https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107753/17/1077531746_0:84:2574:1532_1200x675_80_0_0_0d837d82ed8bde8362164c6f63a4d15d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/sport/202010181080804820-gareth-bale-only-real-madrid-player-to-refuse-pay-cut-during-season-suspension-media-reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Welsh football star Gareth Bale was the only Real Madrid player to refuse a salary cut due to the pandemic stoppage, media reported Saturday. According to Spanish national radio broadcaster Cadena SER, when competitions around the world were suspended earlier this year, Real Madrid was among the first clubs to propose a pay cut to players. The squad refused at first, but after players from Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and many other European clubs agreed the shrink their salaries, Real Madrid players agreed the pay cut, the radio station reported. Only Bale […]
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The Huobi cryptocurrency exchange assured users its trading platform is “currently operating normally” after one of its biggest competitors, OKEx, announced it suspended all cryptocurrency withdrawals indefinitely. “Huobi’s cold wallet uses multi-signature and threshold signature technology to ensure the security of the private key signature process,” Ciara Sun, vice president of Huobi Global Markets, told CoinDesk in a Wechat message. “Multiple people and multiple backups ensure the availability of the private key.” While one would expect exchanges like Huobi would benefit from OKEx’s news – as in the BitMex case, where large bitcoin outflows from the exchange went to its competitors […]
Trials of the University of Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine were paused on Tuesday after it emerged that a volunteer had experienced adverse effects as a result of undergoing testing. It is “still feasible” that the Oxford vaccine could be approved by regulators by end of 2020, the CEO of AstraZeneca said on Thursday. While speaking at an event held by media organisation Tortoise Pascal Soriot said that “it depends on how fast the regulator will review and give approval, so we could still have a vaccine by the end of this year or maybe early next year”. Mr Soriot added that more tests were required […]
Around 98% of NBA players are kneeling this year for Black Lives Matter. The NBA is wearing Los Angeles Clippers player Montrezl Harrell was caught on camera calling Dallas Mavericks player Luka Doncic a “bitch ass white boy!” during Game 3 of the NBA Western Quarterfinals playoff series Friday night played in the Bubble at Walt Disney World in Florida. TRENDING: Police Make Second Arrest in Attack on 7-Year-Old Trump Supporter Outside of DNC Convention After all of the hype this year by NBA players about racial sensitivity several viewers were upset with the incident.Apparently racial slurs against white players are allowed in the NBA? […]
Twitter on Wednesday banned President Trump’s campaign from tweeting until they delete a tweet about the Coronavirus that the tech company says violates its “rules against misinformation.” This is happening in an election year during a pandemic. Where is the DOJ? Where are the Republican lawmakers? The Washington Post corrected its report that Twitter banned President Trump over his tweet of a video clip of a Fox News interview in which he said children are “almost immune” from Covid-19. Twitter banned Trump’s campaign, not the President’s account. TRENDING: “Why the Hell Would I Take a Test?… Are You a Junkie?” – […]
After a Russian TV channel loosely inspired by America’s Fox News was blocked by video-streaming service YouTube earlier this week, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says Western web giants should be treated with a “low degree of trust.” Dmitry Peskov emphasized that the companies are completely unaccountable and can do as they please. He said the public needs to be aware that they can be “thrown out of there along with their account” at any moment.Tsargrad TV – launched with the help of ex-Fox producer Jack Hanick in 2015 – announced that the Google subsidiary blocked its account on July 28 over an […]
The government in Hanoi has agreed to resume commercial flights to and from China after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Transport Ministry, however, said on Monday that the frequency and timing of flights was still being discussed. With 372 infections and no deaths, Vietnam has seen no community infections of the virus for nearly three months, Reuters reported. This allowed it the Southeast Asian nation to start resuming economic activity sooner than many other countries. Vietnam suspended all commercial flights to and from China and stopped issuing visas for Chinese tourists in February after the first cases […]
Rally Protests Anti-Racist Teacher’s Suspension By Lyn Neeley, Workers.org. July 9, 2020 Rally Protests Anti-Racist Teacher’s Suspension2020-07-092020-07-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/jarett070820a-e1594310549558.jpg200px200px Above photo: Blake Nissen for the Boston Globe. Milton, MA – Hundreds rallied on Juneteenth (June 19) in Milton, Mass., calling for an end to systemic racism in school curriculum and voicing support for Zakia Jarrett, an African-American sixth-grade English teacher. Jarrett was briefly put on administrative leave June 5 for her remarks on police violence during a lesson on racism. Jarrett, who has taught for 18 years, used the last line of the poem “Allowables” by Nikki Giovanni as a metaphor for racism. The line […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): In February 2020, when the coronavirus had just started to spread outside China, India spent millions of dollars to welcome US President Donald Trump on his maiden visit to the South Asian country. At the time, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi displayed his bonhomie with POTUS in all its glory. In light of the economic and job crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump has officially suspended the issuing of H-1B visas, which are popular among Indian IT professionals, along with other international work visas, until the end of the year 2020. The decision, which has […]
Twitter reportedly said its suspension of the account of libertarian market news website Zero Hedge more than four months ago was a mistake, as it reversed the decision. The account was frozen for doxing a Chinese scientist. “We made an error in our enforcement action in this case,” a spokesman for Twitter told Bloomberg in an email. “Based on additional context from the account holder in appeal, we have reinstated the account. We have a dedicated appeals process for all account holders.” Zero Hedge returned to Twitter with a sarcastic “What did we miss”. Its previous posts on the platform were […]
Scottish Parliament Votes For Immediate Suspension Of ‘Weapons Of Oppression’ Exports To US By Jon Stone, Independent. June 12, 2020 Scottish Parliament Votes For Immediate Suspension Of ‘Weapons Of Oppression’ Exports To US2020-06-122020-06-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/sjm-e1591928662323.jpg200px200px Above photo: People march down East Santa Clara Street during a demonstration over the police killing of George Floyd in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. By Randy Vazquez for the Bay Area News Group. MSPs urge UK government to end export of tear gas, rubber bullets and riot gear. The Scottish Parliament has called for the immediate suspension of exports of riot gear, tear gas […]
Vocal Sharia Law critic Pamela Geller filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday against New York mayor Bill de Blasio and police commissioner Dermot Shea over the city-wide suspension of 1st Amendment rights during the virus lock down. Represented by attorneys David Yerushalmi and Robert J. Muise from the American Freedom Law Center, the lawsuit alleges de Blasio and Shea “publicly and officially announced that the “shut down” required in the executive orders includes the suspension of the right to publicly protest in the City, thereby officially announcing the challenged First Amendment Restriction” and “Despite suspending First Amendment activity […]