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“Monkeypox Outbreaks Connected to mRNA Covid Vaccines”. Israeli Physician-Scientist Injured by Pfizer said An Israeli scientist damaged by Pfizer’s Covid vaccine, Professor Shmuel C. Shapira (on the cover image), has correlated the Monkeypox outbreak with damage to the immune system caused by mRNA gene sera. Before reading the interesting article published by Kanekoa’s Newsletter and taken from The Defender website managed by the Children’s Health Defense association of the lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, it is necessary to make some premises on the widespread outbreaks of Monkeypox virus that have induced the director of the WHO has proclaiming a global emergency,...

SOCHI. Aug 5 (Interfax) - TurkStream, which has become a key route for Russian gas supplies to Europe, is operating smoothly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "TurkStream is a key route for Russian gas supplies to Europe nowadays. In contrast to every other route supplying our hydrocarbons, TurkStream has been operating smoothly, rhythmically and without interruption," Putin said in his opening remarks at the Sochi talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday. The pipeline "has been supplying consumers both in Turkey and in Europe," Putin said. "So, I believe European partners should be grateful to Turkey for providing...

VLADIVOSTOK. Aug 4 (Interfax) - Forty countries have confirmed participation in the upcoming Eastern Economic Forum, the press service for the Roscongress foundation said. "A month before the opening of the 7th Eastern Economic Forum, representatives of 40 countries have confirmed their participation in it. Such significant interest in the forum shows that the Eastern Economic Forum has become the most relevant global business platform for broadening international cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. We expect foreign leaders and high-ranking guests to attend it," the press service quoted Russian Presidential Advisor and Executive Secretary of the Eastern Economic Forum's organizing committee...

The killing of the al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were aware of, and gave their blessing to, al-Zawahiri staying in one of the residential areas in Kabul. But did someone in their hierarchy turn him in to the US – and if so, who and why? It’s worth thinking about what this means for the relationship between the two groups: one an ailing global terror network, the other an insurgent group trying to gain international legitimacy for its takeover in Afghanistan. A...

There are at least two big missing pieces in the CHIPS Act of 2022, the US$52 billion subsidy for US-based semiconductor manufacturers that has just been sent to President Joe Biden for his signature. The first missing piece is definitional. There is no statement in the Act of what constitutes an “advanced” semiconductor. Second, not only is there no priority on military capability, but there is also no requirement or guidance for protecting newly developed technology funded under the Act. To begin with the question of what constitutes an “advanced” semiconductor, Intel is investing $20 billion in a new manufacturing...

KABUL. July 27 (Interfax) - United States officials met with a delegation of the Taliban at an international conference on Afghanistan in Tashkent, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Thomas West said on social media. "Today, Rina Amiri (U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls & Human Rights) and I joined a range of Afghanistan envoys for a conference in Tashkent to discuss the way ahead at a difficult moment for millions of Afghans," West said. A senior U.S. inter-agency team will continue "pragmatic engagement" with the Taliban on Wednesday, he said. The U.S. Department of State said earlier that...

ENTEBBE, Uganda. July 26 (Interfax) - Moscow has never refused to negotiate with Kyiv, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "We have never refused to negotiate, because, as everyone is well aware, any fighting ultimately ends at the negotiating table," Lavrov said at a press conference in Uganda's capital Entebbe on Tuesday. "The United States, the United Kingdom, and a number of European countries have forbidden the Ukrainians from reaching an agreement" with Russia based on the proposals that were discussed in Istanbul, he said.

American officials are starting to admit Washington’s lies about Iran. William Burns, director of the CIA, said on Wednesday, July 20, that Iran has never resumed its nuclear weapons production program since it was interrupted, in 2004. The statement only confirms the suspicion of several analysts around the world, but it is truly impressive that it came from the head of American intelligence. Indeed, it reveals that Washington really bases its interventionist foreign policy on lies and distortions. During his speech at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, Director Burns stated: “Our best intelligence judgment is that the Iranians have...

Mainland China reduced its holdings of United States debt by US$23 billion to US$980.8 billion in May from April, the first time the total dropped below the US$1 trillion mark in 12 years, the US Treasury Department said on July 18. China’s US debt holdings have dropped for six consecutive months. Japan, the current largest holder, and more than 10 other holders of US Treasuries also disposed of their US debts to some degree. What caused the US debt to fall out of favor? Wang Yongzhong, director and researcher of the International Commodities Research Office of the Institute of World...

Hungary’s foreign minister said Secretary of State Antony Blinken used the U.S. tax treaty with Hungary as leverage in negotiations about the adoption of a corporate minimum tax. The Treasury Department announced earlier this month that it is terminating its tax treaty with Hungary, a move decried by Republicans as retaliation for Hungary opposing the European Union plan, favored by the Biden administration, to adopt a 15% corporate minimum tax. The Biden administration has steered clear of saying that it canceled the deal to pressure Hungary, but Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Wednesday that Blinken had threatened to pull...

The United States has established the $100 million Agriculture Resilience Initiative (AGRI) to help the Ukrainian agricultural sector amid the worsening of the global food crisis exacerbated by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The initiative takes place with the participation of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It will be aimed at ensuring the continuous production of agricultural products in Ukraine until 2023 and solving urgent issues with its export, according to the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food. "Over the past four and a half months, the maximum efforts of the president of Ukraine,...

“Russia’s geographic goals in Ukraine have changed,” said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavorv at a news conference on Wednesday, July 20. “Now [our] geography is different. It is not only the DNR and LNR, it is also the Kherson region, the Zaporizhzhia region and a number of other territories,” he said and explained that this change was due to “weapons that will pose a direct threat to our territory and the territory of those [eastern Ukrainian] republics that have announced their independence.” FM Lavrov added: “If Western countries supply long-range weapons to Ukraine, [these goals] will move even further.” The Russian...

The Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Holding sent a vessel loaded with pipes to the United States for the first time since the beginning of the war in July, it plans to send a second vessel in July. Interpipe CEO Andrii Korotkov said this in an interview for Forbes, Ukrainian News Agency reports. "At the beginning of the third 10 days of June, for the first time since the beginning of the war, Interpipe sent the first ship with pipes to the USA. I hope that on July 20 we will send the second one. Currently, the USA maintains a 23.75%...

NEW YORK, UN. July 19 (Interfax) - The immediate resumption of food exports from Russia and Ukraine to world markets will help avoid a catastrophe in a large number of regions, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said. "We face a real risk of multiple famines this year. And next year could be even worse. But, we can avoid this catastrophe if we act now and if we act together," Guterres said in video remarks to the UN General Assembly's special event on food security. Over the past few months, Guterres has often warned about the risk of famine in the...

MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - Ukrainians will never accept Canada's decision to return a turbine for the Nord Stream gas pipeline to Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. "I talked today with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. We discussed our cooperation, and I thanked him, thanked Canada for support. But I also pointed out that the Ukrainians would never accept Canada's decision regarding a turbine for Nord Stream, which it decided to transfer to Germany essentially in violation of the sanction regime," Ukrainian media quoted Zelensky as saying in a video address on Sunday evening. Gazprom has officially addressed Siemens...

Ukraine will not agree to any solution that leaves at least the slightest gap for the possibility of a frontal attack by the Russian Federation on Ukrainian ports from the sea, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. "We will not agree to any solution that leaves even the slightest gap for the possibility of a frontal attack on Ukrainian ports from the sea by the Russian Federation," Kuleba said in an interview with Forbes. He pointed out that for an agreement on the export of grain from Ukraine, it remains to resolve issues related to logistics and security. "At the...

China is preparing to conduct the first test flight of the H-20 long-range strategic stealth bomber. The aircraft, the development of which took a record short period of 6 years, will become the most modern in the world. In all respects, the stealth flying wing will surpass the American analogue of the B-21 Raider, which the Pentagon is so proud of. The Pentagon is proud, but has already lost the arms race to China Chinese military engineers began developing the H-20 bomber in 2016, Air Force Commander Ma Xiaotian officially announced this at an aviation forum in Changchun. The project...

MOSCOW. July 15 (Interfax) - Roscosmos and NASA have signed an agreement on joint cross-flights of Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). "On Thursday July 14, 2022, the Roscosmos state corporation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed an agreement regarding the flights of integrated crews on Russian and American crewed transport ships," the Russian state corporation said on Telegram on Friday. Cosmonaut Anna Kikina will, as was planned if the agreement were signed, join the crew of the American Crew Dragon spaceship as part of the Crew-5 mission, Roscosmos said. Her place...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was in a tough spot last August when he paid a visit to Turkey. For nearly a year, his government had been at war with rebels from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which was now pushing south from its stronghold near the Eritrean border and threatening to move on the country’s capital of Addis Ababa. Thousands had already been killed, and the United States and the United Nations had accused all the warring parties of blockading aid, committing sexual assault and deliberately targeting civilians. With only a small, aging fleet of Soviet-era military jets, Abiy...

The expulsion of the Russian occupation forces from the Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea made it possible to secure the passage of ships through the Bystre estuary of the ship passage of the Danube River. Already, eight cargo ships have entered the ports through it. The press center of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this. The military notes that the use of this channel became possible exclusively after Russian troops left the Zmiinyi Island captured in the first days of the war after repeated strikes from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "The island is...