Tag: International

US Senators Warn President Biden Against Providing Australia With Nuclear Subs

Two U.S. Senators have raised major concerns over the trilateral AUKUS deal between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, saying that the supply of U.S. nuclear-powered submarines (SSN) to Australia could weaken America’s submarine fleet. In a letter sent to the Biden Administration on Dec. 21, 2022, Senators’ Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and James…


Ukraine Continues Shelling Russians Despite Moscow’s Unilateral ‘Ceasefire’

A 36-hour unilateral ceasefire, announced a day earlier by Russian President Vladimir Putin, went into effect at noon (Moscow time) along the 680-mile frontline between Russian and Ukrainian forces. “At noon today, the ceasefire regime came into force on the entire contact line,” Russian state media reported at midday on Jan. 6. “It will continue…


Seoul Arrests Traveler From China Who Escaped Quarantine

Seoul police announced they captured a 41-year-old Chinese man who had tested COVID-19 positive when he arrived at Incheon Airport from China, and subsequently ran away from the quarantine hotel he was taken to. Hotel camera footage shows him running from the quarantine hotel in Yeongjong-do, Incheon, at around 10:04 p.m. on Jan. 3, shortly…


Gardeners Have Lower Risk of Chronic and Mental Illness, Study Finds

A first-ever randomised, controlled trial of community gardening has found that beyond eating more fibre and getting more physical activity—two known ways to reduce the risk of cancer and chronic diseases—those who pottered around in gardens also had significantly reduced levels of stress, anxiety, and risk for mental illness. The new study of low-income households…


Australia’s Nursing Home Sector a ‘Mess,’ Bleeding $7,000 per Bed Every Year: Report

Australia’s residential aged care and home care sector is operating at a loss with a recent survey finding that each bed is losing over $7,000 (US$4,700) per year—a loss in excess of $345 million for the September quarter. This follows a 2022 population report that found Australia’s ageing population could pose a strain on the…


What Is a Global Citizen? Bill Gates Will Tell You

Bill Gates wants you to be a “global citizen.” But what does that even mean? Why would a person want to focus globally before taking care of the needs of his or her own nation, state, or community? And are Gates’s intentions as soft as his cashmere sweaters? …


Olympic Skiing Champion Rosi Mittermaier Dies at 72

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany—Rosi Mittermaier, who won downhill and slalom gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics and narrowly missed a sweep of all three women’s Alpine skiing events at the Games, has died. She was 72. German news agency dpa cited a statement from Mittermaier’s family that she died peacefully on Wednesday “following a serious illness.”…


UK Paedophile Jailed for Life After Darkweb Abuse Image Cracked by Global Investigation

A British paedophile who raped and sexually assaulted young children and posted images of the abuse on the darkweb in 2010 has been jailed for life after an international investigation finally tracked him down. Martyn Armstrong, 50, pleaded guilty to a string of offences, including 20 counts of raping a child under the age of…


Russian Military Says Phone Use Allowed Ukraine to Track and Target Troops in Missile Attack

Moscow said that phone use allowed Ukrainians to target its troops in a recent missile attack just after the start of New Year’s Day. Russia’s military leadership have come under increasing scrutiny, as more details emerged of how almost 90 Russian soldiers, and potentially more, were killed after a Ukrainian rocket attack on a vocational school…


Senior WHO Official Says China Is ‘Under-Representing’ COVID-19 Deaths

A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said that the Chinese regime has been under-reporting deaths and hospitalizations from COVID-19 in the country. “We believe that the current numbers being published from China under-represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, particularly in terms of death,” Mike…