Russia is due to return hundreds of aircraft leased from overseas on Monday, but lessors are worried they won’t see the planes, as Moscow’s new sanctions-related regulations allow the country to decide their fate unilaterally. Lessors scrapped Russia’s lease contracts earlier this month and demanded that it return 500 planes …
Read More »Moscow ‘radiation fog’ is nothing to worry about, Russian scientist says, as poor visibility grounds flights from the city
On Tuesday, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, cleared the air around concerns that Moscow’s thick fog could be harmful, in an interview with business daily RBK. According to him, despite its name, the phenomenon has nothing to do with radioactivity. “With a little cloudy sky at …
Read More »No need to worry about a federal vaccine mandate, Fauci says… local entities will likely do the job of forcing Covid-19 jabs
“I don’t think you’re going to see a central mandate,” Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said in a CNBC interview on Wednesday. “I think there will be a reflex pushback on that.” Fauci made his comments amid the spread of the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19, …
Read More »World Emoji Day has given us a pregnant man, but don’t worry… I still very much doubt dudes can birth
Who would have thought there could ever be the need for such a thing, but 17 July is, apparently, World Emoji Day. Yippee. It’s so exciting, vital even. I can hardly contain my joy at the arrival of this awe-inspiring occasion. And, on that score, who would ever have thought …
Read More »The migrants keep coming as EU border agency is ROASTED by auditor… but don’t worry, its staff of thousands & €1bn budget are safe
The damning auditor’s report into the European Union’s overreaching border force, Frontex, has urged the brakes be applied to its astronomical growth, fuelled by a budget of nearly €1 billion and staff target of 10,000 in just over five years’ time, because the agency is just not up to the …
Read More »AI is the ‘one ring to rule them all’, but don’t worry about ‘killer robots’, UK general says
Unlocking the potential of AI will be critical to the development of emerging military technology, and it would be “mad” for the UK not to try to become a leader in the field, General Sir Patrick Sanders, the head of Britain’s Strategic Command, told the Telegraph in an interview. “Of …
Read More »‘You don’t have to worry’: Amnesty reveals it snubs inconvenient media and rights issues in prank call with ‘Navalny ally’
During a zoom call, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Julie Verhaar, Eastern Europe and Central Asia director Marie Struthers and her deputy Denis Krivosheev bent over backwards to assure ‘Leonid Volkov’ that the organization was still backing Navalny, even though it revoked his “prisoner of conscience” status over previous remarks that …
Read More »Contagious and mutated: What we know about the NEW coronavirus strain – and how much you need to worry
Ireland confirmed the presence of a new and highly infectious coronavirus strain on Friday, while authorities in Lebanon and Japan also recorded the first cases attributed to this variant. In continental Europe, Germany and Denmark confirmed the presence of the strain earlier this week, joining the Netherlands and Italy. Little …
Read More »No reason to worry? WHO says new Covid-19 strain found in UK is no deadlier & only slightly more infectious than others
“There is zero evidence that the new coronavirus variant increases severity of the disease,” the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program Chief Mike Ryan told at a press conference on Monday, citing data received from British scientists. The risks faced by the people that catch this particular strain of the virus are …
Read More »The Deputy and the doctor told that nothing to worry about — she learned about the future of Russia
The level of the ruling class and medicine in one video. The Deputy from “United Russia” in Moscow city Council, chief doctor of the Moscow hospital. Vinogradova Olga Sharapova told what he had learned about Russia’s future and it is (spoiler) amazing. Video statement posted on Twitter and other social …
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