Vladimir Putin called the recently approved Russian coronavirus vaccine “reliable, safe, and effective,” offering to supply it to other nations, despite some skepticism. “We are ready to share experience and continue cooperating with all states and international entities, including in supplying the Russian vaccine, which has...
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Trump’s ex-Russia adviser Fiona Hill: US increasingly seen as ‘object of pity’
“We are increasingly seen as an object of pity, including by our allies, because they are so shocked by what’s happening internally, how we’re eating ourselves alive with our divisions,” Fiona Hill, who was a witness in the Trump impeachment hearings, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto...
Iranian leader compares death of George Floyd to US foreign policy
Iran’s president delivered a fiery speech before the U.N. on Tuesday in which he compared the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis to the treatment his country receives from the U.S. “We instantly recognize the feet kneeling on the neck (of George Floyd) as the feet of...
120,000-year-old footprints found in Saudi Arabia — and they might be human
Researchers discovered hundreds of fossilized footprints, which were exposed by sediment erosion, during a survey of an ancient lake in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert. In among the 376 ancient shapes discovered around Alathar lake, experts identified animal footprints, including prints belonging to horses, camels and...
Mysterious blast rocks Hezbollah stronghold in south Lebanon
A powerful explosion shook a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, sending thick grey smoke billowing over the village, but the cause was not clear. The Lebanese army said the blast occurred in a building in the southern village of Ain Qana, above the...
Chinese tycoon who called Xi Jinping a ‘clown’ and ripped his coronavirus response gets 18-year sentence
A Chinese real estate mogul who once called President Xi Jinping a “clown” and criticized his government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic was sentenced to 18 years in prison on corruption charges, a Beijing court announced Tuesday. Ren Zhiqiang, the former chairman of the state-owned Huayuan Group, was issued the punishment after being expelled from the Communist...
China calls allegations of NYPD cop acting as a spy ‘pure fabrication’
China pushed back on the allegations from U.S. prosecutors that a New York City police officer has been working as a spy for its government, calling the charges filed against him “pure fabrication”. Baimadajie Angwang, 33, who was born in China’s Tibet region and serves in the U.S. Army Reserve, allegedly reported on the...
90 whales dead in mass stranding off Tasmania coast
Ninety out of the estimated 270-pilot-whale pod that became stranded on a sandbar off the remote West Coast of Tasmania have died in one of Australia’s worst beaching events. Rescue teams from the Tasmanian Marine Conservation Program had managed to set free 25 whales on Tuesday, many of which...
UK’s Boris Johnson announces new coronavirus prevention measures: ‘This is the moment we must act’
CDC updates guidance on coronavirus The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says COVID-19 can spread through the air; Dr. Janette Nesheiwat weighs in on ‘America’s Newsroom.’ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new coronavirus prevention measures Tuesday in a bid to stop the United Kingdom’s steadily increasing number of infections, vowing that “this...
Luxury doomsday bunkers: How the mega-rich are preparing for the apocalyse
Written by Elizabeth Stamp, CNN Say “doomsday bunker” and most people would imagine a concrete room filled with cots and canned goods. The threat of global annihilation may feel as present as it did during the Cold War, but today’s high-security shelters could not be...