Month: September 2021

Categories EU

‘No longer a critical threat’: Denmark says Covid-19 under control, lifts ALL pandemic-related restrictions next month

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The Danish government has decided to stop categorizing the virus as a “socially critical disease,” saying it has it under control. The decision means abandoning the legal basis for restrictions and lifting them in September. … Read More >‘No longer a critical threat’: Denmark says Covid-19 under control, lifts ALL pandemic-related restrictions next month

Categories EU

Sweden ends Kabul evacuation missions as Stockholm acknowledges it couldn’t rescue everyone on its list

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Stockholm has announced that its evacuation mission from Afghanistan has drawn to a close in the wake of Thursday’s fatal attacks at Kabul airport, but could not rescue everyone it intended to on its ‘Sweden list’. … Read More >Sweden ends Kabul evacuation missions as Stockholm acknowledges it couldn’t rescue everyone on its list

Categories Shows

Nightmarish true cost of Afghanistan war (Full show)

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Tyrel Ventura (in for Rick Sanchez) gives a staggering review of the US war in Afghanistan and its astronomical human toll. Then RT America’s John Huddy catches us up on press briefings at the Pentagon, State Department and White House as Washington grapples with the lessons of its war in Afghanistan, then RT’s Murad Gazdiev reports from Kabul amid abandoned NATO aircraft now in the hands of the Taliban. … Read More >Nightmarish true cost of Afghanistan war (Full show)

Categories Middle East

Panjshir resistance is two guys who want war to continue, Taliban spokesman tells Russian media, dismissing tribal militia threat

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The anti-Taliban forces in northern Afghanistan are a minor nuisance that can be solved either through talks or by military force, a spokesman for the military movement has said. … Read More >Panjshir resistance is two guys who want war to continue, Taliban spokesman tells Russian media, dismissing tribal militia threat

Categories Asia & Pacific

‘They are also our people’: Myanmar military rulers promise to vaccinate minority Rohingya against Covid

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A ruling military council in Myanmar has said its vaccination campaign against coronavirus will now include at least some of the Rohingya people, considered to be stateless since Myanmar’s change of power several years ago. … Read More >‘They are also our people’: Myanmar military rulers promise to vaccinate minority Rohingya against Covid

Categories World

Billions from Biden: Ukraine expects a lump sum from US taxpayers this week but, after Afghanistan, the timing couldn’t be worse

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is finally set to meet his American counterpart, Joe Biden, in Washington. More than two years in the making and postponed even at the last minute, the stakes could hardly be higher for Kiev. … Read More >Billions from Biden: Ukraine expects a lump sum from US taxpayers this week but, after Afghanistan, the timing couldn’t be worse

Categories Russia

Founders of online retailer Wildberries take lead in Russia’s rich list, beating out politically connected tycoons & ex-oligarchs

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Teacher-turned-CEO Tatiana Bakalchuk and her husband Vladislav are now firmly leading the pack of connected business tycoons and glitzy socialites in the newest edition of Forbes’ rankings of Russia’s most well-off families. … Read More >Founders of online retailer Wildberries take lead in Russia’s rich list, beating out politically connected tycoons & ex-oligarchs

Categories Russia

‘Dystopian nightmare’: Russian tech billionaire Durov slams America’s Apple & Google for ‘censoring’ information on the internet

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Two of the world’s largest corporations, American tech giants Apple and Google, are actively censoring information disseminated to the public. That’s according to Pavel Durov, the Russian founder of the Telegram Messenger app. … Read More >‘Dystopian nightmare’: Russian tech billionaire Durov slams America’s Apple & Google for ‘censoring’ information on the internet