Johnson supports plans to allow thousands of foreign delegates, who have received China’s Sinovac or Sinopharm vaccines, or Russia’s Sputnik V, to attend the COP26 climate-change summit in Glasgow in November without quarantining upon arrival, the Times reports. Only the vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca/Oxford, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson …
Read More »Report says US will waive some sanctions on Nord Stream 2 pipeline – but reveals possible ‘Plan B’ to stop Russia-Germany gas link
Nord Stream 2 AG and its CEO Matthias Warnig – a former East German secret agent turned investment banker – are engaging in “sanctionable activity” but the US State Department will waive those sanctions, citing national interests, and sanction “a handful of Russian ships” instead – at least according to …
Read More »Merkel opposes Biden’s call to waive Covid-19 vaccine patent protections, as Spain says proposal ‘not enough’
“The limiting factor for the production of vaccines are manufacturing capacities and high quality standards, not the patents,” a spokesperson for Merkel said Thursday, according to Bloomberg. “The protection of intellectual property is a source of innovation and this has to remain so in the future.” US Trade Representative Katherine …
Read More »Savchenko may not waive immunity
Also she can’t ask to remove her immunity. The Constitution and the laws of Ukraine no procedure for waiver of immunity. This was told first Deputy head of procedural Committee of the Verkhovna Rada Pavel Pynzenyk commenting on today’s announcement of Nadiya Savchenko. Recall, Savchenko was sent to the regulatory …
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