Russia started the special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February, following a request for assistance from the Donbass republics. The latter had been suffering from Ukrainian bombardment over the past eight years as Kiev delayed the implementation of the 2015 Minsk agreements. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suggested in an interview with The Economist that the Russian special... 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has put out its first vaccine guidance related to a recent outbreak of monkeypox cases across the U.S. and Europe – with health workers and others responding to the uptick in cases first in line to get the shots. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the CDC’s leading experts on vaccines, issued the recommendation... 

The World Economic Forum has declared that all humans will have smartphones embedded into their bodies by the year 2030. The chilling prediction was made by Nokia’s CEO Pekka Lundmark during his panel appearance at the WEF in Davos this week: “By then (2030), definitely the smartphone as we know it today will not anymore be the most common interface, many of these things will be built directly... 

This misinformation thing needs to be stopped. Not only this is total censorship but this literally gives governments unimaginable tyrannical powers of propaganda and control. This needs to be put to end NOW before it continues to spread. This is nonsense. Turkey wants to throw people in jail over “spreading misinformation”? What is “misinformation” in the first place? Who... 

Former US Attorney General Bill Barr has declared that Hillary Clinton faces a 20-year prison sentence for committing “sedition” against Donald Trump. “It appears to be a dirty political trick that was used first to hobble him and then potentially to drive him from office,” he continued, adding “I believe it is seditious.” “It was a gross injustice, and it hurt the United States in many... 

According to news reports,Russia is now sending killers to do a political purge of politicians in Ukraine, just like during Stalin’s days! It is unbelievable that these kind of things are happening in 2022! You would have to be a madman to do such things. Anyone continuing to support Russia even now as they do these kind of things, has severe mental issues that isn’t aware of and needs... 

The Hungarian government has announced that foreign drivers will no longer be allowed to gas up at reduced rates amid an explosive rise in prices and looming shortages in Europe. In an effort to prevent ‘fuel tourism’ in Hungary, which has some of the lowest prices in the European Union, non-Hungarians will not be allowed to take advantage of state-regulated rates anymore. “Foreign... 

Nearly 60,000 Ukrainian refugees have been residing in Bulgarian Black Sea hotels since the beginning of the war in Ukraine but now as the summer tourist season is about to begin, Bulgaria has begun to evict the refugees from the hotels. About 35,000 Ukrainians have been evicted, ordered to pack their bags and find a new place where to stay. The order was on a short notice and the people weren’t... 

Independent media should be stomped out by social media algorithms, according to a “freedom of the press” panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. The WEF panel, which was held in collaboration with Time magazine, featured the head of Soros-backed Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, who argued that social media should focus on algorithmic manipulation in order to promote content from... 

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is on track to be at the center of defining what the future metaverse will look like by inserting itself in the metaverse’s creation early on. WEF’s “multistakeholder initiative” wants to assume a leadership role in defining and building the metaverse, Facebook (Meta) President of Global Affairs and former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced. The... 

Unglamorous means of transport such as buses or trains were ruled out when the Swedish Migration Agency this week invited four quota refugees on a domestic flight from Bromma Airport to Malmö Airport. According to the authority, this is not the first time that flights have been used for refugee travel within Sweden. Government employees – also at the Swedish Migration Agency – may not... 

Amid the unprecedented waves of EU and US sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of its Ukraine invasion, and as tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions continue between Moscow and European capitals, among the last frontiers of Russia-Europe cooperation remains in the area of crime monitoring and data sharing. But that too appears to be winding down, as Russian state media has announced the European Union... 

The Fed has barely started raising interest rates but the air is already seeping out of the housing bubble. New single-family home sales plunged by 16.6% from March and were down 26.9% year on year. New home sales dropped to the lowest level since the lockdown in April 2020. New home sales are often viewed as a leading indicator of the state of the overall housing market. The unsold inventory of new... 

A court in Moldova placed former President Igor Dodon under 30-day house arrest on Thursday as he faces an investigation into suspected treason, corruption, illicit enrichment and illegal party financing. The ruling came after Dodon, who served as Moldova’s president from 2016 to 2020 and leads the Eastern European country’s pro-Russian opposition bloc, was detained Tuesday at his home in... 

President Biden is paying federal contractors upwards of $3 million every day, in taxpayers money, to NOT construct the border wall along the United States-Mexico border according to Senator Joni Ernst. Since the President gave the order to cease construction of the Southern border barrier, the federal government began paying contractors over to look after unused border material In an interview with...