Kirill Dmitriev of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which financed the research at Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, made the explosive allegations in an interview with RBK published on Friday. He blamed the narrative being put forward by some foreign reporters for not only tarnishing perceptions of the world’s first registered …
Read More »Secretary of State Blinken says US working ‘behind the scenes’ to end Israel/Palestine violence… despite new $735mn arms deal
Amid global calls for restraint, Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas have continued to trade rockets and missiles for the past week. 10 Israelis have been killed, and around 200 Palestinians, including at least 58 children, have lost their lives, according to Palestinian sources. Blinken announced on Monday that the …
Read More »Big Ben behind bars: Siberian prison installs British-style red phone boxes to create ‘atmosphere of London’ for inmates
Authorities in Correctional Colony 8 also got the prison’s art students to draw an illustration of the Palace of Westminster’s Elizabeth Tower, known worldwide as Big Ben. According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, placing payphones inside red phonebooths helps to “maximize the atmosphere of London.” According to Russian law, inmates …
Read More »New Zealand throws support behind Five Eyes spy network 24 hours after raising concerns about increasing its remit
In a statement released on Tuesday, Mahuta walked back her remarks, recommitting to the “security and intelligence partnership” with the other members of the Five Eyes intelligence network, describing it as vital to the nation’s defense. On Monday, the foreign minister told the New Zealand China Council that “we are …
Read More »Iran identifies suspect behind ‘EXPLOSION’ at Natanz nuclear site, says he’s fled the country
“Reza Karimi, the perpetrator of this sabotage… has been identified” by the intelligence ministry, Iranian state television announced on Saturday. Karimi was described in the report as a 43-year-old male who was born in the town of Kashan, not far from the Natanz facility. Tehran had earlier blamed the incident …
Read More »US to withdraw from Afghanistan after two decades of war leaving behind a tortured wasteland and having accomplished… NOTHING
President Joe Biden, in a departure from a policy embraced by four successive US presidential administrations which placed stringent conditions on determining the conditions under which the US might leave Afghanistan, has announced that he is ordering all US military forces out of Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 – the …
Read More »‘Mossad behind cyber-attack’ on Natanz facility that Iran called ‘nuclear terrorism,’ Israeli media claim
Calling it an “attack” and an example of “nuclear terrorism,” Iranian officials said the incident had not caused any damage, but reports in the Israeli media that followed disputed that. Citing anonymous sources, various outlets, including the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post, claimed the facility sustained “severe” and …
Read More »He’s behind you: Fans blast ref after defenseless fighter is knocked out from behind in bizarre end to boxing title bout (VIDEO)
Maxi Hughes and Paul Hyland Jnr had been involved in a compelling scrap for the vacant British lightweight title when Hughes caught his foe with a body shot in round eight. In the farce that followed the blow, Hyland Jnr may have wished he had taken a knee rather than …
Read More »Stop the coverup, get the truth out there and let the chips fall where they may, journalist behind Hunter Biden biopic says
Hollywood, big tech, and the mainstream media are complicit in a coverup, according to investigative journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer. The Irishman has revealed his next project will be a movie about Hunter Biden in which he aims to reveal the truth about the president’s wayward second son. McAleer believes …
Read More »Researchers finally unravel mystery behind Mars’ vast, reappearing cloud (PHOTO)
In 2018, the Mars Express captured a long, distended cloud blowing across the surface of Mars, extending some 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) from a long-extinct volcano. Located in the southern Martian hemisphere, the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud appears and reappears every spring or summer on the Red Planet. It has …
Read More »