ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that U.S. sanctions imposed on Turkey over its purchase of Russian defence systems were an attack on Ankaraβs sovereign rights aimed at deterring its defence industry, a move which he said was bound to fail.
Month: December 2020
Study finds 1 in 10 people in Spain has been infected with virus
Around 4.7 million people in Spain, which amounts to one in 10 people, have contracted the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, according to a new government-led antibody study.
The figure is significantly higher than the health ministry official tally, which now sits at 1.76 million. It is higher too than the estimate of over three million COVID-19 cases announced by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in October.
Italy urged to βlock downβ to avoid βnational tragedyβ
An adviser to Italyβs health ministry has called for coronavirus restrictions to be drastically tightened to avoid a βnational tragedyβ after the national statistics bureau ISTAT said deaths this year would be the highest since World War Two.
βWe are in a war situation, people donβt realise it but the last time we had this many deaths, bombs were dropping on our cities during the war,β public health professor Walter Ricciardi told the television channel la7.
Parting gift from 2020? NASA warns FIVE asteroids headed this way
As the widely perceived terrible year of 2020 draws to a close, NASA has shared an alert about five asteroids due to shoot past the Earth on Wednesday and later this week, two of which will come closer to our planet than the Moon.
Some three space rocks, ranging in diameter from roughly a telephone pole size all the way up to two London buses end-to-end, will shoot past the Earth on Wednesday.
The 11-meter asteroid named 2020 XF4 will flyby at 343,000km (213,130 miles) followed by the 24-meter 2020 VY1 at five million kilometers, with 2020 XS5 bringing up the rear at an equally safe distance of three million km. For reference, the average distance between Earth and the Moon is roughly 385,000 kilometers (239,000 miles).
https://www.rt.com/news/509819-nasa-warning-asteroids-coming/
Norwegian Virologist Claims Coronavirus ‘Stems From a Lab’, Was Spread ‘By Accident’
The origins of the coronavirus have been a mystery since the onslaught of the pandemic. However, while many suggested that it was artificially created in a lab, where a leak could have occurred, the WHO has repeatedly denied this version, emphasising its natural roots
Norwegian virologist Birger SΓΈrensen has claimed that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 stems from a laboratory and was leaked by mistake. In an interview with the Swedish news outletΒ Fria Tider, SΓΈrensen alleged that the fact that the virus doesn’t come from the animal kingdom is “evident” both from its structure and from its rapid spread among humans.
“Lock down,” says Italy adviser, as deaths head for wartime levels
ROME (Reuters) – An adviser to Italyβs health ministry has called for coronavirus restrictions to be drastically tightened to avoid a βnational tragedyβ after the national statistics bureau ISTAT said deaths this year would be the highest since World War Two.
Move over Russia! Chinese Caribbean phone spying story gives hint of whatβs to come under Biden administration
A US telecoms expert believes China is snooping on Americansβ mobile phones in a number of Caribbean countries. Gary Millerβs claims are either proof of Beijingβs malfeasance, or drumbeats in the USβ march toward a new Cold War.
China allegedly used its second-largest telecoms operator β China Unicom β to sendΒ βtens of thousandsβΒ of so-called signaling messages to Americans in the Caribbean. These messages are usually used by operators to track phones and assess roaming charges, but Miller, a telecoms security consultant, told the Guardian on Tuesday that in some cases, they can be used forΒ βtracking, monitoring, or intercepting communications.β
https://www.rt.com/usa/509752-china-spying-phones-biden-caribbean/
Top Republican senator Mitch McConnell recognizes Joe Biden as president-elect
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has acknowledged president-elect Joe Bidenβs and vice-president-elect Kamala Harrisβ victory – despite hoping for a βdifferent resultβ – following the electoral college vote.
McConnell, a Republican, noted that βas of this morning, our country has a president-elect and a vice president-electβ in a public address on Tuesday, admitting βour system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn inβ even though βmany millions of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result.β
