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Israel’s minister of infrastructure, energy and water, Karine Elharrar has announced that Tel Aviv has formally signed off on a deal to double its freshwater supply to Jordan, in a bid to bolster “good neighborly relations.” The deal comes months after Israel announced plans to sell 50 million cubic meters of water to Jordan, as […]
Filipino ninja doctors may soon be sneaking into the homes of Covid-19 vaccine refuseniks to inject them in their sleep. At least that’s the idea proposed by the country’s trigger-happy president. The unorthodox approach to boosting vaccination rates was touted by Rodrigo Duterte during his latest ‘Talk to the People’ address on Monday. “I know […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has approved the new government selected by Tunisia’s first female prime minister, Najla Bouden, 11 weeks after the last one was liquidated. The opposition described the move as a coup. On Monday, a statement issued by the presidency confirmed that “the president of the republic has issued a decree naming the […]
The coronavirus pandemic has added to the burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in over 200 countries last year, a new study shows, saying the impact of Covid-19 has increased the number of depressed people by nearly a third. While “mental disorders were leading causes of the global health-related burden” even before the pandemic, the […]
NEW: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigns amid corruption claims, which he denies. Foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg will replace him. In televised statement he’s just finished, Kurz says he’ll become ÖVP leader in Austrian parliament & fight to clear his name. pic.twitter.com/GmfM7GTnp3 — Andrew Connell (@andrewiconnell) October 9, 2021 Also on rt.com Austria’s Chancellor Kurz & […]
Mobility in Sydney during lockdown has been 50% lower during weekdays and down 70% at weekends, data from an Australian company studying people’s movements has revealed. In Melbourne, mobility has also dropped, down 40%. The people of Australia’s most populous city, Sydney in New South Wales (NSW), have shown a significant adherence to stay-at-home orders, […]
O schiță reprezentând o luptă de box , realizată în creion de fetru, aparținând regretatului Muhammad Ali, a fost vândută cu peste 425.000 de dolari la o licitație organizată marți la New York, de zece ori mai mult decât estimările minime inițiale. Licitația a scos la vânzare lucrări de artă puțin cunoscute ale marelui pugilist, […]
Encrypted messenger platform Telegram gained more than 70 million new sign-ups in a single day as Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger all went dark for six hours, plunging users into existential crisis. Telegram founder Pavel Durov took to the platform on Tuesday to congratulate his employees on a job well done, noting […]
A previously unknown virus capable of infecting humans has been discovered by scientists in Japan. Called the Yezo virus, it is related to pathogens causing Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and Nairobi sheep disease. The first reported case involving the new virus was recorded in Japan in 2019. At that time, a 41-year-old man was admitted to […]
An Australia-based firm wants the Five Eyes to look into its suspicions that a surge in the procurement of PCR testing equipment in Wuhan, China means the Covid-19 pandemic started earlier than officially reported. The claim was made by an analytics company called Internet 2.0, which counts the Australian government among its clients, based on […]
Germany has made it clear that Iran cannot demand more conditions for resuming the talks on a renewed nuclear deal, as Tehran indicated it will be ready to recommence the negotiations by early November. On Monday, the German government said that it would reject any new prerequisites put forward by its Iranian counterpart, referring to […]
A new vaccine “tailored” to target probable future mutations of the Covid-19 coronavirus will likely be needed by the middle of 2022, according to the head of BioNTech, the biotechnology company that developed the Pfizer shot. The German firm’s CEO, Uğur Şahin, told the Financial Times that Covid-19 variants such as the Delta strain were […]
New Zealand will gradually drop its policy of seeking a zero Covid-19 infection rate in the country. The move was “accelerated” by the arrival of the more contagious Delta variant, the country’s prime minister has said. Since the start of the pandemic, the island nation has been implementing what became unofficially known as the ‘zero-Covid […]
Leaked papers appear to show how some of the world’s elites accumulate property empires while avoiding millions in taxes, with reports focusing on European, Middle Eastern and South American leaders, and world-famous celebrities. Obtained from 14 offshore banking institutions and analyzed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the ‘Pandora Papers’ reveal the financial […]
A large group of demonstrators gathered at a major park in Auckland, New Zealand to protest ongoing Covid lockdown measures in the country – many arriving with a procession of motorbikes headed by a local church leader. The protesters – who numbered between 1,000 and 2,000, per local media reports – descended on the Auckland Domain […]