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With the crisis in Kazakhstan beginning to stabilise, it’s been fascinating to observe China’s role and how it has been offering support to its government at the most senior level. On Friday, leader Xi Jinping spoke to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, assuring him he would support the country against foreign interference. …

The US administration has reportedly admitted that any new round of anti-Russian sanctions would inflict serious damage on both the global and the US economy, but that it doesn’t see it as a sound reason to give up on the move. New sanctions would be introduced despite the potential damaging …

The head of German energy company Uniper says the certification of Nord Stream 2 is going as expected and may be completed mid-year. He also believes there is no political influence involved in the process. “I do not see any political influence, the Federal Network Agency is carrying out checks …

Building a magnetic shield between the Sun and Mars could protect the planet from solar particles that erode its fragile atmosphere, eventually making it “terraform itself” to better suit humans, NASA’s former director has said. By blocking the charged rays and preventing them from stripping away this outer layer, more …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed this week that his company’s in-development humanoid robots could form personalities that match their owners and become good companions, as well as laborers. After being asked on the Lex Fridman Podcast whether Tesla’s robots could serve as a “friend or assistant” and help combat loneliness, …

Britain’s former Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Nick Carter has drawn public attention to the possible treatment of severe PTSD with the psychoactive drug MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy and currently outlawed in the UK. With British trials of ecstasy-assisted therapy expected to start in early 2022 at …

Belarus has unveiled its proposed new constitution, opening up the possibility of the country stationing nuclear weapons on its territory and potentially enabling veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko to stay in office until 2035. The changes, which were promised in the wake of the unrest that followed last year’s disputed presidential …

Representatives of the right-wing populist LDPR party submitted the resolution to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Monday, proposing to send it to Russian President Vladimir Putin and to other authorities across the country. The document reads, “the Duma once more calls attention to the importance of …

The FAA issued the broadened safety bulletin on Thursday, outlining new concerns on how 5G networks could impact aviation while stating that it is working with telecom providers to ensure the two can “safely coexist.”  The agency had previously warned that 5G could disrupt aircrafts’ radio altimeters – which allow …

Citing an unnamed source in the White House, the agency reported that a handful of American industries could be banned from conducting business in the Russian market. According to Reuters, restricting Russia’s ability to import smartphones, as well as critical aircraft and automobile components, would seriously affect consumers, industrial operations, …