Tough new Covid-19 emergency laws enacted by the Australian government might have stranded up to 10,000 of its residents in India, but at home a storm is raging, with accusations of racism and a breach of human rights causing all sorts of problems. The snap decision to fine and/or jail …
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The official site, 45office.com, greets visitors with a slideshow depicting scenes from Trump’s four years in office. The frontpage encourages people to share their “thoughts, requests and greetings” with the president, adding that by contacting him, they would help to fulfill his “promise to put America first.” The website states …
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The bold remarks regarding the Russian-made vaccine were delivered by EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton on Sunday as he spoke to France’s TF1 TV. “We have absolutely no need of Sputnik V,” the official, who leads the EU executive’s vaccine task force, stated. “Today, we clearly have the capacity …
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“Let’s stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,” Denormandie tweeted on Sunday. “Let’s just give them what they need to grow well. Meat is part of it,” he wrote, adding that he had asked the region’s prefect, a state-appointed official, to overrule the move. Officials in Lyon, France’s third-largest city, …
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The UK’s controversial Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) bill is on the verge of becoming law, after MPs again voted overwhelmingly in its favour on 27 January. The legislation grants undercover operatives – both employees of British state agencies and their informants – permission to not only commit crimes up …
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The CAS ruling was “based on a flawed and one-sided assessment of the facts,” RUSADA said in a press release following a “detailed review” of the decision that the Swiss-based court took on December 17. At that time, the court sided with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and banned Russia …
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Projected US President-elect Biden may try to return to the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers before wider talks that could include Iran’s ballistic missiles, but Rouhani said on Monday that Tehran will not accept any preconditions. He also noted that he has not heard from Biden that …
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An alarming report authored by Oxfam International in collaboration with a group of other human rights organizations warned that only one in 10 people in poor countries are set to receive coronavirus vaccines in 2021, while rich nations have “hoarded” three times the amount of doses that they actually need. …
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That’s a consensus agreed upon at a virtual forum on Monday, dedicated to integrating the five EAEU member states with China’s flagship foreign policy initiative, ‘One Belt, One Road’. Founded in 2010, The EAEU is made up of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia, and in recent years has actively …
Read More »United States continue to escalate in the middle East. This was stated by Russian Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. He said that Moscow does not support Washington’s position on the military buildup. Earlier it became known that the Pentagon strengthens its military potential in the East. In particular, the US …
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