🐝 The US Department of Agriculture has approved PrimeBEE, a vaccine that protects honeybees from American Foulbrood disease - a bacterial infection that kills larvae. This product from Dalan Animal Health is the first bee vaccine of its kind.

💬 "This is an exciting step forward for beekeepers, as we rely on antibiotic treatment that has limited effectiveness and requires lots of time and energy to apply to our hives," Trevor Tauzer, board member of the California State Beekeepers Association, explained. "If we can prevent an infection..., we can avoid costly treatments and focus our energy on... keeping our bees healthy."

💉 For the vaccine to work, it must be mixed with royal jelly and then workers feed it to the queen bee. The vaccine particles will penetrate into the ovaries of the queen and from there into the yolk of the eggs. Her offspring will gain innate immunity to blight

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🇺🇸 Newly-elected US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has described as "very concerning" the discovery of classified documents taken out of the White House at a think tank office in Washington formerly used by Joe Biden during his time as Vice-President to Barack Obama.

▪️ McCarthy said the discovery of documents with classified markings at Biden's office was "very concerning."

💬 "He [Biden] has had these classified, and what has he said about the other president with classified documents?" McCarthy told reporters.
Asked whether the case was different because Biden's lawyers found them and "immediately" handed the materials over, McCarthy said, "Oh, really? They just now found them after all those years."

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❗️ The director of the Chancellery of the President of Poland was fired: according to local media reports it happened due to President Duda's conversation with Russian pranksters who managed to dupe the Polish president into thinking that he was talking with French President Emmanuel Macron.

That conversation took place after a Ukrainian rocket killed two farmers in Poland. Then, in the first hours after the incident, some western countries promoted the version that the rocket belonged to Russia. Subsequently, it was established that the rocket belongs to Ukraine.

“You think I need war with Russia? No, I do not want that. I do not want a war with Russia, and I am very careful, trust me, very careful,” Duda said during the conversation, adding that he did not consider invoking article 5 of the NATO Treaty.

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Battle for Bakhmut: Why the City is Key to Russia's Liberation of Donbass

All eyes are on Bakhmut (Artyomovsk), a Donbass city-turned-meat grinder for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which are sustaining heavy losses there. Mark Sleboda, a US military veteran and international affairs and security analyst, has explained to Sputnik why the city is so important for both sides of the conflict.

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📹 At the beginning of the New Year, two amazing creatures arrived at Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria: the sea nettle jellyfish (Pelagia panopyra) and comb jellies (Bolinopsis mikado).

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🤔 International peer-reviewed medical journal Vaccines has published a Russian study proving the efficacy of Russia-made Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 in the long-term, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Tuesday.

📌 The assessment of Sputnik V's immunogenicity if administered more than once was conducted on 3,983 samples obtained from previously vaccinated individuals aged 20-103.

💬 "Sample analysis performed before revaccination of study participants showed that six month after the primary vaccination with Sputnik V, 95.5% of patients maintained a positive level of IgG antibodies to the receptor-binding domain [RBD] of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, which confirms the vaccine’s ability to form a high long-term protection against coronavirus," the RDIF said in a statement.

▪️At the same time, over 78% of the vaccinated individuals maintained a level of antibodies sufficient to provide protection against severe cases of the infection.

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⚡️US Intel Files on Ukraine, Iran & UK Found Among Classified Docs in Biden's Private Office - Report

📌 A trove of US intelligence memos and briefing materials on Ukraine, Iran and the United Kingdom has been found among the classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president at his private office, US media reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

▪️ It is believed that a total of 10 documents with classification markings dated between 2013 and 2016 were discovered on November 2, 2022, just days before the midterm elections.

▪️According to the reports, the files also contained personal family documents, including information about the president’s son Beau’s funeral arrangements.According to the reports, the files also contained personal family documents, including information about the president’s son Beau’s funeral arrangements.

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Coming back to the office after the winter break be like:

🐼 This panda resting on a tree at the Moscow Zoo is amusing netizens. We know you want the same now, right?😉

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🤔 Elementary schools closed across Scotland on Tuesday, with secondary schools to follow suit on Wednesday as teachers walked out to demand higher wages amid record inflation in the country, UK media reported.

▪️ The strike was confirmed by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) and the Teachers' Union NASUWT after last-ditch talks with the government failed on Monday.

💬 "While it is now too late to halt this week's strike action in schools, we hope that fresh talks may take place later this week to advance discussions towards an improved offer," EIS head Andrea Bradley said.

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‼️Canada to Buy US-Made NASAMS Missile System for Ukraine - Trudeau's Office

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told US President Joe Biden that Canada will purchase a US-manufactured National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) for Ukraine, the Canadian government announced on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, the two had a bilateral meeting on the margins of the North American Leaders’ Summit in Mexico City.

"The Prime Minister informed the President that Canada will purchase a US-manufactured National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) for Ukraine," the readout said.

Defense Minister Anita Anand said that "this is the first Canadian donation of an air defence system to Ukraine."

📹 The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of Iskander missiles being launched at the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone of the special military operation.

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Biden Mixes 'Salvation Army' Up With 'Secret Service' on Trip to El Paso

Joe Biden was surrounded by Salvation Army logos as he was introduced to a uniformed member of the international protestant charity group at a center for migrants it runs in El Paso, Texas. The president even seemed to imply that he had been an agent in Washington's elite VIP protection unit.

US President Joe Biden has flummoxed a Christian charity worker by confusing him with a Secret Service agent.

A video of Biden's latest gaffe emerged on Monday, ahead of his meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — dubbed "the three amigos."

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DPR Head: Center of Soledar Now Controlled by Russian Forces

Acting head of Russia's Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, announced Tuesday evening that Russian forces had gained the center of the city of Soledar.

"According to the latest information, the center of Soledar is under the control of the Wagner division, and here the guys have gained ground on one side and the other. They are already effectively moving forward," Pushilin told Channel One.

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💬 "First of all, from a level of its significance, one of the Russian military priorities was to secure all of the Donbass, to secure the liberation of the entirety there. And being kind of right in the center of the Donetsk region, Bahmut has often been called the key to Donetsk. So, of course, all of that area has to be liberated. And if that's the linchpin, the center of it, that obviously needs to go as well. It is the linchpin of the entire second line of defense of the Kiev regime. After that, there's only one last defensive line in Donetsk of any major node between Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, further to the west," Mark Sleboda - international relations and security analyst said.

🎧 Listen to more of Mark Sleboda's analysis in our podcast: Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Brazilian Capital to Demand Overthrow of Lula

🤔Biden Says 'Surprised' to Learn Classified Records Were Found at His Private Office

US President Joe Biden said during a press conference in Mexico City that he was briefed about the classified documents found at his private office in Washington and was surprised to learn that there were government documents in his possession from his time as US vice president.

"I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office, but I don't know what's in the documents," Biden said during a joint press conference with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts on Tuesday. "My lawyers have not suggested I ask what documents they were. I've turned over the boxes. they've turned over the boxes to the [National] Archives and we're cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review and which I hope will be finished soon."

💬 "Right now we see it escalating. The US has just provided a whole big new tranche of weapons. It's up the escalatory ladder. They're providing 50 Bradley fighting vehicles, a hundred APC's. Another 18, again, it's lighter on the artillery because they don't have it, but 18 Paladin, self-propelled howitzers, lots of missiles and armaments and other things going in. The western European countries are providing outdated infantry fighting vehicles. They are not quite vintage. These are models that were just being phased out of use. So they have them in stock and they're still fairly effective," Mark Sleboda - international relations and security analyst said.

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‼️Finland to Consider Supply of Leopards to Kiev With Participation of Other States - Report

The Finnish government will consider the delivery of Leopard tanks to Ukraine should there be a group of countries supporting the delivery of these tanks, local media reported on Tuesday.

Politico reported on Monday that France and Poland were pushing Germany to equip Kiev with its powerful Leopard 2 tanks.

The Yle broadcaster reported, citing sources, that Finland has yet to make any decisions on the delivery of Leopard to Ukraine. However, if there is a group of countries that supports the delivery of tanks, Finland will consider its participation in the delivery of equipment. The Finnish government is waiting for decisions from Germany and other major countries and will not be the first to decide on the delivery of Leopards. The delivery of German-made Leopards will require Berlin's re-export license, the report said.

🇩🇪Two German ministers have put forward a proposal to allow people to take food from supermarket garbage cans that is still decent for consumption.

▪️ Agriculture Minister Cem Ozdemir and Justice Minister Marco Buschmann issued a statement in which they called on the justice ministers of all 16 German states to come up with a "practical solution" to the so-called "containering" problem.

💬 "If people take home food that has been thrown away without causing damage or unlawful entry, then, in my opinion, that should no longer be prosecuted,'' Buschmann said.

▪️ The ministers believe that in a situation where 11 million tons of food is thrown away every year, of which seven percent comes from too many retail orders, people should be allowed to take away expired food for sustenance.

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🇧🇷 Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has left a hospital in the United States against the advice of doctors after having been admitted with abdominal pain, the O Globo newspaper reported on Tuesday.

▪️ Bolsonaro was admitted to AdventHealth Celebration hospital in the US state of Florida with severe abdominal pain earlier this week.

▪️ In late December, Bolsonaro went to the US to spend New Year's Eve at former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

▪️ Bolsonaro neither participated in the inauguration of his successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on January 1 nor intended to hand over the presidential sash.

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