The Russian defense industry is ready to start producing intermediate and shorter-range missiles that had been banned under a now-defunct treaty with the US, President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday. The Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) had prohibited these systems, but the US withdrew from it in 2019. …
Read More »Putin makes announcement about Russia’s lunar program
Russia must be able to respond to challenges in exploring space, President Vladimir Putin has said, adding that the country is going to continue with its lunar program, among other ventures. “We’ll resume the lunar program,” Putin asserted as he visited Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur Region on …
Read More »Trump offers timeline for 2024 presidential run announcement
Waiting to announce his decision on running for president until after the 2022 midterm elections is “probably appropriate,” Trump told Fox News this week. “I think a lot of people will be very happy, frankly, with the decision, and probably will announce that after the midterms,” the former president said, …
Read More »Japan planned to withhold public announcement of ‘highly infectious’ Lambda Covid variant until after the Tokyo Olympics – media
On July 20, the country’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) reported the discovery to international virus database GISAID. But an unnamed researcher from the institute, the news outlet writes, claimed that it was decided to withhold releasing this information to the public – until after the Games. While the …
Read More »No more Mr. Potato Head? Hasbro bombarded with mockery after announcement that famous toy brand is gender neutral now
“Culture has evolved,” Kimberly Boyd, an SVP and GM at Hasbro, told Fast Company about the change. “Kids want to be able to represent their own experiences. The way the brand currently exists – with the ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’– is limiting when it comes to both gender identity and family …
Read More »‘It should be the last national lockdown,’ says UK vax minister ahead of PM’s long-awaited announcement to ease Covid restrictions
“I am confident that if we do this cautiously and we do it based on the data and evidence, it will be sustainable, and it will be the last time we enter a lockdown because of Covid-19,” vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News on Monday. Asked about what measures …
Read More »EC president von der Leyen dares European nations to call her bluff with announcement of (mandatory?) vaccine certificates
Von der Leyen sprung the idea of a “mutually recognized vaccination certificate” as a “medical requirement” for travel on Thursday in the course of praising a similar plan outlined to her in a letter from Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “It is a medical requirement to have a certificate proving that …
Read More »Britain’s Pfizer vaccine announcement gives anti-vaxxers an unlikely boost blamed on Russia without any evidence
Britain became the first nation in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use on Wednesday. The announcement was delivered in pompous style by the government, with business secretary Alok Sharma celebrating how “the UK led humanity’s charge against this disease,” and Health Secretary Matt Hancock volunteering …
Read More »Life on Venus? Major announcement reveals something might be living in the clouds on Earth’s neighbor
The significant announcement was made by the Royal Astronomical Society in a press conference on Monday. The biosignature was detected by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) array located in Chile and the James Clerk Maxwell telescope located in Hawaii. The research was conducted by multidisciplinary teams based at the …
Read More »Apple deny the transfer of the announcement of the iPhone 12
Apple’s partner has denied the information about the postponement of the announcement of the new smartphones from the iPhone 12. Information about the transfer circulated a very large edition of the Hikkei, citing its sources in the supply chain. As it became known today, the presentation of the iPhone 12 …
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