A satirical impression of a headline in the ‘Foreign Policy’ magazine, authored by one Raymond L. Bloodthirst Jr., began circulating around the internet recently. It read as follows: ‘We’re Having Trouble Finding Asian Countries Willing to Shoot Missiles at China.’ The subheading then lambasted China’s neighbors for not being “democratic …
Read More »Kramatorsk train station attack: The key to finding the perpetrator lies in this overlooked detail
In a conflict where accusations of wrongdoing fly back and forth between Russia and Ukraine on a daily basis, when it comes to the missile attack on the Kramatorsk train station that occurred at 10:30am on April 8, 2022, both sides are in rare agreement – the missile used was …
Read More »Leading Russian bank develops facial-recognition network for finding lost pets, with 94% accuracy for dogs & 84% for cats
Speaking to news agency TASS, Sberbank’s press service explained that artificial intelligence makes it possible to spot differences between individuals of the same species. “Sber has taught a neural network to distinguish very similar animals by certain features of their faces,” the press service said. “At the moment, the quality …
Read More »With Kabul about to surrender to Taliban, NATO & US talk of ‘finding political solution’ & of women’s rights in Afghanistan
The US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years preceded a lightning advance by Taliban militants. Seizing province after province and city after city in recent days – often without firing a shot as the US-funded Afghan National Army surrendered – Taliban forces arrived in the capital city Kabul early on …
Read More »Hammered by infectious new Delta variant, Russia is now finding it has to get deadly serious about Covid-19 vaccine reluctance
For months, the country had seen the official tally of Covid-19 cases decline from its all-time peak in December and plateau at around 7,000 a day. Bars, shops, restaurants, food halls and even night clubs reopened in much of the country, while the rest of Europe was bouncing in and …
Read More »White professor sues New Jersey college for ‘discrimination’ after finding out that black colleagues are paid far more than him
William Lavell’s lawsuit against Camden County College was filed on Friday in US District Court in Camden, New Jersey. The 66-year-old chemistry professor alleged that after obtaining payroll data under the state’s open records law, he found “stark racial disparities” between his pay and the salaries of two black engineering …
Read More »WHO fact-finding mission: Animal source of Covid-19 still unidentified, Wuhan laboratory leak ‘extremely unlikely’
The expert team with the World Health Organization (WHO) held a press conference on Tuesday to present their findings to the public. The team spent four weeks in Wuhan, the city that was first to report the outbreak of the new disease in December 2019. The team identified and looked …
Read More »Georgia secretary of state launches ‘fact-finding probe’ into Trump’s demand to ‘find votes’ in 2020 election
A spokesperson for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed the probe on Monday, stating that his office is responding to formal complaints made by a law professor who claims the ex-president illegally pressured officials to find evidence to help overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state. “The Secretary of State’s …
Read More »Biden is finding out the hard way that promising free money might mean quick wins, but causes a lot of long-term grief
One easy way to get someone to pay attention to what you’re selling is to tell them that it’s free. If a coffee shop offers a free bagel with your latte for example, that latte suddenly becomes a bit more appealing. It’s not much different in politics, and Joe Biden …
Read More »WHO fact-finding mission arrives in China’s Wuhan to investigate origins of Covid-19
The WHO mission arrived in Wuhan on Thursday, Chinese media reported. TV channel CGTN said the investigators have to undergo “relevant quarantine procedures” before starting field work in the city, where the coronavirus was first discovered in late 2019. WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris told CGTN that a team of ten …
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