Philip began feeling unwell on Tuesday, and was admitted to London’s King Edward VII hospital that evening, the palace said in a statement to media on Wednesday. “The Duke’s admission is a precautionary measure, on the advice of His Royal Highness’s Doctor, after feeling unwell. The Duke is expected to …
Read More »Putin submits bill to ratify 5-year extension of New START as last-minute deal with US is expected to rescue nuclear treaty
The draft text reveals that the two countries have “agreed in principle” to preserve the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, placing no conditions on the five-year extension. The eleventh-hour deal to revive New START was discussed during a Tuesday phone call between Putin and US President Joe Biden, a conversation …
Read More »California Governor Newsom expected to lift stay-at-home order – reports
Currently, three regions – San Joaquin Valley, Southern California and the Bay Area – are under the stay-at-home order. The Northern California and Greater Sacramento regions were not part of the shelter-in-place measures. The order was issued in early December and applied to regions where intensive care units in hospitals …
Read More »China may topple US as world’s largest economy sooner than expected
China is the only major economy to have avoided contraction in 2020. It is now on course to pass the US as the biggest economy in 2028, said Homi Kharas, deputy director for the global economy and development program at the Brookings Institution. That is two years faster than he …
Read More »‘Sooner than expected & DIFFERENT vaccine’: Dutch PM explains Netherlands caught off guard by Pfizer jab approval amid criticism
Two weeks after the start of the EU-wide vaccination campaign, not a single person has received the jab in the Netherlands, the last EU state to launch its immunization effort. The first Dutch national is expected to receive a vaccine on Wednesday. Some 288,000 vaccine doses have been delivered to …
Read More »Using covert actions, UK made Russia pay ‘higher price than they had expected’ for Salisbury poisoning – ex Downing Street aide
The explosive claim comes from Lord Mark Sedwill, who until last month served as the most senior adviser and head of the civil service in Johnson’s cabinet. He held the same positions under former prime minister Theresa May, during whose term the Salisbury affair unfolded. Speaking to Times Radio, Sedwill …
Read More »Japan expected to dump over 1 MILLION TONS of radioactive Fukushima water into Pacific, fishermen fear ‘catastrophic impact’
Japan has debated what to do with the rapidly increasing store of radioactive wastewater for years, and now the decision to release it into the ocean could be confirmed by the end of the month. Currently, Japan houses the water in more than 1,000 tanks, but with 170 additional tons …
Read More »Oregon governor says towns have been ‘substantially DESTROYED’ by huge wildfires, loss of life expected (VIDEO)
“Over the last 24 hours, Oregon has experienced unprecedented fires, with devastating consequences across the state. Our number-one priority right now is saving lives. This could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfires in our state’s history,” Governor Kate Brown said, addressing the emergency. Firefighters, …
Read More »The Kremlin once again took a hit, which is not expected
Given that officially, the Kremlin does not recognize the existence of mercenary groups, constantly referring to the fact that we are talking about entities registered in foreign jurisdictions (which means “we are not there”), it will be interesting, as now he will get out of explaining how the territory of …
Read More »Patriotism of the American sample we have not expected
American patriotism, sometimes comical in its sincerity, is due to an array of reasons, absolutely didn’t apply to us. 1. National ideology, originating from the cradle of the country (“we’ll leave steeped in Vice Britain and make a fair bogoboyaznennost the country without tyrants”) and not desecrated several times as …
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