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While the numbers look stark, the overall figure is comparable to other European countries, when viewed per capita. This is despite Moscow refusing to implement strict autumn and winter lockdowns. The state statistical agency, Rosstat, said on Monday that almost 230,000 extra deaths have been recorded up to the end …

While much of the world is seeing energy demand take a dive thanks to the economic and industrial slowdown spurred by the novel coronavirus pandemic, India has been making great strides to get more people connected to the grid than ever. Historically, much of the Indian subcontinent’s rural populations had …

“And it’s not going to end in 2021. This is going to be another multi-year bear market in the dollar,” he said in his podcast. According to Schiff, we will take out the all-time record low in the dollar index from 2008 which was 71.58. “So, we’ve got a long …

“We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet,” read an article on the World Economic Forum’s website this week. According to the post, new scientific modelling has revealed that for much of its history, Venus had surface temperatures similar to present-day Earth, complete with oceans, …

Anastasia Radzinskaya, who goes by the name Nastya on her channel, is the world’s seventh-wealthiest blogger, having generated 39 billion views in 2020 – the biggest viewer score among those listed. Her earnings reportedly reached $18.5 million in the 12 months to December. Born in the Russian southern city of …

Given official Washington’s unashamed disregard for the environment, including pulling out of the Paris Agreement, it remains to be seen whether challenges to the balance of power could push Americans towards ditching their SUVs. Under President Donald Trump’s administration, the US’ refusal to make serious steps towards slowing down global …

The 2020 Epica Awards evaluated 1,980 entries from 59 countries, with the highest number of entries coming from Russia (123) followed by Germany (121). From 450 finalists only 49 got the top prize. RT, with its project #VictoryPages, is among these, along with Der Spiegel, WWF, Greenpeace, Adobe, IKEA, Doctors …

As a teenager growing up in the Thatcher years in a working class coal mining community, I saw poverty and hopelessness everywhere – kids leaving school unable to read and write at 16, others going without food for days because their parent’s mental or physical health had totally broken down. …

The greeting card industry in the UK remains massive, with more than 900 million cards worth a mammoth £1.7 billion ($2.3 billion) exchanged each year according to the most recent figures available, so it is extraordinary that it is so hard to find just one that I’d like to send …

Despite at one point amassing a 12-fight, 8-year winning streak in the UFC’s lightweight division, ‘El Cucuy’ has never fought above the level of an interim title – and ahead of what he hopes will be a return to the win column this weekend after a vicious defeat to Justin …