Internationally banned MON-50 and MON-90 mines used by the Ukrainian forces were discovered in Mariupol, RT’s Murad Gazdiev reported on Sunday. In 1999, Ukraine joined the 1997 Ottawa Convention, which bans use of such devices. The mines were found inside the Ilyich steel mill. Russian troops and the Donbass forces …
Read More »Turkey discovers naval mine near EU country’s border
A naval mine has been detected in the Black Sea off the coast of northern Turkey, near the border with Bulgaria, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced on Monday. A team of sappers from the Underwater Defense (SAS) has been deployed to the area not far from the port town of …
Read More »Damning analysis discovers US tap water is a ‘cocktail of chemicals’
The worrying state of American tap water was highlighted in recent analysis by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that has maintained a database of drinking-water contaminants across the country since 2014. Hazardous chemicals, including pesticides and radioactive materials, are “often found in drinking …
Read More »Taliban discovers cache of Soviet-made BALLISTIC MISSILES in Panjshir Valley (VIDEO)
Militants found the missile cache lying on the bank of the Panjshir River, footage that has surfaced online shows. The Panjshir Valley was taken over by the Taliban last week following a short-lived conflict with local forces. Video shot by the militants shows around 10 Luna-M (NATO reporting name FROG-7) …
Read More »Cities have unique ‘microbial signature,’ scientists say, as study discovers thousands of new viruses and bacteria
In a study published on Wednesday in the journal Cell, researchers from around the world presented a global atlas of 4,728 metagenomic samples from mass-transit systems in 60 cities. The study contains data gathered by more than 900 scientists and volunteers on six continents, from London to Sydney and Santiago …
Read More »The myth of ‘stupid’ Brexit voter undone by study that discovers affluent and educated ‘Comfortable Leavers’ actually won the day
The most persistently irritating thing about being on the winning side of the Brexit vote is that the losers have stubbornly pushed the insultingly and incorrect narrative that anyone who voted to leave the European Union was old, thick, racist and living in a corner of the UK struck low …
Read More »Survey discovers 7 in 10 Russian doctors now trust domestic Sputnik V vaccine, but most don’t have faith in Western alternatives
The latest figures, published on Thursday, come from a study by the Levada Center, a Moscow-based pollster and registered foreign agent. It revealed that, out of 1,850 doctors questioned, almost seven out of 10 had faith in the vaccine, with 38% saying they had been vaccinated themselves. Another 31% said …
Read More »‘Aggressive measures needed’: India discovers 240 new, possibly more infectious Covid-19 strains
The new Covid-19 strains are likely behind the sudden spike of new cases in several Indian states, including Maharashtra – the second most populous state housing the city of Mumbai – a member of the regional Covid-19 task force, Shahshank Joshi, told NDTV. He added that a total of around …
Read More »NASA’s TESS discovers new ‘Earth-sized’ exoplanets floating in a ‘river of stars’
The three hot worlds, each slightly larger than our own, were detected orbiting a much younger version of our sun called TOI 451, located some 400 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The star boasts 95 percent of our Sun’s mass, despite being 12 percent smaller and emitting 35 percent …
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