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Thomas Catenacci U.K. and European Union regulators announced they have opened similar sweeping antitrust investigations into massive U.S. social media company Facebook on Friday. Both investigations will examine whether Facebook has violated antitrust laws in its use of advertising data and how its marketplace is embedded to…
Read More Facebook Faces New Antitrust Investigations From Across Europe
Mary Margaret Olohan Russia must “immediately cease” persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a State Department spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday evening. The statement is a response to news that Russian agents had arrested five more Jehovah’s Witnesses for their faith days after the…
Read More State Department: Russia Must ‘Immediately Cease’ Persecution Of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Mary Margaret Olohan Days after the United States condemned Russian persecution of religious groups, Jehovah’s Witnesses announced that agents arrested five more Jehovah’s Witnesses for their faith. “Numerous international human rights actors have decried Russia’s baseless assault on Jehovah’s Witnesses,” spokesman Jarrod Lopes said. “We…
Read More Days After U.S. Condemned Russia Over Religious Persecution, Jehovah’s Witnesses Say Agents Made Five More Arrests
Thomas Catenacci The U.S. citizen convicted of espionage by a Russian court in June 2020 urged President Joe Biden to take action to free him and other political prisoners, CNN reported. Paul Whelan, who has been in Russian custody since 2018, asked Biden to “aggressively…
Read More ‘There Was No Crime’ American Political Prisoner In Russia Demands Biden Take Action To Free Him
Eleanor Bartow The wife of a Wuhan lab researcher working on coronaviruses died of what appeared to be COVID-19 in December 2019, the leader of a State Department investigation under the Trump administration told the Daily Caller News Foundation. It would have been an early…
Read More Wuhan Lab Researcher’s Wife Died Of COVID-Like Illness In December 2019, Former Lead US Investigator Says
Mary Margaret Olohan Demonstrators attacked a French procession over the weekend commemorating the deaths of Catholics at the hands of French revolutionaries in the 1870’s, multiple sources said. The Diocese of Paris reportedly organized the procession on Friday, May 28, to remember the deaths of…
Read More Catholics Attacked At Procession Commemorating Religious Executions, Official Says
Kaylee Greenlee The Taliban warned surrounding countries not to host U.S.-led operations after troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan, Reuters reported Wednesday. President Joe Biden said American troops will be out of the region by Sept. 11, while experts speculate about potential locations for new military bases close…
Read More Taliban Tells Neighbors To Not Host US Troops Withdrawing From Afghanistan
While more than 80% of Iranians live below the poverty line and have not eaten meat or fruit for many months, and bread has become their main food now they are facing a 50% increase in the price of bread. According to the news, this…
Read More Unbridled Inflation, The Result Of Iran’s Economic Collapse
The Guardian Council of Iran declared the names of qualified candidates for Iran’s next presidential election. The list includes Saeed Jalili, Ebrahim Raisi, Mohsen Rezaei, Alireza Zakani, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Abdolnaser Hemmati, and Mohsen Mehralizadeh. The big surprise is that the Guardian Council disqualified…
Read More Iran’s Next Presidential Election Without Three Prominent Figures
Mary Margaret Olohan An “avalanche” of “expanding and accelerating” demographic forces is driving global birth rates down at alarming rates, demographers warned The New York Times. “A paradigm shift is necessary,” German demographer Frank Swiaczny, former United Nations chief of population trends and analysis, told the…
Read More Demographers Warn Of ‘Epochal Fall In Fertility’ Across The Globe