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Italy hits 100,000 Covid-19 deaths as new PM Draghi urges public to follow health measures amid ‘worsening’ emergency

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More than 100,000 people have now died from Covid-19 in Italy, the health ministry said on Monday, as the country’s new prime minister, Mario Draghi, called on Italians to stick to the health measures to avoid an infection surge. … Read More >Italy hits 100,000 Covid-19 deaths as new PM Draghi urges public to follow health measures amid ‘worsening’ emergency

Categories Latin America

Brazil Supreme Court ruling annuls ex-president Lula’s convictions, making him eligible to run in 2022 election

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A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has cancelled all sentences against the country’s former leftist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, restoring his political rights to run again for office ahead of next year’s election. … Read More >Brazil Supreme Court ruling annuls ex-president Lula’s convictions, making him eligible to run in 2022 election

Categories World

Academics rank Western world’s MISERY INDEX post-Covid response – UK & Spain end up floundering at the bottom

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Disease, death, and lockdowns have taken their toll on the world, and a group of Canadian researchers set out to quantify the suffering. They found that their own country suffered severely, along with the UK, Spain, and France. … Read More >Academics rank Western world’s MISERY INDEX post-Covid response – UK & Spain end up floundering at the bottom

Categories Russia

Exposed: How British state tries to weaponise Russian-speakers in Baltics as ‘agents of change’ in operation to ‘weaken’ Moscow

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Leaked documents have revealed details of a massive secret British propaganda campaign aimed at making swathes of people in the Baltic states feel more positively about the West – and more negatively about their ethnic homeland. … Read More >Exposed: How British state tries to weaponise Russian-speakers in Baltics as ‘agents of change’ in operation to ‘weaken’ Moscow

Categories Business

‘We said: Inshallah’: US sanctions fail to prevent Iran from selling record amount of crude to energy-hungry China

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Iran has reportedly managed to ship record volumes of oil to China below the radar of the US economic penalties that have banned the Islamic republic from selling its crude to China, India, Japan and South Korea since 2018. … Read More >‘We said: Inshallah’: US sanctions fail to prevent Iran from selling record amount of crude to energy-hungry China

Categories Business

EU to lose up to €100 billion due to vaccination failures, wary investors & no sign of reopenings – media

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The European economy reportedly risks losing tens of billions of euro, as the slack pace of its anti-Covid inoculation program causes serious concern among investors over potential growth and poor progress in business re-openings. … Read More >EU to lose up to €100 billion due to vaccination failures, wary investors & no sign of reopenings – media

Categories Business

Attack on world’s largest crude terminal in Saudi Arabia sends oil surging to 13-month high

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Global prices for crude oil extended gains to a more than one-year high on Monday, after an alarm message from Saudi Arabia that the world’s largest crude terminal at Ras Tanura had been attacked. Output remained unaffected. … Read More >Attack on world’s largest crude terminal in Saudi Arabia sends oil surging to 13-month high

Categories USA

‘This is what generals look like’: Biden promotes female commanders & creates Gender Policy Council to mark women’s day

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US President Joe Biden marked International Women’s Day by announcing that two female generals will head US military commands, and by establishing a White House Gender Policy Council to promote ‘equity.’ … Read More >‘This is what generals look like’: Biden promotes female commanders & creates Gender Policy Council to mark women’s day