NATO provocations and EU sanctions have raised tensions in Europe to unprecedented levels in recent months amid media-fuelled claims by the US and its allies that Moscow is ‘preparing to invade’ its neighbour. Russia has dismissed the allegations and accused Washington and NATO of destabilising the situation in the Eastern European country.
The joint Russian-European Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been completed and prepared to start pumping gas from Russia to Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. However, the dual pipeline system awaits in vain the approval of German and European regulators, who have threatened to put off certification until well into next year.
The price of natural gas in Europe on Tuesday rose to $1,400 per 1,000 cubic meters after Germany said Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline could not be greenlighted for launch, claiming rising tensions on the Ukrainian border.
One of the team that developed Russia’s pioneering Sputnik V vaccine has hit out at US pharma giant Pfizer’s warning that Covid-19 jabs may be required every three months to protect against the virus.
There has been a surge in gun violence in the EU that could ‘rapidly and drastically’ deteriorate the security situation, claims the first comprehensive report to have studied the black market of firearms and its impact.
A veteran actor is suing ABC for religious discrimination after he was fired from America’s longest-running soap opera for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
What’s next for hundreds of millions of hard-pressed Europeans if Belarus delivers on the threat to cut off gas transit to the EU in the event of further provocations by the Bloc’s unelected leadership?
Documents released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reveal that drugmaker Pfizer heartbreakingly recorded nearly 160,000 adverse reactions to its Covid-19 vaccine in the initial months of its rollout.
MSNBC’s national affairs analyst John Heilemann shocked many Americans by claiming on a Sunday show that ‘20 to 30 million people’ are ready to take up arms to remove President Joe Biden from office.
Uniformed and armed German police operatives have been filmed in a viral video displaying their strictness by using measuring sticks to determine whether people at a protest against Covid-19 vaccine mandates are following social-distancing rules.
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