Month: May 2021

Categories Russia

Moscow & Beijing send invitations to foreign space agencies to join Sino-Russian project to build a research station on moon

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Two months ago, Russia and China signed an agreement to create an international lunar research station, in what was seen by many as a move away from NASA. Now, Moscow and Beijing have invited other nations to join the project too. … Read More >Moscow & Beijing send invitations to foreign space agencies to join Sino-Russian project to build a research station on moon

Categories World

Belarus to erect vaccination tents at border for foreigners who wish to enter country to get Russian-made Sputnik V Covid-19 jab

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has revealed new plans to re-open his country’s borders for residents of foreign countries who wish to receive a vaccination against Covid-19 with the Russian-made Sputnik V jab. … Read More >Belarus to erect vaccination tents at border for foreigners who wish to enter country to get Russian-made Sputnik V Covid-19 jab

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Russia & Pakistan agree to build gas pipeline from Karachi to Lahore in biggest deal in decades

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Russia has signed a deal with Pakistan to build a major gas pipeline linking the nation’s southern port of Karachi to industrial hubs in the north. The deal is set to be the biggest between Moscow and Islamabad since the 1970s. … Read More >Russia & Pakistan agree to build gas pipeline from Karachi to Lahore in biggest deal in decades

Categories EU

Vaccine passports for cross-border travel take off in Europe as US looks ‘very closely’ at concept, but promises ‘no mandates’

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Greece and Denmark have become the first to launch Covid-19 vaccine passports for travel within the EU, as the bloc pushes for all member states to adopt the system and US officials say they’re considering the idea. … Read More >Vaccine passports for cross-border travel take off in Europe as US looks ‘very closely’ at concept, but promises ‘no mandates’

Categories World

‘Poisoned by politics’: WHO’s emergencies chief calls for end to ‘disturbing’ discourse around probe into pandemic origins

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Efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus are being “poisoned by politics,” the head of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergencies program has said amid a row between the US and China over the Wuhan ‘lab leak’ theory. … Read More >‘Poisoned by politics’: WHO’s emergencies chief calls for end to ‘disturbing’ discourse around probe into pandemic origins