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The price of the October futures on the TTF hub in the Netherlands on September 14 surpassed $800 per 1,000 cubic meters, or 65.50 euro per megawatt-hour in household terms. Gaining over $70 per 1,000 cubic meters in just one day, the price of gas in Europe is now at …

The animals escaped from a farm in Prince George’s County last week and have yet to be returned home, said Rodney Taylor, chief of the county’s Animal Services Division. He noted the agency has received at least five zebra-spotting calls from concerned locals since last week, as the animals continue …

Demonise China, while copying the worst aspects of it. That, in a nutshell, is what the Western power elites have been doing these past 18 months – under the guise of fighting a virus. ‘China’s Covid-19 QR Code surveillance state’, that was the title of an informative article published by …

Dubbed ‘Operation Warm Welcome,’ the British government unveiled on Wednesday what it called a “significant cross-government effort,” saying Afghans arriving in the UK will receive the “vital support” needed to rebuild their lives. All Afghans who “worked closely with the British military and UK Government in Afghanistan” would, immediately upon …

Asked about President Joe Biden’s August 31 withdrawal deadline during a Tuesday press conference, Psaki said that while the mission “will end based on the achievement of our objectives,” it is currently “on pace” to meet that date. “I would say that this is now on track to be the …

Anders Aslund, a former senior fellow at NATO’s Atlantic Council adjunct, has argued recently that Russians need to reconsider the achievements of the 1990s to set the country on the right path. The veteran lobbyist believes that the almost uniform condemnation of Boris Yeltsin and the liberalising, pro-market policies of …

Approximately 7,000 people have been evacuated via Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul since August 14, Major General Hank Taylor said at a Pentagon briefing on Thursday. Neither he nor Kirby could say how many of them were Americans – or how many Americans remain in Taliban-controlled territory.  “I …

Messi ended a 21-year relationship with the Catalans by accepting a two-season deal with the Ligue 1 giants over the weekend which was signed upon his arrival in the French capital on Tuesday. But his connection to his boyhood club is far from done, especially when it comes to the reported contractual commitments …

In August 1961, exactly 60 years ago, the US started its massive herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam war. Tens of thousands of square kilometers of the Vietnamese territory were defoliated with some 20 million gallons of so-called “rainbow herbicides,” which included the infamous Agent Orange. The operation did not …

 Galileo Galilei was locked up after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy. That was 1633, but Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard University is going through his own tribulations. The eminent scholar is viewed by some as controversial, which sparked an outpouring against his new initiative to finally answer …