Statistics showed that the physical volume of gas exports during the reported period reached 123.8 billion cubic meters, marking a growth of almost 15%. In July, Gazprom exported $3.48 billion-worth of natural gas, a decrease of 2.1% on the previous month. According to data tracked by the customs service, the …
Read More »Australia purchases 1mn Moderna doses as its 3d most populous state narrowly avoids lockdown
Residents of the country’s third most populous state heaved a sigh of relief on Sunday after it reported zero new Covid-19 infections in 24 hours. The threat of a lockdown continues to loom large over Queensland after a cluster of five cases was reported, all stemming from one family. Queensland …
Read More »Russia to upgrade tanks on Afghan border as part of plan to protect former Soviet states after chaotic US withdrawal from Kabul
In a statement issued by Russian defense chiefs on Friday, officials said that the latest hardware would be shipped to troops stationed in the mountainous Central Asian nation. “By the end of this year, 30 modern tanks will replace earlier combat vehicles used by the tank battalion at the Russian …
Read More »‘The real heroes’: CNN’s Stelter outrages Twitter by sharing story calling ‘network TV anchors’ the ‘moral authority’ on 9/11
“Network TV anchors were ‘the closest thing that America had to national leaders on 9/11. They were the moral authority for the country on that first day,’” Stelter tweeted on Saturday, the quote coming from an Associated Press piece highlighting the major news anchors covering the 9/11 terrorist attacks while …
Read More »Exports of Russian aluminum see tenfold surge in July
In physical terms, the July exports reportedly exceeded three million tons. Earlier this year, the Russian authorities imposed a 15% tax, or a minimum of $254 per ton, on aluminum exports between August and December. The tariffs also target foreign sales of ferrous and non-ferrous (copper, nickel, aluminum) metals and …
Read More »Shocking new report shows how disabled children and families like mine became the forgotten victims of the pandemic
For the parents of newborns, it’s a key moment when they can finally dispense with the baby monitor that buzzes away next to their ear, as they struggle for some shut-eye while still listening for signs of unrest from their sleeping tot. Imagine what it must be like if that …
Read More »Internal police probe into Capitol riot clears officers in 20 cases, ‘disciplinary action’ recommended in 6
In a statement on Saturday, the USCP said that while it had originally launched 38 investigations into potential transgressions by the force members who responded to the Capitol riot, the investigators were able to identify officers only in 26 cases. In 20 of these cases “no wrongdoing was found,” while …
Read More »I’m fighting an election in Norway next week to stop equality before the law and freedom of speech being stolen from us by stealth
Principles have been relegated to the far corner of the room in the hyper-commercial neo-liberalist age. A general discussion on the guiding principles by which we should govern our lives is a rare occurrence. I would like to make a case for self-preservation right now. Self-preservation is a legitimate instinct …
Read More »Stephen King admits his widely-shared inflated number of Florida Covid-19 deaths wrong, takes pot-shot at Gov. DeSantis ‘failure’
King posted the widely-shared statistic on Twitter on Friday but retracted it in a later post. “I regret the error, but regret the DeSantis crew’s failure to come to grips with the COVID virus even more,” the new tweet said. While it remains unclear how exactly King came up with …
Read More »‘Women who left Afghanistan cannot represent us’: Pro-Taliban female students demonstrate in Kabul (VIDEO)
Several dozen women, purportedly female students of Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul, marched down the city streets on Saturday, chanting Allahu Akbar (The God is Greatest) in support for the Taliban rule. The majority of the participants of a small and orderly procession were clad in head-to-toe black veils …
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