The carcass appeared in Yakutia, a Far Eastern republic famous for its freezing temperatures. This December, the mercury has dropped as low as minus 40 degrees, meaning the region is completely iced up. According to Valery Plotnikov, a leading researcher in mammoths at the local Academy of Sciences, the woolly …
Read More »China’s drug regulator greelights mass distribution of Sinopharm jab after it shows 79% effectiveness
The home-baked vaccine has received the green light from the National Medical Products Administration, China’s agency for regulating drugs and medical devices, an official with the watchdog told a press conference on Thursday. The decision paves the way for a widespread rollout of the vaccine across the country, making it …
Read More »Alyssa Milano faces backlash after claiming ‘masks will protect you MORE than an AR-15’ in bizarre dig at ‘anti-maskers’
In a public service announcement-style tweet on Tuesday, Milano apparently hoped to educate those skeptical of the effectiveness of face masks and related government mandates amid the Covid-19 pandemic, observing that “anti-maskers are the same people who think they need an AR-15 for ‘protection.’” “LOUDER FOR PEOPLE IN THE BACK: …
Read More »California confirms case of ‘mutated’ Covid-19 strain, day after Colorado
Newsom did not offer details about the case, saying only it was registered in Southern California on Wednesday. “I don’t think Californians should think that this is odd; it’s to be expected,” Fauci said. Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced on Tuesday that the first case of “B.1.1.7, the same variant …
Read More »Second explosion heard near presidential palace in Yemen’s Aden after deadly blast at airport where unity govt arrived – reports
Yemen’s new government has been transferred to the palace right after an explosion disrupted their arrival to the Aden airport earlier today. It occurred as the officials were arriving to Aden from Riyadh, where cabinet members had a swearing-in ceremony that followed prolonged coalition talks brokered by the Saudis. The destructive explosion at …
Read More »Less than a week after BoJo’s Brexit deal, is the UK starting to break up already?
The ink is barely dry on the Brexit deal and reality has bitten. Long tailbacks of lorries have been waiting to cross The Channel, due to increased checks. British qualifications will no longer be automatically recognised across the European Union. And British police forces have lost access to the Schengen Information …
Read More »‘Scotland will be back in EU after independence!’ says SNP leader, as party pledges to vote AGAINST Brexit deal
Speaking on Wednesday, Ian Blackford, SNP leader in Westminster, said that Scotland would soon be heading back into the European Union, having seen the PM’s “bad Brexit deal.” “It’s the people of Scotland that are sovereign, and it’s the people of Scotland that will determine to take them back into …
Read More »#Resistance Twitter claims Republicans are like STALIN after completely misreading pollster quote
“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything,” says the quote, which Stalin may or may not have uttered, that opened a five-tweet thread posted by Rasmussen on Sunday. The thread was about the so-called ‘Pence Card’ notion, that Vice President Mike Pence can …
Read More »Nearly 500 doses of Moderna vaccine thrown out after improper storage at Wisconsin health clinic
The storage mishap occurred at an Advocate Aurora Health clinic in Grafton, Wisconsin over the weekend, an Aurora spokesperson told a local NBC affiliate, who said the vials had to be discarded due to “human error.” “We learned that about 50 vials of Moderna vaccine were inadvertently removed from a …
Read More »Extremely rare WHITE KIWI that inspired books & toys dies in New Zealand after surgery, prompting widespread mourning
The kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand, are usually brown, but Manukura was born with white plumage thanks to an extremely rare genetic trait carried by both her parents. She was the first of three white kiwis to hatch at Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre in New Zealand during the …
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