the Springfield Police Detective Bureau needs help identifying a man who went into a Walmart on August 15 and allegedly accosted a number of shoppers. According to the release, the man went up to one victim and removed an item from their hands before hugging them. The […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105150/35/1051503573_0:156:3000:1844_1200x675_80_0_0_f3649e215c9e522803252701fc1639e5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/military/202008191080220760-photo-chinese-submarine-spotted-entering-hidden-cave-base/ A recent satellite photo managed to capture a Chinese submarine entering a cave base on Hainan Island, at the northern end of the South China Sea. On Tuesday, a photograph of the sea outside of Yulin Naval Base by private Earth-imaging company Planet Labs captured an unusual scene: a large submarine positioned just outside the mouth of the cavernous Chinese citadel. The photo was first posted on social media by Radio Free Asia, a US government-funded media outlet that is part of the US Agency for Global Media. In the image, a submarine flanked […]
A male Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) – known popularly as the “murder hornet” – has been trapped and collected by Washington state officials, signaling that the invasive species may devastate the region’s bee colonies and agricultural system sooner than anticipated. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) announced in a Monday news release that it achieved the first capture of a male Asian giant hornet in US history via a bottle trap near Custer, Whatcom County, on July 29. The WSDA entomology lab was able to confirm the specimen was indeed a male Asian giant hornet on August 13. “Trapping […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107972/17/1079721704_0:0:1920:1080_1200x675_80_0_0_56db96a1b970d7b9f51dfa0b7315e4f0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/military/202008191080218949-two-us-mq-9-reaper-drones-reportedly-crash-after-colliding-over-idlib-photo-video/ American drones flying over Syria have become a common sight since Washington deployed troops in the Arab Republic without authorisation from its government or a UN Security Council mandate. The US lost two drones in the Syrian province of Idlib on 18 August, the Military Times online media outlet reported, citing an anonymous defence official. While the official confirmed that the two UAVs had collided in the air, they could not confirm that the collision was the primary cause of the crash, as there were reports of the drones being shot down […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/11/1080196114_0:63:2048:1215_1200x675_80_0_0_896aecd45d2a46b345331361726cf2ec.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sofia Chegodaeva. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/environment/202008171080194957-rare-natural-phenomenon-resembling-red-jellyfish-captured-on-camera/ The photographer said he recorded more than four hours of footage before catching the rare sighting on camera. If you have ever seen tentacle-like spurts of red lightning during a thunderstorm, feel lucky since this is considered to be a very rare weather phenomenon. In 2011, Professor of Physics at the University of Alaska, Davis Sentman, proposed the name “sprite” for this type of lightning. Sprites are ultrafast bursts of electricity that occur in the upper regions of the atmosphere, between 60 and 80 kilometres up in the sky. Stephen Hummel, an expert for the […]
So Hitler didn’t escape to South America to run a bar with Elvis? On Friday, the daughter of Russia’s press secretary posted a photo of his remains, in storage at the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) secret archives in Moscow On her popular Instagram account, Elizaveta Peskova shared photographs of the dental remains of Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun. Peskova, whose father Dmitry Peskov has been the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin since 2012, wrote that her friend and history fan Pierre Malinovsky requested to see the artifact, as not everyone believes that Hitler died in 1945. “Believe it […]
Demonstrators who took to the streets of Beirut after the Lebanese capital was rocked by a massive blast earlier this week have stormed the Foreign Ministry and other government buildings, amid violent clashes with police. Around 10,000 people gathered at Martyrs’ Square in central Beirut to accuse the government of negligence, which they say allowed a massive ammonium nitrate explosion to occur at the port on Tuesday. Read more The accident killed more than 150 people, injured thousands and caused vast damage to the city. The protesters initially tried storming the parliament, but police managed to repel the attack, employing tear […]
A young nurse became a national hero in Lebanon after rescuing three newborn babies from an ICU and carrying them to safety following the massive Beirut port explosion. Now she has returned to the hospital to tell her story. St. George Hospital University Medical Center is one of the oldest and most advanced in Beirut. But on Tuesday, it became a nightmarish scene when the blast wave from a powerful explosion about 1km away swept through the building and turned vast swathes of the city into a wasteland. Young nurse Pamela Zeinoun stepped up to the plate and her moment of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/05/1080062904_0:65:3072:1793_1200x675_80_0_0_b8a6b7c0a364f9dd04c3043597d5ec89.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Pratibha Sharma. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202008051080062744-india-bursts-into-celebration-to-welcome-beloved-lord-ram-in-ayodhya—photo-video/ New Delhi (Sputnik): Lamps are lit and the holy city of Ayodhya is decked up for the foundation laying ceremony of the Ram Temple. The apex court of India put an end to the centuries-old dispute between Hindus and Muslims by ordering the construction of a temple at the site last November. For a religious country like India, the foundation-laying ceremony of the Ram Temple is of immense significance. The fervour has not just gripped Ayodhya, where the temple is supposed to be built, but the entire country. Devotional songs are being sung, […]
The president, or so we call him, came back from his most recent golfing (almost daily) outing and was photographed with a bruise cased by an infiltrated (leaking) IV. This is what he really looks like, also recent: Catch this video, right to the end, when Trump says: “God Bresch da Urnibed Schtertz” And drugs and failing dentures wouldn’t explain him repeatedly dragging his leg as seen in multiple new videos.#TrumpIsNotWell https://t.co/xAaF2rR0Ia — Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 1, 2020 And don’t forget this one, erased from Twitter and Facebook but not this copy: We believe Trump is receiving a cocktail of […]
An old photo of a French warship was used by Egypt’s Defense Ministry to report on joint drills with France, while an Egyptian corvette was photoshopped into the image, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency said. The statement on the exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, in which Egyptian corvette Tahya Misr and its French counterpart, F713 Aconit participated was posted on the Defense Ministry’s website and social media on Saturday. The joint training with France focused on “cooperation in conducting combat missions on the sea against naval forces of the enemy using live fire.” The drills showed that both Cairo and Paris were […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/18/1079969463_0:0:3297:1854_1200x675_80_0_0_b4bed2c850e02582959882e7c95fb9d1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007251079980837-protesters-resume-violent-stand-off-with-federal-agents-in-portland—photo-video/ PORTLAND (Sputnik) – Another night of protests in the US city of Portland turned violent as federal agents deployed tear gas against hundreds of protesters to deter a violent minority of them from attacking a downtown courthouse. Scores of people, many of whom were engaged in peaceful activities on Friday night, hurriedly left the adjacent area, coughing, sneezing and rubbing their eyes. Officers fired gas canisters and flashbangs after several dozens of protesters started shaking a metal fence around the courthouse and hurling petards and various incendiaries over it. Portland, a predominately white city […]
Brian Papin, Facebook photo Brian Papin, a Special Education teacher at Cedar Grove High School in Atlanta, Georgia who encouraged the Black Lives Matter supporter kneeling on a white baby’s neck in a viral photo to “lean into it until death” is no longer employed at the DeKalb County School District. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, Brian Papin resigned. “The teacher is no longer employed with DCSD. Again, there is no place for racism or abuse in our school district.” – DeKalb Schools said on Twitter. DeKalb County School District (DCSD) administrators were made aware of the disturbing social media posts […]
NASA has shared its latest breathtaking snap of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, which shows the so-called planetary ‘lord of the rings’ at the height of its summertime, some 839 million miles from Earth. The photo, snapped on July 4, 2020, showcases summer in Saturn’s northern hemisphere and includes the gas giant’s moons – Mimas on the right, and Enceladus at the bottom. The picture captured a number of atmospheric storms, which come and go each year but can have dramatic effects on the coloration of the planet’s mostly hydrogen and helium atmosphere. The traces of ammonia, methane, frozen […]
A police car with siren blaring bears down on a Black man who wonders what he’s done wrong. Maybe he was speeding. He’s wearing blue jeans, a sweater and a baseball cap, and he stands silently as a hulking 6-foot-5-inch white cop confronts him, yelling and cursing and demanding to know why he’s there—a Black man who’s not in a suit and tie in a white neighborhood after dark. The scene is all too commonplace, except this was Isaiah “Ike” Leggett, running for a third term as Montgomery County Executive in the wealthy suburb adjacent to Washington, D.C. “To him I […]
A new photograph captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) is the first image of a “very young version of our own sun” surrounded by two gas planets, according to the leader of the study that took the photo. Alexander Bohn of the Netherlands’ Leiden University told the Associated Press that the new study he led, published on Wednesday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, included an image of an “extremely exciting” discovery. The snapshot, he explained, was “the first time astronomers were able to capture such a shot” of a multi-planet system featuring a “very young version of […]
The grandmother of the two year old boy in the viral photograph of Black Lives Matter supporters kneeling on his neck tells the Gateway Pundit that zero national news outlets have reached out to the family. In the photo, a man named Isaiah Jackson is seen kneeling on the neck of his girlfriend’s two year old son as another person holds down the diaper-clad baby’s feet. The photo was captioned with “Blm now mf.” Not even Fox News has bothered to contact them to cover this story and local media is blurring the face of the man and refusing to publish his name […]
The four horsemen of COVID-19 will ensure that tourists visiting one of Sweden’s most popular summer destinations “behave well”. In an unorthodox move, local authorities on Sweden’s Baltic island of Gotland have recruited equestrians posing as medieval knights on horseback to halt the coronavirus in its tracks amid the height of the summer tourist season. The four horsemen, or so-called “COVID Knights” from the regional medieval reenactment group Torneamentum, Sweden’s oldest, will visit some of Gotland’s most popular tourist attractions this summer, such as its numerous beaches and the medieval town of Visby. To drive the point home, they will be […]
An international team of scientists recently released the largest three-dimensional map ever created of the universe, the result of years’ worth of examinations that helped to offer a clearer understanding of the cosmos over an 11-billion-year period. The map, which was more than 20 years in the making, was the result of observations collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and analyzed by more than 100 astrophysicists part of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) team. The work carried out by eBOSS astrophysicists specifically examines the universe from a time when it was about 300,000 years old, pinpointing on […]
An eerie photo of Mark Zuckerberg sporting a thick layer of sunblock while surfboarding in Hawaii has sent Twitter into overdrive, giving boost to a petition launched to bar him from “colonizing” Native Hawaiians’ land. Facebook CEO has become the butt of jokes on Twitter on Sunday evening after photos of him holidaying in Hawaii were leaked to the media. The images show Zuckeberg braving the ripples on an electronic surfboard while wearing a copious amount of sunscreen as well as his famous hoodie. Netizens pulled no punches tearing into Zuckerberg’s looks, noting his striking resemblance to otherworldly creatures, and quipping […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106982/83/1069828323_0:313:6000:3688_1200x675_80_0_0_ea04cf4b740eb486e597222a6ae7d424.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202007201079932554-why-so-serious-2020-twitter-mistook-zuckerberg-for-the-joker-in-vacation-photo/ Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder and current CEO of Facebook and one of richest people on the planet, seems to worry too much about excessive sunbathing and its possible outcomes and appears to use too much sunscreen. Did you ever think you would see Zuckerberg surfing looking like The Joker? 2020 got this for you. A photograph of Mark Zuckerberg reportedly surfing in Hawaii with a full white mask of sunscreen on his face went viral on Twitter, causing twitterati to draw parallels. Sometimes they were disturbing – like the one with The Joker, an […]
US Democratic Representative John Lewis, a prominent civil rights advocate, died of cancer on Friday at the age of 80. Flags at the White House were lowered to half-mast in memory of the lawmaker, and President Donald Trump sent his condolences, receiving a wave of criticism for the comments. Republican Senator Marco Rubio, posting a condolence tweet over the death of civil rights leader John Lewis and praising him as an “historic and American hero”, supplied the wrong photo – the picture he tweeted showed the former with another civil rights advocate, Elijah Cummings, not the late John Lewis. The post […]
The two men who hold all the marbles in heavyweight boxing, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, had a chance encounter in the southern Spanish city of Marbella ahead of next year’s rumored blockbuster showdown between the two Brits. It is the first of what could be several meetings between the two champions in advance of what would be the biggest heavyweight unification fight in a generation tentatively scheduled for 2021 – so long as Fury gets past the trilogy bout in December with former foe Deontay Wilder which was guaranteed in his contract from February’s fight which was won by Fury. […]
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Seth Meyers summed up Donald Trump’s 2020 platform on Wednesday as a movement that “rejects science and empathy in favor of dumb culture war grievances like statues and cancel culture.” “As a highly infectious deadly disease spreads like wildfire, the supposedly pro-life party has abandoned you,” the Late Night host continued. That includes Ivanka Trump, who this week launched a new unemployment ad campaign under the banner “Find something new!” “Ivanka Trump is the last person who should be lecturing anyone on learning new skills to cope with a job loss,” Meyers said. “The only skills she has are having a […]
Controversial animal rights organization PETA has sparked a social media backlash after shocking users by posting a grizzly photo of a dissected cat carcass and connecting it with the ‘realistic cake’ meme. The image posted by the US-based organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Twitter contained a close-up photograph of a cat’s head being cut open during a dissection. The graphic picture was accompanied by the words “Not cake,” plus a broken-heart emoji and the hashtag #CutOutDissection. In a follow-up tweet, the group shared the same image, writing “If you find this photo offensive, help PETA,” and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107979/62/1079796298_0:0:2561:1440_1200x675_80_0_0_51a56d793a2df0753c526ac6e8c9bb7b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007041079796334-russian-cosmonaut-shares-photo-of-brightest-comet-in-7-years/ C/2020 F3 is a retrograde comet discovered in March 2020 by the NEOWISE space telescope and named after it, believed to be the brightest comet in 7 years. It will make its closest approach to the Earth on 23 July, 2020. Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner tweeted a photo of the C/2020 F3 NEOWISE comet that he took from the International Space Station (ISS), showing its bright tail “clearly visible from the Space Station”. “During the next revolution I tried to capture the C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) comet a bit closer, the brightest one over the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107979/06/1079790660_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_16b99f30b8bf9af6be993cec4da0959d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202007041079790647-photo-of-ghislaine-maxwell-and-kevin-spacey-in-buckingham-palace-stirs-social-media/ Ghislaine Maxwell, arrested on Thursday and charged with sex trafficking, was high-profile pedophile and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s mistress. Prince Andrew, who was reportedly a close friend to the pair, is now being urged by prosecutors to come forward on the matter. A ‘controversial’ photo of Ghislaine Maxwell sitting on a throne in the Buckingham Palace, accompanied by Kevin Spacey, who was accused but not convicted of sexually harassing a 14-year-old boy, has made waves on Twitter. Released shortly after UK’s Prince Andrew was asked by Maxwell’s prosecutors to speak on the matter, as Epstein’s […]
After a so-called “autonomous police-free zone” was established in Seattle in the wake of George Floyd’s death on 8 June, the city’s mayor Jenny Durkan referred to it as a “peaceful expression” of the community’s grief. But the zone has since seen a series of shootings. US Police have dispersed protesters in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP) area also referred to as an “autonomous” and “police-free” zone on Wednesday morning, following an emergency order issued by Seattle’s mayor Jenny Durkan. The order was issued on 30 June to respond to “reported life safety, public health and property issues” around the […]
The corporate office of US pizza chain Little Caesars has issued a statement saying it has “zero tolerance for racism and discrimination in any form” and fired the employees responsible for serving customers pizza with pepperoni arranged in the shape of a reversed swastika. Ohio resident Misty Laska took to social media on Sunday to express her displeasure with the “saddening and disturbing” actions of employees at a Brook Park, Ohio, Little Caesars who chose to form a reversed swastika out of pepperonis on a pizza. So my husband stopped at #LittleCaesars for a quick bite, husband brings this home! I’m […]
Usually, tennis stars are chasing gold and silverware as they bid to capture tournament titles during the summer months, but with COVID-19 forcing Anastasia Potapova off the court, she’s chasing bronze, in the form of a suntan. Teenage tennis sensation Potapova has gained plenty of admirers with her performances on the court, but seems to be attracting even more during the COVID-19 lockdown. READ MORE: In the pink: Russian swim star Efimova poses in pool with flamingo as she soaks up California sun (PHOTOS) Nineteen-year-old Potapova has been steadily picking up followers on her Instagram channel, and the Russian starlet will likely […]
Is the new picture of the Loch Ness Monster really of the Loch Ness Monster, or of a large fish? Is it not a creature at all? Is the photograph real or a fake, as experts speaking to The Daily Beast—and as Twitter—think? Is it doctored or Photoshopped? The kinds of questions about Steve Challice’s image of whatever-the-hell-it-is taken last September in the infamous Scottish body of water, and only now revealed to a world in urgent need of some Nessie excitement, have been asked of every photograph or video of the Loch Ness Monster since the first alleged photograph of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107969/30/1079693069_0:171:3124:1929_1200x675_80_0_0_702317a8a652c63b45766f81b9e52528.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202006241079710048-all-statues-toppled-now-its-senators-turn-wisconsin-protesters-beat-up-dem-lawmaker-over-photo/ The demonstrations against the arrest of a black man by police in Madison come in the wake of the so-called George Floyd protests, which have been rocking the US for over three weeks now. The rallies have on many occasions turned violent, with participants often vandalising businesses and statues. Democratic State Senator Tim Carpenter of Milwaukee was taken to hospital after he was assaulted and hit several times in Madison, Wisconsin, which he visited in order to be present for local protests. The demonstrators condemned the arrest of African-American man Devonere Johnson […]
As the author of the photo in question explained, he actually thinks that the thing he spotted was probably a catfish, or perhaps a seal. It seems that speculation about the existence of the so called Loch Ness Monster, a mythical creature that is said to inhabit the eponymous loch, have recently been fanned by the emergence of yet another photograph which may or may not depict that entity, the Daily Record reports. According to the newspaper, the photo in question was snapped by Steve Challice, a tourist from Southampton who visited Urquhart Castle – located on the shores of the […]
Governor Ralph Northam is speaking for Virginia Democrats at an upcoming convention, a decision being blasted, because the same group had previously called for his resignation over a controversial blackface photo. “We’re honored to have @GovernorVA speaking at our virtual state convention coming up in just a few days!” the Democrat Party of Virginia wrote on Thursday, in a tweet that left many scratching their heads. Virginia Democrats were one of many groups to call for Northam to resign only a year ago, after the governor was found to be in a photo containing one person in blackface – whom many […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest announces that its international jury of leading photography experts has selected the best works from over 5,000 submissions received this year, the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency announced on Tuesday. Young photojournalists from 75 countries competed in the contest this year. The shortlist includes photographers from 19 countries – Russia, the US, France, India, Italy, Spain, Iran, Bangladesh, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Belarus, South Africa, China, and – for the first time – the United Kingdom, Austria, Argentina, Brazil and Haiti. This year’s works are distinguished by their painterly quality, through which […]
Google has claimed there is a perfectly benign reason for Winston Churchill’s photograph disappearing from its search engine – but many are unconvinced, as the iconic British PM is now in the eye of the protest storm. Eagle-eyed internet users raised hell after discovering that Churchill – who led the United Kingdom through World War II – was faceless when listed in Google’s knowledge panel, which provides general information about common search queries. In a list of UK prime ministers generated by the tech giant, Churchill lacked a photograph, while his predecessors and successors were all given portraits. “Utterly disturbing that […]
The development comes as protests against police brutality and racial discrimination continue in the United States and across the world. Thousands of mourners paid homage to George Floyd who was buried in Pearland, Texas next to his mother. The BBC made an embarrassing mistake during its live broadcast of the funeral of George Floyd, an African American man, whose death in police custody sparked the biggest protests against racism in the United States since the killing of Martin Luther King in 1968. In a segment where it spoke about Floyd’s sports career it showed the photo of another man – George […]
Photo Of Police Officer With Armed Men Prompts Outrage And Investigation By Sara Gentzler, The Olympian. June 8, 2020 Photo Of Police Officer With Armed Men Prompts Outrage And Investigation2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/olympian-police-officer-photographed-with-armed-med-from-the-olympian-e1591637002392.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Olympian police officer photographed with armed med, from The Olympian posted on Facebook by Braden Pauli. A photo circulating on social media Friday showing an Olympia Police officer posing with a group of armed men in front of Baskin Robbins on Olympia’s west side has prompted outrage from many, a response from Mayor Cheryl Selby, and an investigation by the police department. A Facebook post featuring the photo that […]
One of the world’s most famous porn stars, Riley Reid, has thrown her weight behind the Black Lives Matter protests, revealing that her great grandfather was honored by Martin Luther King Jr. for his civil rights work. Reid has been vocal about her support for the protests that have sprang up in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. The 28-year-old has repeatedly used her popular social media accounts to express support for the movement and to raise questions about police treatment of demonstrators. The adult entertainment star has also shared a black and white image […]
Anti-racist protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement were held simultaneously in two Nordic capitals yielded dramatically different outcomes. While the demonstration in Helsinki wrapped up peacefully, Stockholm police had to use teargas. Thousands of protestors gathered at Helsinki’s Senate Square on Wednesday evening to demonstrate against racism and police brutality against blacks, inspired by the protests over the death of African-American George Floyd that have gripped the US. The protests gathered people of all ages and backgrounds, including speakers from local activist groups, academics, entrepreneurs, and artists. At the start of the protest, those present were invited to […]
US President Donald Trump has denied ordering protesters to be removed from Lafayette Square in Washington, claiming he “didn’t know who was there.” He also said police didn’t use tear gas during the violent altercation. Speaking to Fox News Radio on Wednesday, Trump dismissed allegations that he had personally ordered the dispersal of protesters along his route to St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, where he held a photo op on Monday. The president posed with a Bible and his top aides in front of the building, which had been vandalized the previous night. “They didn’t use tear gas,” Trump claimed, contradicting […]
Monday was a tough day for Washington DC, like dozens of other cities across the country, as the demonstrations and protests over the killing of George Floyd by a police officer marched on. In order to restore order President Donald Trump has decided to deploy “additional federal assets” in the nation’s capital. Following Sunday’s outbreak of violent riots that included looting, arson, and vandalism over the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police, a curfew was imposed in the US capital. In the wake of the riots US President Donald Trump decided to “mobilise all available federal resources – […]
The Sunday Night with Matty Johns show on Fox Sports has apologized after they aired a skit depicting Adolf Hitler as a virtual fan at an Australian NRL match, admitting the joke was “poor taste and completely unacceptable”. READ MORE: ‘Definitely WHITE PEOPLE’: Rioters ransack Chicago Blackhawks store, social media bizarrely affixes blame (VIDEO) As part of the ‘virtual fan’ craze currently implemented by many sports clubs in the absence of real supporters while they play fixtures behind closed doors, NRL (National Rugby League) clubs are charging fans to have their images portrayed on a cardboard cut out in the empty […]
After being repeatedly broadsided by Washington’s incendiary regime-change rhetoric, Tehran is now returning the favor. Iran’s Foreign Ministry seems to be urging Americans to “rise up” against their government. The ministry tweeted out a photograph of a black demonstrator, fist in the air, standing defiantly in front of a group of riot police. The image is accompanied by a quote from civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up & live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created […]
Society 22:14 GMT 28.05.2020Get short URL The calendar was offered by Naše Vojsko, a publisher founded in 1945 which specializes in materials related to military history, and was being sold for around $20. However, a search for the calendar on the publisher’s website yields no results, suggesting that the item may have been removed due to the controversy. Many officials have publicly condemned the calendar. Michal Klima, chairman of the Holocaust Victims Fund, filed a criminal complaint against the publisher, claiming that it is promoting a historical event and movement that disregards human rights and freedoms, which is against Czech law, […]
U.S. Africa Command on Tuesday, May 26 released a series of photos showing that Russia deployed military fighter aircraft to Libya. Russian military aircraft, including Mig-29 Fulcrum fighter jets and Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer combat aircraft, were recently deployed to Libya in order to support Russian state-sponsored private military contractors (PMCs) operating on the ground there. At least “six Mig-29 and two Su-24 aircraft escorted by two Russian Air Force Su-35s” have arrived in Libya. The presence of “Russian Air Force Su-35” is particularly surprising, considered that Russia does not participate (officially) in the conflict in Libya. The Russian fighter aircraft arrived […]
A female nurse at a hospital in Tula, central Russia, has become an online sensation overnight after she turned up to work wearing nothing but underwear beneath a see-through protective suit, gloves and goggles. The photo of the nurse, clad in a sheer plastic protective suit and carrying a tray full of medication she was about to administer to her ailing patients, has gone viral after it was first reported by the local daily Tulskie Novosti late on Tuesday. The image was reportedly taken at a regional hospital for infectious diseases in Tula, the largest city of the Tula Region, located […]
World 17:50 GMT 09.05.2020Get short URL 9 May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, which, of course, prompts many social media users to share pictures related to the memorable event. However, Facebook algorithms seem to be strikingly intolerant of one picture in particular. Facebook users have been complaining about experiencing trouble with uploading a picture of the victory flag being raised over the Reichstag in Berlin in May 1945. According to the Classicalmusicnews.ru website, Russian pianist Ekaterina Mechetina complained that her page was blocked for 24 hours “for violating regulations of the community”. Mechetina told the […]
Social media feeds are filled with historic shots marking Victory Day, but Facebook seems to have taken issue with one that symbolizes the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, and it keeps deleting a recently-colorized version of it. Taken during the Battle of Berlin on May 2, 1945, Yevgeny Khaldei’s ‘Raising a Flag over the Reichstag’ commonly springs to mind when it comes to the subject of World War II and Victory Day celebrations. It universally appears in literature, documentaries and, indeed, in social media posts. RT has even reenacted the iconic moment as part of its V-Day project. All the more […]
Defying clouds in the sky and Covid-19 on the ground, Russia’s deadliest bombers, nimblest fighter jets and strongest transport aircraft flew over the capital in celebration of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany 75 years ago. V-Day is one of the most important national holidays in Russia, and this year was supposed to have seen massive celebrations throughout the country. But Covid-19 and its lockdowns threw a wrench into the plans, forcing the postponement of most festivities. While only a handful of ceremonial troops marched across Moscow’s center this year for a wreath-laying ceremony, the air over the Russian capital was teeming […]