❗️The Turkish Ministry of Trade has confirmed the full suspension of trade relations with Israel, which will last until uninterrupted delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip is ensured.
📋Some 41% of US residents believe that a second civil war in the country is likely in the next five years, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll.
📊A greater proportion respondents believe that a civil war is more likely to occur if incumbent US President Joe Biden is reelected this year than if former US President Donald Trump wins the White House — 37% and 25%, respectively — the poll says.
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U.S. Accuses Russia of Using Chemical Weapons in Ukraine
The United States has accused Russia of using chemical weapons, including poison gas, “as a method of warfare” against Ukrainian forces, in violation of a global ban on the use of such weapons.
Torrential Rains Leave at Least 13 Dead and More Missing in Brazil
At least 13 people have been killed and 21 are missing after heavy rains drenched southern Brazil, prompting a state government to send rescue helicopters in search of stranded residents, the authorities said on Thursday.
Protests Swell in Georgia Over ‘Foreign Interests’ Bill
Security forces clashed with protesters in Georgia’s capital on Wednesday night after the Eastern European nation’s Parliament advanced controversial new legislation that has ignited weeks of demonstrations.
🔍A team of archaeologists and conservators led by the University of Cambridge has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments excavated from inside a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2018.
Every human being is a problem in search of a solution.
~Ashley Montagu
1. You will receive a body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around.
2. You will learn lessons.
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life.
Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.
Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works.”
4. A lesson is repeated until learned.
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end.
There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be lear...
📌The EU and its member states are working on measures to use Russian assets to compensate for damages caused by the Russian government's decision to transfer Russian subsidiaries of Italy's Ariston and Germany's BSH Hausgerate to Gazprom, Italian Industry Minister Adolfo Urso says.
❗️The US openly defines outer space as territory of combat, provoking confrontation between countries, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has told Sputnik.
🔗Beijing has called on Washington to stop spreading false statements and building up weapons in space, the ministry adds.
📌Washington is talking about the threat of China in space to justify expansion of its military power, the ministry said, noting that the US is the most powerful driving force of space militarization and the biggest threat to space security.