Ukraine’s top military commander, General Valery Zaluzhny, has been told to tone down his public persona after rumors of tensions between him and President Vladimir Zelensky, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The report stated that the chatter about a possible conflict has “swirled …
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Western Europe’s reliance on Russia as its main supplier of natural gas is a serious concern, and the continent needs to focus on diversifying its supplies, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Sunday. Stoltenberg’s comments come as US-driven fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine remain high. Moscow stands …
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Should every 18-year-old be handed €20,000? That’s what an influential German think tank believes. It may sound somewhat utopian or even outlandish, but those who call for its implementation argue that such a policy would be for the benefit of society. The German Institute for Economic Research, for example, argues …
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Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, who claims she was fired after highlighting the tech giant’s failure to tackle election interference across the globe, has just given evidence to the Draft Online Safety Bill Committee in the UK’s Parliament. Upon leaving Facebook in September 2020, she wrote “I’ve … found …
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Published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday night, the newly peer-reviewed study found that infections and severe Covid cases “were substantially lower among those who received a booster (third) dose of the [Pfizer-BioNTech] vaccine” compared to those who took only two. “The rate of confirmed infection was …
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The British government has placed itself in an unenviable position: it can either stick with the Tory principle of economic prudence, or it can be seen to be throwing the most vulnerable in society to the wolves. Indeed, the Independent Food Aid Network, which is a network of over 500 …
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In the randomized, controlled clinical trial, all of the volunteers were aged between 50 and 72 and underwent a targeted regime to modulate DNA methylation. Biological aging is a catch-all term used to describe the cumulative effect of damage and loss of function to our cells, tissues and organs. Horvath’s …
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In a Friday press release, the embassy announced that, effective May 12, it will only offer emergency US citizen services, and “a very limited number of age-out and life or death emergency immigrant visas.” “Embassy Moscow will not offer routine notarial services, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad, or renewal passport …
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Speaking on Tuesday, as the British government published its Integrated Review Of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson highlighted China as posing a “great challenge” to Britain. Part of the new strategy sees the UK planning to increase its nuclear stockpile by 40%, taking the …
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Speaking to the media, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh stated that the country will proceed with planned changes on February 21 to the inspection powers the UN watchdog received under the nuclear deal. However, Khatibzadeh was quick to state that “it does not mean ending all inspections by the …
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