Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas giant Saudi Aramco has unexpectedly raised its selling prices for Asia, sparking global concerns over tightening supplies. The world’s largest oil exporter increased the official July price for its flagship Arab light crude by $2.10 a barrel from the June level, Aramco announced on Sunday. …
Read More »US inflation jumps to 40-year high
The US Labor Department said on Tuesday that its consumer price index soared 8.5% in March from 12 months earlier, the sharpest year-over-year increase since 1981. The surge was driven by continuing supply-chain problems, soaring demand and rising energy prices, it said. Statistics showed that the monthly rise was 1.2%, …
Read More »Japan jumps on Western bandwagon in restricting Russian trade
The Japanese government will expand Ukraine-related export and financial sanctions against Russia and Russian businessmen, in line with similar measures taken by Washington and Brussels last Friday. “We intend to ban the export of luxury goods to Russia and ban the import of certain Russian goods,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida …
Read More »Top FDA vaccine regulators rush for the exits, resign posts as Biden jumps the gun on booster jabs
Two of the top executives involved in vaccine research and testing at the Food and Drug Administration are leaving the agency, according to a Tuesday letter from Peter Marks, chief of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Marion Gruber and Phil Krause were director and deputy director, respectively, …
Read More »Haiti earthquake death toll jumps to 724 people as STORM expected to hit devastated Caribbean country
Haiti’s civil protection agency raised the death toll on Sunday morning, a day after the country was shaken by a magnitude-7.2 earthquake. The quake struck the island nation’s southern peninsula, collapsing buildings in several towns and leaving streets strewn with rubble. A government press release noted that 500 people had …
Read More »Would-be German chancellor Scholz jumps the gun on EU expansion eastward, which may provoke more states to follow the UK and exit
In an interview with Deutsche Welle, Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrats’ candidate in the upcoming general election, said that Russia and others must “accept that there will be further European integration.” Given that Scholz namechecked Russia, he can only mean more European integration in Eastern Europe. Given that most …
Read More »Bitcoin jumps after Musk says crypto will be accepted as payment for Tesla cars
“Tesla is using only internal & open source software & operates Bitcoin nodes directly,” Musk wrote late Tuesday on Twitter, adding that “Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin, not converted to fiat currency.” In a follow-up tweet, the businessman announced: “You can now buy a Tesla with …
Read More »In Zaporizhia 15 Santa clauses staged jumps from the bridge. Video
It has grown into a tradition. Traditionally held in Kiev new year jumping extreme in the arch bridge across the old bed of the Dnieper. Fans of extreme sports, dressed in Santa Claus or Santa Claus and taking the attributes of the holiday, jumping from a height of about 40 …
Read More »The first parachute jumps by cadets of the Odessa military Academy. Video
In the program of training of the military institution provides a minimum of three dozen jumps in different conditions. First-year cadets of the faculties of the airborne forces and special forces of the Odessa military Academy, made his first parachute jump. In the program of training of the military institution …
Read More »Scientists explained how dangerous big jumps in weight
Not worth it to gain more than 5 kg. Scientists working at Harvard University (USA), engaged in the research, at any rate to increase the weight of a human body, it can become dangerous for him. In order to come to certain conclusions, the American experts have been analyzing the …
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