An open letter to the US President was published by the UN expert on Tuesday, with Melzer joining the chorus of calls to pardon Assange. Melzer stressed that Assange is “extremely vulnerable,” with his health greatly deteriorated over the years of isolation in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, as well …
Read More »US confirms 1st ambassador to Venezuela in a decade amid rocky relations & sanctions
Story’s nomination was confirmed by a US Senate vote. He had previously led an American “virtual embassy” while serving as Chargé d’affairs for the Venezuela Affairs Unit in Bogota, the capital of Venezuela’s neighbor, Colombia. Washington and Caracas have not exchanged ambassadors since 2010 when then-Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez refused …
Read More »‘We can’t wait for another 30 years’: Azerbaijan’s president says three decade Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be resolved ‘NOW’
In an interview with Al Jazeera, published on Saturday, Aliyev said that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) group on Nagorno-Karabakh, co-chaired by the US, France and Russia, “has been working for 28 years to mediate a solution, but to no avail.” The Azerbaijani leader stressed that a …
Read More »Russia predicted a major crisis in a decade
Russia predicted a major economic crisis in more than a decade because of the coronavirus pandemic and the fall in world energy demand, writes Bloomberg referring to research of analysts of the energy centre SKOLKOVO. Almost half of Russia’s budget accounts for revenues from energy trade, the Agency said. However, …
Read More »In the United States Mary Laecken recognized as the best high jumper of the decade
Three-time world champion Russian Maria Laecken recognized as the best high jumper of the decade by the American magazine Track & Field. Magazine published its own ratings for each athletics discipline. The five best jumpers in height also includes the Russians Anna Chicherova (2nd place) and Svetlana Shkolina (5). Among …
Read More »10 most important technology products of the decade, according to Wired
There is no shortage of products whose creators when you start calling them “revolutionary” or “changes everything”. Undoubtedly, every company that creates something new, hopes that its innovative design and the chosen approaches will greatly change the perceptions about the technology. Sometimes it really happens. Wired magazine have selected …
Read More »Named the most popular city among tourists in a decade
Interest in the city increased by 87%.British experts called the city, which over the last 10 years active in other gaining popularity among tourists. The leader of the rating was the Hungarian Budapest. “The study looked at the period from 2009 to 2019. It turned out that during this time …
Read More »Freedom the world’s media fell to its lowest level in a decade
The worst situation is in Turkey. Global media freedom over the last decade fell to the lowest level. Journalists face state censorship, organized crime and commercial pressure caused by the growing influence of the Internet, says the report of the human rights organization Article 19, writes The Guardian. “The global …
Read More »Musk predicted the rise of the machines in the next decade
According to the businessman, the prognosis for humanity is sad. The founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk has predicted the death of humanity because of the “revolt of cars”. According to the businessman, the prognosis for people looks sad. According to Mask, there will be an uprising not in …
Read More »NASA showed footage of the most powerful in the decade of flares. Video
The outbreak was recorded on 6 September at 15:02. US space Agency posted a video of the largest over the past 12 years a solar flare, which was recorded on 6 September at 15:02 local time. According to NASA, was radiation shows that there was a coronal ejection of mass. …
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