The vote to penalize Syria took place on Wednesday at the conference of the states that are parties to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. Syria was punished for allegedly violating the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), of which the OCPW is the guardian, based on …
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CNN’s Miguel Marquez and his team were covering the fourth night of demonstrations in the Minneapolis suburb on Wednesday, which were sparked by Wright’s killing during a traffic stop. Videos posted to social media show that the CNN crew was harassed and eventually driven away from the area by protesters …
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Discussing the recently released WHO-convened Global Study of the Origins of SARS-CoV-2 on the latest episode of Afshin Rattansi’s Going Underground, Prof. Dominic Dwyer, from Australia, said it is difficult to determine where the virus came from. “There is no doubt that the virus exploded in Wuhan, there’s no question …
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Rock ‘n’ roll baby! It’s just a little bit too safe these days. The 27 Club – all those rock gods who died at that age – must be spinning in their graves right now. That elite club includes Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones of the Rolling …
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Speaking on Friday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU had ordered more than enough doses for everyone in the EU, as Brussels announced its purchase of another 300 million doses of the Pfizer jab. Von der Leyen took the opportunity to warn member states against …
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News outlets across the US trumpeted Buttigieg as the ‘first out Cabinet member’ on Wednesday as Joe Biden appointed the former Democratic presidential candidate as his secretary of transportation. The president-elect has made a point of checking as many ‘diversity’ boxes as possible with cabinet appointments, seemingly in a bid …
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The 7.95 billion euro ($9.67 billion) European Defence Fund (EDF) is being established for the 2021-2027 period, and around a third of the money will be used on research projects. The rest of the funds will be allocated to develop defense technologies, according to a statement by the European Council. …
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“Student debt cancellation is a racial-justice issue,” the Massachusetts Democrat declared Monday on Twitter. Pressley’s tweet came amid increasing discussion of student loan debt after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier this month that once Joe Biden becomes president, he would be able to extinguish $50,000 of student borrowings …
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The panel of 15 judges ruled that the indiscriminate and mass collection of telephone, internet and web communications traffic is not compatible with European law. The ECJ said governments could resort to such practices only if they face a “serious threat to national security.” However, even in the extreme circumstances …
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After Berlin refused to share information related to the Navalny affair with Moscow, sending it to the OPCW instead, Russian representatives reached out to Germany through the organization, Aleksandr Shulgin, envoy to the chemical weapons watchdog, told RT. “We’ve sent a letter to the permanent representation of Germany,” Shulgin explained. Apart …
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