🇷🇸⚽️ Red Star Belgrade fans rolled out banners during a Europa League match on Thursday listing US interventions worldwide
One of the banners read, "All we are saying is give peace a chance."
One of the banners read, "All we are saying is give peace a chance."
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⚡️🇷🇺Russia is requesting an emergency UNSC meeting Friday on suspected US biolabs in Ukraine 🦠
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🗺In Ohio, a bipartisan majority of Ohio Supreme Court justices has ratcheted up an extraordinary legal standoff over the state’s political boundaries, rejecting — for the third time in barely two months — new maps of state legislative districts that heavily favor the Republican Party.
The decision appears likely to force the state to postpone its primary elections, scheduled to take place on May 3, until new maps of both state legislative seats and districts for the United States House of Representatives pass constitutional muster.
The court’s ruling late Wednesday was a blunt rebuff of the Ohio Redistricting Commission, a Republican-dominated body that voters established in 2015 explicitly to make political maps fairer, but that now stands accused of trying to fatten already lopsided GOP majorities in the state’s legislature and the US House.
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The decision appears likely to force the state to postpone its primary elections, scheduled to take place on May 3, until new maps of both state legislative seats and districts for the United States House of Representatives pass constitutional muster.
The court’s ruling late Wednesday was a blunt rebuff of the Ohio Redistricting Commission, a Republican-dominated body that voters established in 2015 explicitly to make political maps fairer, but that now stands accused of trying to fatten already lopsided GOP majorities in the state’s legislature and the US House.
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⚡️🇷🇺Russia is requesting an emergency UNSC meeting Friday on suspected US biolabs in Ukraine 🦠
"We will ask for an emergency meeting to discuss again the issue of US biolaboratories in Ukraine using the new documents we obtained in the course of the special military operation," Nebenzia said during a Security Council meeting.
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🇸🇾🇷🇺 Discrimination that the West is now perpetuating against Russia is unprecedented in world history and infringes on the principles of international law, turning the world into "a jungle," Syrian President Bashar Assad said, as quoted by Syrian news agency SANA.
"The West is experiencing a historic reversal of its global role after the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine... The conflict in Ukraine has exposed the true face of Western powers to their people," Assad said.
"The West is experiencing a historic reversal of its global role after the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine... The conflict in Ukraine has exposed the true face of Western powers to their people," Assad said.
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🦁Amazon on Thursday said that it closed its acquisition of MGM, in an $8.45 billion deal that will allow the e-commerce giant to expand its TV and movie offerings.
The deal underscores the limits of the mounting antitrust scrutiny of tech giants in Washington, with the closure happening after anti-monopoly groups and their allies pressed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to block the deal to slow Amazon’s growth. The FTC signaled it would take a tougher line on tech acquisitions under Khan’s leadership, but it is mired in a 2-2 partisan deadlock that has prevented key agenda items from moving forward.
“MGM has a nearly century-long legacy of producing exceptional entertainment, and we share their commitment to delivering a broad slate of original films and television shows to a global audience,” said Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios.
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The deal underscores the limits of the mounting antitrust scrutiny of tech giants in Washington, with the closure happening after anti-monopoly groups and their allies pressed Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to block the deal to slow Amazon’s growth. The FTC signaled it would take a tougher line on tech acquisitions under Khan’s leadership, but it is mired in a 2-2 partisan deadlock that has prevented key agenda items from moving forward.
“MGM has a nearly century-long legacy of producing exceptional entertainment, and we share their commitment to delivering a broad slate of original films and television shows to a global audience,” said Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 A group of GOP senators led by John Barrasso have introduced legislation to immediately ban the import of Russian uranium ☢️
“The time is now to permanently remove all Russian energy from the American marketplace,” said Barrasso. “While banning imports of Russian oil, gas and coal is an important step, it cannot be the last.”
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“The time is now to permanently remove all Russian energy from the American marketplace,” said Barrasso. “While banning imports of Russian oil, gas and coal is an important step, it cannot be the last.”
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🕵️♂️ A Honduran judge has ruled that the country’s former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, can be extradited to the United States, removing the last major roadblock to Hernández’s prosecution in a U.S. courtroom.
Hernández was president of Honduras from 2014 until January 2022. He was considered a U.S. ally during much of that time, even as U.S. prosecutors alleged, he was working to traffic drugs throughout his presidency. He has denied wrongdoing.
That action stunned Hondurans who had opposed Hernández for years — decrying him as a “narcopresidente” — but believed that the impunity he had enjoyed while in office would continue into his retirement.
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Hernández was president of Honduras from 2014 until January 2022. He was considered a U.S. ally during much of that time, even as U.S. prosecutors alleged, he was working to traffic drugs throughout his presidency. He has denied wrongdoing.
That action stunned Hondurans who had opposed Hernández for years — decrying him as a “narcopresidente” — but believed that the impunity he had enjoyed while in office would continue into his retirement.
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🇺🇸💰The US sanctioned a Belgian businessman and a complex of companies that allegedly illegally extract and move hundreds of millions of dollars of gold each year from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Treasury Department said in a press release
"The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), sanctioned Alain Goetz, the African Gold Refinery in Uganda, and a network of companies involved in the illicit movement of gold valued at hundreds of millions of dollars per year from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)," the release said Thursday. "The illicit movement of gold provides revenue to armed groups that threaten the peace, security, and stability of the DRC."
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"The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), sanctioned Alain Goetz, the African Gold Refinery in Uganda, and a network of companies involved in the illicit movement of gold valued at hundreds of millions of dollars per year from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)," the release said Thursday. "The illicit movement of gold provides revenue to armed groups that threaten the peace, security, and stability of the DRC."
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🚀 With enormous pageantry and fanfare, the Special Launch System (SLS) mega-Moon Rocket for the Artemis 1 unmanned test lunar mission began its 11-hour rollout process to be tested at its eventual launch pad
Rollout started at 6:00 p.m. EDT when the crawler carrier vehicle crossed the threshold of the Vehicle Assembly Building. The four-mile trip to the launch pad was scheduled to take 11 hours and to be completed by just after 5:00 a.m. on Friday morning EDT, NASA officials said in a podcast.
Close to 10,000 people have gathered to watch the rollout, NASA officials said. The gigantic crawler is now 57 years old and it previously carried many Saturn V boosters for the 1968-72 Apollo manned missions around and to the Moon as well many of the Space Shuttle missiles.
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Rollout started at 6:00 p.m. EDT when the crawler carrier vehicle crossed the threshold of the Vehicle Assembly Building. The four-mile trip to the launch pad was scheduled to take 11 hours and to be completed by just after 5:00 a.m. on Friday morning EDT, NASA officials said in a podcast.
Close to 10,000 people have gathered to watch the rollout, NASA officials said. The gigantic crawler is now 57 years old and it previously carried many Saturn V boosters for the 1968-72 Apollo manned missions around and to the Moon as well many of the Space Shuttle missiles.
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💢Six student golfers from a New Mexico college were killed along with their coach in a fiery collision between the school’s van and a pickup truck in Texas, officials said on Wednesday. Two other people also died and two more students at the University of…
⚡️🇺🇸 A 13-year-old boy drove the truck involved in the crash in US state of Texas in which nine people died, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chair Bruce Landsberg said.
"A 13-year-old child was behind the wheel of the pickup truck," Landsberg said during a press conference on Thursday. "It appears at this point in the investigation that the left front tire [of the truck], which was a spare tire, had failed which resulted in the vehicle pulling hard to the left and crossing into the opposing lane."
Landsberg said the coach and six of the team members were killed in the accident and two other team members were taken to a hospital in critical condition. The driver and passenger of the pickup truck were also killed, he added.
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"A 13-year-old child was behind the wheel of the pickup truck," Landsberg said during a press conference on Thursday. "It appears at this point in the investigation that the left front tire [of the truck], which was a spare tire, had failed which resulted in the vehicle pulling hard to the left and crossing into the opposing lane."
Landsberg said the coach and six of the team members were killed in the accident and two other team members were taken to a hospital in critical condition. The driver and passenger of the pickup truck were also killed, he added.
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😳🎓 The University of Florida has reportedly changed the name of a study room dedicated to Karl Marx amid a wave of Russophobia in the United States
"Given current events in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, we determined it was appropriate to remove the name of Karl Marx that was placed on a group study room at the University of Florida in 2014," Hessy Fernandez, director strategic communications said.
Last summer, Pennsylvania State University also took down a displayed quotation from ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Have their preferences really changed so rapidly or are they just being opportunistic given the climate?
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"Given current events in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world, we determined it was appropriate to remove the name of Karl Marx that was placed on a group study room at the University of Florida in 2014," Hessy Fernandez, director strategic communications said.
Last summer, Pennsylvania State University also took down a displayed quotation from ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Have their preferences really changed so rapidly or are they just being opportunistic given the climate?
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❗️🇺🇸 Alabama House, on a 65-32 vote passed #HB312 banning Critical Race Theory on Thursday
The bill now goes to the Alabama Senate
The bill now goes to the Alabama Senate
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❗️🇺🇸🦠 The United States must disclose information about the military biological activities in Ukrainian laboratories, the Russian Embassy says
"We demand that the US Side disclose information about military biological activity in laboratories on the territory of Ukraine as soon as possible. What kind of peaceful research we are talking about if the Pentagon stands behind these projects," the Embassy wrote on its Telegram channel.
"We demand that the US Side disclose information about military biological activity in laboratories on the territory of Ukraine as soon as possible. What kind of peaceful research we are talking about if the Pentagon stands behind these projects," the Embassy wrote on its Telegram channel.
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Forwarded from Embassy of Russia in the USA / Посольство России в США
🇷🇺 Embassy's #comment
🔹 We took note of another series of accusations against our country by the United States of alleged violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention (#CWC) and the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (#BTWC). To back up the insinuations, the U.S. Department of State distributed a video through social networks, clearly designed to distract the attention of the international community from its own illegal activities in the field of military biology. The arguments of the U.S. Side do not stand up to criticism.
🔹 Cited below are the facts about the non-compliance of the United States with its international obligations under the abovementioned agreements.
1️⃣. In the course of the special operation in #Ukraine, the Russian #Defence Ministry received evidence of the creation of biological weapons components with the direct participation of the #Pentagon. The financing by the #US side of military biological projects on the Ukrainian territory is documented. The total funding amounted to $32 million. One of the curators of this activity was the head of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (#DTRA) office at the US Embassy in #Kiev, Joanna #Wintrall.
2️⃣ . The Russian Federation is fully aware that radical Ukrainian groups under the control of representatives of American special services have prepared several potential scenarios of the use of toxic chemicals in order to carry out various types of provocations against civilians.
🔹 The objective of such inhumane actions is to accuse #Russia of the use of chemical weapons against the civil population of Ukraine. Such information cannot but raise serious concern, taking into account that the United States has not yet destroyed its national stocks of chemical warfare agents.
🔹 We demand that the US Side disclose information about military biological activity in laboratories on the territory of Ukraine as soon as possible. What kind of peaceful research we are talking about if the Pentagon stands behind these projects.
🔹 We took note of another series of accusations against our country by the United States of alleged violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention (#CWC) and the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (#BTWC). To back up the insinuations, the U.S. Department of State distributed a video through social networks, clearly designed to distract the attention of the international community from its own illegal activities in the field of military biology. The arguments of the U.S. Side do not stand up to criticism.
🔹 Cited below are the facts about the non-compliance of the United States with its international obligations under the abovementioned agreements.
1️⃣. In the course of the special operation in #Ukraine, the Russian #Defence Ministry received evidence of the creation of biological weapons components with the direct participation of the #Pentagon. The financing by the #US side of military biological projects on the Ukrainian territory is documented. The total funding amounted to $32 million. One of the curators of this activity was the head of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (#DTRA) office at the US Embassy in #Kiev, Joanna #Wintrall.
2️⃣ . The Russian Federation is fully aware that radical Ukrainian groups under the control of representatives of American special services have prepared several potential scenarios of the use of toxic chemicals in order to carry out various types of provocations against civilians.
🔹 The objective of such inhumane actions is to accuse #Russia of the use of chemical weapons against the civil population of Ukraine. Such information cannot but raise serious concern, taking into account that the United States has not yet destroyed its national stocks of chemical warfare agents.
🔹 We demand that the US Side disclose information about military biological activity in laboratories on the territory of Ukraine as soon as possible. What kind of peaceful research we are talking about if the Pentagon stands behind these projects.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Senior Pentagon official Ronald Moultrie told the US House Armed Services Committee that accurate, timely, and actionable intelligence the United States is providing Ukraine is "making a difference."
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🌔🌑☀️On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that would keep daylight saving time year-round — giving the nation later sunrises, but more evening sunlight during the darkest months of the year. However, despite growing support for abolishing semi-annual clock changes and making our winter evenings brighter, permanent daylight-saving time probably would benefit some parts of the country more than others.
All states except for Arizona and Hawaii observe daylight saving time, with the clocks “springing forward” in early March and “falling back” in early November.
While millions of Americans would no longer complain about switching the clocks — and no doubt many would enjoy more evening daylight in the winter — permanent daylight-saving time might end up being a dark wake-up call during the winter months, especially in some parts of the country where the sun already tends to rise late.
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All states except for Arizona and Hawaii observe daylight saving time, with the clocks “springing forward” in early March and “falling back” in early November.
While millions of Americans would no longer complain about switching the clocks — and no doubt many would enjoy more evening daylight in the winter — permanent daylight-saving time might end up being a dark wake-up call during the winter months, especially in some parts of the country where the sun already tends to rise late.
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⚡️📞🇺🇸🇨🇳 Biden will hold a phone conversation with Xi Jinping on Friday at 13:00 GMT, the White House says
"This is part of ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication between the United States and the PRC. The two Leaders will discuss managing the competition between the two countries as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine and other issues of mutual concern. This call in the Situation Room will be closed press," the statement added.
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"This is part of ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication between the United States and the PRC. The two Leaders will discuss managing the competition between the two countries as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine and other issues of mutual concern. This call in the Situation Room will be closed press," the statement added.
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🔷 Meghan Markle readies podcast after meetings with Spotify on misinformation policies The podcast deal Prince Harry and Meghan Markle signed with Spotify is finally close to bearing significant fruit.
Markle is releasing a podcast series on Spotify this summer through the couple's Archewell Audio production company. Details weren't available, but the show is premiering after Harry and Meghan were "encouraged" by discussions over Spotify's efforts to fight misinformation.
Markle's podcast series could bota help Spotify recoup some of its investment and address concerns it was fighting its own podcast partners. Spotify has signed a number of high-profile exclusives, but not all of them have been successful. Markle's podcast may show that some creators are willing to stick around, but there are no guarantees others will be quite so confident.
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Markle is releasing a podcast series on Spotify this summer through the couple's Archewell Audio production company. Details weren't available, but the show is premiering after Harry and Meghan were "encouraged" by discussions over Spotify's efforts to fight misinformation.
Markle's podcast series could bota help Spotify recoup some of its investment and address concerns it was fighting its own podcast partners. Spotify has signed a number of high-profile exclusives, but not all of them have been successful. Markle's podcast may show that some creators are willing to stick around, but there are no guarantees others will be quite so confident.
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🔳 Slack begins suspending accounts in Russia Several organizations in Russia have found themselves locked out of their Slack accounts without notice.
The Salesforce-owned business messaging app has started cutting off Russian users from its platform. Since Slack serves as companies' main internal form of communication and can also be used to share files within organizations, it typically hosts a lot of important data for its customers.
The organizations that suddenly lost access to their accounts may have also lost the chance to download their data. The company said that it has a very small number of customers in the country and that it had already started exiting those relationships the week before.
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The Salesforce-owned business messaging app has started cutting off Russian users from its platform. Since Slack serves as companies' main internal form of communication and can also be used to share files within organizations, it typically hosts a lot of important data for its customers.
The organizations that suddenly lost access to their accounts may have also lost the chance to download their data. The company said that it has a very small number of customers in the country and that it had already started exiting those relationships the week before.
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