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Sing when you're winning: Watch British boxer Nathan Heaney's brilliant ring walk before winning middleweight title fight (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-03-14
British boxer Nathan Heaney may not have been a household name heading into his bout on Friday night, but after his brilliant ring walk went viral on Saturday, he's becoming a lot more popular now. | The 30-year-old middleweight from Stoke-on-Trent, England was the star of the show at a boxing event in his hometown as he took on Malta's Christian Schembri for the vacant IBO continental middleweight title. | Fighting in front of his hometown fans in the biggest fight of his unbeaten career, Heaney was determined to make an impact, and he made sure he did just that, right from the very start of his walkout. | He…
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Turkey neutralizes 10 PKK terrorists in N.Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
The Turkish army "neutralized" 10 YPG/PKK terrorists in northern Syrian territories, the National Defense Ministry said on Saturday.In a Twitter post, the ministry said eight PKK/YPG terrorists, who were found plotting attacks on Turkish troops in the Operation Peace Spring area, as well as other two PKK/YPG terrorists attempting to infiltrate the Operation Euphrates Shield area were "neutralized."Turkish authorities generally use the word "neutralized" to imply the terrorists in question surrendered or were killed or captured.In 2016-2019, Turkey launched a trio of successful anti-terrorist operations across its…
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Abu Dhabi to temporarily shut Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, Ferrari World
yenisafak.com | 2020-03-14
Abu Dhabi announced on Saturday it was shutting major tourism and cultural venues, including the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum and the Ferrari World theme park, from March 15-31, due to the coronavirus outbreak.The announcement was made in tweets by the Abu Dhabi Government Media Office. Abu Dhabi is the capital and largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates federation.
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Legendary Cellist Yo-Yo Ma Performs to Comfort People in 'Days of Anxiety' – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-14
The year 2020 has put immense pressure on humankind, as the world was first shaken by the prospects of World War III and later hit by the coronavirus pandemic, which also brought an economic downturn. However, there is no use in being constantly worried – as everybody needs a moment of peace to face those challenges.
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What the Heck Happened? Twitter Divided Over Gory Underwater Chase
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-14
Ocean wildlife is fascinating, but at times it can be quite brutal and outright scary. However, things are not always what they seem.
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Top Indian Lyricist Gets Trolled for Reaction to BJP Parliamentarian's Tweet on Muslims
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-14
New Delhi (Sputnik): Subramanian Swamy, a legislator from India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is known for his comments tinted with Hinduisms and has sparked controversy in the past. Similarly, top Indian lyricist, Javed Akhtar, has locked horns with the BJP parliamentarian in the past over the latter's social media posts.
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Almost Home: Fans Hopeful of K-Pop Star Wonho's Return After He Was Found Not Guilty in Drug Case
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-14
South Korean singer Lee Ho-seok, better known as Wonho, was forced to quit the band MONSTA X and suspend his career in 2019 after an individual claimed he had witnessed the pop star smoke marijuana in 2013. Marijuana for recreational use is illegal in the country.
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'MOOving Violations': On-The-Loose Cow Wanted by Police in Florida Goes Viral
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-14
Pembroke Pines Police Department and specialist cattle wranglers have been trying to catch a roaming cow in Florida for three months. They say she is "faster than she looks".
sputniknews.com/viral/202003141078565586-florida-police-issue-wanted-poster-for-a-cow-that-goes-viral/

Bolivia: Evo Morales Expresses Concern About Covid-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Bolivia's former President Evo expressed concern about the mismanagement that the self-proclaimed President Jeanine Añez is carrying out of the Covid-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | MAS Presents New Legal Resort To Enable Evo Morales' Candidacy | Through his twitter account, Morales addresses the Bolivian people asking them to remain calm, be supportive and not stigmatize any citizen. | He said that the Añez administration spent more than US$50 million ‚Äã‚&Au…
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Bolsonaro Claims His Second COVID-19 Test Was Negative
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
According to both local media and international news agencies, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for Covid-19. | The 64-year far-right politician appeared on Thursday on a Facebook live wearing a mask on his face. | His initial test was carried out after the arrival of the Brazilian delegation from the United States. | Bolsonaro was in contact with his communication secretary, Fabio Wajngarten, who also tested positive for the disease.‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã This top official was also in cont…
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Bolivia: Evo Morales Expresses Concern About Covid-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-13
Bolivia's former President Evo expressed concern about the mismanagement that the self-proclaimed President Jeanine Añez is carrying out of the Covid-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | MAS Presents New Legal Resort To Enable Evo Morales' Candidacy | Through his twitter account, Morales addresses the Bolivian people asking them to remain calm, be supportive and not stigmatize any citizen. | He said that the Añez administration spent more than US$50 million ‚Äã‚&Au…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-evo-morales-expresses-concern-about-covid-19-20200313-0004.html

'No tests': AP reporter trying to get Covid-19 test sent from pillar to post by health authorities, told to 'stay home' on Twitter
rt.com | 2020-03-13
AP reporter Steve Peoples had no luck trying to get tested for the Covid-19 virus after he presented to a primary care center and was subsequently bounced around to various other health facilities with no tests available anywhere. | Peoples tweeted on Friday that he had been experiencing "mild symptoms"

Soccer prez: "I resign…but the blatant sexism wasn't my fault."
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-13
My, my, how quickly the mighty fall. Three days after the U.S. Soccer Federation sparked a massive backlash when its legal filings–in a gender discrimination lawsuit no less–argued: "male soccer players are more skilled than female soccer players," Carlos Cordeiro resigned as head of the organization. Cordeiro announced his resignation via Twitter Thursday night, apparently not even information …
peoplesworld.org/article/soccer-prez-i-resignbut-the-blatant-sexism-wasnt-my-fault/

Bill de Blasio, Climate Troll
Charles Komanoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Bike ticket sting at 59th and 1st Avenue. Two cops ticketing, I think, when folks turn right on red coming south/off the Queensboro Bridge. Good lord, how do you schedule the spring ticket traps at the same time as you tell people to bike to work? Those tweets, from a bicycle commuter and local journalist,…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/bill-de-blasio-climate-troll/

Bio-war-of-words: US summons Chinese ambassador over 'disinformation campaign' about coronavirus origin
rt.com | 2020-03-13
China's ambassador to Washington Cui Tiankai was summoned to the State Department after a spokesman for the foreign ministry in Beijing tweeted that the deadly coronavirus could have been seeded in Wuhan by the US military. | Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell summoned Cui on Friday over what he called a "blatant, global" disinformation campaign about the Covid-19 coronavirus. The ambassador was filmed leaving Foggy Bottom after the meeting, without answering questions shouted by US reporters. | Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai leaving State. He was summoned earlier this mornin…
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Bill de Blasio, Climate Troll
Charles Komanoff | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
Bike ticket sting at 59th and 1st Avenue. Two cops ticketing, I think, when folks turn right on red coming south/off the Queensboro Bridge. Good lord, how do you schedule the spring ticket traps at the same time as you tell people to bike to work? Those tweets, from a bicycle commuter and local journalist,…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/bill-de-blasio-climate-troll/

That's how you spread panic! Ohio official backtracks on claim 100k people in state ALREADY carry coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-03-13
Dr Amy Acton's shocking claim that 100,000 Ohioans are already carrying the Covid-19 coronavirus was just "guesstimating," she said a day later, noting that the actual number of confirmed cases stood at just 13. | At least one percent of the population carries the virus, Acton had said at a press conference on Thursday. "We have 11.7 million people. So the math is over 100,000. So that just gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and is spreading quickly." Her comment quickly went viral, so to speak. | By Friday, however, she was walking that back, saying that she was only "guesstimating" the numbers. The…
rt.com/usa/483109-ohio-coronavirus-official-guesstimate/

That's how you spread panic! Ohio official backtracks on claim 100k people in state ALREADY carry coronavirus
rt.com | 2020-03-13
Dr Amy Acton's shocking claim that 100,000 Ohioans are already carrying the Covid-19 coronavirus was just "guesstimating," she said a day later, noting that the actual number of confirmed cases stood at just 13. | At least one percent of the population carries the virus, Acton had said at a press conference on Thursday. "We have 11.7 million people. So the math is over 100,000. So that just gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and is spreading quickly." Her comment quickly went viral, so to speak. | By Friday, however, she was walking that back, saying that she was only "guesstimating" the numbers. The…
rt.com/usa/483109-ohio-coronavirus-official-guesstimate/

Roaming Charges: Going Viral
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-13
+ From Albert Camus's The Plague, which is once again on my nightstand: "There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise." + We are witnessing what happens to a country (this one) that faces a pandemic after it has privatized almost every aspect of…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/13/roaming-charges-going-viral/

As Coronavirus Grips US, Critics Remember Susan Collins' Insistence Pandemic Flu Funding Be Cut From 2009 Stimulus Package
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-03-13
Political observers on social media pointed to an overlooked vote by Sen. Susan Collins from over a decade ago as one example of Republicans' disregard for public health. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/collins.png …
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Peak 'Florida Man'? Ex-Tallahassee mayor denies using crystal meth after he was found in hotel room with overdosed male escort
rt.com | 2020-03-13
Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum is taking a break from public life after police walked in on what has been described as a crystal meth-fueled orgy – but which he insists was just a wedding celebration where he drank too much. | Gillum was "unable to communicate with officers due to his inebriated state" when police chanced upon him in a hotel room at Miami's South Beach Mondrian on Thursday night, responding to another man's "possible drug overdose," revealed the police report, leaked via Twitter on Friday. | The police were concerned enough to request a second "welfare check" on Gillum, while they took his str…
rt.com/usa/483101-florida-man-gillum-meth-orgy/

Trump says trade will 'in no way' be affected by Europe travel ban in apparent about-face after markets crash
rt.com | 2020-03-12
US President Donald Trump said that trade in "no way" will be impacted by the 30-day Europe travel ban, despite saying less than an hour earlier the restrictive measures would apply to a "tremendous amount of trade and cargo." | Trump has baffled traders and ordinary netizens after he took to Twitter in the wake of his national address earlier on Wednesday to assure the public that his order to suspend all travel from Europe pertains only to the movement of people, but not goods. | Hoping to get the payroll tax cut approved by both Republicans and Democrats, and please remember, very important for all countrie…
rt.com/usa/482893-coronavirus-europe-ban-trade-markets/

'Leave me be': Did the Simpsons REALLY predict Tom Hanks would get CORONAVIRUS?
rt.com | 2020-03-12
The news that Tom Hanks has been struck down with coronavirus has shocked fans around the world. The outpouring has even sparked a viral meme claiming that The Simpsons predicted the beloved actor's illness. But is it true? | The iconic cartoon is famous for its uncanny ability to foresee major world events

'Leave me be': Did the Simpsons REALLY predict Tom Hanks would get CORONAVIRUS?
rt.com | 2020-03-12
The news that Tom Hanks has been struck down with coronavirus has shocked fans around the world. The outpouring has even sparked a viral meme claiming that The Simpsons predicted the beloved actor's illness. But is it true? | The iconic cartoon is famous for its uncanny ability to foresee major world events

US confirms bombing Iraq's Shia Kata'eb Hezbollah militia after rocket strike at base near Baghdad killed 2 troops
rt.com | 2020-03-12
US aircraft bombed five Shia militia targets in Iraq in retaliation for the earlier deaths of two US service members and a British nurse in a rocket attack on Camp Taji near Baghdad. | "Earlier this evening, the United States conducted defensive precision strikes against Kata'ib Hizbollah (KH) facilities across Iraq. These strikes targeted five weapon storage facilities to significantly degrade their ability to conduct future attacks against Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) coalition forces," the US Department of Defense said in a statement, confirming multiple reports on social media. | Branding the raids "de…
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Remembering McCoy Tyner, iconic and influential jazz pianist
Combined Sources | peoplesworld.org | 2020-03-12
McCoy Tyner, the groundbreaking and influential jazz pianist and the last surviving member of the John Coltrane Quartet, has died. He was 81. Tyner's family confirmed the death in a statement released on social media on March 6. "It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of jazz legend, Alfred McCoy Tyner. McCoy …
peoplesworld.org/article/remembering-mccoy-tyner-iconic-and-influential-jazz-pianist/

Testimony of a surgeon working in Bergamo, in the heart of Italy's coronavirus outbreak
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-03-10
In one of the non-stop e-mails that I receive from my hospital administration on a more than daily basis, there was a paragraph on "how to be responsible on social media", with some recommendations that we all can agree on. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/03/10/testimony-of-a-surgeon-working-in-bergamo-in-the-heart-of-italys-coronavirus-outbreak/

In the Midst of Infighting, Anti-LGBTQ Church Network's Website and Social Media Disappear
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-02-21
The New Independent Fundamental Baptist network, most prominently associated with anti-LGBTQ pastor Steven Anderson, appears to be in turmoil as infighting again erupts, this time between Anderson and fellow pastors in the network.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/02/21/midst-infighting-anti-lgbtq-church-networks-website-and-social-media-disappear