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Study reveals up to 11 million tons of plastic polluting ocean floors

10:42 14.04.2024

Study reveals up to 11 million tons of plastic polluting ocean floors

"Every minute, a garbage truck's worth of plastic enters the ocean," researchers said. The amount of plastic waste littering the Earth's ocean floors could be up to 100 times the quantity floating on the surface, according to a study published this week. Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research …

Bad IDEA: Voters in many countries sceptical of democracy

10:41 14.04.2024

Bad IDEA: Voters in many countries sceptical of democracy

Voters in many countries are suffering a crisis of faith in their democracies and institutions, a survey by a governance watchdog showed, painting a bleak picture in a year in which more than half of the world's population holds elections, Reuters reports. With the United States, India, Britain and the …

Congress was shocking: The Biden Administration has massively undercounted Ukraine aid

10:40 14.04.2024

Congress was shocking: The Biden Administration has massively undercounted Ukraine aid

One of the worst kept secrets in Washington is no one actually knows just how much money the United States has spent in support of Ukraine, writes ‘The American Conservative’. Over the past year, however, conservatives in Congress have been pushing President Joe Biden and his administration for the real …

The first Russian educational space in a school in Niger

8:59 13.04.2024

The first Russian educational space in a school in Niger

The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) named after Patrice Lumumba has opened the first Russian educational space in Niamey, the capital of Niger. The opening ceremony took place at the Centre Eveil ecole Artistique Petits Pas school on April 5, reports the African Initiative. The opening and the signing …

View from Washington: Will NATO Fight?

8:57 13.04.2024

View from Washington: Will NATO Fight?

In 2014 I wrote the article asking the question, ‘Will NATO Fight, Talk or Trade?’ That was well before the Russian military operation in Ukraine that started in February, 2022. It was also before Europe, the US and others imposed heavy sanctions on Russia. It was before Germany lost its …

‘Automated murder’: Israel’s ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) in Gaza

8:56 13.04.2024

‘Automated murder’: Israel’s ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) in Gaza

‘+972 Magazine’ and ‘Local Call’, independent publications in Israel-Palestine, reported that as the Israel Defense Forces press their savage invasion of the Gaza Strip, they deploy an artificial intelligence program called Lavender that so far has marked some 37,000 Palestinians as kill targets. In the early weeks of the Israeli …

British life-style: Poor ‘State of the rivers’

8:54 13.04.2024

British life-style: Poor ‘State of the rivers’

Even the clearest looking waters can contain microplastics, industrial chemicals, hydrocarbons, fertilizers and pesticides, and even pharmaceuticals. Untreated sewage spills blight most of our rivers, and even treated wastewater still contains a cocktail of chemicals like pharmaceuticals, pesticides from veterinary flea treatments, nutrients and household cleaning products when it is …

An Angara-A5 heavy-lift rocket launched on the eve of April 12 – a Cosmonautics Day in Russia

12:41 12.04.2024

An Angara-A5 heavy-lift rocket launched on the eve of April 12 – a Cosmonautics Day in Russia

Russia celebrates April 12 as Cosmonautics Day. An Angara-A5 heavy-lift rocket with an Orion booster launched from the Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s Far East, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene. In about 12 minutes, the Orion booster with the test payload separated from the Angara upper stage and kept …

View from Washington: Ukraine has no more Air defenses

11:56 12.04.2024

View from Washington: Ukraine has no more Air defenses

By their own admission, Ukraine desperately needs air defenses. Russia dominates Ukraine's airspace, stresses Stephen Bryen, a former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Most of the high end systems previously delivered from the US and Europe have either been destroyed or run out of interceptor missiles. NATO is searching …

General Flynn: “Ukraine is a hub for human trafficking. It’s a hub for, specifically, child trafficking”

11:54 12.04.2024

General Flynn: “Ukraine is a hub for human trafficking. It’s a hub for, specifically, child trafficking”

An unexpected explanation for Washington's desire to support the Kyiv regime with money and weapons was given by the former national security adviser to the 45th US President, General Michael Flynn. In his opinion, Ukraine has turned into a kind of center for laundering huge sums of money, in which …

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