The bloc’s executive leadership recommended on Monday that member states lift restrictions on “non-essential” travel for foreigners who have received all necessary doses of a jab authorized for use within the EU, at least 14 days before arrival. Brussels added that states could choose to extend the guideline to include …
Read More »#Smalldipenergy or #smalldickenergy? Russian embassy trolls Baltic states over expulsion of diplomats
Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania issued a joined statement on Friday, announcing that they will ask several Russian embassy staff to leave their countries in a display of solidarity with the Czech Republic. Riga and Tallinn said they’ll expel one diplomat each, while Vilnius declared two Russians personae non gratae. The …
Read More »As chemical weapons watchdog’s credibility crumbles, OPCW member states strip Syria’s voting rights
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 …
Read More »Oregon may indefinitely extend controversial mask mandate as other states begin to ease Covid-19 restrictions
Michael Wood, the administrator of the state’s department of Occupational Safety and Health, said rules requiring masks and social distancing in all businesses in Oregon may be extended indefinitely. The restrictions, which are set to expire on May 4, could be maintained until they are “no longer necessary to address …
Read More »Mexico puts 9 states on ALERT following theft of highly RADIOACTIVE material in truck robbery
Industrial radiography equipment has been stolen in a “violent robbery” of a truck near the municipality of Teoloyucan in the state of Mexico in the early hours of Sunday, the government said in a statement. No details about the incident have been made public and the unidentified perpetrators are reportedly …
Read More »The United States rejoining the Iran nuclear deal is a good thing, right? Well, not necessarily
As the countdown closed in on the point of no return regarding any chance of salvaging the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, better known as the Iran nuclear agreement), the administration of President Joe Biden has signalled a dramatic policy change. Following a series of emergency meetings in Vienna, …
Read More »Biden calls for states to halt reopenings as Covid-19 cases tick upward nationally, even as some mandate-free states see declines
“People are letting up on precautions, which is a very bad thing,” Biden said on Monday in a White House press briefing. With the seven-day average of new Covid-19 cases nationwide rising 16% in the past week, he added, “We’re giving up hard-fought, hard-won gains, and as much as we’re …
Read More »Italy, France and other EU states to restart AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine use after EU regulator’s blood clot review
“The government’s priority remains to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible,” Draghi said in a statement, after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) found no overall risk of blood clotting linked to the jab. The French prime minister and the health ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Cyprus …
Read More »Human guinea pigs for Big Pharma and rotten states. The sickening experiments fuelling vaccine scepticism among people of colour
Well done, world. Less than a year into a global pandemic we now have quite the menu of vaccines to choose from, with hundreds of millions of doses already administered (albeit with around 75 percent of those jabs in just 10 countries). The rapid development of the drugs has been …
Read More »Texas halts natural gas exports as states scrambles to end power outages
The governor announced during a media briefing on Wednesday that he had issued a decree forbidding gas producers from selling to clients outside the state through February 21. Citing the current weather crisis that has crippled the state, Abbott said the order would help increase the ability of gas-fired generators …
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