In an interview with Kiev’s 1+1 channel on Friday, Deputy Energy Minister Maxim Nemchinov announced that “today, we are in reality locked in a state of war with Russia.” According to him, the neighboring nation is “blocking imports from Kazakhstan, preventing railroad cars laden with coal from traveling to Ukraine, …
Read More »Evergrande catastrophe: How collapse of China’s real estate giant may start a new global crisis
What is Evergrande? Evergrande, which builds and manages apartments, is the second largest residential real estate company in China. With 1,300 residential projects, some of which have come to a dead stop because of cash concerns, Evergrande poses the most serious single, controllable risk to the recovery of China’s economic …
Read More »White House announces start date for vaccine mandate in US
The US will begin enforcing mandatory coronavirus vaccination for private-sector workers starting January 4, the White House announced on Wednesday. Those not vaccinated will have to be tested weekly. “It is important to understand that there are still so many workers who are not protected and remain at risk from …
Read More »Bitcoin will skyrocket to $168,000 when futures start trading on Wall Street – Fundstrat
The New York-based researchers, who had previously projected the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency to hit $100,000 by the year’s end, now say that the ProShares ETF may attract substantial inflows from investors, thus boosting the price of bitcoin. According to Fundstrat, the new bitcoin futures ETF will deliver higher first-year …
Read More »‘Start of dim future?’ German police unions sound alarm over potential weed legalization amid ongoing govt coalition talks
Police unions in Germany have expressed their opposition to the legalization of possession and consumption of weed, in no uncertain terms. No such measures are planned for the near future, but law enforcement are apparently concerned with it being potentially included in the new ruling coalition agenda. “There has to …
Read More »More US soldiers killed themselves in few months than died from Covid-19 since start of pandemic, Pentagon reveals
Between the beginning of April and the end of June 2021, there were 139 total military suicides – 99 in active service, 14 among reservists, and 26 in the National Guard – says the latest report from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office (DSPO). The statistics released show a 46% surge …
Read More »British army to start delivering fuel to pumps next week, amid claims gas shortage ‘under control’ to quell panic buying
The so-called “Operation Escalin” will initially involve mobilising more than 200 soldiers, including 100 drivers, to deliver fuel to petrol station forecourts, defence secretary Ben Wallace announced on Friday. The Army fuel shipments will start arriving at stations on Monday. The move comes just two days after Prime Minister Boris …
Read More »It’s time for action on illegal migrants before the bodies start washing up on British shores
I remember being in the European Parliament when awful photographs of dead migrants being washed up on Turkish and Greek beaches began to be beamed around the world. It was a dreadful situation, because although our hearts went out to those who had perished in the Mediterranean, we also knew that …
Read More »US-Turkey relations ‘not healthy’ and failed to ‘start well with Biden,’ Erdogan says
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, Turkey’s president touched on the frosty relations between his government and the US, signaling it was up to the latter to fix the situation. The ongoing F-35 debacle remains the main problem in bilateral …
Read More »Rosatom to start setting up wind power stations across Russia, its press service says
“The current program for power supply agreements [under which the development of renewable energy sources is supported by the authorities] has been planned already, whereas, for the program for power-supply agreements 2.0, we are considering all possible territories of the country,” the source said. The list of regions for wind-power …
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