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Quote: "In attempts to find out what really has happened on the Crimean bridge, Moscow drowned in fakes, uts, tampering with facts, and official denials by various countries." Details: The Russians claim that the bomb that led to the bridge’s explosion was "camouflaged" in rolls of construction polyethylene wrap and sent from the port of Odesa to Bulgaria in early August, then transported to the Georgian port of Poti and then on to Armenia. Then the cargo crossed the Georgian-Russian border and was unloaded at the wholesale base of Armavir [a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia]. However, this version does...

On 6 October, when the European Union (EU) agreed to impose a Russian oil price cap as part of a new package of sanctions against Moscow, 23 oil ministers from the OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries spoke out in favor of a sharp cut in their joint production quota. Their collective decision to decrease output by about two million barrels of oil per day elicited strong reactions in the US in particular, and there was even talk of “declarations of war.” The EU feels duped, as the OPEC+ production cuts could drive up fuel prices and dampen their eight sanctions...

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Coinciding with a strategy summit between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in Budapest to explore ways to end the illegal Muslim migration surge from the Middle East and Africa via the West Balkan route, over 200 migrants were arrested in a raid on a Serbian illegal Muslim migrant camp on the Hungarian border. Police “seized money and weapons.” In only the first half of this year, some 114,720 illegals entered the European Union along the West Balkan route. This is about 84% more than in the same period last year. Hungary...

WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) -Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities over his conduct in his $44 billion takeover deal for Twitter Inc, the social media company said in a court filing released on Thursday. While the filing said he was under investigations, it did not say what the exact focus of the probes was and which federal authorities are conducting them.

The White House is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to temper the effects of global warming, a process sometimes called solar geoengineering or sunlight reflection. The research plan will assess climate interventions, including spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, and should include goals for research, what's necessary to analyze the atmosphere, and what impact these kinds of climate interventions may have on Earth, according to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Congress directed the research plan be produced in...

Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky were indicted on multiple charges after a video showed their catch apparently stuffed with lead weights.Two fishermen captured in a viral video appearing to scam an Ohio fishing tournament are on the hook for multiple crimes, including cheating, authorities said in announcing their indictments Wednesday.Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley described the allegedly fishy conduct of Jacob Runyan, 42, and Chase Cominsky, 35, at last month’s Lake Erie Walleye Trail Tournament as “not only dishonorable but also criminal.”Runyan and Cominsky were indicted on charges of attempted grand theft, cheating, possession of criminal tools and unlawful...

President Joe Biden landed in Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 12, to kick off a two-day tour of the Southland — which will include visits to Brentwood and Orange County later this week. Sen. Alex Padilla, his wife Angela, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Rep. Karen Bass, greeted the president on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport as he deplaned Air Force One. Under overcast skies, the group exchanged brief conversation, hugs and handshakes before Biden departed once more on Marine One, a presidential helicopter. Neither Biden, nor the other elected officials present, stopped to give remarks or address...

Amid the gloom, one trade looms so unusually pessimistic that it is hard to process because the world would likely need to end, or come close to it, for it to prove profitable. The trade is predicated on the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, hitting 150 by March, a level that has never before been realized. In recent sessions, an investor bought 50,000 VIX March $150 call options, paying about 19 cents per contract. The trade is so large, and so unusual, that it was almost certainly made by a wealthy investor worried about a massive stock market decline, perhaps...

Denmark’s new Synthetic Party has produced a conversational AI to serve as nominal leader of the party and run for Parliament in the election scheduled for next June. The Synthetic Party was founded by the artistic tach collective Computer Lars, and the campaign is more of a stunt than a serious candidate. The AI’s personality and policy platform are built on the proposals by Denmark’s hundreds of small parties going back 50 years. Synthetic Party Computer Lars announced the formation of the Synthetic party in May as a way of leveraging a political campaign and AI party leader to draw...

Kentucky is the latest state to face a religious freedom challenge to its pro-life laws. Recently, Jewish and Satanic groups also sued Idaho, Indiana and Florida, alleging that protecting unborn babies from abortion violates their religious beliefs. On Thursday, three Jewish women from Louisville filed a lawsuit that argues the Kentucky abortion ban, which is saving thousands of unborn babies, would prohibit them from exercising their religious beliefs, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. “In Judaism, reproductive health of a mother is between the mother, her rabbi and her doctor — not the attorney general,” their attorney Aaron Kemper said. However,...

After more than 4 months under Russian control, large parts of the city have been destroyed ..."Are we in Donetsk Oblast already? Or still in Kharkiv Oblast?" "Donetsk Oblast," the guard laughed One of the soldiers in that SUV, identified only as Ivan, has been stationed about 100 kilometres north, in Kupiansk, and is using several days of leave to visit his home in Lyman for the first time since he enlisted on Feb. 24, the first day of the Russian invasion. Located in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, Lyman fell to Russian forces in late May and served as a...

“Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness” (Proverbs 14:13).

Donald Trump ordered a complete withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and Somalia after he lost the 2020 election, the January 6 committee said at their Thursday hearing. The memo was written to the acting Secretary of Defense on November 11 to take effect on January 15, 2021 - just before President Joe Biden was meant to take office. The revelation was made by GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who is retiring from Congress at the end of this year after facing opposition from Trump over his re-election. Trump National Security Council Official Gen. Keith Kellogg said he warned the former...

The Connecticut man who gunned down three Bristol cops after luring them with a phony 911 call was a beer-drinking divorced dad of two, who stunned neighbors described as the “rowdy one” in his clan. Cop killer Nicholas Brutcher, 35, also liked guns — and is seen proudly displaying a handgun at a wedding in one Facebook post from 2016. “Nick was the big rowdy one,” a neighbor of his brother Nathaniel told The Post Thursday.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade is forcing more men to take responsibility for their actions. Those who are not ready to be fathers can no longer rely on their unborn babies being aborted, especially in the South and Midwest where many states now protect – or are fighting in court to protect – unborn babies’ lives. So, many are choosing to be sterilized instead. In a new Associated Press report, doctors across the country confirmed that they have seen a noticeable increase in men seeking vasectomies since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health in...

Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing prowess might be one reason for China to invade the island and seize fabs belonging to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., United Microelectronics Corp., and Micron. One of the potential responses to such a plan could be evacuating personnel and destroying the fabs, suggested Parameters, a top U.S. army publication recently. But this might be unnecessary, according to Taiwan’s National Security Bureau. To build chips using leading-edge process technologies, TSMC needs leading-edge chip production equipment from companies like ASML, Applied Materials, and KLA. Even if China invades the island and seizes TSMC’s fabs without access to advanced equipment...

Twenty-two patients (18 in the case series and 4 via systematic review; aged 7–16 years; 19 males [86%]) were identified as having experienced suspected or proven ventricular arrhythmia during electronic gaming; 6 (27%) had experienced cardiac arrest, and 4 (18%) died suddenly. A proarrhythmic cardiac diagnosis was known in 7 (31%) patients before their gaming event and was established afterward in 12 (54%). Ten patients (45%) had catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, 4 (18%) had long QT syndrome, 2 (9%) were post–congenital cardiac surgery, 2 (9%) had “idiopathic” ventricular fibrillation, and 1 (after Kawasaki disease) had coronary ischemia. In 3 patients...

Earlier this week, a poll released by NBC/Telemunmdo indicates that Latinos favor Democrat control of Congress by 54%. One may be tempted to ask, while yawning, what else is new, because for eons, Latinos have been staunch Democrat supporters.What is significant here is not the current level of support, which is substantial at 54%, but the direction of the trend. Similar polls have previously shown the Democrat preference at 67% in 2016 and 59% in 2020. That is a drop of 13 percentage points in four years, which is significant enough to cause concern among Democrat leaders.Whenever discussing the actions...