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Russia reveals it has world’s 3rd-highest overall Covid-19 deaths after US & Brazil, per capita numbers similar to rest of Europe

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Russian officials have sharply revised upwards their estimates of deaths from Covid-19, with more than 186,000 people now thought to have died from the virus in the world’s largest country, since the start of the pandemic. … Read More >Russia reveals it has world’s 3rd-highest overall Covid-19 deaths after US & Brazil, per capita numbers similar to rest of Europe

Categories Russia

Russia ready to ‘fight off’ Western attempts to seize its assets in $50bn battle with oligarchs over collapsed Yukos oil empire

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Any hope of a quiet 2021 for Russia has been dashed as one of the country’s top officials warns it faces a series of court battles that risk confrontation with the West, including a fight over the world’s largest legal bill. … Read More >Russia ready to ‘fight off’ Western attempts to seize its assets in $50bn battle with oligarchs over collapsed Yukos oil empire

Categories EU

Spain to keep list of people who refuse Covid-19 vaccination & share data with ‘European partners’— health minister

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Spain’s health minister said authorities will keep a list of people who decline to get vaccinated and share it with other European countries. The data will be protected and not publicly available, he said. … Read More >Spain to keep list of people who refuse Covid-19 vaccination & share data with ‘European partners’— health minister

Categories Latin America

Nicolas Maduro claims Colombia planning new mercenary attacks on Venezuela ‘at the end of this year’ or first days of 2021

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has alleged that forces inside Colombia, backed by the President Ivan Duque, are plotting to attack the Venezuelan military in the next couple of days. … Read More >Nicolas Maduro claims Colombia planning new mercenary attacks on Venezuela ‘at the end of this year’ or first days of 2021

Categories Asia & Pacific

Buzzfeed & its puppeteers ramp up anti-China propaganda as supposedly soft-on-Beijing Biden awaits inauguration

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Minorities are being forced into slave labor in China’s Xinjiang region, Buzzfeed has declared, backing up its claims with contextless Google Earth images. But these stories are sponsored by US government agencies. … Read More >Buzzfeed & its puppeteers ramp up anti-China propaganda as supposedly soft-on-Beijing Biden awaits inauguration