White House Calls on OPEC to Increase Oil Production
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan criticized major oil producers for the insufficiency of oil productions, claiming it could threaten the global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In his…
US Senators Want to Rein Google, Apple on App Store ‘Monopoly’
A bipartisan trio of US senators proposed a bill that would rein in app stores of companies they claim exert too much market control, including Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s…
Indonesia halts ‘two-finger’ virginity tests on female military recruits
The Indonesian military’s chief of staff has confirmed that the country’s armed forces will no longer conduct virginity tests on female recruits after criticism that the practice is cruel, degrading…
Young, Beautiful, White? Swiss Student Exposes Twitter Algorithm Bias
A Swiss university student has won Twitter’s first bug bounty competition, revealing that the algorithm is flawed and biased toward young, ‘beautiful,’ and light-skinned faces. Bogdan Kulynych, a swiss university…
NASA Mars Rock Sample Gone Missing
NASA has spent nine years and almost $2 billion on its mission to drill and store Martian rock samples. The Perseverance rover robot was ready to make it happen on…
‘Unacceptable cruelty’: Teen takes heat after filmed forcing vulnerable quokka to VAPE, could face 5 years in jail
RSPCA Australia has condemned a social media video which showed a teenager forcing a quokka to vape from an e-cigarette at Rottnest Island in Western Australia (WA). The recent video…
‘Looks very awful and ill’: Journalist tells RT he ‘couldn’t recognize’ Assange during High Court hearing on his extradition to US
Journalist Richard Medhurst claims that he initially didn’t recognize Julian Assange, who looked “awful and ill,” as the WikiLeaks founder appeared in London’s High Court while the United States pushes…
Canada pledges $320mn to fund campaigns searching for residential school graves & support survivors
Indigenous leaders have cautiously welcomed Ottawa’s $320-million funding pledge to support communities looking for unmarked graves at former residential school sites and to help survivors, deeming it a “long overdue…
‘Immediately and unconditionally’: Washington demands China release Canadian sentenced to 11 years in prison for spying
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has demanded Canadian businessman Michael Spavor, arrested in China for alleged spying, be released “immediately and unconditionally” after he was sentenced to 11 years…