Stanford Professor Michael McFaul was surprised by the number of negative comments he received after stating that there can be no good relations between Washington and Tehran until Iran βbecomes a democracyβ.
Month: December 2020
Brexit: Armed Navy boats on standby to protect UK waters in case of no deal
Armed Royal Navy boats are being prepared to patrol the UK’s fishing waters in an apparent final warning shot to Brussels as negotiations enter the final 48 hours.
Four of the 80-metre vessels are on standby to guard British waters from EU fishermen in case no deal is agreed on fishing rights after theΒ BrexitΒ transition period ends on 31 December.
βSupreme Court really let us down,β Trump tweets after crucial election lawsuit defeat, promises to βfight onβ
Donald Trump has accused the Supreme Court of ignoring “many” legal arguments as it threw out a lawsuit, in which Texas sought to overturn the presidential election results in key battleground states.
“The Supreme Court really let us down. No Wisdom, No Courage!” the president angrily tweeted.
Trump wrote that the Supreme Court had rejected the lawsuit filed by TexasΒ “within a flash,”Β andΒ “without even looking at the many reasons it was brought.”Β
US issues emergency authorisation of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency authorisation to use the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, paving the way for the first Americans to be immunised in the coming days.
βI am authorising the emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVIDβ19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19,β Denise Hinton, the agencyβs chief scientist wrote in a letter to a Pfizer executive.
Japan surpasses 3,000 daily new coronavirus cases for first time – NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan saw more than 3,000 new infections of the novel coronavirus for the first time in one day on Saturday, public broadcaster NHK reported, as the number of cases continues to rise in the winter.
A total of 3,041 people were newly infected, NHK said. Tokyo, Japanβs capital and largest city, on Saturday confirmed 621 new cases.
Iran executes French-based dissident journalist captured last year
Iran said on Tuesday its Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence of Zam, who was captured in 2019 after years in exile. His Amadnews feed had more than one million followers.
State TV said on Saturday Zam, βdirector of the counter-revolutionary Amadnews network, was hanged this morningβ.
Iranβs βCorpse Brideβ Angelina Jolie look-alike sentenced to 10 YEARS in prison for βcorrupting the youth,β says journalist
Claiming that the Instagram model whose heavily edited snaps made her world-famous as an Angelina Jolie lookalike was sentenced to a decade in prison by morality police, an Iranian journalist begged the actress for assistance.
https://www.rt.com/news/509440-iran-angelina-corpse-bride-jailed/
Sweden considers adopting e-krona amid rapid growth of cash-free transactions
Swedish authorities have announced plans for a step-by-step replacement of the traditional krona with a digital equivalent, signaling a potential shift away from paper money in one of the worldβs most cashless societies.
A detailed review of the possibility was launched earlier this week, and is expected to be completed by the end of November 2022, according to the countryβs financial markets minister, Per Bolund.
https://www.rt.com/business/509465-sweden-digital-currency-plans/
