Johnson and Sunak sparked anger on Sunday after it was revealed that they would not self-isolate, despite having come into contact with Health Minister Sajid Javid, who tested positive for Covid-19 this weekend. Though the government’s own NHS Test and Trace program requires Brits who have come into contact with …
Read More »With soaring rates of obesity and diabetes, the West is paying a high price for colonialism
It’s one of the fastest-growing diseases in the world. It’s a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes and amputations. Around 40 years ago, just over 100 million people suffered from it worldwide – today that figure is a whopping 450 million. And in 20 years’ time it’ll …
Read More »UK PM Johnson & Chancellor Sunak won’t self-isolate despite having had contact with infected health minister
Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace “as contacts of someone who has tested positive” for Covid-19, No. 10 confirmed on Sunday. But they will not observe full self-isolation protocols in response. Instead, the top officials “will be participating in the …
Read More »20+ killed in house collapses in Mumbai as city hit by heavy rain during monsoon season (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
At least 25 people were killed in several building collapses in Mumbai on Sunday, Indian media reported, citing officials. A retaining wall crashed down on homes located on a hillock, killing 17. Seven more died after a landslide destroyed several huts, and a 16-year-old boy was also killed in a …
Read More »India’s oil imports slide to nine-month low amid renewed lockdowns
The country imported some 3.9 million barrels a day in June, which was 7% less than the month before, Reuters reports citing trade sources. India’s fuel demand showed a steady increase in February and March this year, but then dropped significantly in April and May, after the government issued new …
Read More »Fauci says US would still have smallpox & polio if vaccines got the same pushback then as they do now in attack on Fox
While US President Joe Biden pointed the finger at Facebook as the main culprit behind underwhelming vaccine uptake in the US, Fauci took a shot at the conservative cable news media. Responding to CNN’s Jim Acosta question of whether Tucker Carlson’s hugely popular show on Fox News would have prevented …
Read More »3 athletes test positive for Covid-19 in Tokyo just days before games, 2 of them diagnosed in Olympic Village
Out of the infected athletes, two tested positive in the Olympic Village, the Japan Times reported on Sunday, citing officials. Five Olympic Games staff members, a contract worker and a journalist also tested positive on Sunday. The news comes after a South Korean member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), …
Read More »1st Chinese man to be infected by deadly monkey B virus died in Beijing in May – report
The unnamed 53-year-old veterinarian from Beijing died on May 27, just a few months after he dissected two dead monkeys as part of his experimental primate research job in March. After dissecting the monkeys, the man reportedly experienced symptoms of the monkey B virus, including vomiting and fever, and eventually …
Read More »Eternal revolution? Ukraine’s strongman interior minister is gone, but chaos & scandal in the troubled nation is here to stay
Take the French version. Was it in 1799, with Bonaparte’s coup, or perhaps 1815, with the final defeat of his attempt to export its blessings to Europe, from Madrid to Moscow? And what about the Russian Revolution? Did it end in November 1917? Or maybe in 1920 when the Bolsheviks …
Read More »Speaking in tongues: Russia’s tech giant Yandex working on AI video translator to allow viewers to watch anything with voiceover
In a statement released last week, digital services giant Yandex revealed it has been working on a software prototype that would allow users to watch videos in their browser in another language. The program is capable of simultaneously translating the content, and dubbing it with a computer-generated voiceover. If that …
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