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China: 5-year plan for double-digit expansion of transport networks

10:33 02.07.2023

China: 5-year plan for double-digit expansion of transport networks

China has put together a five-year transportation infrastructure investment plan that would continue heavy spending on highways, high-speed rail and airports after a record-setting 2022. The plan would expand expressways under the central government's purview to 130,000 kilometers by its final year of 2027, up 11% from the end of …

Declassified files expose British role in terror armies

10:31 02.07.2023

Declassified files expose British role in terror armies

Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine? – asks ‘The Gray Zone’, which presents new documents on the case. Newly declassified British …

Mexico to tax imports of genetically modified corn

10:30 02.07.2023

Mexico to tax imports of genetically modified corn

Food products expressed on the basis of GMs are very dangerous for human health. In a move aimed at supporting national production and preventing imports of genetically modified (GM) corn, Mexico has imposed a 50 percent tariff on white corn imports. The policy, which will be in force until the …

AI can predict person’s politics by their looks: Attention! If you smile, you are ‘right-wing’?

10:09 01.07.2023

AI can predict person’s politics by their looks: Attention! If you smile, you are ‘right-wing’?

Artificial intelligence algorithms can help predict a person’s political ideology based on their facial characteristics, a study conducted in Denmark found. The tech found right-wing politicians were more likely to have happy facial expressions in photos while people pictured with neutral facial expressions were more likely to identify as left-wing, …

Hunger in the UK shows – this is just the tip of the Iceberg

10:06 01.07.2023

Hunger in the UK shows – this is just the tip of the Iceberg

“Our latest and most in-depth study to date on hunger reveals its causes, impacts and who is affected,” announces ‘The Trussell Trust’. This landmark research is also the first time we’ve been able to dive more deeply into the experience of hunger in the UK, with reports on Scotland, Northern …

Vassily Nebenzia: “The collective West not only steers an unrestrained flow of weapons to the Kiev regime, but also hosts training of AFU and nationalist battalions”

10:05 01.07.2023

Vassily Nebenzia: “The collective West not only steers an unrestrained flow of weapons to the Kiev regime, but also hosts training of AFU and nationalist battalions”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on arms deliveries to Ukraine. He said in particular: - Western states keep trying to make the global community forget that the crisis in Ukraine, as well as deliveries of Western weapons to Kiev, started long before the special …

Seymour Hersh: ‘Putin fully backed the army who let Prigo make a fool of himself’

10:46 30.06.2023

Seymour Hersh: ‘Putin fully backed the army who let Prigo make a fool of himself’

The Biden administration had a glorious few days last weekend, notes Seymour Hersh, the famous American investigative journalist and political writer. The ongoing disaster in Ukraine slipped from the headlines to be replaced by the “revolt,” as a New York Times headline put it, of Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the …

British hysterics: ‘A danger for democracy!’ – Germany’s far right scores first local victory

10:45 30.06.2023

British hysterics: ‘A danger for democracy!’ – Germany’s far right scores first local victory

It finally showed up! The FT shows how it is dissatisfied with the results of the popular vote in the local elections in Germany. ‘A danger for democracy’! - it writes anxiously: Annette Scharfenberg, one of thousands of people who voted for the right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a …

Russian diplomat squatting on axed Embassy site in Australia

10:44 30.06.2023

Russian diplomat squatting on axed Embassy site in Australia

An unidentified Russian diplomat has been living for several days in a portable building on the land previously held by Moscow, - Bloomberg reported. He has been ordering food deliveries to the site while being watched by Australian Federal Police, the newspaper said. The man couldn’t be evicted as he …

More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders

10:36 29.06.2023

More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders

At least 100 members of the last sitting Congress are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people, representing at least 8% of Democrats in Congress and 28% of Republicans. The group includes Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and James Lankford, and Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, …

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