US President Joe Biden said he would agree to impose new travel rules for the unvaccinated should his medical team advise it, after the White House’s top Covid official suggested the move would be “reasonable.” Asked about the restrictions on Tuesday, Biden told reporters he would make a decision “when …
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During a Thursday presser, the chancellor told reporters the new lockdown would come as part of a pandemic response plan implemented in September, which uses intensive care bed capacity as its major metric. The measures take effect once 30% of ICU beds become occupied with Covid patients; they are currently …
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The United States military is facing a serious disease that puts its readiness at risk, but it isn’t viral – it’s ideological. As the Pentagon imposes a Covid-19 vaccination mandate on our armed forces, it’s spreading a malaise of leftist identity politics that threatens their very coherence and competency. On …
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Protests have erupted again in a number of Europe’s major cities. The source is the rollout of Covid passports, which protesters claim creates two tiers of citizens – those who have been vaccinated (good) and those who have not (bad). Some protesters in Italy have gone as far to wear …
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In another hawkish move against Iran, US President Joe Biden seeks not to fulfil his campaign promise, but instead to slap on additional sanctions and to tighten existing ones. The step makes it clear that the intentions of the new administration are the same as the old. In March 2018, …
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It’s now been one year since China’s National People’s Congress passed the “National Security Law” – a sweeping bill tailored for the Hong Kong special administrative region. Following a series of extremely violent protests encouraged by the US and others in 2019, the bill criminalized secessionism, treason, subversion and terrorism …
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Biden told reporters at the White House on Thursday afternoon that he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin of the impending sanctions during their recent phone call, calling it a “proportionate” US response to what Russia allegedly did. We concluded that they had interfered in the election and the SolarWinds was …
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“We’re considering the notion of a curfew,” Newsom told reporters in a Covid-19 briefing on Monday. “We are assessing that.” He added that he will examine studies from France, Germany and Saudi Arabia on the efficacy of curfews before making a decision. California is tapping the “emergency brakes” under its …
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In the same way global health authorities insist masks contain the spread of coronavirus, Vittorio Sgarbi, the mayor of Sutri, is confident his unorthodox initiative will help stem the spread of “pandemic-related hysteria,” as he put it, according to the TASS news agency. The lingering Covid-19 pandemic has so far …
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NBU introduces sanctions “dochek” Russian banks. The national Bank announced the introduction of sanctions “dochek” Russian state-owned banks from 23 March. “The national Bank adopted regulation No. 25, the purpose of which is to ensure the implementation of the sanctions applied to the banks specified in the NSDC decision”, – …
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