According to Grachev, Russia’s gold deposits currently total about 8,000 tons, while annual production amounts to 330 tons. “If the trend is not reversed, the industry may face a structural shortage of raw materials during the next decade or two,” the chief executive said, stressing that Polyus has 37 years …
Read More »Former French president Sarkozy found guilty of illegally financing 2012 election campaign
The court is yet to announce the sentence that Sarkozy, who was president between 2007 and 2012, will receive. The 66-year-old politician, who still maintains a strong influence in the country’s conservative circles, wasn’t present at the hearing. Sarkozy earlier denied any wrongdoing, telling the court in June that he …
Read More »New York jail where Jeffrey Epstein was found dead to CLOSE amid reports of dire conditions & sloppy security
The Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City, notorious for housing Epstein as well as several high-profile criminals such as Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, will not accept any new inmates in the foreseeable future after the conditions there were found to be unsatisfactory. The closure was …
Read More »‘Human remains’ found inside landing gear of C-17 jet leaving Kabul as shock video appears to show body clamped by wheel well door
Chaotic scenes emerged from the Kabul airfield in the wake of a full-blown Taliban takeover of the capital, seeing thousands of desperate Afghans flock to the airport in hopes of fleeing the country on Monday as US and other foreign diplomatic staff evacuated. While earlier footage showed frantic crowds attempting …
Read More »‘Hope dies last’: American financier Calvey speaks after being found guilty of embezzlement in Russian court & awaiting sentencing
Both the judge and the prosecutor have “simply repeated the phrases and arguments from the December 2019 preliminary accusation, ignoring hundreds of documents, testimonies and expert witnesses presented during the trial over the last 7 months,” Calvey said outside the Meshchansky Court in Moscow on Thursday evening. “But it’s not …
Read More »Head of Belarusian activist group found HANGED in Ukrainian park after vanishing while out jogging, Kiev cops open ‘murder’ probe
On Tuesday, police in the city confirmed that his body had been found in a park near his home. In a statement, officials said he had been “hanged,” and that his “mobile phone and personal belongings were recovered from the scene.” Investigators have now launched a criminal probe for “premeditated …
Read More »Spate of drug-resistant fungal infections found in Texas and DC hospitals, CDC warns
Candida auris may not be the household name that Covid-19 is, but that doesn’t mean scientists aren’t concerned about it. In a report released on Friday, the CDC noted that clusters of Candida auris cases have been reported in hospitals in Texas and Washington, DC since January, originating in healthcare …
Read More »Over 160 unmarked graves found on island where infamous residential school branded ‘Canada’s Alcatraz’ stood – indigenous group
Representatives of the Penelakut tribe confirmed that the graves had been found on the “grounds and foreshore” of the territory, previously known as Kuper Island, located in the strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the western province of British Columbia on the mainland. In a statement to “neighboring tribes …
Read More »Wreckage of Russian turboprop jet found by investigators in remote Far East as 28 passengers & crew feared dead in major incident
Speaking to TASS just hours after the Antonov-26 jet disappeared while over the Kamchatka Peninsula, Alexey Khrabrov, the director of the Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise which operated the flight, said that “we found the wreckage of the plane.” He added that he was unable to “say where and under what circumstances. …
Read More »16 dead following Miami building collapse as 4 more bodies found in search for nearly 150 missing residents
The official death count rose to 16 on Wednesday morning after four more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the building, which collapsed during the middle of the night in Surfside last Thursday. Although no survivors have been found by emergency digging teams in the rubble for nearly a …
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