tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41299395027116885192024-03-13T01:42:10.960-07:00 Global Political Awakening ProjectNavigating The News And The Geopolitical Developments Across The Span Of The GlobeR.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-21675413391925662112023-12-05T12:16:00.000-08:002023-12-05T12:16:06.525-08:00Are US Bio-Labs In Ukraine Responsible For Recent Outbreaks? <div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-mIziw-y9LTXyu5N3-wgsio1Z2ZAHLL4giw23WkWhPHQY3XfcxrIELyvVBYB7oD8KRRW_NUlJfSVQO0vr5eeJoF2POeMQTIUv0WG5I_QP7qcsARsINP6frt_7HGD29En-h0oT_TGYdUAu4ado8Rg1D-vrj386nX26GugnkrzP1nmDJzkG4hoC_O61ob0/s259/Legion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-mIziw-y9LTXyu5N3-wgsio1Z2ZAHLL4giw23WkWhPHQY3XfcxrIELyvVBYB7oD8KRRW_NUlJfSVQO0vr5eeJoF2POeMQTIUv0WG5I_QP7qcsARsINP6frt_7HGD29En-h0oT_TGYdUAu4ado8Rg1D-vrj386nX26GugnkrzP1nmDJzkG4hoC_O61ob0/w640-h479/Legion.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">R.A. Jones</span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://globalpaproject.blogspot.com/">GPA Project</a></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>An emerging and potentially dangerous situation is arising with </b><i><b>M</b></i><i><b>yc</b></i><i><b>oplasma Pneaumonia</b></i><b> (Walking Pneumonia) </b><b>being coined “White Lung Syndrome”</b><b> and </b><i><b>Legionnaire’s Disease</b></i><b> (Pontiac Fever) concurrently on 3 continents across the globe </b><b>amid Fall-</b><b>Winter of</b><b> 2023 in China, Europe, and now the United States. This rapid emergence of bacteria caused illnesses gives pause to take a deeper look into a potential repeat of the 2019-2020 epidemic-to-pandemic scenarios that destroyed high thresholds of concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare what is “legally” a pandemic in the traditional realms of disease monitoring. </b><b>Above all, the potential for biological warfare emerging as the new “</b><i><b>forever war</b></i><b>” is now higher than ever in the Brave New World of genetic engineering and genetic manipulation. Engineering a common bacteria with CRISPR gene editing technologies or its ilk unveils the potential to create super-bugs that are antibiotic resistant or in which there is no vaccine currently available as coincidentally in the case of Legionnaire’s Disease</b>.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Recent outbreaks in late Summer and early Fall 2023 in both Rzeszow, Poland (<i>Legionnaire’s Disease</i>) and now the emerging situation of Legionnaire’s cases rising in multiple regions in the US give impetus to take a much closer look at both potential man-made and natural incidences. Even greater impetus can be found in the Commander of the Russian Armed Forces Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense RCBD Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov’s <a href="https://tass.com/defense/1024476">past</a> and present public statements concerning <a href="https://tass.com/politics/1703263">US biological activities in Ukraine</a> as well as abroad. On August 16, 2023 as a rapid Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak struck Rzeszów, Poland—<i>a major </i><i>NATO</i><i> hub for weaponry, equipment, and mercenaries entering the Ukrainian War</i>—General Kirillov, in his monthly public briefings of current findings in trends concerning biological developments <a href="https://tass.com/defense/1661183">shockingly stated</a>: “<i>We do not rule out the United States may use so-called defensive technologies for offensive purposes, as well as </i><i><span>for global governance by creating crisis situations of biological nature</span></i>.”</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“<span><b>Two Years Worth of Infections and Deaths in Just a Three-Week Period”</b></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A mere 2 days after Kirillov’s public briefing on August 18, 2023 an outbreak of <a href="https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/bakteria-legionella-pneumophila-w-rzeszowie-nie-zyje-czwarta-zakazona-osoba">pneaumonia cases</a> emerged in Rzeszów. As the September 14, 2023 <a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON487">WHO report update</a> stated, “<span>public health authorities in Rzeszów, Poland, announced the detection of a cluster of 158 suspected community-acquired pneumonia cases, including 15 laboratory-confirmed cases of </span><i>L</i><i>egionellosis</i><span> among patients admitted to several hospitals in Rzeszów</span>.” By September 11, 2023 less than a month later 23 deaths had occurred in 166 known cases. As of this writing, this is still an ongoing situation on the ground in various regions of Poland with over 40 known deaths insofar.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In an October 5, 2023 <a href="https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/climate-or-conflict-legionnaires-outbreak-in-poland-raises-questions/">report by </a><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/climate-or-conflict-legionnaires-outbreak-in-poland-raises-questions/">the </a><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/climate-or-conflict-legionnaires-outbreak-in-poland-raises-questions/">Bulletin of Atomic Scientists</a>, it was pointed out the startling statistic of “<i>two years worth of infections and death in just a three-week period</i>” was cause for suspicion. What was particularly interesting about the BSA report was that the reason for suspicion given was that, “<i>it happened to occur in a curious location: </i><i><b>a key hub for the Western effort to aide Ukraine</b></i><i> in its defense against Russia</i>.”</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, in Orwellian double-speak manner, the BSA report quickly changed the subject of suspicion into “Russian propaganda concerns” about the transparent public briefings by Lt. General Igor Kirillov and the Russian Defense Ministry’s accusations and findings of US bio-labs and illicit biological activities in Ukraine since the Russian Federation entered what was until February 2022 an interstate civil war in Donbass. The report continued on, stating that the Polish authorities were tight-lipped in its ongoing investigation, “<i>saying only that they are carrying out a routine investigation into ‘</i><i><b>potential intentional action</b></i><i>,’ and the results haven’t yet been made public. Meanwhile, the head of a Polish epidemiology association told The New York Times </i><i><b>the evidence likely points to an unusually severe natural outbreak</b></i><i>, one that was perhaps amplified by climate change</i>.” Going from claims of potentially serious sabotage to climate change was a likely story quickly swept under the information warfare rug.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Euractiv also <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/legionnaires-disease-outbreak-in-polands-nato-hub-raises-concern/">reported on the Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak</a> in Rzeszów, but much earlier than the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists approximately 10 days after the first reports of the development on August 29, 2023. Interestingly the report eluded precisely to the NATO hub in Poland as the staging point into Lvov, Ukraine underlining clearly, “<i>As Rzeszów is a strategically important and best-protected NATO city in Europe–</i><i><b>it is a metastasis hub for Western weapons to Ukraine</b></i><i>–the case of the outbreak is being looked at by the Internal Security Agency </i><i><b>to ascertain whether the outbreak was a diversion or sabotage</b></i>.” So-called “Russian propaganda” was not merely able to brushed off so easily as it begins to appear that Lt. General Igor Kirillov’s findings are indeed very accurate high-level military intelligence.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In a September 6, 2022 <a href="https://mid.ru/upload/medialibrary/d85/G2248071%20On%20the%20sanitary%20and%20epidemiological%20situation%20in%20Ukraine%20ENG.pdf">document submitted</a> (Item 6) to the UN Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) meeting from Sept. 5-9, 2022 titled, “Respective outstanding questions by the Russian Federation to the United States and to Ukraine concerning the fulfillment of their respective obligations under the Convention in the context of the operation of <a href="https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13315/chapter/25">biological laboratories</a> in Ukraine,” Points 27 and 28 presented were of a particularly alarming concern:</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>27.</b>) <i>The presentation of data on the current epidemiological situation in Ukraine convincingly shows a significant difference between the priority problems faced by the Ukrainian health care system and </i><i><b>the tasks that the US-supported institutions and laboratories in Ukraine were designed to address</b></i><i>.</i></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>28</b>.) <i>This raises a number of questions. How should the accumulation of strains of especially dangerous infections and their transfer to other countries help to improve the situation with infectious diseases? Why was the main focus on the study of naturally focal and especially dangerous infections, which, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists, </i><i><b>are considered to be potential pathogens for biological weapons?</b></i></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>The Russian Defense Ministry was fully aware of the epidemiological situation on the ground in Ukraine. On October 31, 2023 amid the ongoing Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak that had spread to multiple localities in Poland, </span><span>General Kirillov <a href="https://tass.com/world/1699465">made a shocking announcement</a> in his public briefing that, “</span><span><i><span>Ukrainian intel was planning false flag operations </span></i></span><span><i><b>with use of bioweapons.</b></i></span><span>”</span></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>I</span><span>nformation unveiled in the briefing by Kirillov in the Russian Defense Ministry’s findings pointed out the activity being conducted at the Galitsky National Medical University in Lvov </span><span>with the Kiev-based Science and Technology Center of Ukraine STCU</span><span>, which was but only 170</span><span>km east of Rzeszów, Poland, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Eerily, the training event in Lvov occurred precisely in the same frame of time as the Legionnaire’s outbreak in August through September. </span><span>General Kirillov went further to reveal that, “</span><span><i>head laboratory official Irina Demchishina acted as an intermediary in interaction with Pentagon contractors Black & Veatch and Metabiota, and supervised the implementation of DTRA projects in Ukraine</i></span><span>.”</span></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>One of the scenarios revealed that such an event </span><span>with various agents</span><span> could be blamed on “Russian bio-sabatage,” precisely the delusions made in the October 5, 2023 Bulletin of Atomic Science report </span><span>on the Legionnaire’s Disease outbreak in </span><span>Rzeszów. </span><span>It seemed there </span><span>was a growing connection </span><span>and potential for foul play</span><span> given Lvov was also a major staging point for NATO weaponry, equipment, mercenaries, and western personnel </span><span>inside of Ukraine</span><span>.</span></span></span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Pneumonia and Legionnaire’s Disease Strike China, USA, and Europe</b></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>O</span><span>utbreaks of Mycomplasma Pneumoniae <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/adenovirus/pneumonia-outbreak-chinese-kids-linked-known-pathogens">in China</a>, <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/pneumonia/denmark-reports-mycoplasma-pneumonia-epidemic">Denmark</a>, </span><span><a href="https://nltimes.nl/2023/11/29/child-pneumonia-whooping-cough-cases-netherlands-soar-three-year-high">Netherlands</a>,</span><span> and <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/legionella/new-jersey-probes-legionnaires-rise-2-counties">Legionnaire’s Disease</a> (Pontiac Syndrome) and <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/ohio-child-pneumonia-white-lung-syndrome/">Pneumoniae</a> in various regions of the US are rapidly emerging in an alarming manner. </span><span>What is behind all of the sudden and rapid emergence of bacteria-caused Pneumoniae illnesses on 3 continents simultaneously? Something does not appear to be adding up in a</span><span>n emerging scenario eerily reminiscent of the Winter 2019-2020 Public Health Emergency of International Concern declared by the WHO.</span></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span>L</span></span><span><span>egionnaire’s Disease cases </span></span><span><span>emerged</span></span><span><span> in the US from August </span></span><span><span>through late October</span></span><span><span> 2023 in various regions of</span></span><span><span> </span></span><span><span><a href="https://kernpublichealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/PHSU-2306-Legionnaires-Disease-Call-for-Cases.pdf">California</a>, <a href="https://dph.illinois.gov/resource-center/news/2023/august/2023-8-16---idph--illinois-epa---shelby-county-health-department.html">Illinois</a>, </span></span><span><span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2023/08/25/vegas-hotel-legionnaires-disease-cases/70679701007/">Nevada</a>,</span></span><span><span> <a href="https://www.pritzkerlaw.com/personal-injury/2023/river-park-towers-legionnaires-disease-outbreak/">New York</a>, <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/health/legionnaires-disease-outbreak-in-2-nj-counties-what-to-know/4850311/">New Jersey</a>, </span></span><span><span>and <a href="https://littermedia.com/2023/08/ross-health-district-reports-no-legionnaires-disease-cases-found-in-ross-county/">Ohio</a></span></span><span><span>. </span></span><span><span>Though only 2 known US 2023 Legionnaire’s deaths occurred <a href="https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2023/0805-Legionella-Deaths-Possibly-Linked-to-Richmond-Spa.php">in Contra Costa County</a> California, </span></span><span><span>all known cases occurred</span></span><span><span> </span></span><span>approximately in the same window as the</span><span> deadly</span><span> Rzeszów, Poland outbreaks.</span></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>L</span><span>egionnaire’s Disease and Mycoplasma Pneumoniae </span><span>are naturally occurring bacteria and do not constitute a Novel </span><span>emergence,</span><span> though the rapid outbreaks of Mycoplasma P. are being coined </span><span>as a new strain of</span><span> “</span><span><i>White Lung Syndrome.</i></span><span>”</span><span> </span><span>T</span><span>he Brave New World of genetic engineering and genetic manipulation </span><span>owing to such mechanisms as <a href="https://slguardian.org/gene-editing-is-unstable-and-unpredictable/">CRISPR technology</a> however, should give pause to keen observers to potentiality of biologically offensive programs using common bacteria over <a href="https://www.selectagents.gov/sat/list.htm">select agents only kept in BSL-3/4 </a></span><span><a href="https://www.selectagents.gov/sat/list.htm">laboratories</a> </span><span>considered potential pathogens for biological warfare. Gene splicing and editing bacteria to be </span><span>deadlier or</span><span> antibiotic resistant which can easily be “spiked” into public water systems where bacterium such </span><span>as </span><span><i>Legionella</i></span><span> (Legionnaire’s Disease) </span><span>is typically found to be responsible for annual outbreaks common to human life </span><span>would be relatively simple for an “attacker” and thus plausible denial.</span></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Are US biolabs in Ukraine responsible for </span><span>the deadly outbreak </span><span>o</span><span>f Legionnaire’s Disease in Poland</span><span>? Considering the developments of feuding between the Polish and the Ukrainian governments over <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231201-ukraine-says-polish-trucker-protest-on-border-catastrophic">a catastrophically and economically debilitating</a> truck</span><span>ing blockade that has come to the point of preparing for “</span><span><i>the evacuation of drivers from blocked checkpoints on the territory of Poland</i></span><span>,” and the </span><span>pre-September 15, 2023 expiration of EU grain import bans from Ukraine—with only Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia imposing extended, independent bans—it is highly probable the abominably corrupt Ukrainian government is behind the deadly Rzeszów outbreak.</span></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>The intensified <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/polish-ukrainian-grain-dispute-explained/">Polish-Ukrainian grain “war”</a> gives </span><span>an </span><span>extreme </span><span><i>casus belli</i></span><span> impetus for Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine to retaliate after heated and exchanged threats to the Polish Andrzej Duda government </span><span>in the run-up and fallout of the September 15, 2023 EU grain ban expiration. </span><span>Above all, revelations of dismembering western Ukraine into 1938 </span><span><i>Great</i></span><span><i>er</i></span><span><i> Poland </i></span><span>by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Sergei Naryshkin in <a href="https://tass.com/world/1479017">a shocking July 12, 2022 public report</a> that, “</span><span><i>Poland hopes that when the conflict in Ukraine reaches a phase of diplomatic settlement, the sides will have to recognize ‘Poland’s expansion’ as an accomplished fact</i></span><span>,” most certainly was not by any means welcome to Kiev’s awareness.</span></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Ladies and gentleman, under the shadow of </span><span>the </span><span>world’s currently most corrupt </span><span>Ukrainian</span><span> Zelensky regime, nothing is certain, much is illusion, and </span><span><i>anything is possible</i></span><span>. </span><span>The words of the Polish authorities mentioned in the October 5, 2023 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists <a href="https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/climate-or-conflict-legionnaires-outbreak-in-poland-raises-questions/">report</a> that, “</span><span><i>….the evidence likely points to an unusually severe natural outbreak</i></span><span>,” are ringing loudly in the background.</span></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>R.A. Jones</b></i><i> is an independent writer, researcher, and chief editor of the <a href="https://globalpaproject.blogspot.com/">Global Political Awakening Project</a>. Please donate and keep the global political awakening phenomenon growing.</i></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-10900810091250661082023-11-28T17:59:00.000-08:002023-11-30T17:37:32.014-08:00Al-Aqsa Flood: Has the Collapsed Israeli Government Dragged Us All Into a Deadly Trap?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjsYxxAZZYu2UEAmmput8sNMFE5faVtHNCHBahaTudVsjIAHP55dTbBMe7hhwLFiBJa_R_xGCdmHV0WFrdz4Fkydqv7qbLMZwNHaEd42L1SG1peqb3TiyvZCUftjJgzWb4FqOjetfWIRml2Sc7dOk0x-YwbjTdGiFEAWLcPI5gk3WQHoZUA7fKBYuBMM/s1000/HAMAS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="1000" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjsYxxAZZYu2UEAmmput8sNMFE5faVtHNCHBahaTudVsjIAHP55dTbBMe7hhwLFiBJa_R_xGCdmHV0WFrdz4Fkydqv7qbLMZwNHaEd42L1SG1peqb3TiyvZCUftjJgzWb4FqOjetfWIRml2Sc7dOk0x-YwbjTdGiFEAWLcPI5gk3WQHoZUA7fKBYuBMM/w640-h424/HAMAS.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">R.A Jones</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">GPA Project</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>In
wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a
bodyguard of lies</i>.”</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">—<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Winston
Churchill</i></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Extremely
high-level information warfare has erupted in the vacuum of the
shockingly rapid Hamas invasion of Israel under the auspices of
“Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” that </b><b>seized</b><b> the world
stage by means of an unforeseen “</b><i><b>October Surprise</b></i><b>.”
Just precisely at the heart of this information warfare lies covering
up the events of a collapsing Israeli government throughout the
majority of 2023 which entails mass protests by large swaths of the
population </b><b>against a corrupt regime, and ever-the-more failing
radical Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Beginning with a
high-level corruption trial of Israel’s longest standing leader in
2020 up to the mid-2023 passage of the outrageous and anti-democratic
law of “Re</b><b>a</b><b>sonability” virtually establishing a
near total dictatorship of the Israeli officialdom, the current state
of Israel has reached the dangerous crossroads of its weakest
existence since 1948 fringing </b><b>on </b><b>total collapse</b>.</span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
death rattle of the <i>American Century</i> simultaneously with the
Israeli government began at the turn of 2020 with the abject failure
of the US armed forces inability to respond to Iran’s Jan. 8, 2020
ballistic missile attack on Ayn-al-Assad Airbase in Iraq after the
blatant US act of war assassinating General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq.
Few in the United States understood the epoch that erupted on <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/01/al-asad-missile-attack-nearly-killed-150-us-troops-destroyed-30-aircraft-report.html">the
smoldering ruins of Ayn-al-Assad</a> forgotten rapidly on the
emerging CoV-19 hysteria.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Not
only had the US enviasaged “</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">full spectrum dominance</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">”
doctrine of purported hegemonic power been smashed, but exposed the
United States government at its weakest precipice since the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Life</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
publication of Henry Luce’s 1941 </span><a href="https://www.transatlantic-cultures.org/pt/catalog/the-american-century" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>American
Century</i></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> which shockingly and criminally declared, “...</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">our
opportunity as the most powerful and vital nation in the world and in
consequence to exert upon the world the full impact of our influence,
</i><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: italic;">for such purposes as</b> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;"><b>we
see fit and by such means as we see fit</b></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">." For the first
time in US history, up to and including the </span><a href="http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO25Nov2016.php" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">deranged-jingoist
project of President Donald Trump</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">, the Rubicon was crossed into
openly executing a high-level political assassination of a highly
ranking foreign official. Adding injury to the insult, a little over
a year prior to this unprecedented event, the elitist-psychopath CIA
director turned Secretary of State—under neocon hawk Mike Pompeo’s
</span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/china-initiative-year-review-2019-20" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">China
Initiative</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">—goaded Project Trump into forcing </span><a href="https://www.universalcargo.com/u-s-forces-china-out-of-port-of-long-beach-terminal-ownership/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Orient
Overseas International Limited (OOIL) to sell</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;"> its Long Beach,
California container port to another foreign buyer rather than an
American company, the Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Group" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Macquarie
Group</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">).</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Forcing
a foreign company to sell the largest container port in the US to the
world’s largest infrastructure asset management firm based in
Sydney, Australia was anything but “make America great again
(MAGA)” or “America first.” This catastrophic trade-war
leadership and dubious decision led to the unquestionable collapse of
the cross-Pacific supply chain and the supply chain crisis a full
year on before the outrageous Covid-19 hysteria swept it all under a
convenient rug, which was easily manipulated by obfuscating public
opinion in the vacuum. No one dared blame their coveted “</span><a href="http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO25Nov2016.php" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">Cyrus
the Great Trump</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">” responsible for such a terrible political and
economic disaster. Chinese hysteria proved all too </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/china-initiative-year-review-2019-20" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">convenient
propaganda</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">, especially when it could be blamed for being
responsible for every evil under the sun including an emerging
pandemic.</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Trump
Chains America’s Leg to Netanyahu’s Sinking Corrupt Anchor</b></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">On
November 21, 2019 the neo-jingoist Zionist and highly corrupt Israeli
Prime Minister “Bibi” Netanyahu <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-11-21/ty-article/netanyahu-charged-bribery-fraud-corruption-israel-election/0000017f-e64e-df2c-a1ff-fe5f28720000">was
officially indicted</a> for breach of trust, accepting bribes, and
fraud. Further exacerbating catastrophic leadership of destroying all
credibility and international stature of the United States—not seen
since President George W. Bush—in the wake of the Long Beach
supply-chain debacle, the strategically anti-American AIPAC, NGO
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), Trump
administration, and Netanyahu cabinet were conjuring up what would
become the “<i>Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives
of the Palestinian and Israeli People</i>.” No one bothered to
include or engage any Palestinian authorities to participate on
deciding their own future, so there was absolutely no wonder why it
would be wholly rejected by Palestinians or their political bodies.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
shocking move of setting this stage by the CIA, FDD, and AIPAC
controlled <i>Trump </i><i>Project</i> was the announcement of a then
US Presidential “candidate” declaring Jerusalem would be the
capitol of Israel <a href="https://time.com/4267058/donald-trump-aipac-speech-transcript/">on
</a><a href="https://time.com/4267058/donald-trump-aipac-speech-transcript/">March
21 2016</a>, standing of all places, at an AIPAC podium before he was
even elected. Why was a US Presidential candidate hopeful declaring a
city located in a foreign country as its relocated capitol and on
what authority?. This was an unprecedented election-meddling farce
that should be decided by the authorities of the respective country
concerned, and a disgrace on the Holy City, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvn_R4vsIl8">condemned
by real Jewish Rabbis</a>.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Precisely
20 days after the anti-diplomatic disaster of assassinating IRGC
Major General Qasem Soleimani and the destruction inflicted on
Ayn-al-Assad Air Base in Iraq by Iran’s retaliatory strike
<a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/01/al-asad-missile-attack-nearly-killed-150-us-troops-destroyed-30-aircraft-report.html">resulting
in approximately 150 US troops</a> being injured, the “Trump Peace
Plan” was unveiled at a White House press conference with Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 28, 2020. It was but only <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/28/trump-netanyahu-peace-plan-white-house-israel-election/">a
poorly contrived diplomatic disaster</a> to prop up the failing and
corrupt longest-serving Israeli Prime Minister facing <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-supporters-to-rage-against-coup-in-tel-aviv-rally/">an
inevitable demise</a> and a bid of political and diplomatic clout in
a US election year to falsely project an image of something Cyrus the
Trump was certainly not. The “Deal of the Century” was nothing
but benevolent garb to justify further annexation of the remnants of
former Palestinian territories in contravention of international law,
wrestle away further control of Jerusalem and creating a mere two
more “Gaza Strips” in the Negev Desert, but certainly no
Palestinian state.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
timing of this event was also of the essence. On January 28-30, 2020
there were a series of events internationally in which developments
were lost to even greater shocking developments amidst the emerging
Covid-19 hysteria, like clockwork. Also on January 28, 2020 was the
<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china">shocking
announcement of the arrests</a> made by the US Department of Justice
against Harvard Professor Charles Lieber for alleged ties to Wuhan
University and China’s Thousand Talents Program, along with two
Chinese nationals, Yanqing Ye and Zaosong Zheng. Though the 21
biological samples Zaosong was apprehended with turned out <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/12/4/zheng-guilty-plea-research-theft/">to
be related strictly to cancer cell research</a>, the DOJ arrests
proved vital to the propaganda machines of the “Five Eyes” in the
collective West as <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-china-threat#:~:text=The%20counterintelligence%20and%20economic%20espionage,the%20FBI's%20top%20counterintelligence%20priority.">a
major tirade against China</a> in the rising WHO declared Covid-19
Health Emergency. Adding gasoline to the fire of catastrophic US and
Israeli leadership that would be conveniently swept under the
emerging Covid-19 pandemic rug, the CIA-AIPAC lexicon controlling
Project Trump and the White House under CIA director Mike Pompeo was
sounding the anti-Chinese alarms loudly.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">On
January 30, 2020 while on a “Five Eyes” tour to the UK, <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3048304/us-secretary-state-mike-pompeo-calls-chinese-communist-party">Pompeo
declared</a> at a meeting with British PM Boris Johnson, “<i>The US
sees the Chinese Communist Party as the central threat of our times</i>.”
The catastrophic leadership of the CIA-AIPAC Trump Project under
Pompeo shockingly brought on the literal collapse of the US
government seven days after President Trump <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-outbreak/">declared
a National Emergency</a> concerning the Novel Coronavirus on Friday
March 13, 2020.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">In
one of the most shocking moments in US history, CIA director Mike
Pompeo made a jaw- dropping statement on March 20, 2020 in a
Coronavirus Task Force Briefing with the US President Trump and Vice
President Mike Pence standing behind him. The “unseen hand”
calling the shots </span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5000598/user-clip-we-live-exercise-here-mike-pompeo" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">baffled
a national and international audience</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;"> watching intently: “</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">May
I just say...may I just say one more thing? There's been some
discussion about China and what they knew and when they knew it. And
I've been very critical. We need to know immediately. The world is
entitled to know. The Chinese government was the first to know of
this risk to the world. And that puts a special obligation to make
sure that data...that data gets to our scientists, our professionals.
This is not about retribution. This matters going forward. </i><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;"><b>We're
in a…we're in a live exercise here</b></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">.” In the background
Project Trump could be heard saying, “</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">You should have told us;
you should have let us know</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: left;">.”</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Merely
three days after the beginning of Israeli PM <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/middleeast/benjamin-netanyahu-trial-israel-election-intl/index.html">Benjamin
Netanyahu’s trial</a> on March 17, 2020, catastrophic leadership
and collapse of both the US and the Israeli governments drowning in a
sea of corruption would be lost in translation amid the emerging
Covid-19 pandemic. Swept under the propaganda and information warfare
rug, it was but a temporary pause for the doomed Netanyahu cabinet
and Trump administration flying out of a frying pan and into the
geopolitical fire as we shall see.</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Netanyahu
Dooms Israel Into Dictatorship and War</b></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">On
the very same day the US CIA director Mike Pompeo shocked the public
with outrageous “<i>we are in a live exercise</i>” revelations of
catastrophic US leadership on March 20, 2020, major protests <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/demonstrators-protest-knesset-closure-scuffle-with-police-in-jerusalem/">erupted
on the streets of Israel</a> against catastrophic leadership of Prime
Minister Netanyahu and the Likud Party. By no coincidence whatsoever,
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/526b5bfc1d4b8ba3885628b8f2e7f664">the
Knesset was closed and shut off</a> by Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein
the following day of the trial proceeding on March 18, citing dubious
“coronavirus restrictions” in a poorly contrived bid to stop any
hearings and proceedings on removing PM Netanyahu from office while a
major corruption trial against him ensued.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
was an extreme case of a dual crisis as the Israeli government
collapsed failing to form a new government under Blue and White Benny
Gantz while embattling a corrupted PM Netanyahu clinging to the power
in an unprecedented manner. By no means were these developments
legitimate nor welcomed with flowers and champagne.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Knesset
Speaker Edelstein refused to step down from his position in forming a
new government clearly preventing any discussions or hearings over
immunity of PM Netanyahu from prosecution. Former Prime Minister and
Minister of Defense Ehud Barak was the loudest and most influential
voice against Benjamin Netanyu and the corrupted Likud Party in the
March 2020 buildup calling on all citizens of Israel to <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2020-05-31/ty-article-opinion/.premium/a-sick-country-and-a-black-flag/0000017f-dc2a-d3a5-af7f-feaea1a00000">wave
black flags</a> in distress, “<i>When there are a million of them
on every window and balcony, the defendant will go home. The court
will not be closed and the Knesset will not be closed. We, the
citizens, cannot go through with it</i>.”</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">By
May 2020, the outrage would only grow against a more-than-defiant
Netanyahu clinging to his own corruption as the trial ensued and
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/e10af29ed9de52d0a1ea4e012856ef13">Barak
would not back down</a>: “<i>The High Court of Justice is facing
its most important verdict ever…[T]he High Court can make its name
for generations in one moment’s brave decision; On the other hand,
should the court opt for legalistic niceties, irrespective under what
intricate pretexts, </i><i><b>it too will be crushed further down the
road</b></i>.”</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
words of the former PM Ehud Barak were the most shocking and yet
absolutely pivotal truth of what would become the 2023 summer
dictatorship disaster of the Israeli government and precursor of the
Al-Aqsa Flood operation by Hamas resulting in a major military
confrontation with Israel unseen in decades. Being “<i>crushed
further down the road</i>” was ringing loudly in the background.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Protests
continued to rock Israel regardless of “coronavirus restrictions”
as the Israeli nation was plunged into a sea of corruption, disarray,
and government collapse that began with the dissolving of the Knesset
in late 2018 dooming the Israeli cabinets to form a new governments
and failing repeatedly throughout 2021. Much of the cross-Atlantic
West paid little to no attention <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932022_Israeli_political_crisis">to
the crisis unfolding in the Levant</a> and its implications as the
destitute PM Netanyahu clung to absolute corrupt power, that is well
known to corrupt absolutely. By no means was it a coincidence that
the Israeli PM was the biggest pusher and salesman on
multi-dimensional fronts of NSO cyber intelligence and global
security software, developer of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/magazine/nso-group-israel-spyware.html">the
much-vetted world’s most powerful</a> “cyberweapon” known as
<i>Pegasus</i>.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">But
the Machiavellian schemes of PM Benjamin Netanyahu get worse,
<i>ostensibly much worse</i>, when one takes a closer look at the
fallout between Project Trump and then US Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson resulting in appointing the head of the CIA Mike Pompeo
coming into the foray to replace the former CEO of Exxon-Mobil. In
September 2019 not only did Tillerson make some shocking revelations
of the Trump-rift being over Netanyahu’s scheming, an even more
<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house-spying-devices-1491351">shocking
revelation of Israeli cellphone spyware found</a> on the premises of
the US White House house emerged that was kept well under the radar
of public awareness. Bear in mind this shocking revelation occurred
almost a full year after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal
Khashoggi and <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/nsos-pegasus-used-to-target-khashoggis-wife-before-his-murder-washington-post/">a
major scandal of Pegasus software</a> behind it.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Rex
Tillerson <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/rex-tillerson-details-his-frustrations-on-iran-israel-russia-and-his-revamp-of-the-state-department/">would
reveal</a> that, “<i>In dealing with Bibi, it’s always useful to
carry a healthy amount of skepticism in your discussions with him.
[T]hey did that with the president on a couple of occasions, to
persuade him that we’re the good guys, they’re the bad
guys….</i><i><b>You’ve been played</b></i><i>….It bothers me
that an ally that’s that close and important to us would do that to
us</i>.” No less important, Tillerson also exposed Netanyahu as an
“extraordinarily skilled politician,” but albeit a <i>Machiavellian</i>.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
seemed the neo-jingoist far-right wing atop of the crumbling Israeli
government had somewhat created a geopolitical “<i>eye of Sauron</i>”
watching anywhere and everywhere as the crisis in Israel only grew
worse, marking enemies of exposing PM Netanyahu as his indictment was
officially filed in November 2019. September and October 2019 <a href="https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/whatsapp-sues-israeli-cyber-surveillance-company-nso-group-accusing-it-of-hacking-the-phones-of-human-rights-activists-journalists/">would
bring massive lawsuits</a> and accusations against NSO and the
Pegasus scandals targeting journalists and activists to major
software firms such as WhastApp, especially enemies of the emerging
Israeli political and <a href="https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israel-court-decides-to-hear-case-against-nso-behind-closed-doors/">surveillance
dictatorship</a> under a massively corrupt Prime Minister being
exposed in the emerging trial against him which ultimately would
remove him from power indefinitely if not landing him in prison. It
should be no wonder why Case 4000 against Netanyahu <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-03-22/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-trial-media-tycoons-ex-company-to-admit-to-bribery-in-plea-deal/00000180-5b9e-d615-a9bf-dfdeaf440000">concerns
bribery and major conflicts of interest</a> with the Bezeq
Communications Company over “favorable coverage of the PM” in
light of the major scandals involving him.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
small “light in the tunnel” was extinguished when the all-corrupt
PM Netanyahu and Likud Party was ousted in the March 2021 election,
bringing in a breath of fresh air of a joint-government shared by
PM-elect Naftali Bennet (Yamina) and Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid). However
surmounting conflicts and crises internally led to the November 2022
election which would most detrimentally bring the Likud Party and
Benjamin Netanyahu back into the chair of the Prime Minister being
officially sworn in on December 29, 2022. Things were only to get
much worse.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
radical neo-jingoists of the Likud and other right-wing factions
would make a grab of power that would change Israel forever, and
bring the 75 year old nation state to its weakest existence since
1948 fringing on total collapse. In <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/levin-unveils-bills-to-weaken-top-court-enable-laws-to-be-immune-to-judicial-review/">January
2023 </a><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/levin-unveils-bills-to-weaken-top-court-enable-laws-to-be-immune-to-judicial-review/">the
newly formed government wasted literally no time</a> in one of the
most unprecedented power grabs in recent history, by going after a
judicial reformation in a manner such <i>it would ultimately remove
High Courts and the Supreme Court’s</i> <i>power to challenge any
decisions of government officials. </i>The
very government officials who could not be challenged in their
decisions as before would now be the pigs running the farm in a
deranged version of Orwell’s <i>Animal Farm</i>,
giving themselves power of the judiciary appointments that could not
challenge their decisions. “Legalizing” such a decision in light
of not being able to challenge the decisions of a Prime Minister whom
was on trial himself for corruption, nor his cabinets was nothing
short of achieving dictatorship of the Israeli state. Ehud Barak’s
warning of “<i><b>being crushed further down the road</b></i>”
was ringing ever so loudly in the foreground and the background.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Adding
injury to the unprecedented insult, Deputy
Prime Minister Yair Levin drafting and unveiling the bill to
effectively turn Israel into a dictatorship “coincidentally” was
also the Justice Minister. It was most definitely flipping both sides
of the same two-headed coin in a losing game for the state of Israel
against its highest ranking officials that cared not what anyone
thought about it. Above all,
it clearly was <i>cui bono</i>
<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-shrugs-off-protest-says-millions-of-voters-demanded-judicial-overhaul/">for
none other than PM Benjamin Netanyahu</a> amid a major corruption
trial in which the judiciary would be wholly undermined especially
concerning matters of decisions
rendered against Netanyahu in his ongoing trial.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Effectively
passing the “Law of Reasonability” was approaching a Rubicon of
anarchic chaos, hatred, violence, discord, and potentially civil war.
Speaking from both sides of the mouth the embattled Netanyahu was
publicy warning
against “<i>inflammatory </i><i>slogans about civil war and
destruction of the state</i>” in
the gambit of actually causing that very outcome, contradicting
existing reality. For Israelis, watching the corrupt PM having his
cake and eating it to was not welcome. From
activists to current high ranking and former Israeli officials
upwards of 100,000 protesters were a regular appearance <a href="https://www.mei.edu/publications/israelis-evolving-pushback-democratic-erosion-under-netanyahu">as
things went from bad to worse</a>: “<i>The journey to stop
this coup has just begun; this is a determined and uncompromising
fight to save democracy, and the people of Israel are coming out en
masse to protest….We will fight in the streets, the squares and on
the bridges — in the courts and in the Knesset</i>.”</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">By
the end of March
2023 an even greater danger emerged for Israelis when the collapse of
the government over judicial reformation turned-dicatorship came ever
closer. Masses of Israeli armed forces reservists, officers, and
former commanders <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/gallant-reportedly-says-judicial-overhaul-may-push-him-out-as-defense-minister/#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20Channel%2012,apparently%20a%20reference%20to%20resigning.">were
threatening to refuse to serve and were refusing to </a><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/gallant-reportedly-says-judicial-overhaul-may-push-him-out-as-defense-minister/#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20Channel%2012,apparently%20a%20reference%20to%20resigning.">report
for duty</a> in retaliation
to the deteriorating crisis, posing an extremely dangerous national
security situation to emerge.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant even threatened resignation in light of
the judicial debacle warning: “<i>I’m working to keep the
military above any political dispute and to remove any instance of
insubordination; the IDF is the state’s defensive mechanism.
Without it, the state and its citizens cannot exist. Insubordination
erodes our basic foundation — security. Calls for insubordination
or joining [refusals] endanger all of us, especially given the
threats all around</i>.”</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
few days later on March 26<sup>
</sup>a furious PM <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/26/benjamin-netanyahu-fires-defence-minister-yoav-gallant-judicial-overhaul">Netanyahu
sacked Gallant</a> sparking even further outrage in the streets after
the Defense Minister warned to call off the judiciary dictatorship
spearhead. Given no formal notice of an official decision in the
meantime, Gallant <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/gallants-future-unclear-as-calls-grow-for-pm-to-roll-back-his-firing/">remained
in his position</a> until the
PM called off his purported firing on
April 10, 2023.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A
<i>casus belli</i> was
brewing among the sworn enemies of the corrupted Israeli government
collapsing before their very observant eyes in the circles of
Hezbollah (Shiite) north in Lebanon and Hamas (Sunni) south in the
Gaza Strip. The Shiite cleric <a href="https://www.debka.com/defense-minister-refusal-by-reservists-to-serve-could-jeopardize-idf-missions/">Secretary
General of Hezbollah</a> Hassan Nasrallah—who is best known for
being brutally honest above all—pointed out: “<i>I see the
end of Israel. People will be thronging to the airports, the seaports
and the border crossings. We won’t have to wait forty years for
Israel to perish. All the elements of its survival are weakening
while the tempest is growing stronger. In the light of current
events, Some Arabs are saying that Israel is just the same as their
own countries with no effective central government, like Iraq, Syria
and Libya</i>.”</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
Israeli IDF and the government were at their weakest point in the
history of Israel, nowhere in a position to fight a major
conflict—much less on two fronts—amid turmoil and collapse
instigated by PM Netanyahu’s lust for dictatorship and clamoring to
power. Hezbollah leaders knew it, former Israeli commanders knew it,
and above all Hamas planning a major qualitative sneak attack at the
right moment in the shadows knew it.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A multi-dimensional war of attrition was
being prepared by Hamas in light of both the utter collapse of the
Israeli government, and a much bankrupted and extremely weak United
States government that had failed its proto-NATO proxy war in Ukraine
against the Russian Federation which it had catastrophically
miscalculated and been “bled white” into massive debt and
depleted munitions. By no means could the US military or government
support another major conflict with finances and weaponry, nor
miscalculate in getting dragged into an uncertain disaster.</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Al-Aqsa Flood: A Major Geopolitcal
Earthquake Erupts</b></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The Machiavellian Likud Party <a href="https://www.debka.com/biden-said-to-order-reassessment-of-relations-with-israel/">heeded
no warnings</a> and <a href="https://www.debka.com/road-pandemonium-by-protesters-after-reasonableness-bill-passes-first-reading/">held
no bars on its march</a> to dooming Israel into nothing short of a
Netanyahu-led dictatorship and free its corrupted longest-standing
ruler of prosecution and conviction amid a trial that was far from
over. By July 2023 the summer of discontent and being “<i>crushed
further down the road</i>” had ran into its predicted dead end. On
Friday July 21, 2023 <a href="https://www.debka.com/air-force-dismayed-by-1142-air-crew-reservists-threat-to-balk-duty-in-protest-over-judicial-overhaul/">1,142
Israeli Air Force personnel had signed a letter</a> to IAF Commander
Tomer Bar literally refusing duty to the country’s armed forces
(not counting swaths of IDF and other reservists refusing to serve in
protest).</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In the heat of the dire crisis they made
it emphatically clear that “<i><b>We all have a duty to save the
country from a ‘</b></i><i><b>T</b></i><i><b>hird Temple
Destruction’</b></i><i> and heal the disastrous divisions,
polarization and splits tearing our society apart. Israel’s innate
democratic nature is precious to the entire nation….[U]nreasonable
government actions will undermine our trust and willingness to
continue to put our lives on the line for the sake of the country. It
is with deep heartbreak that we are bound to suspend our voluntary
duty as air force reservists</i>.” The “Third Temple Destruction”
being loudly warned about was but only waiting on the following
Monday.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">By Sunday, <a href="https://www.debka.com/reasonability-law-passed-police-mass-against-protesters-storming-knesset/">another
10,000 reservists had joined</a> the IAF reservists refusing to
perform voluntary duties if the Law of “Reasonability” was to
pass within the next 24 hours. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. General Hertzi
Halevi was forced to issue a shocking statement of the dire
situation: “<i><b>They must realize that without a unified and
strong military, Israel’s very survival is in jeopardy</b></i>.”</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The bell of dictatorship doom tolled
loudly on Monday July 24, 2023 in Israel when the Law of
Reansonability was passed astoundingly 64-0 in the Knesset with all
opposition parties within the Israeli government abstaining from the
vote. Protesters <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12334209/Israel-erupts-cops-use-water-cannons-protesters-injured-car-ramming-night-violence-Netanyahus-hated-judicial-reforms-passed-parliament-ex-PM-warns-civil-war.html">attempted
to storm the Knesset after the reading</a> which revoked the power of
Israeli high courts and the Supreme Court to challenge or disqualify
any decisions and laws made by a new Machiavellian dictatorial regime
convinced of its own radical coup of collective suicide.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Hamas was watching intently and
calculating a plan for a major operation against an extremely weak
and fragile regime only a straw away from breaking the camel’s
back. Given the example of the Ukraine crisis in attrition warfare
and the dependency of funding and munitions from the West resulting
in catastrophic military disaster and political defeats for the
cross-Atlantic US-EU-NATO lexicon that were all weaker than ever and
in no position to take on multiple major conflicts. The Israeli
government was now naked as ever, purported to have one of the most
powerful intelligence apparatuses and modern military forces on
Earth, and in destroying itself for the sake of Machiavellian PM
Netanyahu’s personal ambitions was now just a mere paper tiger.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As protests continued throughout
September 2023 into the Fall, Hamas waited intently to strike the
Israeli government under its beleaguered throes as it became ever so
weaker. On October 7, 2023 <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231022-al-aqsa-flood-dealing-with-the-aftermath/">Hamas
launched its attack</a> on the Sabbath in between Rosh Ha'Shanah
(Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) violently and
abruptly taking international headlines by storm and rocking the
world with a new geopolitical earthquake that was already mired in an
abyss of crises.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Even more shocking and violent than the
Hamas sneak attack has been the unprecedented retaliation of the IDF
and IAF operation against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip
by Israeli commanders in an openly and defiantly acknowledged and
proclaimed genocide by aerial bombardment resulting in over 15,000
deaths in a mere 45 days, nearly achieving the 16,000 mass civilian
deaths inflicted over an 8-year period by Ukrainian armed forces in
eastern Ukraine. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant shocked many
including this author proclaiming loudly his intent to literally raze
the Gaza Strip to the ground, a defiant and criminal proclamation not
seen perhaps since the Nazis ordered to raze Warsaw, Poland to the
ground in 1944, destroying 85-90% of the city <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Warsaw">in
retaliation to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising</a>.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The disturbing October 9<sup>
</sup>proclamation by Gallant was a most shocking and criminally
insane declaration because <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPdR3E4hCk">he
made no discernment</a> of fighting a military operation against
entrenched Hamas guerrillas or the civilian population of Gaza, half
of which are known to be children. “<i>We are imposing a complete
siege on the city. There will be no electricity, no food, no water,
no fuel. Everything is closed. </i><i><b>We are fighting human
animals</b></i><i> and we are acting accordingly</i>.” High level
information warfare by the Machiavellian Israeli regime was at an all
time high, throwing the catastrophic failure of Israeli collapse into
dictatorship responsible for bringing on a self-fulfilling prophecy
of its own demise into the background and hopefully forgotten about
by the collective West in a fit of international outrage.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">However, the Israeli government has
further exacerbated the crisis of its own making with catastrophic
leadership and military blunders in both its southern and northern
territories failing to achieve any tangible military objectives in
Gaza and <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--lost-the-war-on-the-northern-front--mk-lieberman">failing
altogether to address successful Hezbollah attacks</a> from Lebanon
resulting in high Israeli casualties and losses of nearly 400 tanks
and armored vehicles. The greatest catastrophe now on the hands of
the Israeli armed forces is blatant and inhuman aggression by
commanders like Yoav Gallant <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-death-toll.html">is
the mass civilian deaths</a>, the majority of which are women and
children triggering full spectrum outrage not only across the Arab
countries in western Asia but around the world.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Outrageous attacks by the IAF on October
19, 2023 <a href="https://theatlasnews.co/conflict/2023/10/19/1600-year-old-orthodox-church-destroyed-in-bombing/">destroyed
the </a><a href="https://theatlasnews.co/conflict/2023/10/19/1600-year-old-orthodox-church-destroyed-in-bombing/">1,600
year old</a> St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Cathedral—<i>third
oldest known </i><i>Christian </i><i>church </i><i>on Earth</i>—killing
hundreds in the strike were virtually unreported in the west. This
shocking development came merely 2 days after the unprecedented
<a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-alleged-evidence-of-baptist-hospital-massacre-debunk">bombing
of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City</a> killing far more people
than any other known single-strike by the IAF, forcing mass
international condemnation and <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-s-saree-vows-to-keep-shelling--israel--until-war-on-ga">sworn
direct military confrontations</a> by the Yemeni Ansar-Allah Houthis
and Iraqi Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba vowing <a href="https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/10/11/712490/Iraq-Hezbollah-warns-US-against-aiding-Israel-Gaza-onslaught">to
attack Israeli targets and US forces</a> in Syria and Iraq.</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Since the October 17<sup>th</sup> attack
on the Baptist Hospital <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us-forces-attacked-4-times-iraq-syria-within-hours-2023-11-23/">the
Iraqi Hezbollah al-Nujaba has attacked multiple US air bases</a> in
Iraq and forward operating bases in Syria over 75 times for US
support and supplying of weaponry to the IDF and IAF used in the Gaza
operation. PM Netanyahu had made an extraordinary demand for
munitions to the US government which President Biden has <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/11/25/biden-israel-weapons-stockpile-arms-gaza/">since
moved to lift all restrictions</a> of Israeli access to US weapon
stockpiles. Considering the absolute disaster and failure of weapons
supply and support to a failed state in Ukraine, has the
Machiavellian regime in Israel dragged us all into a deadly trap with
unpredictable consequences in the act of destroying itself since
January 2023?</span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">We now all stand at an extremely
dangerous geopolitical crossroads of war by miscalculation. In the
United States you can condemn and criticize God, but you cannot
criticize and condemn the Israeli government. The collapse of the
Israeli government into PM Netanyahu’s dictatorship is swept under
the western media machine’s rugs and lost in translation, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-09/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-must-go-now-not-after-the-gaza-war/0000018b-14f8-d2fc-a59f-d5f9b1fc0000">just
as the Israeli public’s outrage</a> and outcry that, “<i><b>Netanyahu
must go now</b></i><i>—not after the war in Gaza!</i>” Let us
hope the Machiavellian dictator is stopped before it is all too late.</span></p><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p align="justify" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><b>R.A. Jones</b></i><i> is an
independent writer, researcher, and chief editor of the <a href="http://globalpaproject.blogspot.com/">Global
Political Awakening Project</a>. Please </i><i>donate and keep the
global political awakening </i><i>phenomenon </i><i>growing</i>.</span></p><br /></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-68303528624835481312023-06-17T11:03:00.031-07:002023-06-17T11:25:54.074-07:00GPA Project Exclusive Report: President Vladimir Putin's Statements About Ukraine Operation from the 2023 SPIEF Forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 16, 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZeuaoN02NbG-o1zwGXyV4tJ3DjD4l3046YYnGhPCcmUt1c1L6Sl2CTWtGZnyoomvVtmQKDDWMmtIXpZQ8u4so-cl48MYhJMR0LK2ov0r37KteibGy-IzBTjgNtROY15mFahMgWVPQU7aIpS4eSJfiogolN47vTziwd9lHSlfnGnkDMN4nnHy3Jz0F/s900/Vladimir-Putin1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="900" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZeuaoN02NbG-o1zwGXyV4tJ3DjD4l3046YYnGhPCcmUt1c1L6Sl2CTWtGZnyoomvVtmQKDDWMmtIXpZQ8u4so-cl48MYhJMR0LK2ov0r37KteibGy-IzBTjgNtROY15mFahMgWVPQU7aIpS4eSJfiogolN47vTziwd9lHSlfnGnkDMN4nnHy3Jz0F/w400-h290/Vladimir-Putin1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: georgia;">***</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Exclusive report from Russian Federation newswires of the President of the Russian Federation directly broadcast to the global viewing audience by GPA Project</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">***</span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1633985" target="_blank"><b>Ukraine’s military has no chances for success in counteroffensive attempts</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<i>I believe that the Ukrainian armed forces have no chances for success there and will have no chances. The same is true about other [frontline] directions. I have no doubts about that......[I]ndeed, their losses are very high, even more than 10 to 1 compared to the Russian army. This is fact.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"Let me repeat: the main thing is that there are no successes in any of the directions. The enemy has had no success as reported by the military</i>."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1634177" target="_blank">On future of F-16 jets to Ukraine</a></h2><div><i>"The tanks are burning, including Leopards. F-16s will burn in the same way, there is no doubt about it."</i></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="353" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-s6KkW6reiw" width="483" youtube-src-id="-s6KkW6reiw"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1634007" target="_blank"><b>Ukraine will soon run out of its own military hardware</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<i>Ukraine will soon completely stop using its own equipment as nothing will remain. All that they are fighting with and all that they are using - all this is brought in from abroad.......[Y]ou can’t fight like this for long</i>."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<i>Of course, we see that Western countries are taking utmost efforts to make Russia sustain, as they say, defeat on the battlefield, strategic defeat and are doing all they can for that. We perfectly see that......[B]ut we have set certain goals for ourselves related to the denazification of these territories, related to demilitarization</i>."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<i>Our defense industry is gaining momentum day by day. We have boosted military output by 170% over the past year and there has been a ten-fold increase in the most needed types and the production grows further.......[</i></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>T]his suggests that we have a great safety margin</i>."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1634101" target="_blank"><b>Russia always retaliates after Ukrainian strikes</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<i>We hit military targets with high-accuracy long-range and high-yield weapons and succeed in this respect. It's enough to see arms depots, warehouses and barracks housing personnel, including foreign mercenaries destroyed. <...> There always follows a retaliation. We just avoid presenting it as breaking news very often, but this retaliation is sensitive and the enemy knows this</i>."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<i>If these attacks on our adjacent territories continue, we will consider creating a 'sanitary cordon' on Ukrainian territory. They just have to realize where they are heading for</i>."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-50329110275348254782022-10-14T22:42:00.001-07:002022-10-15T07:42:00.987-07:00GPA Project Headlines Oct. 15, 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6gzkfN0zvXxAZr_Ebqi0Moo8Rf58ARUHrAuY3GxZ31IGS3v1JWTTQKD6v6i3Ne3tiqKwOiHx7bgl2AMWX9dOKynK2V9e8ekxVpxl3rSkxum1DLEh2NPip34DeO7WqujzwwPLjgj4b7IXQo1Lbvew3yMk3mCWjk45HNAaTWtGig2g5asIM9MJQNlu/s500/coffee-and-newspaper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="500" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6gzkfN0zvXxAZr_Ebqi0Moo8Rf58ARUHrAuY3GxZ31IGS3v1JWTTQKD6v6i3Ne3tiqKwOiHx7bgl2AMWX9dOKynK2V9e8ekxVpxl3rSkxum1DLEh2NPip34DeO7WqujzwwPLjgj4b7IXQo1Lbvew3yMk3mCWjk45HNAaTWtGig2g5asIM9MJQNlu/w640-h418/coffee-and-newspaper.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>***Latest developments from Russian Federation newswires transmitted to the global viewers of the GPA Project***</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/36833" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>EU's LNG storage space runs out as Brussels braces for winter without Russian gas</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1516391" target="_blank">US does not care about Europe facing dark and cold winter — Russian envoy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1523137" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Russia has no plans to revive empire, does not aspire to world dominance — lawmaker</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1523075" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Putin describes attempts to ban Ukrainian language and culture as unjust</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522999" target="_blank">Decision to launch remaining Nord Stream 2 line is unlikely to be made — Putin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1523151" target="_blank">Biden orders new $725 million military aid package to Kiev — White House</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1523205" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">West crosses dangerous line with attacks on Nord Stream and Crimean Bridge — official</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1523283" target="_blank">Musk does not rule out Starlink may stop working in Ukraine</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://ria.ru/20221014/starlink-1824181526.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The Pentagon said they could find an alternative to Starlink for the Armed Forces</i></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1523163" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">US exploring options to help provide Ukraine with satellite communications – White House</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1523071" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Activist says Kiev built up enough forces on front line to cross Dnieper, capture ZNPP</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">***UPDATE***</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1523247" target="_blank"><i>Russia disrupts Ukraine’s preparations for river landing operation in Zaporozhye NPP area</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1523193" target="_blank">NATO already defeated in Ukraine amid collapsing ‘anti-Russia’ project — official</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://ria.ru/20221014/diversanty-1824213407.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Observers on the border with Ukraine may be saboteurs, according to Minsk</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1523175" target="_blank"><b><i>Minsk tells Ukraine not to place foreign missions with weapons on border</i></b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1523003" target="_blank">LPR military officer says Ukraine readies to start offensive along two axes next week</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1523005" target="_blank"><b>Russian military units so far received 33,000 mobilized troops — Putin</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/16064693" target="_blank">The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed the destruction of crossings of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Mi-28 helicopters during a special operation</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1523203" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">First convoys with Russian serviceman from joint group of troops arrive in Belarus</span></a></b></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-73368494075046534102022-10-14T09:53:00.004-07:002022-10-14T14:50:40.254-07:00GPA Project Exclusive Report: Russian President Vladimir Putin's Public Statements Oct. 14, 2022<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc7YCPvP2JNacBrcLba6rSBU1b4AZb93N97OzX8Zw4lBdX6dUeGctiC1jq3pUTtXHut8cN5LspsWeAOKFLla_d8EZLQ-4Fn9hIxU_gSrAFEMGu91zTn1JwNjLPgAD6657wmB1YDVxFPH7oD2BQ5vQDi39ulQWO1DVW0XS-myvrfNl0NXI-h7uMiYhG/s640/putin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="640" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc7YCPvP2JNacBrcLba6rSBU1b4AZb93N97OzX8Zw4lBdX6dUeGctiC1jq3pUTtXHut8cN5LspsWeAOKFLla_d8EZLQ-4Fn9hIxU_gSrAFEMGu91zTn1JwNjLPgAD6657wmB1YDVxFPH7oD2BQ5vQDi39ulQWO1DVW0XS-myvrfNl0NXI-h7uMiYhG/w640-h552/putin.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">***<i>Exclusive report from Russian Federation newswires from the President of the Russian Federation broadcast to the global viewers by GPA Project</i>***</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1523057" target="_blank">No need for more massive strikes against facilities in Ukraine — Putin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<b><i>There is no need for massive strikes now. Currently, other tasks are on the agenda, because, in my opinion, out of the 29 facilities 7 were not hit the way the Defense Ministry had planned. But these facilities are being finished off gradually, there is no need for massive strikes, at least for now. Then we'll see</i></b>," Putin said.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1523059" target="_blank">Asked about Ukraine, Putin said he had no regrets</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"<b><i>I want to make it clear: what is happening today is unpleasant, to put it mildly. But we would have had the same thing a little bit later, only in different conditions, far worse for us. This says it all. We are acting correctly and in a timely manner</i></b>," Putin said while answering a question concerning the Ukrainian theme.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="374" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Su_fA6TdmyM" width="482" youtube-src-id="Su_fA6TdmyM"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-42847922216453702022-10-14T08:31:00.003-07:002022-10-14T08:34:33.874-07:00GPA Project Headlines Oct. 14, 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxclof7DbCz-dzO7UAa2fS_AQAEIL6fQbVrLYkHkpXNi4rMFTf2clsTEyxujy1DUY3riy_rsd4Ikd6yTQ20j0UX6Kq-KYsh6PZoDKlQhrb4hwW64Ih6Trp7o3sIKtRg87hSqowk9s5N6J7kWY26fp6O0hPiU6KiGATabNtYKPmAq3syNJnS5Y3GisS/s730/old-typewriter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="730" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxclof7DbCz-dzO7UAa2fS_AQAEIL6fQbVrLYkHkpXNi4rMFTf2clsTEyxujy1DUY3riy_rsd4Ikd6yTQ20j0UX6Kq-KYsh6PZoDKlQhrb4hwW64Ih6Trp7o3sIKtRg87hSqowk9s5N6J7kWY26fp6O0hPiU6KiGATabNtYKPmAq3syNJnS5Y3GisS/w640-h480/old-typewriter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">***<i>Latest updates from the newswires of the Russian Federation and Belarus broadcast to global viewers by the GPA Project</i>***<br /></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1522977" target="_blank">Partial mobilization to end in about two weeks — Putin</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1523001" target="_blank">Russia does not wish to destroy Ukraine, Putin says</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/16004409" target="_blank">Lukashenko said that he was warned about a possible strike on Belarus from Ukraine</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/16051843" target="_blank">CTO regime introduced in Belarus due to possible provocations from some neighboring countries</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1522553" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank"><i><b>US ready to glorify Nazism in its ‘maniacal desire to denigrate’ Russia – ambassador</b></i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1523013" target="_blank">Russian troops strike over 220 Ukrainian military targets in past day</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/16052003" target="_blank"><b>CNN: SpaceX notifies the Pentagon of the inability to pay for the work of Starlink in Ukraine</b></a></span></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/society/1521015" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Starlink satellite system out of order in Ukraine — public movement’s leader</span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1522147" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Germany, 13 NATO states set to create Europe’s more sophisticated air defenses — media</b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1522441" target="_blank"><i>DPR’s head says turning point in campaign for republic’s liberation quite near</i></a></span></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1522343" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Russian air defenses down Su-27 fighter in Ukraine operation — top brass</b></span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1522113" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Russian paratroopers repel Ukrainian army attack in Kherson area — top brass</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1522197" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Lawmaker says strikes on Ukraine showed Russia doesn’t need to use nukes</b></i></span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1522547" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Medvedev dismisses EU foreign policy chief’s nuclear strike remark as ‘paranoia</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">’</span></span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1522577" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Russia’s anti-radar missile demonstrates effectiveness of over 98% in Ukraine – source</b></span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1522487" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">DPR head says it needs to rebuild its air defense system due to great deal of Western arms</span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1522091" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Ukrainian subversive group of Azov Neo-Nazis penetrates into DPR — security ministry</b></span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-16329892286812066262022-10-13T20:10:00.004-07:002022-10-13T20:31:30.249-07:00GPA Project Urgent Report On Europe Oct. 13, 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdkVZx8J5I8VPFvWNQWmfYN9e9cYTTgbpkT9MUAsLNEVW9ffsA1yD3jCz7SSb4CIR-YWXGh8YvozjJKj0Wjc-btpbpXRU6v49ws_FJeZ1Ae1B1fkuNT5TD_8LTZhKqVo94pcJAiZXohNpDq8q8fUzcYej5KJRlE5DhnDcN1af3iuYTiet9zJRlsjG/s460/oil.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="460" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdkVZx8J5I8VPFvWNQWmfYN9e9cYTTgbpkT9MUAsLNEVW9ffsA1yD3jCz7SSb4CIR-YWXGh8YvozjJKj0Wjc-btpbpXRU6v49ws_FJeZ1Ae1B1fkuNT5TD_8LTZhKqVo94pcJAiZXohNpDq8q8fUzcYej5KJRlE5DhnDcN1af3iuYTiet9zJRlsjG/w640-h501/oil.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>***Urgent developments from the newswires of the Russian Federation concerning Europe's energy situation broadcast to global viewers by the GPA Project***</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1521703" target="_blank">Energy markets stability can only be supported by cooperative efforts — Putin</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1521725" target="_blank">Russia not to blame for Europeans stocking up on firewood like in Middle Ages — Putin</a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522461" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Russia will not supply oil to countries setting price caps — Novak</b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522469" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Europe actually has no opportunity to buy Russian gas — Kremlin</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522393" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i>Putin, Erdogan talk gas hub in Turkey, grain deal, and nuclear plant construction</i></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522549" style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Capacity of new Black Sea gas transit system may be comparable to Baltic pipes – Gazprom</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522351" target="_blank">Russia's Eastern gas exports may reach 100 bcm per year</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522357" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Russia, Turkey to quickly move to specific discussion of gas proposals — Gazprom CEO</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522377" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Creating gas hub in Turkey requires agreement with friendly EU countries</span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://ria.ru/20221012/makron-1823552268.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">France to restart 10 more nuclear power units, Macron says</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522375" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Real volume of OPEC+ oil output cuts in November may reach 1 mln bpd — IEA</span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522381" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Putin, Erdogan give orders to work on gas hub in Turkey — Kremlin</i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1522397" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">TurkStream will not substitute Nord Stream — Kremlin</span></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1518229" target="_blank">Bulgaria lifts sanctions on Russian fuel suppliers until end of 2024 — Cabinet</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-13625612131525434992022-10-12T14:45:00.005-07:002022-10-13T19:18:55.799-07:00GPA Project Energy Crisis Headlines Oct. 12, 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy2mIe6qqPncPQ_iGum_HaUi9x9ZqvO6Sz842KdtHlOoIajiqJ_ygETGua8N2cM8q3oYJ-Tj6Z_JEnOkAhb5l98LwP3V8sR_l2wegY-rBoZzin81DbeaMVU6KCu1pIGWFr2AOvMgfaROMpBdv9RONjnonnyuaio50-UYEFJs0hM9uMiVN1JQeqjHZ_/s1600/e422d098171bb14d12d885f5d18e3526.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1600" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy2mIe6qqPncPQ_iGum_HaUi9x9ZqvO6Sz842KdtHlOoIajiqJ_ygETGua8N2cM8q3oYJ-Tj6Z_JEnOkAhb5l98LwP3V8sR_l2wegY-rBoZzin81DbeaMVU6KCu1pIGWFr2AOvMgfaROMpBdv9RONjnonnyuaio50-UYEFJs0hM9uMiVN1JQeqjHZ_/w640-h448/e422d098171bb14d12d885f5d18e3526.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: georgia;">**Very important energy updates from the newswires of the Russian Federation exclusively transmitted to the global public by the GPA Project**</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83794/" target="_blank">Russia ready to supply gas to Europe through remaining Nord Stream 2 line, all that needs to be done is open tap - Putin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83796/" target="_blank"><i>Putin: Russia will not supply energy resources to countries that limit prices</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83820/" target="_blank"><b>Putin: Europe's losses from spot pricing for gas estimated at 300 bln euros this year</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83817/" target="_blank">Deputy PM Novak: We are preparing for oil embargo, redirecting resources eastward, counting on maintaining Russia's export potential</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83826/" target="_blank"><b>Novak: Russia wants to expand port capacity by 40 mln tonnes to pipeline oil exports to EU in three years</b></a></span></div><div><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83750/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Putin on OPEC+ decision at meeting with UAE president: Our actions aimed at stability on global energy market, rather than creation of problems for anyone</span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1521659" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Putin says US, other energy suppliers stand to benefit from Nord Stream attack</span></b></a></div><p></p><div><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83810/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Russian gas hub on Turkish-EU border could replace Nord Streams - Miller</i></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83822/" target="_blank"><b>Sberbank ready to lend to Russian oil and gas sector in yuan, in talks with CBR on reducing provisions on deposits</b></a></span></div><div><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83795/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zaporozhye NPP to use Russian fuel - Rosatom</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83803/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">OPEC reduces forecast for Russian liquid hydrocarbons output for 2023 by 440,000 bpd to 10.08 mln bpd</span></b></a></div><div><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83779/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">European wind-power generation drops nearly 50%; Gazprom books 42.4 mcm via Ukraine</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83777/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Transneft receives notification from Pern on <span style="font-family: georgia;">leak along Druzhba pipeline, repair timeframe still unknown</span></b></span></a></div><div><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83769/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Leak detected on Polish section of Druzhba pipeline supplying oil to Germany, one of two lines operating</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1521713" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Russia will start construction of Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline, Putin says</i></span></b></a></div><div><a href="https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/83759/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Russia's petrochemical industry will not face shortage in naphtha amid decline in oil output - Konov</span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1521475" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Russia cannot forecast Nord Stream recovery time — Deputy PM</b></span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1519089" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Russian gas supplies through Ukraine remain at previous volume, Nord Stream damaged</span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1521881" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Construction of Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline to expand export potential — Gazprom</span></b></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1521895" target="_blank"><i>Capacity expansion for energy supplies to Turkey promising —</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1521895" target="_blank"><i> Russia’s Deputy PM</i></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-50952505951480287112022-03-16T23:04:00.004-07:002022-03-16T23:04:41.299-07:00Russian Defense Ministry: Russian Paratroopers in a Battle With Ukrainian Nationalists Seized Anti-tank Systems and Other Weapons<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> ***<i>Posted for GPA Project global viewing audience</i>, Russian Paratroopers in a Battle With Ukrainian Nationalists***</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="358" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/alhl589Mhwg" width="425" youtube-src-id="alhl589Mhwg"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-22109002182897527362022-03-16T22:52:00.006-07:002022-03-16T22:52:58.753-07:00Valentina Matviyenko: Russia Not Terrified of Military Means<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>***</b><i>P</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>osted for the GPA Project global viewing audience</i>, Chairwoman of the Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, former Governor of Saint Petersburg, Ukrainian SSR born, Russian Federation Senator.<b><i>***</i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="368" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UJIqVJilJo4" width="482" youtube-src-id="UJIqVJilJo4"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-75015304316006041902022-03-09T21:03:00.005-08:002022-03-09T21:03:53.471-08:00Required Viewing About The 8-Year Conflict In Ukraine<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> ***This absolute MUST WATCH documentary shot by German independent journalist and film maker Mark Bartalmai posted for the GPA Project global viewing audience***</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>UKRAINIAN AGONY: The Concealed War</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="334" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U-P-tX04_LA" width="572" youtube-src-id="U-P-tX04_LA"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-38092665744659927842022-03-09T20:45:00.012-08:002022-03-09T20:49:07.506-08:00A Deeper Look Into Ukraine<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">***<i>This op-ed was originally posted on <a href="https://journal-neo.org" style="background-color: #3d85c6;" target="_blank">New Eastern Outlook</a> written by <a href="http://williamengdahl.com" style="background-color: #3d85c6;">F. William Engdahl</a> to be shared with the global viewing audience via GPA Project</i>***</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Ukraine and the Deeper Global Suicide Agenda</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By F. William Engdahl</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbh97JUUlPLDcMjszRhaTDD5dcQnvnJ-Oz8rNXvxroURp1fHCS4ACUZWmtR4qBa5LB3zNLdIhhrh3DmyAZqXPXLmMRnG4_U4s5d1tkki2DsE7tOdkpOAb1eb5bzE6NwMUmBG8qYEno1XiVIARuNXaCTaCT-hA7cs3HVqXZAM629Ob4nssgVt8lTD-a=s740" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="740" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbh97JUUlPLDcMjszRhaTDD5dcQnvnJ-Oz8rNXvxroURp1fHCS4ACUZWmtR4qBa5LB3zNLdIhhrh3DmyAZqXPXLmMRnG4_U4s5d1tkki2DsE7tOdkpOAb1eb5bzE6NwMUmBG8qYEno1XiVIARuNXaCTaCT-hA7cs3HVqXZAM629Ob4nssgVt8lTD-a=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><strong><span lang="en-US">The decision by the Russian President to order military action in neighboring Ukraine beginning February 24, 2022 has shocked many, myself included. The question at this point almost two weeks into military action by Russian and other forces inside Ukraine, is what pushed Russia into what Western media portrays as unilateral unwarranted war of aggression. A public threat by Ukrainian president and comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy on February 19, during meetings with top-level NATO officials and others in the annual Munich Security Conference, provides a largely-ignored clue to Moscow actions. In addition more recent reports of numerous US Pentagon bioweapons labs across Ukraine add to the background threats. Did Moscow believe Russia faced a literal do-or-die reality?</span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><strong><span lang="en-US">Some essential history</span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">The current conflict in Ukraine has its seeds in the 1990’s and the US-backed collapse of the Soviet Union. During high-level Two Plus Four Treaty talks pertaining to Germany’s reunification in 1990, talks between US Secretary of State James Baker III and then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, along with France, the UK and the West German government, over unification of Germany, Baker gave a verbal promise that NATO would not move “one inch” to the East to threaten former Soviet territories, in return for the USSR allowing German <a href="https://alethonews.com/2022/01/15/did-nato-leaders-lie-to-russia/" style="color: #d51818; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">reunification</a> within NATO.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">For years Washington has lied about the exchange, as they moved one after the other former Warsaw Pact countries including Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Baltic States into NATO and closer to striking distance to Russia. Recently Putin cited the 1990 Baker agreement to justify Russian demands that NATO and Washington give binding legal assurances that Ukraine would never be admitted into the NATO alliance. Washington until now has categorically refused to do so.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Putin’s 2007 Munich Speech</strong></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">At the 2007 annual Munich Security Conference, as the Bush-Cheney administration had announced plans to install US missile defense systems in Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic to,“guard against rogue states such as North Korea or Iran,” Russia’s Putin delivered a scathing critique of the US lies and violation of their 1990 assurances on NATO. By that time 10 former communist Eastern states had been admitted to NATO despite the 1990 US promises. Furthermore, both Ukraine and Georgia were candidates to join NATO following US-led Color Revolutions in both countries in 2003-4. Putin rightly argued the US missiles were aimed at Russia, not North Korea or Iran.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">In his 2007 Munich remarks Putin told his Western audience, “It turns out that NATO has put its frontline forces on our borders, and we continue to strictly fulfil the treaty obligations and do not react to these actions at all. I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernization of the Alliance itself, or with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact? Where are those declarations today? No one even remembers them.” Putin added, “But I will allow myself to remind this audience what was said. I would like to quote the speech of NATO General Secretary Mr Woerner in Brussels on 17 May 1990. He said at the time that: “the fact that we are ready not to place a NATO army outside of German territory gives the Soviet Union a firm security guarantee”. <a href="https://aldeilis.net/english/putins-historical-speech-munich-conference-security-policy-2007/" style="color: #d51818; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Where are these guarantees?</a>” </span><span lang="en-US">That was 15 years ago.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><strong><span lang="en-US">The 2014 Maidan Coup d’Etat</span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">By November 2013 an economically corrupt and floundering Ukraine under elected and also very corrupt President Viktor </span><span lang="en-US">Yanukovych</span><span lang="en-US">, announced that, rather than accept a “special” association with the EU, Ukraine would take a far more generous offer from Moscow to join the Eurasian Economic Union led by Moscow. Russia had agreed to cut the price of Russian gas to Ukraine by 30% and to buy $15 billion of Ukraine bonds to ease the Kiew financial crisis.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">At that point, on 21 November, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the man selected by Washington’s Victoria Nuland and Kiev Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, together with then-Vice President Joe Biden, launched what were called Maidan Square protests against the </span><span lang="en-US">Yanukovych</span><span lang="en-US"> regime backed by US NGOs. On February 20, 2014 after CIA-organized snipers, reportedly recruited from nearby Georgia, killed dozens of student protesters and also police, leading </span><span lang="en-US">Yanukovych</span><span lang="en-US"> to flee, Yatsenyuk became Prime Minister in a hand-picked US-run regime, hand-picked by Nuland and Biden <a href="https://vid1.ria.ru/ig/infografika/golova/inter_en/" style="color: #d51818; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">among others</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">Later in December 2014 in an interview with a Russian newspaper, George Friedman of Stratfor, a private firm consulting to the Pentagon and CIA among others, said of the US-led February 2014 Kiev regime change, “Russia calls the events that took place at the beginning of this year a coup d’etat organized by the United States. And it truly was the <a href="https://journal-neo.org/2022/03/09/ukraine-and-the-deeper-global-suicide-agenda/%20http://us-russia.org/2902-in-ukraine-us-interests-are-incompatible-with-the-interests-of-the-russian-federation-stratfor-chief-george-friedman-on-the-roots-of-the-ukraine-crisis.html" style="color: #d51818; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">most blatant coup in history</a>.” </span><span lang="en-US">He was boastful in the interview.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">That Kiev coup regime proceeded after February 22, 2014 to wage a war of extermination and ethnic cleansing of Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine, led to a large degree by a private army of literal neo-nazis from Right Sector (banned in Russia), the same ones who ran security in the Maidan Square and launched a reign of terror against Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Battalions were formed of neo-nazi mercenaries. They were given official state status as “Ukrainian National Guard” soldiers, the Azov Battalion, financed by Ukrainian mafia boss and billionaire oligarch, Ihor Kolomoisky, the financial backer of Zelenskyy as president. The Azov soldiers even sport open SS runes as its logo. In 2016, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) accused the Azov Battalion, officially upgraded to a regiment in January 2015, of committing war crimes such as mass looting, unlawful detention, and torture.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">Today Nuland is Biden’s Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs responsible for Ukraine and Russian affairs. She is well aware of who the Azov Battalion are.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><strong><span lang="en-US">Zelenskyy and Munich 2022</span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">On February 19 in Munich, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy made his threat to deploy nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory. He expressed this as his unilateral revocation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, although Ukraine was not a signatory of the agreement. Two days later on the evening of February 21, Putin made his speech recognizing the sovereign independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. He explicitly referenced Zelenskyy’s Munich nuclear weapons pledge: “This is not empty bravado,” Putin stressed in his speech.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">On March 6 Moscow state news agency, RAI Novosti, quoted a senior Russian SVR foreign intelligence source with details on a secret Ukraine project, reportedly with vital covert Western support, to build a Ukrainian nuclear missile capability and a Ukrainian atom bomb in brazen violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. According to the report, Ukrainian nuclear scientists were disguising the developments by locating them near the high-radiation levels of Chernobyl nuclear reactor site, an explanation for the swift Russian moves to secure Chernobyl. “It was there, judging by the available information, that work was underway both on the manufacture of a “dirty” bomb and on the separation of plutonium,” RIA Novosti quotes the source. The primary bomb research facility was located at the National Scientific Center, “Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology.” As of this writing reports of fierce fighting underway between Russian forces and neo-nazi Ukrainian Azov fighters who reportedly are planning to blow up the research reactor site and <a href="https://journal-neo.org/2022/03/09/ukraine-and-the-deeper-global-suicide-agenda/%20https://southfront.org/ukraine-reportedly-was-close-to-obtaining-nuclear-weapons-when-russia-decided-to-act/" style="color: #d51818; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">blame it</a> on Russia.</span><span lang="en-US"> The battle for control of the large Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is also apparently part of the attempt to conceal the illegal Ukraine bomb project.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">It now begins to become more clear that Putin had serious reason to react at the Ukraine nuclear threat. A Ukrainian nuclear missile within six minutes of Moscow would present existential danger whether Ukraine were in NATO or not.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><strong><span lang="en-US">Huge Military Buildup- Biowarfare?</span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">There was more. Ukrainian press reported a year ago about new Western-built de facto NATO naval bases in Ochakov and Berdyansk as, “modern infrastructure facilities capable of receiving ships of all types, equipped according to NATO standards and built with the money of the alliance countries.” The media boasted, “In three years we will be able to strike at Russian ships in the Black Sea with our mosquito fleet. And if we combine with Georgia and Turkey, the Russian Federation will be blocked,’ Ukrainian military experts <a href="https://johnhelmer.net/operation-barbarossa-in-slow-motion-this-is-the-offensive-capacity-the-us-was-preparing-in-the-ukraine-until-last-week/#more-47611" style="color: #d51818; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">boasted</a>. “</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">In addition, the US Pentagon had no less than eight, perhaps as many as 30 top-secret bioweapons research labs across Ukraine testing DNA of some 4,000 military volunteers. Once Russian soldiers moved to secure the evidence, the US Embassy in Kiev deleted previous mention of the sites from its website, and Ukrainians reportedly moved to destroy the lab evidence. Ukrainian labs in Kharkiv and elsewhere were operating in cooperation with the United States. Stocks of such weapons were being secretly stored in direct violation of international conventions.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">A full month before the Russian military action on 24 February in Ukraine, independent biowarfare researcher, Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, obtained documents detailing “US Pentagon biological experiments with a potentially lethal outcome on 4,400 soldiers in Ukraine and 1,000 soldiers in Georgia. According to the leaked documents, all volunteer deaths should be reported within 24 h (in Ukraine) and 48 h (in Georgia).” She details the human experiments, which include testing for antibodies against some 14 pathogens including Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Borrelia species (Lyme disease) and others. According to the documents the labs in Ukraine and Georgia are part of a Pentagon “$2.5 billion Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Biological engagement program which includes research on bio agents, deadly <a href="https://dilyana.bg/documents-expose-us-biological-experiments-on-allied-soldiers-in-ukraine-and-georgia/" style="color: #d51818; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria</a>.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">On March 6, in a statement to the official RAI Novosti in Moscow, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, stated they had received documents, “from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories confirming that components of biological weapons were being developed in Ukraine, in close proximity to Russian territory.” He noted, “In the course of a special military operation, the facts of an emergency cleansing by the Kiev regime of traces of a military biological program being implemented in Ukraine, funded by the US Department of Defense, were <a href="https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/" style="color: #d51818; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">uncovered</a>.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">Added to this evidence of nuclear and bioweapon WMD placements inside Ukraine in recent years, the West NATO member countries have been pouring billions of dollars of military equipment including anti-tank weapons and explosives into Ukraine while Zelenskyy, rumored by opposition to be in hiding in the US Embassy in Warsaw, calls repeatedly for a NATO “No-Fly” zone over Ukraine, an act that would be a direct casus belli of war between Russia and NATO a war that rapidly could go nuclear or beyond.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">The question is whether this years-long provocation by Washington and NATO of Russian national security via Ukraine is aimed at destroying the viability of Russia as a sovereign nation and military power. Is it a calculated move to use sanctions against Russia to cause global collapse and energy crises, food shortages and worse, all to advance the Davos 2030 Great Reset agenda? Blame it on the “evil Putin” and Russia while BlackRock and the financial powers reorganize the world? It is too early to tell but certain is that whatever prompted the action by Russia on February 24, 2022 had to have been far more serious than CNN or other controlled Western media are telling us.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3c3d3d; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"><em><strong>F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine <a href="https://journal-neo.org/" style="color: #d51818; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">“New Eastern Outlook”</a>.</strong></em></p>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-9996334224386500452021-07-01T11:09:00.001-07:002021-07-01T11:09:20.280-07:00GPA Project Headlines June 15-30, 2021<div style="text-align: left;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1uA_1_5M35ZG3S7660L3rEuO88dZVAWlFZAS_3-O7gKkEc7JJ6WQGyo4_S2a2340gvxTeSeLKGEyjCrBdCxdIN31gaTqSwdinjZUCl5O_qSl5ygtcN3R6LaDlZjtrQczxqL2bDH5XTKk/s730/old-typewriter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="730" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1uA_1_5M35ZG3S7660L3rEuO88dZVAWlFZAS_3-O7gKkEc7JJ6WQGyo4_S2a2340gvxTeSeLKGEyjCrBdCxdIN31gaTqSwdinjZUCl5O_qSl5ygtcN3R6LaDlZjtrQczxqL2bDH5XTKk/w640-h480/old-typewriter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: 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href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/portland-polices-entire-crowd-control-unit-resigns-after-indictment-officer-2021-06-18/">Portland police’s entire crowd control unit resigns after indictment of officer</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-joe-biden-lifestyle-coronavirus-pandemic-health-f97e0316c51d2d8362a17d149daedb14"><b>White House to host July 4 ‘independence from virus’ bash</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-california-health-9ddcb47e472ee0957dd7ca386af3600c">With COVID tamed, it’s a ‘grand reopening’ in California</a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-government-and-politics-business-060d189f46a0d1e9a72c13b58d99ca90"><b>US seeks to fine Air Canada $25.5 million over slow refunds</b></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-16/house-set-to-vote-on-making-juneteenth-a-national-holiday?srnd=premium"><i>House Votes to Make Juneteenth a Holiday, Bill Goes to Biden</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/ri-state-wire-massachusetts-pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-health-b5b72391236e361a3cb7cf2f2eae4d53"><b>Massachusetts offers $1M prizes, scholarships for vaccinated</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/nd-state-wire-north-dakota-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-5ce551266571ad33028ec40302ca6dba">North Dakota’s 1Q taxable sales, purchases drop nearly 10%</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://sputniknews.com/us/202106171083171550-virginia-prosecutor-reportedly-receives-200k-donation-from-soros-for-his-attorney-campaign/">Virginia Prosecutor Reportedly Receives $200k Donation From Soros For His Attorney Campaign</a></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/in-person-marches-music-reflection-americans-mark-juneteenth-2021-06-19/">In-person marches, music and reflection as Americans mark Juneteenth</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-juneteenth-race-and-ethnicity-lifestyle-holidays-1989d244b77dc5771739f8420abdfe22"><b>Federal holiday pressures companies to give Juneteenth off</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-18/bofa-makes-juneteenth-a-holiday-joining-jpmorgan-wells-fargo?srnd=premium">Bank of America Makes Juneteenth a Holiday, Joining JPMorgan, Wells Fargo</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-mining/2021/06/arctic-miners-get-financing-one-worlds-biggest-palladium-projects" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Arctic miners get financing for one of world's biggest palladium projects</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic-lng/2021/06/ships-set-out-trans-arctic-voyage-spring-comes-northern-sea-route">Ships set out on trans-Arctic voyage as spring comes to Northern Sea Route</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2021/06/russia-brings-back-largest-global-uranium-project">Russia brings back largest global uranium project</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/33483">Russia to Launch Tours to North Pole for Chinese Tourists</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1302283"><b>Putin expects Biden summit to restore contacts and establish dialogue</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1302123" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Helping countries with COVID-19 vaccine is Russia's responsibility to the world - Putin</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/russias-foreign-policy/1302315"><b>Putin says Russia ready to extradite cyber criminals to US on reciprocal basis</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-06-14/Putin-denies-Russia-waging-cyber-attacks-against-U-S--115LnxySJnG/index.html">Putin denies Russia waging cyber attacks against U.S.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1304549">Lavrov says return of Russian, US ambassadors is important, symbolic gesture</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1304581">Russian-US relations ‘not a one-way street,’ says Lavrov</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/russian-minister-says-cryptos-could-play-role-in-international-settlements/"><b>Russian Minister Says Cryptos Could Play Role in International Settlements</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/regulation/russians-could-inherit-cryptocurrencies-with-new-law-proposed-by-lawmakers/">Russians Could Inherit Cryptocurrencies with New Law Proposed by Lawmakers</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1302383" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>US sanctions on Russia’s sovereign debt formally come into force on Monday</b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1304655">One person dead, 1,500 people evacuated, 300 houses flooded in Crimea due to heavy rains</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1304589"><b>About 90 houses flooded in Yalta, 49 people evacuated — Emergencies Ministry</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1302249">Alcohol-related mortality grew in Russia last year</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1304583">Lack of imported car components to trigger use of Russian equivalents, says ministry</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Belarus</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1302331"><b>G7 leaders urge Belarusian authorities to conduct new presidential election</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/regulation/betting-on-the-future-of-belarus/">Betting on The Future of Belarus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1304543"><b>Belarus, Russia to further counter efforts of history falsification, says top diplomat</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1304439">Russia, Belarus have common vision of progress towards integration — Lavrov</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1304551"><b>Russia, Belarus agree to coordinate efforts to protect sovereignty — Lavrov</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1304517">Belarus, Russia to strengthen cooperation within EAEU, CSTO and CIS, says top diplomat</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-reaches-deal-belarus-economic-sanctions-according-austria-diplomats-2021-06-18/"><b>EU reaches deal on Belarus economic sanctions, according to Austria, diplomats</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Ukraine/DPR-LNR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1304177"><b>Strong parliament first: Russian diplomat comments on Ukraine plans for ‘strongest army’</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1304763">Ukraine introduces sanctions against Russian executives, Ukrainian businessmen</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/ukraine-looking-at-buying-the-iron-dome-report-670994"><b>Ukraine considers buying the Iron Dome - report</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1301447">Illegal arms and explosives trade on the rise in Ukraine, says Russian OSCE envoy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1302717"><b>Biden’s remarks about corruption quite telling for Ukraine's NATO aspirations — expert</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1300683">Sberbank still plans to sell its business in Ukraine — First Deputy CEO</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1303379"><b>DPR head says Zelensky gives no answer to his proposal to meet</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1301959">Ukrainian saboteurs shot five LPR militiamen near Golubovskoye</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1304375"><b>Russia calls on UN Security Council to discuss Ukraine’s diversion in LPR</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1303325">Minsk remains venue for Contact Group talks, they won’t be relocated — senior official</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1303301"><b>US’s role in settlement in Donbass depends on Washington’s position — official</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1304363">Blast hits gas pipeline in Lugansk</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Philippines</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3137407/arrests-within-months-if-icc-crimes-against-humanity-probe?module=lead_hero_story_4&pgtype=homepage">Arrests within months if ICC crimes against humanity probe into Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war goes ahead: rights lawyer</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>China</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3137000/chinas-yuan-could-become-worlds-currency-choice-2050-under"><i>China’s yuan could become world’s ‘currency of choice’ by 2050 under dual circulation plan</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/33510/">Russia-China Trade in Jan.-May Up by 23.6% Hitting $50.65 Billion</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/33501/">China Says BRICS Countries Pursue Openness, Inclusiveness; Rejects Bloc Politics</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3137138/hong-kong-protests-colour-revolution-or-peaceful-demonstrations">Hong Kong protests: a ‘colour revolution’ or peaceful demonstrations hijacked by radicals? Let’s not twist history</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174770/Chinese-Embassy-in-UK-blasts-G7-statement">Chinese Embassy in UK blasts G7 statement</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226135.shtml">G7 deluded if it believes communiqué will impact China</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226107.shtml"><span style="font-family: georgia;">G7 infrastructure plan can hardly rival BRI</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3137272/nato-says-china-presents-systemic-challenges-and-vows-counter?module=lead_hero_story_2&pgtype=homepage">Nato says China presents ‘systemic challenges’ and vows to counter its rise</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3137181/chinas-closed-borders-real-problem-foreign-business?module=lead_hero_story_1&pgtype=homepage">China’s closed borders ‘a real problem’ for foreign business operations amid coronavirus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/china-busts-a-crypto-related-money-laundering-network-of-1100-people/"><b>China Busts a Crypto-Related Money Laundering Network of 1,100 People</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3136989/china-food-security-soybean-imports-exceptionally-large-pig">China food security: soybean imports ‘exceptionally large’ as pig population nears pre-African swine fever level</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3136890/china-population-three-child-policy-will-not-drastically"><b>China population: three-child policy will not ‘drastically raise birth rate’, top Chinese economist says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3137320/china-australia-relations-top-exporting-state-down-under">China-Australia relations: top exporting state down under calls for reset in China ties</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3136941/china-fine-tunes-pork-reserve-system-panic-selling-and">China fine-tunes pork reserve system as panic selling and sluggish demand send prices tumbling</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3136893/china-credit-slowdown-happening-faster-expected-even-bank" style="font-family: georgia;">China credit slowdown ‘happening faster than expected’ even as bank loans rose unexpectedly in May</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/33522">Taiwan “enthusiastic” with Blinken’s announcement, but Beijing warns of “sending false signals”</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225982.shtml" style="font-size: x-large;">GT Exclusive with Russian ambassador: What position would Russia take in case of an armed conflict between China and US?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226163.shtml">China fires back at NATO's claims, says it won't sit back in face of systemic challenges</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>E.U.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1304183">EU must follow example of Geneva summit and maintain dialogue with Russia, says Kurz</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1304651">EU has no reason to change policy on Russia after Putin-Biden summit</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-joe-biden-europe-global-trade-business-e8a4cffb27bcad69240c283a89a17fa8"><b>Airbus-Boeing deal still leaves other US-EU rifts unresolved</b></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-06-14/Why-G7-not-offering-an-alternative-to-BRI-115xxmE3RnO/index.html">Why G7 not offering an alternative to BRI</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-06-14/At-G7-democracies-are-failing-115iDZuNARy/index.html"><b>At G7, democracies are failing</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-15/hungary-bars-lgbtq-content-for-children-as-orban-eyes-elections?srnd=premium">Hungary Bars LGBTQ Content for Children as Orban Eyes Elections</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Middle East</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-new-government-begins-netanyahu-era-ends-2021-06-14/"><b>Israel’s new government begins, Netanyahu era ends</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174778/People-in-Tel-Aviv-celebrate-end-of-Netanyahu">People in Tel Aviv celebrate end of Netanyahu</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/hady-amr-likely-to-be-us-consul-general-to-palestinians-670998"><b>Hady Amr likely to be US consul-general to Palestinians</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210614-poll-43-of-israelis-believe-new-government-will-fail/">Poll: 43% of Israelis believe new government will fail</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210614-palestine-condemns-israels-plan-to-build-534-new-settlement-units/">Palestine condemns Israel's plan to build 534 new settlement units</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210613-israel-demolishes-bedouin-homes-in-the-west-bank/">Israel demolishes Bedouin homes in the West Bank</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210609-1500-palestinian-home-face-demolition-in-jerusalems-silwan/">1,500 Palestinian homes face demolition in Jerusalem's Silwan</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210612-israel-army-we-failed-to-prevent-palestine-resistance-from-launching-rockets/">Israel army: 'We failed to prevent Palestine resistance from launching rockets'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210614-gantz-approves-new-targets-for-attack-in-gaza/">Gantz approves new targets for attack in Gaza</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210613-jordan-ex-royal-court-chief-faces-trial-over-alleged-monarchy-plot/">Jordan ex-royal court chief faces trial over alleged monarchy plot</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/14/659009/US-Israel-Saudi-plotted-to-pressure-Jordan-normalizing-ties--Tel-Aviv">Paper details US, Israel, Saudi role in coup plot against Jordan king</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210614-ousted-israel-pm-plotted-with-saudis-mbs-to-undermine-jordan-king/">Ousted Israel PM plotted with Saudi's MBS to undermine Jordan king</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174754/Kata-ib-Hezbollah-warns-against-continued-US-presence-in-Iraq"><b>Kata'ib Hezbollah warns against continued US presence in Iraq</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/14/659002/Iraq-defeated-Daesh-unity-between-army-PMU,-Peshmerga-"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">President: Iraq defeated Daesh thanks to army, Hashd al-Sha'abi</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000324000433/Rhani-Iran-N-Afer-War-B-Never-Srrender-Aggressrs"><b>Rouhani: Iran Not After War, But Never to Surrender to Aggressors</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174675/Joint-IRGC-Army-air-defenses-ready-to-confront-any-threats">Joint IRGC, Army air defenses ready to confront any threats</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174421/Magnitude-5-2-quake-strikes-Ilam-no-casualties-reported"><b>Magnitude 5.2 quake strikes Ilam, no casualties reported</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/14/659030/Zarif-Iran-Netanyahu-oust-Israel-Palestinians-">FM Zarif: Israel's tyrant falls as Iran continues march of glory</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000324000700/Army-Cmmander-Iranian-Navy%E2%80%99s-Sailing-in-Wesern-Hemisphere-A-Trning"><b>Army Commander: Iranian Navy’s Sailing in Western Hemisphere A Turning Point</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000324000544/Spkesman-Asks-G-Sp-Meddling-wih-Iran's-Dmesic-Affairs">Spokesman Asks G7 to Stop Meddling with Iran's Domestic Affairs</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210610-russia-soldier-killed-three-injured-in-syria/"><b>Russia soldier killed, three injured in Syria</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210613-syria-hospital-hit-in-artillery-attacks-on-afrin-at-least-13-killed/">Syria hospital hit in artillery attacks on Afrin, at least 13 killed</a></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210610-russia-fm-warns-us-over-supporting-separatists-in-syria/">Russia FM warns US over supporting separatists in Syria</a></b></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210604-kurdish-militia-shoots-anti-child-conscription-protesters/">Kurdish militia shoots anti-child conscription protesters</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210611-france-ngo-financing-syria-militia-guilty-of-war-crimes-report-says/">France NGO financing Syria militia guilty of war crimes, report says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000323000511/New-Evidence-Shws-US-Frces-Training-Terrriss-in-Syria">New Evidence Shows US Forces Training Terrorists in Syria</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210614-erdogan-turkey-signs-new-3-6bn-currency-swap-deal-with-china/">Erdogan: Turkey signs new $3.6bn currency swap deal with China</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-06-14/Turkish-police-detain-47-officers-over-failed-coup-115xEcbQIGk/index.html">Turkish police detain 47 officers over failed coup</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210614-turkey-strikes-ypg-positions-in-northern-syria-after-attack-on-hospital/">Turkey strikes YPG positions in northern Syria after attack on hospital</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/33513">Turkey’s offer to run Kabul airport aims to project power over Kashmir against India</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210607-us-support-for-kurdish-groups-is-biggest-problem-for-turkey-dm-says/">US' support for Kurdish groups is biggest problem for Turkey, DM says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210614-turkey-nato-vital-to-security-but-needs-clear-vision-says-official/"><b>Turkey: NATO vital to security but needs clear vision, says official</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-06-09/Pakistan-refuses-to-host-U-S-military-bases-for-counterterrorism-10WUvmwY44o/index.html"><b>Pakistan refuses to host U.S. military bases for counterterrorism in Afghanistan</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2021/06/11/on-pakistan-s-current-foreign-policy-course/">On Pakistan’s Current Foreign Policy Course</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/14/659031/Yemeni-forces-launch-drone-attack-against-Saudi-Arabia-Abha-International-Airport-Spokesman">Spokesman: Yemeni forces' drone carried out new attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha Intl. Airport</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/11/658773/US-sanctions-part-of-systematic-plot-meant-to-choke-off-Yemeni-economy-Houthi">Houthi after new sanctions: US prioritizes war in Yemen</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/10/658747/US-Treasury-imposes-Houthi-related-sanctions">US Treasury imposes sanctions on Yemeni, Syrian individuals, entities</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>FINANCIAL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-prices-business-10933ca53c9231f0708f2a8e5be03ac2">Record rise in US wholesale prices over the past year</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3136792/china-says-extraordinary-coronavirus-stimulus-us-europe-have" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>China says ‘extraordinary’ coronavirus stimulus policies from US, Europe have ramped up global inflation risks</i></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mall-owner-washington-prime-group-files-for-bankruptcy-11623668786"><b>Mall Owner Washington Prime Seeks $950 Million Debt Cut in Bankruptcy</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-supercharged-corporate-debt-boom-record-11623681511?mod=hp_lead_pos5">Pandemic Hangover: $11 Trillion in Corporate Debt</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/federal-reserve-balance-sheet-trillion"><b>Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Tops $8T for First Time</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-feds-kashkari-opposed-rate-hikes-least-through-2023-2021-06-18/">Fed’s Kashkari opposed to rate hikes at least through 2023</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stimulus-checks-could-start-hitting-230016982.html">New Stimulus Checks Could Start Hitting Your Account Automatically</a></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/gold-tokens-take-off-as-inflation-accelerates-bitcoin-retreats">Gold Tokens Take Off as Inflation Accelerates, Bitcoin Retreats</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/33485/">No more dollars in Russia’s National Welfare Fund: mainly euro, yuan and gold</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/us-inflation-rises-faster-than-expected-may">US Consumer Prices Rise Faster Than Expected in May</a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-17/gold-steadies-after-losing-mojo-as-fed-set-to-trim-stimulus?srnd=premium"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">Gold Steadies After Losing ‘Mojo’ as Fed Set to Trim Stimulu</span><b>s</b></a></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/stablecoins-cbdcs-dont-present-inherent-financial-stability-risk-bank-of-england-executive-says"><b>Stablecoins, CBDCs Don’t Present Inherent Risk to Financial Stability: Bank of England Executive Says</b></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/bis-survey-finds-central-banks-keen-on-tourists-non-residents-using-upcoming-cbdcs">BIS Survey Finds Central Banks Keen on Tourists, Non-Residents Using Upcoming CBDCs</a></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/dorsey-suggests-twitter-lightning-network-integration"><b>Jack Dorsey Suggests Twitter Likely to Integrate Lightning Network</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/texas-state-regulator-greenlights-banks-to-custody-crypto">Texas State Regulator Greenlights Banks to Custody Crypto</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/el-salvadors-bitcoin-bill-raises-issues-imf-spokesperson"><b>El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bill Raises ‘Issues’: IMF Spokesperson</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/nigerias-central-bank-may-launch-a-digital-currency-pilot-in-2021">Nigeria’s Central Bank May Launch a Digital Currency Pilot in 2021</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/state-street-bank-launches-dedicated-cryptocurrency-division"><b>State Street Bank Launches Cryptocurrency Division</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-france-swiss-national-bank-begin-cross-border-cbdc-experiment">Bank of France, Swiss National Bank Begin Cross-Border CBDC Experiment</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/news/bis-and-boe-launch-the-innovation-hub-london-centre/">BIS and BOE Launch the Innovation Hub London Centre</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/news/visa-partners-with-goldman-sachs-to-facilitate-global-payments/">Visa Partners with Goldman Sachs to Facilitate Global Payments</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-16/fed-s-2-hikes-no-paris-helicopters-digital-currencies-eco-day?srnd=economics-vp">Fed’s 2 Hikes, No Paris Helicopters, Digital Currencies: Eco Day</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-16/companies-with-2-1-trillion-of-debt-face-natural-capital-risks?srnd=premium">Companies With $2.1 Trillion of Debt Face Natural Capital Risks</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1304779"><b>Russian stocks close in the red amid negative external environment</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2021/06/worlds-northernmost-railway-carry-52-million-tons-petro-products"><b>World's northernmost railway to carry 52 million tons of petro products</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2021/06/under-mounting-pressure-renewables-russias-top-oilman-says-new-arctic">Under mounting pressure from renewables, Russia's top oilman says new Arctic giga-project will produce "green barrels"</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/33482/"><b>Russia’s Novatek Agrees Long-Term Arctic LNG Supplies to China</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://rogtecmagazine.com/gazprom-neft-was-the-first-in-russia-to-launch-an-oil-and-gas-field-amid-covid-19-pandemic/">Gazprom Neft was the First in Russia to Launch an Oil and Gas Field Amid COVID-19 Pandemic</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://rogtecmagazine.com/first-plane-landed-at-the-utrenniy-airport-of-the-arctic-lng-2-project/"><b>First Plane Landed at the Utrenniy Airport of the Arctic LNG 2 project</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2021/06/08/pakistan-and-russia-in-gas-cooperation/">Pakistan and Russia in Gas Cooperation</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1309121">Efficiency of solar, wind energy to become equal to oil, gas in 2027-2035, says Novak</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1299135">Rosneft to complete first stage of Vostok Oil construction in 2024 — project director</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1298857">Nord Stream 2 more economically expedient and has no political risks — Putin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1305315"><b>Oil to rise to $100/barrel by 2022, for 6 reasons — Bank of America</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Decade-Of-Chaos-Could-Send-Oil-To-130-Per-Barrel.html">Decade Of Chaos Could Send Oil To $130 Per Barrel</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Exxon-Doubles-Down-On-Worlds-Hottest-Offshore-Play.html" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Exxon Doubles Down On World’s Hottest Offshore Play</b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chevron-sell-some-permian-assets-valued-more-than-1-bln-sources-2021-06-30/">EXCLUSIVE Chevron to sell swath of Permian assets valued at more than $1 bln -sources</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-natural-gas-producers-hope-customers-will-pay-more-green-gas-2021-06-30/">U.S. natural gas producers hope customers will pay more for 'green gas'</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/mesquite-energy-weighs-sale-some-eagle-ford-assets-sources-2021-07-01/">Mesquite Energy weighs sale of some Eagle Ford assets - sources</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1308415">OPEC+ countries oil output down 114% of plan - by 7.5 mln bpd in May</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210610-iran-ships-tankers-containing-1-4m-barrels-of-crude-oil-to-syria/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Iran ships tankers containing 1.4m barrels of crude oil to Syria</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Real-Reason-Big-Oil-Is-Giving-Up-On-Iraq.html"><b>The Real Reason Big Oil Is Giving Up On Iraq</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/ebrd-stops-upstream-oil-gas-investments-aligns-with-paris-agreement-2021-07-01/">EBRD stops investing in upstream oil and gas to align with Paris goals</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1304587">Russia’s top brass to test new troop financing scheme in Zapad-2021 strategic drills</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1304727"><b>Commandos from Russia, Belarus, Serbia seize terrorists in Slavic Brotherhood drills</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2021/06/russias-most-advanced-nuclear-sub-arrives-zapadnaya-litsa">Russia’s most advanced cruise missile nuclear sub arrives at Zapadnaya Litsa</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2021/06/teriberka-gets-russias-second-arctic-research-station-fueled-renewables"><b>Teriberka gets Russia’s second Arctic research station powered by renewables</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2021/06/20-warships-sail-out-new-barents-sea-exercise">20 warships sail out for new Barents Sea exercise</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1304497">Russia keeps a close eye on information Turkey may create military base in Azerbaijan</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174771/US-military-base-near-Baghdad-airport-hit-by-drones-report"><i>US military base near Baghdad airport hit by drones: report</i></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174760/US-military-logistics-convoys-targeted-in-4-Iraqi-provinces"><b>US military logistics convoys targeted in 4 Iraqi provinces</b></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000324000480/Iran-US-Shld-Give-Garanees-N-Repea-Trmp-Era-Misakes">Iran: US Should Give Guarantees Not to Repeat Trump-Era Mistakes</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000324000372/Navy-Cmmander-US-Embarrassed-by-Iranian-Warships%E2%80%99-Presence-in-Alanic">Navy Commander: US Embarrassed by Iranian Warships’ Presence in Atlantic Ocean</a></b></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/33495">Scandinavian states work alongside the U.S. to contain Russia in the Arctic</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226131.shtml"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>PLA deploys AI in mock warplane battles, 'trains both pilots and AIs'</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-5541197564917007862021-06-04T08:54:00.005-07:002021-06-04T09:00:12.788-07:00GPA Project Headlines June 1-15, 2021<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioNQ9ZIOXwltfoFdoQABZfj5M9tOFCdmbTtCUeWeQKZiTxxhUP42kEIYg5U1w6lEqZdOtQIIEDOa3lmWEV05gYOqSNIJ8L4kLeEjbubg3jqiGsA44BCGBWyDeTA93H5e__2zXdk2Mf6LU/s2000/1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="2000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioNQ9ZIOXwltfoFdoQABZfj5M9tOFCdmbTtCUeWeQKZiTxxhUP42kEIYg5U1w6lEqZdOtQIIEDOa3lmWEV05gYOqSNIJ8L4kLeEjbubg3jqiGsA44BCGBWyDeTA93H5e__2zXdk2Mf6LU/w640-h400/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><i><b>TOP HEADLINES</b></i> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-28/texas-hospital-staff-says-vaccine-mandate-breaks-nuremberg-code?srnd=premium">Texas Hospital Staff Says Vaccine Mandate Breaks Nuremberg Code</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://williamengdahl.com/englishNEO19May2021.php">Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1294359">Mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 should not be introduced, Putin says</a></span></li><li><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1296795"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lavrov points to Western attempts to politicize issues related to COVID-19 origin</span></a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/whole-foods-market-inc-lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-technology-a4ef4f24801f62ac65918e4560d7eb8a">Genetically modified salmon head to US dinner plates</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-31/meat-is-latest-cyber-victim-as-hackers-hit-top-supplier-jbs"><span style="font-family: georgia;">All of JBS’s U.S. Beef Plants Were Forced Shut by Cyberattack</span></a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/jbs-sa-lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-technology-bf82114d3f54e5be2241bd5f9a0b2639">Largest meat producer getting back online after cyberattack</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-in-rich-countries-hit-a-12-year-high-in-april-11622637522?mod=hp_major_pos1#cxrecs_s" style="font-family: georgia;">Inflation in Rich Countries Hit a 12-Year High in April</a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/diem-plans-to-replace-usd-stablecoin-with-gov-digital-dollar-cbdc/">Diem plans to replace USD stablecoin with gov digital dollar</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/fed-acknowledges-foreign-cbdc-china-is-a-driver-for-digital-currency/">Fed acknowledges foreign CBDC, including China, is a driver for digital currency</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/as-diem-looms-the-fed-gets-serious-about-digital-currency/">As Diem looms, the Fed gets serious about digital currency</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/bis-digital-currency-paper-predicts-money-will-be-unbundled/">BIS digital currency paper predicts money will be unbundled</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-01/americans-are-done-with-5-days-a-week-in-the-office-here-s-what-that-means-for-the-economy?srnd=premium">Americans Are Done With 5-Days a Week in the Office. Here’s What That Means for the Economy</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/goldman-sachs-analyst-says-crypto-is-an-alternative-to-copper-not-gold">Goldman Sachs Analyst Says Crypto Is an Alternative to Copper, Not Gold</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1297685">Russian scientist calls for ban on developing biological weapons</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297717">Russian Finance Ministry to fully abandon dollar in National Wealth Fund structure</a></span></li><li><a href="https://sputniknews.com/us/202105281083018563-san-jose-shooting-how-covid--unresolved-socio-economic-issues-trigger-violence-in-us/">San Jose Shooting: How COVID & Unresolved Socio-Economic Issues Trigger Violence in US</a></li><li><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/525561-new-world-order-emerges/">'New world order' being formed before our eyes, Russia’s deputy defense minister tells RT ahead of key Moscow security conference</a></li><li><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/02/1025633/seven-eu-countries-just-got-a-digital-vaccine-passport/">Seven EU countries just got a digital vaccine passport</a></li></ul></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><i><b>BIO-NEWS</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://williamengdahl.com/englishNEO19May2021.php" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action</i></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1298859">‘Crusade for cash': Putin blasts Western efforts to discredit Russia’s vaccine</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1298385"><b>Russia to open for vaccine tourism starting July, says investment fund’s head</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/whole-foods-market-inc-lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-technology-a4ef4f24801f62ac65918e4560d7eb8a">Genetically modified salmon head to US dinner plates</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/05.21/salk.html"><b>Bombshell Salk Institute science paper reveals the covid spike protein is what’s causing deadly blood clots… and it’s in all the covid vaccines</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sees-probable-link-between-pfizer-vaccine-small-number-myocarditis-cases-2021-06-01/" style="font-family: georgia;">Israel sees probable link between Pfizer vaccine and myocarditis cases</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1297195"><b>Russia among most prepared worldwide for ‘epidemiological shocks’ — top sanitary doctor</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1297327">Efficacy of Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus surpasses 96%, Health Minister says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1297159"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia’s EpiVacCorona vaccine expected to provide immunity for one year — developer</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1295299">Western healthcare systems less prepared for pandemic than CIS ones — sanitary watchdog</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-approves-sinovac-covid-19-vaccine-2nd-chinese-made-dose-listed-2021-06-01/"><b>WHO approves Sinovac COVID shot in second Chinese milestone</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3135783/coronavirus-china-hits-out-vaccine-hoarding-nations-during?module=lead_hero_story_3&pgtype=homepage"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">China hits out at vaccine ‘hoarding’ nations during BRICS talks</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3135733/coronavirus-us-detail-no-strings-global"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>US to detail ‘no strings’ global distribution plan for 80 million vaccine doses</b></span></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/nebula-genomics-to-auction-genome-sequence-as-nft/">Nebula Genomics to auction genome sequence as NFT</a></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><i><b>TECH</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/02/1025633/seven-eu-countries-just-got-a-digital-vaccine-passport/"><b>Seven EU countries just got a digital vaccine passport</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1297257"><span style="font-size: large;">Russia planning to use AI to assess epidemiological situation</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/bill-gates-eu-pledge-1-billion-boost-green-technology-2021-06-02/"><b>Bill Gates and EU pledge $1 billion boost for green technology</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-gates-backs-new-vc-fund-focused-on-metamaterials-11622631600?mod=hp_lista_pos5">Bill Gates Backs New Venture Fund Focused on Metamaterials</a></u></span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/bill-gates-eu-pledge-1-billion-boost-green-technology-2021-06-02/"><br /></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297207"><b>Kremlin does not curb activity of regions willing to cooperate with Elon Musk</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; 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Here’s What That Means for the Economy</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/regulation/texas-senate-passes-crypto-bill-goes-to-the-governor-to-be-signed-into-law/"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Texas Senate Passes Crypto Bill, Goes to the Governor to Be Signed into Law</b></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-31/meat-is-latest-cyber-victim-as-hackers-hit-top-supplier-jbs"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">All of JBS’s U.S. Beef Plants Were Forced Shut by Cyberattack</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000313000481/Hackers-Allegedly-Breach-New-Yrk-Transi-Ahriy-Sysems-Amid-Wave-f"><b>Hackers Allegedly Breach New York Transit Authority Systems Amid Wave of Cyberattacks, Media Point Finger at China</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/massachusetts-ferry-service-slowed-by-ransomware-attack-11622655610?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1" style="font-family: georgia;">Massachusetts Ferry Service Slowed by Ransomware Attack</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/us/202105281083018563-san-jose-shooting-how-covid--unresolved-socio-economic-issues-trigger-violence-in-us/"><b>San Jose Shooting: How COVID & Unresolved Socio-Economic Issues Trigger Violence in US</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3135823/two-us-children-armed-ak-47-and-shotgun-engage"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Two US children, armed with AK-47 and shotgun, engage in shoot-out with officers</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><u>Russia</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1297685" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Russian scientist calls for ban on developing biological weapons</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1296811">NATO’s encroachment of Russian borders signifies malevolent plans — Lavrov</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1296077"><b>Russia to set up 20 new military units in country’s west in response to NATO’s activity</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://sputniknews.com/russia/202106041083069698-possible-disconnection-from-swift-system-will-not-be-disaster-for-russia-envoy-to-eu-says/">Possible Disconnection From SWIFT System Will Not Be Disaster for Russia, Envoy to EU Says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1296597">Russia slowly coming out of difficult epidemiological situation but risks remain — Putin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1296723"><b>State Duma adopts bill on foreign IT-giants activities in Russia in 1st reading</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1297005">Russian diplomat says Moscow set on abandoning another accord with US</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297297" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Government forecasts 4.5-5% inflation in Russia by end of 2021</b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1297273"><b>Mass vaccination of Russians against COVID-19 reaches 25% completion — official</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1297323">Infant mortality in Russia falls by half in past 15 years</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1296681"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Goals of decreasing infant mortality reached, among the lowest worldwide — Health Minister</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1295807"><b>Over 230 suspects behind bomb hoaxes caught in Russia this year</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1295981" style="font-family: georgia;">FSB sweep nets nearly 100 clandestine gunmakers in Russia</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1295487"><b>FSB nabs 14 members of Ukrainian radical group in southern Russia</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1295961">Sixteen wildfires break out in Russia’s Tyumen Region over 24 hours</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1296197"><b>Localization of Aurus production to grow to 80% by 2022 — Putin</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><u>Belarus</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1298461">West’s hostile moves against Belarus are assault on Russia, Lukashenko says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1296093"><b>Preparations in full swing for Russia-Belarus strategic drills, says defense chief</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1295259">Minsk to open borders for citizens of neighboring states who want to get COVID-19 jab</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1298099"><i>Detained blogger admits guilt in organizing actions violating public order</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.unz.com/akarlin/protasevich-served-in-azov/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Roman Protasevich Served in the Azov Battalion</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/27/no-indication-belarus-agents-were-on-diverted-flight-greek-pm"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">‘No indication’ Belarus agents were on diverted flight: Greek PM</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-belarus-government-and-politics-fde54e61138f6ee4281d1f05cba3c2e8"><b>Belarus: Activist stabs himself with pen while in court</b></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/lukashenko-unveils-details-of-sochi-talks-with-putin_i_0000130433.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Lukashenko unveils details of Sochi talks with Putin</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/lukashenko-belarus-ill-wishers-proceeded-from-organizing-riots-to-strangling-tactics_i_0000130127.html"><b>Lukashenko: Belarus’ ill-wishers move from riot methods to strangling tactics</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/lukashenko-putin-agree-second-tranche-of-loan-new-belavia-flights_i_0000130325.html"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lukashenko, Putin agree second tranche of loan, new Belavia flights</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><u>Ukraine/DPR-LNR</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1297399"><b>Kiev to address UNSC, Donbass if it wants to review accords, Russian official says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1296791">Russia does not intend to discontinue gas transit to Europe through Ukraine — Kremlin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><div><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1297425"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Recent conflict escalation in Donbass was man-made, Russia’s deputy chief of staff says</b></span></a></div><div><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/unsc-arria-formula-meeting-donbass-and-maidan/"><span style="font-family: georgia;">UNSC “ARRIA FORMULA” MEETING: DONBASS AND MAIDAN</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1297085"><b>Advanced weapons to be supplied to Ukraine under the guise of NATO’s drills, says general</b></a></span></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/society/1296923"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Czech citizen sentenced to 20 years in prison for participation in Donbass events</span></a></div><div><div><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/kiev-forces-shell-dpr-111-times-in-may-kill-two-civilians-11-militiamen.html"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Kiev forces shell DPR 111 times in May, kill two civilians, 11 militiamen</b></span></a></div><div><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/ukraine-en/dpr-parliamentarian-calls-kravchuk-s-bid-to-relocate-minsk-talks-crazy-nonsensical.html"><span style="font-family: georgia;">DPR parliamentarian calls Kravchuk’s bid to relocate Minsk talks ‘crazy,’ nonsensical</span></a></div></div><div><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/politics-en/kiev-s-refusal-to-interact-with-donbass-is-key-reason-behind-negotiation-deadlock-kozak.html"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Kiev’s refusal to interact with Donbass is key reason behind negotiation deadlock – Kozak</b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1298737"><i>LPR says Belarusian blogger Protasevich was sniper in Ukrainian Azov nationalist battalion</i></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/society/1296935" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Ukraine in top 3 of world’s child porn suppliers, Prosecutor General says</b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-leader-asks-lawmakers-adopt-anti-oligarch-law-2021-06-02/">Ukraine's leader moves to strip oligarchs of power with new bill</a></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/regulation/head-of-ukrainian-cyber-police-advocates-for-regulating-cryptocurrencies/"><b>Head of Ukrainian Cyber Police Advocates for Regulating Cryptocurrencies</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000312000528/Iran-Briefs-ICAO-n-Ukrainian-Plane-Crash-Case" style="font-family: georgia;">Iran Briefs ICAO on Ukrainian Plane Crash Case</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/business/diesel-fuel-shortages-expose-ukraines-reliance-on-russian-belarus-imports.html"><b>Diesel fuel shortages expose Ukraine’s reliance on Russian, Belarus imports</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/american-congressional-delegation-visits-kyiv.html">American congressional delegation visits Kyiv</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><u>China</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/33414">China Calls Partnership with Russia 'Solid as a Rock' After Russia Denies Alliance Against U.S.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/33416/">RZD Logistics Transports 230-Ton Pressing Machine from Voronezh to China</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/33450/">Russia, China Acting Together Can Change Balance of Power in Their Favor</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/03/658197/China-US-spying-Merkel-Norway-Denmark"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>US spying all over world unacceptable, intolerable, China foreign ministry says</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/03/658193/China-Wang-Wenbin-US-unilateral-sanctions-Iran">China raps US' maximum pressure, wants revocation of all unilateral sanctions imposed on Iran</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3135917/us-keeps-spy-plane-flights-over-south-china-sea-huge-increase">US keeps up spy plane flights over South China Sea, in ‘huge increase’ from 2020</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225380.shtml">China to supply 1 billion vaccine doses overseas by year end</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3135652/china-reports-worlds-first-possible-human-case-h10n3-bird-flu">China reports world’s first possible human case of H10N3 bird flu</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3135852/coronavirus-shipping-rates-stay-unprecedented-levels-until?module=lead_hero_story_2&pgtype=homepage"><b>Coronavirus: shipping rates to stay at ‘unprecedented’ levels until pandemic brought under control</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225379.shtml">China vows to protect Chinese firms amid reports of new US crackdown</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/chinas-cnpc-cuts-methane-emission-intensity-by-6-2020-2021-06-03/"><b>China's CNPC cuts methane emission intensity by 6% in 2020</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-makes-desalination-push-ease-water-scarcity-2021-06-02/">China makes desalination push to ease water scarcity</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3125689/china-australia-relations-barley-dispute-going-wto-headwinds"><b>China-Australia relations: barley dispute going to WTO as headwinds loom in Australia’s alternative markets</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-banks-are-bursting-with-dollars-thats-worry-2021-06-01/">Analysis: China's banks are bursting with dollars, and that's a worry</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1224954.shtml">China-Pakistan Economic Corridor faces new opportunities to boost industrial cooperation</a></b></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><b>Europe</b></u><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297585"><b>SWIFT will ‘shoot itself in the foot’ by disconnecting Russia — lawmaker</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/russia/202105311083042225-eu-to-discuss-disconnecting-russia-from-swift-before-making-decision/"><span style="font-size: large;">EU to Discuss Disconnecting Russia From SWIFT Before Making Decision</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/russia/202106031083067086-swift-may-suffer-losses-if-russia-is-disconnected-russian-deputy-foreign-minister-says/"><b>SWIFT May Suffer Losses If Russia Is Disconnected, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105291083028567-why-eu-report-calling-for-regime-change-in-russia-is-last-ditch-effort-to-save-the-blocs-relevance/">Why EU Report Calling for Regime Change in Russia is Last Ditch Effort to Save the Bloc's Relevance</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297565"><b>Nord Stream 2 meets Austria’s economic interests — Kurz</b></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297573"><span style="font-size: large;">EU, Russia need to cooperate in areas of mutual interest — Kurz</span></a><br /><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1298869"><b>Russia’s EU partners in Nord Stream 2 fighting for own interests — Putin</b></a><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><u>Middle East</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/03/658198/Zarif-Netanyahu-joins-history-dustbin-Iran-continues-stand-tall"><b><i>Zarif: Netanyahu meets same fate of anti-Iran co-conspirators in history’s dustbin</i></b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210527-israel-rejects-us-plan-to-reopen-consulate-in-occupied-jerusalem/">Israel rejects US plan to reopen consulate in occupied Jerusalem</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210602-palestinians-demand-the-removal-of-abbas-from-his-leadership-positions/"><b>Palestinians demand the removal of Abbas from his leadership positions</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210602-lebanon-suffering-one-of-worlds-worst-economic-crises-world-bank-says/">Lebanon suffering one of world's worst economic crises, World Bank says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/former-defense-minister-congratulates-new-change-govt-669951"><i>From hope to despair: Israelis react to new anti-Netanyahu coalition</i></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210602-netanyahu-launches-legal-bid-to-stop-oppositions-unity-government/">Netanyahu launches legal bid to stop opposition's unity government</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-lapid-enlists-gantz-moves-closer-unseating-netanyahu-2021-06-02/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Israel’s Lapid enlists Gantz, moves closer to unseating Netanyahu</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/gantz-flies-to-washington-for-whirlwind-talks-with-senior-biden-officials-669924">Gantz flies to Washington for whirlwind talks with senior Biden officials</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000312000804/Israel-Will-Ask-US-fr-$bln-%E2%80%98Replenish%E2%80%99-Irn-Dme"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Israel Will Ask US for $1bln to ‘Replenish’ Iron Dome</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/netanyahu-to-biden-well-fight-iran-relentlessly-with-without-nuke-deal-669804">Gantz slams Netanyahu over threat that Israel will ignore US on Iran</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-government-and-politics-14315a53c2ba829166690ab1b3a9f3be"><b>No ‘provoking’: Israeli official vows quieter tone with US</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/02/658053/Israel-blasts-Syrian-army-post-Golan-Heights">Israel claims destroying Syrian army post in occupied Golan Heights</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/01/657994/Israel-War-between-the-Wars-doctrine-fatally-week-against-Axis-of-Resistance-Expert">Haaretz: Israel’s 'War between the Wars' doctrine fatally weak against Axis of Resistance</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000309000369/Tel-Aviv-Srngly-Warned-Agains-Assassinain-Bids-Targeing-Resisance"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Tel Aviv Strongly Warned Against Assassination Bids Targeting Resistance</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/new-mossad-head-barnea-hints-at-continued-assassinations-attacks-on-iran-669807">New Mossad chief hints at more assassinations, attacks against Iran</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000309000490/Iranian-DM-Palesinians%E2%80%99-Defense-Pwer-Nighmare-fr-Israel"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Iranian DM: Palestinians’ Defense Power Nightmare for Israel</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-BG0ZO915Y8" width="320" youtube-src-id="-BG0ZO915Y8"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000308000222/IRGC-Aerspace-Frce-Cmmander-Israel%E2%80%99s-Bnes-Cracked-in-Gaza-War"><b>IRGC Aerospace Force Commander: Israel’s Bones Cracked in Gaza War</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000308000342/IRGC-Qds-Frce-Cmmander-Israelis-Need-Sar-Reverse-Immigrain" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">IRGC Qods Force Commander: Israelis Need to Start Reverse Immigration</span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000313000186/Iran's-Jdiciary-Chief-Vws-End-Crrpin-afer-Winning-Presidenial-Elecin"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Iran's Judiciary Chief Vows to End Corruption after Winning Presidential Election</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-navy-training-ship-fire-mouth-gulf-crew-evacuated-report-2021-06-01/">Iran’s biggest navy ship sinks after fire in Gulf of Oman - media</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000312000764/Iranian-Lgisics-Vessel-Kharg-Sinks"><b>Iranian Logistics Vessel Kharg Sinks</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/05/30/657821/Syria-election-results-demonstrate-public-resistance-against-all-out-imperialist-war-Analyst"><b>Syria’s election results demonstrate public resistance against imperialist war: Analyst</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/03/658182/Syria-Turkey-militants-cultural-heritage-antiquities-Aleppo">SANA: Ankara-backed militants transfer Syria’s cultural heritage, antiques to Turkey</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/assad-vaccinated-syria-receives-first-shipment-russian-shots-report-2021-06-03/"><b>Assad vaccinated as Syria receives first shipment of Russian shots - report</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/assad-vaccinated-syria-receives-first-shipment-russian-shots-report-2021-06-03/"><br /></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/01/657972/Yemen-UAE-Israel-tourists"><b>Yemen censures UAE for transferring Israeli tourists to Socotra Island</b></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/03/658188/Muslim-nations-must-mobilize-against-Israel-to-remove-it-from-Palestinian-territories-Houthi">Muslim nations must mobilize against Israel to remove it from Palestinian territories: Houthi</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/06/erdogan-threatens-strike-refugee-camp-inside-iraq">Erdogan threatens to strike refugee camp inside Iraq</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/05/turkeys-currency-plummets-historic-low">Turkey’s currency plummets to historic low</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><b><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/06/turkish-mobsters-revelations-extend-arms-shipments-syria">Turkish mobster’s revelations extend to arms shipments to Syria</a></b></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/05/turkey-touts-assassination-top-pkk-militant-retribution-us">Turkey touts assassination of top PKK militant as retribution to US</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174264/Baghdad-Erbil-condemn-Turkey-for-logging-in-Duhok"><b>Baghdad, Erbil condemn Turkey for logging in Duhok</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/174169/Turkish-military-ops-force-47-villages-in-N-Iraq-to-flee">Turkish military ops force 47 villages in N Iraq to flee</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>FINANCE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297717"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Russian Finance Ministry to fully abandon dollar in National Wealth Fund structure</b></span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-in-rich-countries-hit-a-12-year-high-in-april-11622637522?mod=hp_major_pos1#cxrecs_s">Inflation in Rich Countries Hit a 12-Year High in April</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/06.21/future.html"><b>The shocking truth about the future of the economy</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1298753"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">US actions damage dollar as global reserve currency — Putin</span></b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3135919/chinas-yuan-slips-against-us-dollar-after-beijing-taps?module=lead_hero_story_4&pgtype=homepage">China’s yuan slips against US dollar after Beijing taps financial tools to cool exchange rate</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3135520/chinas-central-bank-moves-slow-yuans-rise-concerns-rise-over">China moves to slow yuan’s rise as concerns rise over hot money flows, asset bubbles</a><br /></b><br /><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/diem-plans-to-replace-usd-stablecoin-with-gov-digital-dollar-cbdc/"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Diem plans to replace USD stablecoin with gov digital dollar</i></b></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/fed-acknowledges-foreign-cbdc-china-is-a-driver-for-digital-currency/"><span style="font-size: large;">Fed acknowledges foreign CBDC, including China, is a driver for digital currency</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/as-diem-looms-the-fed-gets-serious-about-digital-currency/"><b><span style="font-size: large;">As Diem looms, the Fed gets serious about digital currency</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/bis-digital-currency-paper-predicts-money-will-be-unbundled/"><span style="font-size: large;">BIS digital currency paper predicts money will be unbundled</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/goldman-sachs-analyst-says-crypto-is-an-alternative-to-copper-not-gold"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Goldman Sachs Analyst Says Crypto Is an Alternative to Copper, Not Gold</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankrupt-oil-field-contractor-ofsi-sues-to-unwind-2019-stock-deal-11622580073"><span style="font-size: large;">Bankrupt Oil Field Contractor OFSI Sues to Unwind 2019 Stock Deal</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/avadim-health-files-chapter-11-to-put-lenders-in-control-11622570817"><b>Avadim Health Files Chapter 11 to Put Lenders in Control</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/hsbc-exits-us-retail-banking-business/"><i><b>HSBC Exits US Retail Banking Business</b></i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/paypal-plans-to-enable-users-to-withdraw-their-cryptocurrencies/">PayPal Plans to Enable Users to Withdraw Their Cryptocurrencies</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297779">Suspending investment in oil to push price up to $200 per barrel, says Novak</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/us-sanctions-may-see-russia-ditch-dollar-denominated-oil-contracts-novak-says.html">Russia to consider ditching dollar-denominated oil contracts if faced with more U.S. sanctions</a></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1295501"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Russia, Pakistan sign Pakistan Stream pipeline construction protocol</b></span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297127">Oil exports from Russia down 13% to 91.2 mln tonnes in January-May</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1298857">Nord Stream 2 more economically expedient and has no political risks — Putin</a></i></b></span></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297203"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Nord Stream 2 sections in Russia to start working in test mode next week</span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1297317"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Nord Stream 2 construction to be completed — commercial director</b></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/rebounding-energy-investment-fall-short-net-zero-path-iea-2021-06-02/"><b>Rebounding energy investment to fall short of net zero path - IEA</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/06/gcc-turns-40-all-eyes-post-oil-era">As GCC turns 40, all eyes on post-oil era</a></span><span style="font-family: "Noto Serif", Times, serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1298079"><b>Iran can offer up to 1.5 mln barrels/day of extra oil to market - Lukoil VP</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Cities-And-States-Clash-Over-Natural-Gas.html">U.S. Cities And States Clash Over Natural Gas</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Blackrock-Investors-Cannot-Run-Away-From-Oil-Industry.html"><i>Blackrock: Investors Cannot ‘’Run Away’’ From Oil Industry</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Texas-Gas-Companies-To-Pay-Steep-Bill-To-Avoid-Another-Power-Crisis.html"><b>Texas Gas Companies To Pay Steep Bill To Avoid Another Power Crisis</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Natural-Gas-Storage-Capacity-Hardly-Increased-Since-Start-Of-Shale-Boom.html">U.S. Natural Gas Storage Capacity Hardly Increased Since Start Of Shale Boom</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Climate-Revolt-Against-Big-Oil-May-Lead-To-Surge-In-Crude-Prices.html"><i>Climate Revolt Against Big Oil May Lead To Surge In Crude Prices</i></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/525561-new-world-order-emerges/"><b>'New world order' being formed before our eyes, Russia’s deputy defense minister tells RT ahead of key Moscow security conference</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14000312000769/Defense-Minisry-Rssia-Will-Mnir-Ukraine-US-Miliary-Drills-Reac-If">Defense Ministry: Russia Will Monitor Ukraine-US Military Drills, React If Necessary</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1297125"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia will not tolerate US refusal to count some delivery vehicles — Foreign Ministry</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/06/russia-expands-syrian-air-base-boost-regional-presence">Russia expands Syrian air base to boost regional presence</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1298581"><b>Russia increases border troop strength in Armenia, ambassador says</b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.militarynews.com/norfolk-navy-flagship/usnorthcom-leads-large-scale-multi-combatant-command-homeland-defense-exercise-with-truman-csg/article_8ae83d5e-a41f-11ea-b052-ebb90da73144.html">USNORTHCOM leads large-scale, multi-combatant command homeland defense exercise with Truman CSG</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2021/06/04/space-force-seeks-832-million-in-classified-spending-new-missions-and-more-in-annual-wishlist/"><b>Space Force seeks $832 million in classified spending, new missions and more in annual wishlist</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2021/06/03/multibeam-antenna-to-improve-communication-passes-first-air-force-trials/">Multibeam antenna to improve communication passes first Air Force trials</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/electronic-warfare/2021/06/01/this-move-risks-dod-electromagnetic-superiority-a-senior-leader-says/"><b>This move risks DoD electromagnetic superiority, a senior leader says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/06/04/658253/US-Saudi-Arabia-Michael-Springmann-Yemen">Analyst: US and KSA dug themselves into a hole in Yemen</a></span></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-66137663806835628122020-11-24T14:38:00.002-08:002020-11-24T16:22:22.348-08:00GPA Project Headlines Nov. 20-25, 2020<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnT9Fz3uOiye9aip1d9chn256ekBE_JHDxW3zccS7igyNsM4MyAdoktnurL9QtSMU4BmUEkx5jQ3uFCvUt1rE9JPcHGECPRFZ9IuspAs-i9s8UofD2qlLzDROMnXvll9dqhaS5oAibWp0/s500/coffee-and-newspaper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="500" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnT9Fz3uOiye9aip1d9chn256ekBE_JHDxW3zccS7igyNsM4MyAdoktnurL9QtSMU4BmUEkx5jQ3uFCvUt1rE9JPcHGECPRFZ9IuspAs-i9s8UofD2qlLzDROMnXvll9dqhaS5oAibWp0/w640-h418/coffee-and-newspaper.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>TOP HEADLINES</i></b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1226499"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Russia's Sputnik V anti-COVID vaccine to be priced much lower than Pfizer’s and Moderna’s</span></a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1226359">Pandemic triggers systemic economic crisis, unprecedented since Great Depression - Putin</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1225357">World debt to hit record $277 trillion by year end - experts</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-un-guterres/ahead-of-g20-u-n-chief-warns-developing-world-on-precipice-of-financial-ruin-idUSKBN2802DS">Ahead of G20, U.N. chief warns 'developing world on precipice of financial ruin'</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3110573/china-dumps-us-treasuries-fifth-consecutive-month-sending">China dumps US Treasuries for fifth consecutive month, sending holdings to lowest level since February 2017</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-19/-zillennials-are-going-to-change-investing-forever-bofa-says?srnd=premium"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zillennials Are Going to Change Investing Forever, BofA Says</span></a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-un/u-n-chief-says-yemen-in-imminent-danger-of-famine-warns-against-unilateral-moves-idUSKBN2801XI">U.N. chief says Yemen in imminent danger of famine, warns against unilateral moves</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/economy/powell-economy-recovery/index.html" style="font-family: georgia;">We're never going back to the old economy, Fed Chairman says</a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3110871/coronavirus-chinese-president-xi-jinping-proposes-global-qr">Coronavirus: Chinese President Xi Jinping proposes global QR code system to help free up travel</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-hancock/britain-hopes-christmas-can-be-saved-as-covid-cases-flatten-idUSKBN2800Q1">Britain hopes Christmas can be saved as COVID cases flatten</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/19/1012165/the-promise-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/" style="font-family: georgia;">The promise of the fourth industrial revolution</a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/britain-ban-petrol-cars-2030-zero-emissions/">Britain to ban new petrol cars by 2030 on road to net zero emissions</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/digital-currencies-split-bank-payment-lending-bank-of-england-questions/">Digital currencies may remove banks’ payment role. 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Using a “Test” To Lock Down Society</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer/pfizer-files-covid-19-vaccine-application-to-u-s-fda-idUSKBN2801BT"><b>Pfizer files COVID-19 vaccine application to U.S. FDA</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/health-science/could-an-mrna-vaccine-be-dangerous-in-the-long-term-649253">Could mRNA COVID-19 vaccines be dangerous in the long-term?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/11/05/who-collects-biological-samples-from-different-ethnic-groups-and-for-what-purposes/"><b>Who Collects Biological Samples from Different Ethnic Groups, and for What Purposes?</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1226037">Studies of Sputnik V vaccine show its high efficacy, says health ministry</a></b><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-saudi-russia/russia-ready-to-provide-other-countries-with-sputnik-v-coronavirus-vaccine-says-putin-idUSKBN2810IY"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Russia ready to provide other countries with Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, says Putin</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1223261">Russian Direct Investment Fund, GL Rapha to produce coronavirus vaccine in South Korea</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1222745">Sputnik V vaccine was fully bought out by the State, will not come in retail - developer</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://sputniknews.com/world/202011121081144064-who-will-add-sputnik-v-to-recommended-covid-19-vaccines-list-for-emergency-use-if-it-meets-criteria/"><i>WHO Will Add Sputnik V to Recommended COVID-19 Vaccines List for Emergency Use if It Meets Criteria</i></a></b></span><br /><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-21/mass-covid-vaccination-gets-a-dry-run-in-a-louisiana-parking-lot?srnd=premium"><span style="font-size: large;">Mass Covid Vaccination Gets a Dry Run in a Louisiana Parking Lot</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-says-u-s-failure-to-contain-coronavirus-mind-blowing-warns-colder-months-will-be-very-tough-11605805529?mod=home-page">Bill Gates calls U.S.’s failure to contain the coronavirus ‘mind blowing,’ warns that colder months will be ‘very tough’</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1224703">If coronavirus mutates, the vaccine may have to be updated, but not reworked, says expert</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1225197">Contracting coronavirus possible between 1st and 2nd injections — vaccine developer</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1225549"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Biocad company plans to produce 1 mln doses of Sputnik V vaccine in December</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1225519"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Certification request for Sputnik V vaccine submitted to WHO</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1225377"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">WHO establishes dialogue with Russian developers of COVID-19 vaccine</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1225791">Victory over COVID-19 pandemic is in sight, says Moscow mayor</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3110519/china-sinopharms-coronavirus-vaccine-taken-about-1-million">Coronavirus: 1 million Chinese injected with Sinopharm vaccine under emergency use scheme</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientists-say-they-found-a-way-to-reverse-the-human-aging-process-649798"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Israeli scientists say they found a way to reverse the human aging process</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/german-infection-law-a-new-legal-status-for-culture/a-55660182"><span style="font-size: large;">German Infection law: A new legal status for culture</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-israel/israel-nears-deal-for-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2801SQ"><b>Israel nears deal for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine</b></a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-pfizer-exclusiv/exclusive-eu-could-pay-over-10-billion-for-pfizer-and-curevac-vaccines-source-idUSKBN2800IC">Exclusive: EU could pay over $10 billion for Pfizer and CureVac vaccines - source</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-moonshot/scientists-sound-warning-about-uk-pm-johnsons-mass-testing-moonshot-idUSKBN27W1C6"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Scientists sound warning about UK PM Johnson's mass-testing 'moonshot'</span></b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-smithfield-foo/smithfield-foods-subcontractor-fined-100000-for-covid-19-violations-in-california-idUSKBN27W2XJ">Smithfield Foods, subcontractor fined $100,000 for COVID-19 violations in California</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1224557"><b>New mutated strain of coronavirus emerges in Russia’s Siberia — watchdog chief</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1224547">Russia launches post-registration trials of second COVID-19 vaccine</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-who/who-advises-against-gileads-remdesivir-for-all-hospitalised-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN28000Q"><b><i>Don't use Gilead's remdesivir in hospitalised COVID-19 patients, WHO says</i></b></a></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1227405">Russia’s EpiVacCorona vaccine delivered to 9 medical centers for post-registration trials</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1225909">Russian military medics provide aid to over 10,000 COVID-19 patients abroad</a></b><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>TECH</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3110871/coronavirus-chinese-president-xi-jinping-proposes-global-qr">Coronavirus: Chinese President Xi Jinping proposes global QR code system to help free up travel</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1225523">Slowdown for deplatforming Russian media? Moscow to punish US tech giants for censorship</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet-media/russian-parliament-given-draft-law-enabling-moscow-to-block-u-s-social-media-giants-idUSKBN27Z178?il=0">Russian parliament given draft law enabling Moscow to block U.S. social media giants</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/press-releases/1223171">Supermicro Scalable Liquid-Cooled Supercomputing Cluster Deployed for COVID-19 Research</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/dhs-plans-start-collecting-eye-scans-dna-help-defense-contractors/5730187">Biometric Police State? DHS Plans to Start Collecting Eye Scans and DNA — With the Help of Defense Contractors</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-mask-robot/robot-enforces-mask-wearing-distancing-at-store-in-japan-idUSKBN27X1DE?il=0">Robot enforces mask-wearing, distancing at store in Japan</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/legal-identity-id-app-aid-tech/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>A billion people have no legal identity - but a new app plans to change that</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/19/1012165/the-promise-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/">The promise of the fourth industrial revolution</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/harnessing-ai-to-reset-the-future-how-to-channel-ai-for-social-good/"><b>Harnessing AI To Reset The Future: How To Channel AI For Social Good?</b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/09/new-factories-of-the-future-light-the-way-of-next-normal-in-manufacturing">New Factories of the Future Light the Way of ‘Next Normal’ in Manufacturing</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/temasek-dlt-identity-startup-affinidi/"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Temasek identity startup Affinidi hires ex Amazon AWS exec as CEO</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/un-partner-hala-hedera-dlt-conflict-early-warning-system/">UN partner Hala adopts Hedera DLT for conflict early warning system</a><br /><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32292"><b>BRICS Umbrella to Increase India, Russia Collaboration on Artificial Intelligence</b></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-names-famed-hacker-mudge-as-head-of-security-idUSKBN27W2MB"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/should-the-u-s-change-how-it-doles-out-airwaves-for-5g-11605047990?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1"><b>Should the U.S. Change How It Doles Out Airwaves for 5G?</b></a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-to-hand-over-potus-account-to-biden-on-january-20-idUSKBN2810JL?il=0">Twitter to hand over @POTUS account to Biden on January 20</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">NATION STATES</span></i></b><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>USA</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jpmorgan-dimon/jpmorgans-dimon-says-childish-u-s-politicians-are-preventing-stimulus-package-idUSKBN27Y2D1">JPMorgan's Dimon says 'childish' U.S. politicians are preventing stimulus package</a></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/monthly-u-s-budget-gap-more-than-doubled-in-october-11605207695?mod=hp_listb_pos1">Monthly U.S. Budget Gap More Than Doubled in October</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-czech/trump-should-quit-and-not-be-embarrassing-czech-president-says-idUSKBN27Z1LN?il=0">Trump should quit and 'not be embarrassing', Czech president says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-inauguration/biden-inauguration-will-be-scaled-down-amid-covid-aide-says-idUSKBN2820LG"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Biden inauguration will be scaled down amid COVID, aide says</span></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-pennsylvania/u-s-judge-calls-trump-claim-challenging-biden-win-in-pennsylvania-frankensteins-monster-idUSKBN2810WR">U.S. judge calls Trump claim challenging Biden win in Pennsylvania 'Frankenstein's Monster'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-21/trump-campaign-s-pennsylvania-election-suit-dismissed-by-judge?srnd=premium">Trump Campaign Loses Pennsylvania Lawsuit To Halt Certification</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-congress-republicans/more-u-s-congress-republicans-openly-doubt-trumps-election-claims-idUSKBN2802R5">More U.S. Congress Republicans openly doubt Trump's election claims</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-michigan-lawsuit/detroit-asks-judge-to-sanction-trump-campaign-for-spreading-disinformation-idUSKBN2802M8"><b>Detroit asks judge to sanction Trump campaign for spreading 'disinformation'</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-mnuchin/mnuchin-clawback-of-fed-funds-deeply-irresponsible-biden-team-says-idUSKBN2801U5">Mnuchin clawback of Fed funds 'deeply irresponsible,' Biden team says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/hillary-clinton-says-covid-19-stimulus-not-sufficient?srnd=new-economy-forum">Hillary Clinton Says Covid-19 Stimulus ‘Not Sufficient’</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1223891">Trump says won’t concede presidential election</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-o-brien/trump-national-security-adviser-obrien-says-looks-now-that-biden-has-won-idUSKBN27W28O">Trump national security adviser O'Brien says looks now that Biden has won</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/congressional-covid-19-impasse-drags-on-pelosi-warns-house-is-burning-down-idUSKBN27S2P6?il=0">Congressional COVID-19 impasse drags on, Pelosi warns 'house is burning down'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-emirates-arms-sales/u-s-senators-seek-to-stop-trumps-23-billion-in-arms-sales-to-uae-idUSKBN27Y2YJ">U.S. senators seek to stop Trump's $23 billion in arms sales to UAE</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-penchant-for-bold-stimulus-to-test-his-deal-making-skills-11605177000?mod=hp_lead_pos5">Biden’s Penchant for Bold Stimulus to Test His Deal-Making Skills</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-prisons-inaugurations-coronavirus-pandemic-executions-365258989e6be8d7077b2f67d8c3e190">Biden to work to end executions as government sets 3 more</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pompeo-there-will-be-a-smooth-transition-to-a-second-trump-administration-11605037800?mod=home-page">Pompeo: ‘There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration’</a></i></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454738/The-troubled-summer-The-U-S-is-teetering-on-the-brink-of-renewed"><b>The troubled summer: The U.S. is teetering on the brink of renewed violence</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1226267">Russia’s Embassy in US requires information about Mayfair Mall shooting in Wisconsin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-mall-shooting-injuries-891ae890c2ef263710562efb97b5c1be">Police: 8 injured in Wisconsin mall shooting; suspect sought</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/officials-seek-cause-of-wildfire-that-threatened-500-reno-area-homes-2185724/">Officials seek cause of wildfire that threatened 500 Reno-area homes</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-arizona/arizonas-top-election-official-decries-violent-threats-over-election-results-idUSKBN27Y32H">Arizona's top election official decries violent threats over election results</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-nra/new-york-fines-nra-imposes-five-year-ban-on-insurance-sales-idUSKBN27Y20G">New York fines NRA gun rights group, bans insurance sales for five years</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-21/no-bacon-no-bath-tissue-panic-buying-s-back-with-covid-surge?srnd=premium">No Bacon, No Bath Tissue: Panic Buying Returns on Covid Jump</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-toiletpaper/panic-buying-of-toilet-paper-hits-u-s-stores-again-with-new-pandemic-restrictions-idUSKBN2802W3"><b>Panic buying of toilet paper hits U.S. stores again with new pandemic restrictions</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-economy/dial-back-or-emergency-brake-new-lockdowns-and-the-u-s-economy-idUSKBN27Z378">'Dial back' or 'emergency brake?' New lockdowns and the U.S. economy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/as-pandemic-worsens-wisconsin-governor-orders-strict-mask-mandate-idUSKBN28026V"><b>As pandemic worsens, Wisconsin governor orders strict mask mandate</b></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-york-sheriffs-refuse-enforce-cuomo-thanksgiving-covid-order/5730003"><span style="font-size: large;">New York Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Cuomo’s Thanksgiving COVID Order</span></a><br /><b><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/unemployment-call-center-closed-after-employee-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-2180258/">Unemployment call center closed after employee tests positive for coronavirus</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/709000-seek-us-jobless-aid-49fcf89e13e2eb4ec40325f9913c6707">709,000 seek US jobless aid as pandemic escalates</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nevada-imposes-new-pandemic-restrictions-on-casinos-entertainment-11606096666?mod=searchresults_pos14&page=1"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nevada Tightens Covid-19 Pandemic Restrictions on Casinos, Entertainment</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/shootings-in-new-york-city-nearly-double-as-arrests-for-serious-crimes-fall-11605648982">Shootings in New York City Nearly Double as Arrests for Serious Crimes Fall</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/coronavirus-cases-grow-in-arizona-navajo-nation-going-to-lockdown-2183605/">Coronavirus cases grow in Arizona; Navajo Nation going to lockdown</a></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/more-restrictions-coming-to-washington-as-covid-cases-soar-2183558/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push_notification">More restrictions coming to Washington as COVID cases soar</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/mccarran-officials-welcome-sisolaks-plea-for-greater-mask-enforcement-2181582/"><b>McCarran officials welcome Sisolak’s plea for greater mask enforcement</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/california-2-other-states-issue-travel-advisories-amid-covid-19-spike-2182723/?itm_source=parsely-api">California, 2 other states issue travel advisories amid COVID-19 spike</a></div><div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/philadelphia-bans-all-indoor-gatherings-as-covid-19-surges-across-the-united-states-idUSKBN27W1X1"><b>Iowa joins U.S. states from coasts to heartland acting to curb COVID-19</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/education/federal-judge-denies-motion-to-reopen-clark-county-schools-2187554/"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Federal judge denies motion to reopen Clark County schools</b></span></a></div><div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-thanksgiving-food/very-stressful-covid-19-surge-slices-u-s-demand-for-big-thanksgiving-turkeys-idUSKBN2831D5?il=0">'<span style="font-size: large;">Very stressful': COVID-19 surge slices U.S. demand for big Thanksgiving turkeys</span></a></div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/michigan-washington-state-impose-severe-covid-19-restrictions-as-u-s-infections-soar-idUSKBN27V0GK"><b>Michigan, Washington state impose severe COVID-19 restrictions as U.S. infections soar</b></a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/as-covid-19-cases-soar-new-york-city-schools-halt-in-person-classes-idUSKBN27Y2M1">U.S. COVID deaths top 250,000 as New York City schools halt in-person classes</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-19/california-orders-late-night-curfew-to-fight-pandemic-surge?srnd=premium"><b>California Imposes Late-Night Curfew to Fight Virus Surge</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/california-ohio-order-nightly-curfews-on-gatherings-as-coronavirus-surges-idUSKBN27Z2GJ">California, Ohio order nightly curfews on gatherings as coronavirus surges</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-exits-open-skies-treaty-moves-to-discard-observation-planes-11606055371"><b>Trump Exits Open Skies Treaty, Moves to Discard Observation Planes</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1207681.shtml">US formally withdraws from Open Skies Treaty</a><br /></span><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32239"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>With Biden, don’t expect this ‘cold war’ to thaw anytime soon</b></span></a><br /><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32305/"><span style="font-size: large;">US under Joe Biden will pursue policy of “countering” and “encircling” Russia</span></a><br /><b><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32296/">Trump’s U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan also serves Biden’s interests in opposing Russia</a><br /></b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/21/639023/Pompeo:-All-options-remain-on-the-table-against-Iran"><span style="font-size: large;">Pompeo: All options remain on the table against Iran</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-egypt-peacekeepers/seven-peacekeepers-including-five-americans-killed-in-sinai-helicopter-crash-idUSKBN27S1Y8?il=0">Seven peacekeepers, including five Americans, killed in Sinai helicopter crash</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-u-s-troops-killed-in-helicopter-crash-near-egypt-11605196180?mod=hp_listb_pos2">Five U.S. Troops Killed in Helicopter Crash Near Egypt</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/military-wary-shakeup-upend-apolitical-89eccf0aef7cf7b99208b3bfd0453a43" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Military wary that shakeup could upend its apolitical nature</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-trump/trump-asked-for-options-for-attacking-iran-last-week-but-held-off-source-idUSKBN27X02C?il=0">Trump asked for options for attacking Iran last week, but held off - source</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/22/639090/US-Air-Force-bombers-deployed-to-Mideast" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>US Air Force bombers reportedly deployed to Mideast</i></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://420intel.com/articles/2020/11/05/clean-sweep-cannabis-2020-elections"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Clean Sweep For Cannabis In 2020 Elections</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://420intel.com/articles/2020/11/05/kentucky-advocates-motivated-election-results-legalizing-marijuana"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kentucky advocates motivated by election results legalizing marijuana</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://420intel.com/articles/2020/11/04/arizona-voters-approve-recreational-marijuana"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Arizona voters approve recreational marijuana</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://mjbizdaily.com/voters-in-nj-arizona-3-other-states-legalize-potential-2-5b-plus-marijuana-markets/"><b>Voters in NJ, Arizona, three other states legalize potential $2.5 billion-plus marijuana markets</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/recreational-pot-industry-preps-for-new-jersey-debut-11605362401?mod=hp_lista_pos5">Recreational Pot Industry Preps for New Jersey Debut</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max-southwest/southwest-deploys-team-to-bring-737-max-jets-out-of-desert-idUSKBN27Z29Z?il=0"><b>Southwest Airlines brings 737 MAX out of the desert</b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>RUSSIA</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1226751">Moscow vows tough response if parties to Open Skies Treaty share data with US</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1224551">Kremlin blasts US attempts to extend its jurisdiction to other countries</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1222155"><b>Nuclear triad makes attempts at blackmailing Russia futile, says Putin</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1222175">Future of New START Treaty unclear for now, says Putin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/24/639265/Russia-intercepts-US-warship-violating-territory-in-Sea-of-Japan"><b>Russia intercepts US warship violating territory in Sea of Japan</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1227061"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Russian warship stops US destroyer from violating Russia’s border</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1225077"><b>Bill submitted to Russian parliament on labeling individuals as foreign agents</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1225231">Oxygen pipe ruptures at Moscow’s hospital for COVID-19 patients, says source</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1227143"><b>Putin cannot volunteer for COVID-19 vaccine trials as president — Kremlin</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1225871"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Attempts to undermine conclusions of Nuremberg trials threaten global security, Putin says</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32248"><b>A New Round of Global Competition Proves Nessesity of Russia’s “Pivot” to the East</b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/blow-to-the-liberals-putin-banned-the-entire-top-from-storing-money-abroad/">BLOW TO THE LIBERALS: PUTIN BANNED THE ENTIRE “TOP” FROM STORING MONEY ABROAD</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-business-baring/russian-court-frees-u-s-investor-calvey-and-colleagues-from-house-arrest-ria-idUSKBN27S28X?il=0"><b>Russian court frees U.S. investor Calvey and colleagues from house arrest: RIA</b></a><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1221159"><b>Gorbachev hopes Biden aims to recover trust between US and Russia</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-putin/putin-says-ready-to-work-with-any-u-s-leader-wants-formalities-settled-idUSKBN2820HG?il=0">Putin says ready to work with any U.S. leader, wants formalities settled</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1224743"><b>Draft legislation on Putin’s right for re-election introduced in State Duma</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1225645">US may use Rodchenkov Act to squash unwanted sports rivals, warns Russian diplomat</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1225813">Russian citizen sentenced for attempt to hand over classified data to CIA</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1226729">Putin signs law on raising income tax rate to 15% for incomes over 5 mln rubles</a></i></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>BELARUS</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1225971"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lukashenko warns about US intelligence centers outside Warsaw, Kiev</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://tass.com/world/1223445"><span style="font-size: large;">Coup attempt in Belarus has nothing to do with revolution, president says</span></a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1227199">West seeks to involve Russia in toppling regime in Belarus, Lukashenko claims</a></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/lukashenko-hears-out-report-of-defense-minister-khrenin_i_0000121726.html">Lukashenko hears out report of Defense Minister Khrenin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/lukashenko-says-ready-for-dialogue-with-opposition-but-not-with-traitors-and-terrorists_i_0000121346.html">Lukashenko says ready for dialogue with opposition, but not with traitors and terrorists</a></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>DPR/LNR</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1220651"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Moscow protects ethnic Russians by providing citizenship to Donbass residents — Kremlin</span></b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1227239"><span style="font-size: large;">Russian diplomat calls on EU to abandon hypocritical policy towards Ukraine</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>UKRAINE</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-president/ukraine-president-zelenskiy-hospitalised-due-to-covid-19-idUSKBN27S0QC?il=0"><b>Ukrainian president addresses nation after being taken to hospital with COVID-19</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/oleg-tsarev-how-yanukovych-beat-biden-concerning-the-sale-of-ukrainian-land/">OLEG TSAREV: HOW YANUKOVYCH BEAT BIDEN CONCERNING THE SALE OF UKRAINIAN LAND</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/the-us-ambassador-to-ukraine-issued-an-ultimatum-to-medvedchuk-and-kolomoisky/"><b>THE US AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE ISSUED AN ULTIMATUM TO MEDVEDCHUK AND KOLOMOISKY</b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>EU</b></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-paris-police/french-police-increase-covid-lockdown-checks-in-paris-idUSKBN27V0CV">French police increase COVID lockdown checks in Paris</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/germans-should-brace-for-4-5-months-of-severe-covid-19-measures-minister-says-idUSKBN27V080">Germans should brace for 4-5 months of severe COVID-19 measures, minister says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-protests/german-police-clash-with-protesters-angry-at-merkels-coronavirus-plans-idUSKBN27Y15V">German police clash with protesters angry at Merkel's coronavirus law</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-industry-jobs/covid-19-war-games-the-computer-program-that-could-help-save-your-job-idUSKBN27R1LA?il=0">COVID-19 'war games': the computer program that could help save your job</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-swiss-ski/people-need-mountains-swiss-ski-resorts-buck-alpine-lockdowns-idUSKBN2810MB?il=0">'People need mountains': Swiss ski resorts buck Alpine lockdowns</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/germany-several-injured-in-stabbing-in-oberhausen/a-55670554">Germany: Several injured in stabbing in Oberhausen</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-crime/german-doctor-arrested-on-suspicion-of-killing-coronavirus-patients-idUSKBN280278"><b>German doctor arrested on suspicion of killing coronavirus patients</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/jobs-brexit-priority-generation-lockdown/">A Brexit deal must prioritise jobs for generation lockdown. Here's why</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-banks-deutsche-bank/deutsche-bank-ceo-foresees-balance-of-home-and-office-after-crisis-idUSKBN2800UF"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Deutsche Bank CEO foresees balance of home and office after crisis</b></span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-finance/lawmakers-to-buttress-post-brexit-britain-as-a-financial-centre-idUSKBN28000C">Lawmakers to buttress post-Brexit Britain as a financial centre</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32286"><b>Hungary-led vetoes against new EU budget further fragment the bloc’s unity</b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wto-aircraft-eu/eu-set-to-impose-tariffs-on-4-billion-u-s-goods-next-week-idUSKBN27M2C9">EU set to impose tariffs on $4 billion U.S. goods next week</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32285/">US security agency accused of spying on European private companies</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-global-climatechange/macron-hails-chance-to-make-our-planet-great-again-after-biden-win-idUSKBN27S2X5?il=0">Macron hails chance to 'make our planet great again' after Biden win</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-saudi-diplomacy/saudi-embassy-in-the-hague-sprayed-with-gunfire-no-injuries-idUSKBN27S0QP?il=0"><b>Saudi embassy in The Hague sprayed with gunfire, police arrest suspect</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>CHINA</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3110573/china-dumps-us-treasuries-fifth-consecutive-month-sending" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>China dumps US Treasuries for fifth consecutive month, sending holdings to lowest level since February 2017</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32290/"><span style="font-size: large;">Russia Could Cooperate with China in the Naval Field to Achieve Parity with the West</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32282/"><b>‘Dual Containment’ on Moscow, Beijing Likely to Continue under Biden</b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32238">Escalation of India-China Tensions Will Hit Regional Stability; Need to Negotiate Settlement: Russia</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3110414/us-china-relations-state-department-report-lays-out-framework"><b>US-China relations: Beijing slams State Department report ‘concocted by Cold War fossils’</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3110874/china-central-bank-officials-see-bigger-global-role-yuan-us?li_source=LI&li_medium=homepage_int_edition_top_picks_for_you"><i>China central bank officials see bigger global role for yuan as US dollar wanes</i></a></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32236"><b>China Continues Efforts to Protect Siberian Tigers</b></a><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1207599.shtml">China Mobile builds over 385,000 5G base stations</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-11/17/c_139521534.htm">China's Mars probe travels over 300 million km</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-11/06/c_139496777.htm">Unmanned food delivery vehicles put into use in Xiamen, Fujian</a><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ISRAEL</i></b> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/are-israel-and-the-us-planning-to-attack-iran-649030"><b>Are Israel and the US planning to attack Iran?</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/20/639002/Iran-Israel-Nuclear-NPT"><span style="font-size: large;">Iran: World must press Israel to join NPT unconditionally</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-usa-pollard/israel-welcomes-end-to-convicted-u-s-spy-pollards-travel-ban-idUSKBN2810O5?il=0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Israel welcomes end to convicted U.S. spy Pollard's travel ban</b></span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/israel-usa-pollard/netanyahu-promises-israels-ex-spy-in-u-s-a-warm-welcome-home-idUSKBN28432H">Netanyahu promises Israel's ex-spy in U.S. a warm welcome home</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/pompeo-hints-more-trump-administration-announcements-on-israel-to-come-649828"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pompeo hints more Trump administration announcements on Israel to come</b></span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/nissenkorn-publishes-draft-cannabis-legalization-bill-for-public-comments-649822">Nissenkorn publishes draft cannabis legalization bill for public comments</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-what-does-netanyahu-have-to-hide-in-the-submarine-affair-1.9323360">What is Netanyahu hiding?</a></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-ehud-barak-thinks-biden-will-be-great-for-israel-and-better-than-trump-on-china-1.9326898">Why Ehud Barak Thinks Biden Will Be 'Great' for Israel – and Better Than Trump on China</a></span><br /><b><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/new-election-in-the-air-after-gantz-calls-submarine-inquiry-just-the-first-instalment/">New election in the air after Gantz calls submarine inquiry “just the first </a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/new-election-in-the-air-after-gantz-calls-submarine-inquiry-just-the-first-instalment/">installment”</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/netanyahu-flies-secretly-to-saudi-arabi-meets-crown-prince-and-pompeo/">Netanyahu flies secretly to Saudi Arabi, meets crown prince and Pompeo</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/evidence-phase-of-netanyahu-trial-postponed-to-february-650139">Netanyahu trial postponed until February</a></b></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>MIDDLE EAST/CENTRAL ASIA</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/20/638992/Daesh-leader-quraishi-declassified-documents"><b>New Daesh leader worked with US, new documents reveal</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/166107/Iraqi-Army-kills-16-ISIL-Takfiri-terrorists-in-Kirkuk"><span style="font-size: large;">Iraqi Army kills 16 ISIL Takfiri terrorists in Kirkuk</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1224643">Risks of escalation in Iraq persist, Putin says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/15/638634/Iran-General-Baqeri-Iraq-defense-Shamkhani">Defense ties with Iran to boost Iraq’s security as US tries to revive terrorists: Gen. Baqeri</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/17/638790/Iran-Air-Defense-Force-ready-train-Iraq-Army"><b>Iran Air Defense Force says ready to train Iraqi servicemen</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-attacks/three-syrian-military-personnel-killed-one-hurt-in-israeli-aggression-on-syria-sana-idUSKBN27Y07Y"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Israel strikes widely in Syria, sending signal of aggressive post-Trump posture</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/166099/Pompeo-s-visit-to-Golan-Heights-violation-of-our-sovereignty">Pompeo's visit to Golan Heights violation of our sovereignty</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1201532">Sheikh Qassem: US Sanctions Can Never Undermine Hezbollah Power</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1204084">Crushing Response Awaits Those Troubling Iran Presence in Syria: Foreign Ministry</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1159908"><b>Sayyed Nasrallah to Hezbollah Fighters on Eve of Syria’s Qusseir Battle: Our Fight is against Armed Militants, Not Civilians (Video)</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1203050">When Nusra Terrorists Surrendered to Hezbollah Fighters in Arsal-Qalamoun Barrens: Videos + Photos</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/24/639272/Saudi-Aramco-admits-Yemeni-attack-caused-major-damage">Saudi Aramco acknowledges major damage from Yemeni attack</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/23/639242/Yemen-attack-saudi-aramco-oil">Riyadh admits Yemenis targeted ‘core of global economy’</a></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/20/639022/Yemen-UN-Guterres-famine-US-Houthis-Saudi-Arabia">UN chief says looming danger of famine threatens Yemen; warns against any unilateral moves by US</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/166213/Houthis-say-attacked-Saudi-Aramco-facility-with-rocket">Houthis say attacked Saudi Aramco facility with rocket</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/22/639130/Saudi-violence-Yemeni-kids">Saudi’s violence against Yemeni kids must stop: Yemen Foreign Ministry</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/saudi-cabinet-houthi-attack/saudi-cabinet-says-houthi-attacks-target-backbone-of-global-economy-security-of-its-supplies-spa-idUSKBN28435D?il=0">Saudi cabinet says Houthi attacks target backbone of global economy, security of its supplies: SPA</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1226159">Putin warns against hampering implementation of agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh settlement</a></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1225155">West stirring the pot to disrupt Nagorno-Karabakh agreements — Russian foreign intel chief</a></b></span><br /><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1226319"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Russia intends to prevent further bloodshed in Karabakh, Russian Defense Minister says</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1226309"><b>Shoygu, Lavrov, Overchuk, Murashko, Popova arrive in Yerevan</b></a><br /><a href="https://tass.com/world/1226353">Defense Ministers of Armenia and Russia sign documents on peacekeepers in Karabakh</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1226365"><b>Azerbaijan’s president welcomes Russian peacekeeping mission as stabilizing factor</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1226169">Russian border guards to move reinforcements to Armenia-Azerbaijan border, says FSB chief</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1225611">Lavrov says US, France nursing ‘wounded pride’ over Moscow-brokered Karabakh peace deal</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1223767"><i>Aliyev assured Putin that Christian shrines in Karabakh will be protected</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1223761"><b>Assassination attempt on Pashinyan stopped - Armenian National Security</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1223737">Ex-head of Armenian national security detained on suspicion of assassination plot</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1223961">Another 18 Russian aircraft with peacekeepers arrive in Armenia, Defense Ministry says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1225867">Karabakh conflict about to become a bygone, Azerbaijan’s president says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1224859">Turkey’s parliament approves presidential decree on sending troops to Azerbaijan</a></span><br /><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32306/"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Erdoğan uses syncretism of neo-Ottomanism and pan-Turkism to build Greater Turkey</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pompeo-middle-east/pompeo-says-europe-u-s-need-to-work-together-to-address-turkey-idUSKBN27W2X9?il=0">Pompeo says Europe, U.S. need to work together to address Turkey</a><br /><b><a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/259490/article/ekathimerini/news/tactical-moves-by-ankara-before-eu-summit">Tactical moves by Ankara before EU summit</a></b><br /><a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/259510/article/ekathimerini/news/turkey-leaving-no-room-for-constructive-dialogue-says-greek-fm">Turkey leaving ‘no room for constructive dialogue,’ says Greek FM</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/afghanistan-blast/twin-blasts-in-afghan-province-of-bamiyan-kill-14-people-injure-45-officials-idUSKBN28429S?il=0"><b>Twin blasts in Afghan province of Bamiyan killed 14 people, injured 45 more - officials</b></a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>IRAN</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/19/638941/Iran-United-States-military-conflict-region-Israel-nuclear">Leader’s advisor: US attack on Iran could trigger ‘full-fledged’ regional war</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-trump-iran/iran-says-u-s-move-against-it-would-face-crushing-response-idUSKBN27X162">Iran says U.S. move against it would face 'crushing' response</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/20/638997/Iran-New-York-Times-report-yellow-journalism">Iran dismisses NYT report on contact with Biden team as piece of ‘yellow journalism’</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454882/Canada-s-propaganda-on-Ukraine-plane-crash-hampering-probe-Iranian"><b>Canada’s propaganda on Ukraine plane crash hampering probe: Iranian ambassador</b></a><br /><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/166084/Depriving-Iran-of-region-s-transit-routes-US-plots-Rouhani">Depriving Iran of region's transit routes US plots: Rouhani</a><br /><br /><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/166089/No-geographical-limit-for-IRGC-to-defend-Iran-s-interests"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>No geographical limit for IRGC to defend Iran's interests</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/166090/Iran-not-to-negotiate-its-defensive-power-Leader-s-advisor">Iran not to negotiate its defensive power: Leader’s advisor</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/166081/Iran-axis-of-security-stability-in-region">Iran axis of security stability in region</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/166182/Basij-forces-ready-to-thwart-enemies-conspiracies-plots">Basij forces ready to thwart enemies’ conspiracies, plots</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-security-iraq-turkey/iran-pounds-rebels-in-northwestern-border-area-state-media-idUSKBN27U0NZ?il=0"><b>Iran pounds rebels in northwestern border area - state media</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1197979">IRGC Shells Anti-Revolution Groups across Iran’s NW Border</a><br /><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454794/Over-706-000-tons-of-copper-concentrate-produced-in-7-months"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Over 706,000 tons of copper concentrate produced in 7 months</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454850/Petchem-output-export-rise-despite-sanctions"><b>Petchem output, export rise despite sanctions</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454846/Sweets-chocolates-cereal-products-export-rises-5">Sweets, chocolates, cereal products export rises 5%</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454844/Transport-projects-worth-over-748m-inaugurated-across-Iran"><b>Transport projects worth over $748m inaugurated across Iran</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454842/Over-half-a-million-tons-of-lead-zinc-extracted-in-7-months">Over half a million tons of lead, zinc extracted in 7 months</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>ECONOMIC</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1226359"><b>Pandemic triggers systemic economic crisis, unprecedented since Great Depression - Putin</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/economy/powell-economy-recovery/index.html"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We're never going back to the old economy, Fed Chairman says</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-11-17/ray-dalio-don-t-own-bonds-don-t-own-cash-video?srnd=premium"><i>NEW WORLD ORDER</i>-Ray Dalio: Don't Own Bonds, Don't Own Cash</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/irs-has-1-million-unprocessed-returns-and-3-million-pieces-of-unopened-mail-after-covid-19-wreaked-havoc-on-tax-season-2020-11-20?mod=mw_latestnews">IRS has 1 million unprocessed returns and 3 million pieces of unopened mail after COVID-19 wreaked havoc</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1225357"><b>World debt to hit record $277 trillion by year end - experts</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-19/-zillennials-are-going-to-change-investing-forever-bofa-says?srnd=premium"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Zillennials Are Going to Change Investing Forever, BofA Says</i></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-covid-19-relief-supports-banks-apparent-resilience-11605090804?mod=hp_lead_pos7"><b>Banks in Europe Face Potential $1.7 Trillion Covid-19 Cliff</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecb-policy-banks/ecb-shouldnt-take-market-calm-for-granted-as-economy-turns-for-worse-schnabel-idUSKBN27K235?il=0">ECB shouldn't take market calm for granted as economy turns for worse: Schnabel</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/hundreds-of-companies-that-got-stimulus-aid-have-failed-11605609180">Hundreds of Companies That Got Stimulus Aid Have Failed</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-pandemic-benefits/the-next-cliff-millions-of-jobless-americans-risk-losing-aid-idUSKBN27X1A0"><span style="font-size: large;">The next cliff: Millions of jobless Americans risk losing aid</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/president-elect-joe-biden-has-signaled-that-hes-open-to-canceling-student-loan-debt-the-question-is-when-and-how-much-11604944524?mod=home-page"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">President-elect Joe Biden has signaled he’s open to canceling student-loan debt — the question is when and how much</span></b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-worldbank-debt/world-bank-chief-says-legislative-changes-can-aid-sovereign-debt-restructurings-idUSKBN2801YO"><span style="font-size: large;">World Bank chief says legislative changes can aid sovereign debt restructurings</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="Time is Ripe for Innovation in the World of Sovereign Debt Restructuring"><b>Time is Ripe for Innovation in the World of Sovereign Debt Restructuring</b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/covid-19-coronavirus-lockdown-pandemic-economics-econamies-recession-finance/">IMF: The economics of lockdown</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-saudi-imf/imf-calls-for-expansion-of-debt-relief-beyond-worlds-poorest-countries-idUSKBN2820L5"><b>IMF calls for expansion of debt relief beyond world's poorest countries</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-banks-credit/britain-extends-payment-freeze-to-coronavirus-hit-borrowers-idUSKBN27I0LX?il=0">Britain extends payment freeze to coronavirus-hit borrowers</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: large;"><u><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-24/yellen-as-treasury-secretary-sets-up-biden-to-go-big-on-stimulus?srnd=premium"><b>Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary Sets Up Biden to Go Big on Stimulus</b></a></u></span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-banks-credit/britain-extends-payment-freeze-to-coronavirus-hit-borrowers-idUSKBN27I0LX?il=0"><br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/raging-pandemic-singes-u-s-economy-and-signals-darker-days-ahead-11605963597?cx_testId=56&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0&mod=home-page-cx#cxrecs_s">Raging pandemic singes U.S. economy and signals darker days ahead</a></i></span><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27Y0NR"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Exclusive: GM warns labor unrest making South Korea untenable</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2100935652645/southwest-airlines-sees-deceleration-in-revenue-improvements-in-november-december">Southwest Airlines sees 'deceleration' in revenue improvements in November, December</a><br /><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/student-loan-losses-seen-costing-u-s-more-than-400-billion-11605963600?mod=hp_lead_pos1"><b>Student Loan Losses Seen Costing U.S. More Than $400 Billion</b></a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-divestiture-argentina/walmart-to-sell-operations-in-recession-hit-argentina-taking-1-billion-hit-idUSKBN27M20T">Walmart to sell operations in recession-hit Argentina, taking $1 billion hit</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/experts-nevada-economic-recovery-at-least-2-years-away-2181027/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push_notification"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Experts: Nevada economic recovery at least 2 years away</span></b></a><br /><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/retail-chains-shed-stores-but-it-isnt-good-for-business-11605436204?mod=hp_lead_pos9">Retail Chains Shed Stores, but It Isn’t Good for Business</a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-top-glove-workers/malaysia-to-shut-some-top-glove-factories-in-phases-amid-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN2830Z0?il=0"><b>Malaysia to shut some Top Glove factories in phases amid virus outbreak</b></a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-united-arlns-outlook/united-airlines-says-cancellations-are-rising-due-to-spiking-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN27Z1S5?il=0">United Airlines says cancellations are rising due to spiking COVID-19 cases</a><br /><a href="https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/us-treasury-scolds-central-bankers-for-using-climate-change-to-curry-domestic-political-favour-20201117?mod=home-page&adobe_mc=MCMID%3D39186747795954261233428489642921808483%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1605615563"><b>US Treasury’s Larry Summers scolds central bankers for using climate change to ‘curry domestic political favour’</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/bbva-agrees-to-sell-us-subsidiary-to-pnc-bank-for-11-6-billion/">BBVA Agrees to Sell US Subsidiary to PNC Bank for $11.6 Billion</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><b><i>EMPLOYMENT</i></b><br /><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-jobless-claims-jump-31-000-to-742-000-amid-record-coronavirus-surge-11605793299?mod=mw_latestnews"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>U.S. jobless claims jump 31,000 to 742,000 amid record coronavirus surge</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/new-york-mta-eyes-9-367-layoffs-as-agency-waits-for-federal-aid?srnd=premium">New York MTA Warns of 40% Subway Cut, Shedding 9,300 Jobs</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southwest-jobs/small-group-of-southwest-workers-receive-warnings-of-first-ever-furloughs-idUSKBN27M2LQ"><b>Southwest Airlines issues first furlough notices as talks with unions stall</b></a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amc-networks-restructuring/amc-networks-to-cut-jobs-in-restructuring-idUSKBN2802Q7">AMC Networks to cut jobs in restructuring</a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-starbucks-wages/starbucks-to-hike-u-s-employee-pay-at-least-10-memo-idUSKBN27Y315?il=0"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Starbucks to hike U.S. employee pay at least 10%: memo</span></b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thyssenkrupp-results/thyssenkrupp-slashes-another-5000-jobs-to-stop-the-bleeding-idUSKBN27Z0K2?il=0">Thyssenkrupp slashes another 5,000 jobs to 'stop the bleeding'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-general-electric-jobs/ge-warns-of-more-job-cuts-at-aviation-business-amid-sluggish-recovery-idUSKBN2841ZH?il=0">GE warns of more job cuts at aviation unit</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/goldman-sachs-plans-for-fresh-modest-layoffs/">Goldman Sachs Plans for Fresh ‘Modest’ Layoffs</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b><br /><b><i>BANKRUPTCY</i></b> <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/boy-scouts-bankruptcy-deadline-looms-11605466801?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1"><b>Boy Scouts’ Bankruptcy Deadline Looms</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-guitar-center-bankruptcy/u-s-retailer-guitar-center-files-for-bankruptcy-idUSKBN282058">U.S. retailer Guitar Center files for bankruptcy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/guitar-center-preps-bankruptcy-filing-to-cut-800-million-in-debt-11605491731"><b>Guitar Center Preps Bankruptcy Filing to Cut $800 Million in Debt</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/flynn-restaurant-named-as-stalking-horse-in-npc-bankruptcy-11605310537">Flynn Restaurant Named as Stalking Horse in NPC Bankruptcy</a><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulfport-energy-bankruptcy/natural-gas-producer-gulfport-energy-files-for-bankruptcy-idUSKBN27U0ND?il=0"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Natural gas producer Gulfport Energy files for bankruptcy</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/theater-landlord-decries-chapter-11-plan-for-u-s-unit-of-mexicos-cinemex-11605660119"><span style="font-size: large;">Theater Landlord Decries Chapter 11 Plan For U.S. Unit Of Mexico’s Cinemex</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wendy-npc/wendys-submits-bid-for-bankrupt-npcs-restaurants-with-franchisee-group-idUSKBN27Z1WP?il=0"><b>Wendy's submits bid for bankrupt NPC's restaurants with franchisee group</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1207505.shtml">Parent of Chinese JV partner of BMW enters bankruptcy restructuring</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><b><i>FAILED BANKS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.pymnts.com/bank-regulation/2019/three-small-us-banks-collapse-over-past-month/"><b>Three Small US Banks Collapse Over Past Month</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>PRECIOUS METALS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Goldman-Sets-2300-Price-Target-For-Gold-In-2021.html"><i>Goldman Sets $2,300 Price Target For Gold In 2021</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>CBDC/CRYPTO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/us-federal-reserve-research-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc/"><b>U.S. Federal Reserve explores research for central bank digital currency</b></a></span></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1215799" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pilot launch of digital rubles is possible in late 2021</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/lebanon-planning-central-bank-digital-currency-in-2021-cbdc/"><b>Lebanon planning central bank digital currency in 2021</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-21/why-tomorrow-s-money-will-come-in-new-crypto-flavors-quicktake?srnd=new-economy-forum">Why Tommorow's Money Will Come In New Crypto Flavors</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/paypal-opens-up-cryptocurrency-platform-to-all-u-s-users-11605217500?mod=mw_latestnews"><b>PayPal opens up cryptocurrency platform to all U.S. users</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/imf-legal-law-central-bank-digital-currencies-cbdc/">IMF outlines legal issues for central bank digital currencies</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-cloud-is-joining-with-this-lender-to-create-a-new-type-of-digital-banking-platform-11606149602?mod=home-page">Google Cloud is creating a new type of digital banking platform with this lender</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/corda-network-first-digital-currency-symbol-xkd/">The story behind Corda Network’s first digital currency and symbol XKD</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/rumors-of-second-digital-yuan-lottery-in-suzhou-cbdc-china/">Rumors of second digital yuan lottery in Suzhou</a></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/head-of-bis-innovation-hub-wholesale-cbdcs-likely-to-use-blockchain/">Head of BIS Innovation Hub: wholesale CBDCs likely to use blockchain</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/digital-currencies-split-bank-payment-lending-bank-of-england-questions/"><b>Digital currencies may remove banks’ payment role. Bank of England asks if that’s bad</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/ecb-cbdc-research-confirms-impact-on-foreign-economies/">ECB research confirms impact of CBDC on foreign economies</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/santander-bbva-tokenized-digital-money-cash-iberpay/"><b>Santander, BBVA, others in major tokenized digital money trial with Iberpay</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/airbnb-plans-to-consider-cryptocurrencies-and-blockchain-technology/">Airbnb Plans to Consider Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/belarus-largest-bank-launches-crypto-trading-services/">Belarus’ Largest Bank Launches Crypto Trading Services</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/standard-chartered-partners-with-amazon-web-services/">Standard Chartered Partners with Amazon Web Services</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/year-of-the-cbdc-central-bank-digital-currencies-more-popular-than-ever/"><b>‘Year of the CBDC’? Central Bank Digital Currencies More Popular than Ever</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/regulation/german-finance-minister-speaks-out-against-private-cryptocurrencies/">German Finance Minister Speaks Out Against ‘Private Cryptocurrencies’</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/news/starling-becomes-first-digital-bank-to-post-profits/">Starling Becomes First Digital Bank to Post Profits</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3110233/china-debt-defaults-stoke-unease-about-broader-market" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>China debt defaults stoke unease about ‘broader market contagion’</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3110903/chinese-authorities-warn-bond-issuers-they-cant-run-away">Chinese authorities warn bond issuers they can’t ‘run away’ from their debts after defaults rock investor confidence</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32280/"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BRICS Bank ‘Working at Full Speed on Supporting Economic Recovery’ of Member States</b></span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32291/">The BRICS Strengthens Economic Ties in the Post-Pandemic Era</a><br /><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32250"><b>New trade zone in Asia-Pacific could ensure Chinese global leadership</b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><a href="https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/11/all-aircraft-could-fly-on-sustainable-fuel-by-2030-says-world-economic-forum-report"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>All Aircraft Could Fly on Sustainable Fuel by 2030, Says World Economic Forum Report</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Lockdowns-And-More-Lockdowns-Threaten-Oil-Demand.html">Lockdowns And More Lockdowns Threaten Oil Demand</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/britain-ban-petrol-cars-2030-zero-emissions/"><b><i>Britain to ban new petrol cars by 2030 on road to net zero emissions</i></b></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/11/deep-sea-mineral-platform-launched-ahead-of-battery-boom">Deep-Sea Mineral Platform Launched Ahead of Battery Boom</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1226221"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>German Business Association calls on US to lift sanctions against Nord Stream 2</b></span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32252">Lithuania and Poland are challenging Russian and Belarussian energy structures in the Baltics</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1224051"><b>Gazprom starts selling gas to Turkey through electronic platform</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1225933">Turkey’s Akkuyu power plant to see symbolic first concrete pouring next spring</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulfport-energy-bankruptcy/natural-gas-producer-gulfport-energy-files-for-bankruptcy-idUSKBN27U0ND?il=0"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Natural gas producer Gulfport Energy files for bankruptcy</b></span></a><br /><a 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left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Coal-Consumption-In-US-Electricity-Sector-Plunges-30.html">Coal Consumption In U.S. Electricity Sector Plunges 30%</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Energy-Exports-To-Mexico-Near-Record-High-Levels.html"><b>U.S. Energy Exports To Mexico Near Record-High Levels</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-makes-foreign-policy-the-oil-patchs-first-biden-fear-11605366001">Covid-19 Makes Foreign Policy the Oil Patch’s First Biden Fear</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Battle-For-Dominance-In-Chinas-Oil-Market.html"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Battle For Dominance In China’s Oil Market</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/China-Looks-To-Buy-Stake-In-A-Major-Iraqi-Oilfield.html">China Looks To Buy Stake In A Major Iraqi Oilfield</a><br /><br /><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Iran-Claims-Its-Oil-Exports-Have-Been-At-700000-Bpd-Since-March.html"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Iran Claims Its Oil Exports Have Been At 700,000 Bpd Since March</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454796/Iran-exports-1st-cargo-from-Bid-Boland-refinery">Iran exports 1st cargo from Bid Boland refinery</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-aramco-cant-escape-a-brutal-oil-market-11604419446"><b>Saudi Aramco Can’t Escape a Brutal Oil Market</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Libyas-Oil-Production-Exceeds-12-Million-Bpd.html">Libya’s Oil Production Exceeds 1.2 Million Bpd</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/PDVSA-Chief-Goes-to-Russia-To-Deepen-Ties.html"><b>PDVSA Chief Goes to Russia To "Deepen Ties"</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/A-Big-Week-For-Venezuelas-Oil-Industry.html">A Big Week For Venezuela’s Oil Industry</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS/DEFENSE</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1225577" style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Russian Antarctic station rattled by 6.0 magnitude earthquake</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1225551">Defense firm delivers Ratnik combat outfits to Russian troops ahead of schedule</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32281/"><b>BrahMos Venture to Expand, Export Missiles to Countries as India-Russia Ties Grow</b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1225863">Russia’s top brass creates secure cyberspace for information exchange</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1227337"><b>Russian Baltic Fleet receives latest fast-speed landing craft for special forces</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1225893">Russian Navy boosts advanced warships’ share in 2020 by a third</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1225459"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Russia to complete tests of breakthrough ceramic armor for armored vehicles in early 2021</b></span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/us-air-force-tests-new-b61-12-nuclear-gravity-bomb-with-f-35a-650092"><span style="font-size: x-large;">US Air Force tests new B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb with F-35A</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/land/2020/11/20/us-army-merges-europe-and-africa-commands/"><b><span style="font-size: large;">US Army merges Europe and Africa commands</span></b></a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/11/19/heres-how-bad-the-militarys-aircraft-readiness-has-gotten/">Here’s how bad the military’s aircraft readiness has gotten</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-defence/post-brexit-uk-announces-largest-military-spending-since-cold-war-idUSKBN27Y317?il=0"><b>Post-Brexit UK announces largest military spending since Cold War</b></a></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/454867/Iranian-made-warship-joins-IRGC-naval-fleet">Iranian-made warship joins IRGC naval fleet</a> </span></p>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-78311408769967767512020-11-15T16:48:00.004-08:002020-11-15T16:53:37.843-08:00GPA Project Headlines October 1-November 15, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1uA_1_5M35ZG3S7660L3rEuO88dZVAWlFZAS_3-O7gKkEc7JJ6WQGyo4_S2a2340gvxTeSeLKGEyjCrBdCxdIN31gaTqSwdinjZUCl5O_qSl5ygtcN3R6LaDlZjtrQczxqL2bDH5XTKk/s730/old-typewriter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="730" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1uA_1_5M35ZG3S7660L3rEuO88dZVAWlFZAS_3-O7gKkEc7JJ6WQGyo4_S2a2340gvxTeSeLKGEyjCrBdCxdIN31gaTqSwdinjZUCl5O_qSl5ygtcN3R6LaDlZjtrQczxqL2bDH5XTKk/w640-h480/old-typewriter.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>TOP HEADLINES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/01/governing-the-coin-world-economic-forum-announces-global-consortium-for-digital-currency-governance">Governing the Coin: World Economic Forum Announces Global Consortium for Digital Currency Governance</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-response-will-drive-up-global-public-debt-to-a-record-imf-says-11602676800?mod=hp_major_pos2#cxrecs_s"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pandemic Response Will Drive Up Global Public Debt to a Record, IMF Says</span></a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1217051">Russian investment fund submits application for accelerated approval of Sputnik V to WHO</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/amazon-amazon-one-retail-technology/">Amazon introduces the Amazon One, a way to pay with your palm when entering stores</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-military/after-summer-of-protests-u-s-national-guard-puts-troops-on-standby-for-coming-months-officials-idUSKBN26R1M5">After summer of protests, U.S. National Guard puts troops on standby for coming months: officials</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-hiring-analysis/as-u-s-job-growth-stalls-some-workers-face-long-term-unemployment-idUSKBN26R1M4">As U.S. job growth stalls, some workers face long-term unemployment</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-stability/u-s-still-faces-possible-default-wave-asset-declines-due-to-pandemic-fed-idUSKBN27P2T5?il=0">U.S. still faces possible default wave, asset declines due to pandemic: Fed</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/u-s-house-of-representatives-passes-two-blockchain-bills/">U.S. House of Representatives passes two blockchain bills</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-banks-ecb/euro-zone-bank-profitability-collapses-in-second-quarter-ecb-says-idUSKBN26R17E?il=0">Euro zone bank profitability collapses in second quarter, ECB says</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/01/635419/Yemen-court-Saudi-King-Salman-Trump-airstrike-schoolchildren">Yemeni court sentences Saudi rulers, Trump to death over roles in 2018 massacre of kids</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3104221/europe-mulls-digital-euro-china-pushes-ahead-own-electronic">Europe mulls digital euro as China pushes ahead with own electronic currency</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/eurosystem-digital-euro-currency-cbdc-project-by-mid-2021/">Eurosystem will decide on digital euro project by mid-2021</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/sibos-2020-chinese-central-bank-digital-yuan-currency-cbdc/">SIBOS 2020: Chinese central bank says 1.1 billion digital yuan paid so far</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1220259">Total state debt of Eurozone to be above 100% of GDP in 2020</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1221653">Not single issue in Russia-US dialogue resolved in strategic aspect under Trump — diplomat</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1215799">Pilot launch of digital rubles is possible in late 2021</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32155/">China & Russian-Led Bloc to Replace Trade in Dollar & Euro with Domestic Currencies</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/personal-bankruptcies-expected-to-rise-in-2021-as-stimulus-ends-11603844043">Personal Bankruptcies Expected to Rise in 2021 as Stimulus Ends</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mega-banks-should-use-their-lending-power-against-big-oil-say-these-rockefeller-family-members-2020-10-12?mod=home-page">Mega banks should use their lending power against Big Oil, say these Rockefeller family members</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-12/lagarde-says-her-hunch-is-that-ecb-will-adopt-digital-currency?srnd=premium-europe">Lagarde Says Her ‘Hunch’ Is That ECB Will Adopt Digital Currency</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1210813">Putin says no friends in big politics</a></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>GLOBAL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-pope/pope-says-lady-covid-must-be-obeyed-forgoes-mask-idUSKBN27D1HA?il=0">Pope says 'lady' COVID must be obeyed, forgoes mask</a></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/be-prepared-a-return-to-normal-is-a-still-a-long-way-away-warns-jamie-dimon-11602431977?mod=home-page">Be prepared: A return to normal is still a long way away, warns banking billionaire Jamie Dimon</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/no-jobs-half-world-workforce-edge/5725631">No Jobs, So What Future? Half the World’s Workforce on the Edge</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/restaurants-defend-dining-rooms-as-covid-19-spreads-11604831402?mod=hp_lead_pos3">Restaurants Defend Dining Rooms as Covid-19 Spreads</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-01/city-of-london-s-socially-distanced-streets-may-be-here-to-stay?srnd=premium"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>City of London’s Socially Distanced Streets May Be Here to Stay</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/10/unemployment-main-concern-for-business-leaders-but-climate-is-moving-up-list-of-top-risks">Unemployment Main Concern for Business Leaders but Climate is Moving Up List of Top Risks</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1216585">First component of Sputnik V received by 19,000 people in Moscow Region</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3105870/traditional-chinese-medicine-maker-soars-after-top-respiratory?li_source=LI&li_medium=economy_section_top_picks_for_you">Traditional Chinese medicine maker soars after top respiratory expert backs drug in potentially inhibiting coronavirus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3105983/south-koreas-kimchi-disaster-extreme-weather-wipes-out-cabbage?li_source=LI&li_medium=homepage_int_edition_top_picks_for_you"><b>South Korea’s kimchi disaster: extreme weather wipes out cabbage fields and prices soar</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1216523">Five people hospitalized with suspected anthrax in Dagestan</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-locusts/swelled-by-rain-and-covid-curbs-locust-swarms-ravage-ethiopia-idUSKBN27515H">Swelled by rain and COVID curbs, locust swarms ravage Ethiopia</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>USA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-wins-white-house-ap-fd58df73aa677acb74fce2a69adb71f9">Biden defeats Trump for White House, says ‘time to heal’</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-budget-gap-tripled-in-fiscal-2020-as-government-battled-pandemic-11602185589?mod=hp_major_pos1#cxrecs_s">U.S. Budget Gap Tripled in Fiscal 2020 as Government Battled Pandemic</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-bostic/feds-bostic-says-significant-portions-of-u-s-recovery-are-weak-or-nonexistent-idUSKBN2742JX">Fed's Bostic says significant portions of U.S. recovery are weak or nonexistent</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-clarida/feds-clarida-says-u-s-economic-recovery-has-a-long-way-to-go-idUSKBN274260"><b>Fed's Clarida says U.S. economic recovery has a 'long way to go'</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h1 class="wsj-article-headline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/weekly-jobless-claims-coronavirus-10-08-2020-11602098873?mod=hp_major_pos3#cxrecs_s" style="font-weight: normal;">U.S. Unemployment Claims Remain Elevated Above 800,000</a></span></span></h1></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/desperate-for-a-stimulus-check-millions-of-jobless-americans-have-nearly-exhausted-their-savings-11603098354?mod=home-page">Desperate for a stimulus check, millions of jobless Americans have nearly exhausted their savings</a></b></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/joe-bidens-pandemic-plan-2020-11-07">Biden’s pandemic plan: Restore Obamacare, mandatory masks, paid sick leave and free COVID-19 tests</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-truth-behind-hunter-bidens-actions-ukraine-matters-us-all">Why The Truth Behind Hunter Biden's Actions In Ukraine Matters To Us All</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.pacificpundit.com/2020/09/30/why-biden-and-harris-refuse-to-condemn-antifa-their-website-redirects-to-joebiden-com/">WHY BIDEN AND HARRIS REFUSE TO CONDEMN ANTIFA – THEIR WEBSITE REDIRECTS TO JOEBIDEN.COM</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-donald-trump-united-states-elections-5ea93aa5f411244d47dd4dadb105e82d">Specter of election chaos raises questions on military role</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-16/dimon-says-he-s-hopeful-biden-would-fix-some-of-america-s-issues?srnd=premium">Dimon Says He’s Hopeful Biden Would Fix Some of America’s Issues</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/facing-a-divided-u-s-biden-and-aides-plan-for-the-hard-work-of-governing-idUSKBN27O06Y"><b>Biden plans for White House as Trump plans rallies to protest his election loss</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-economy-analysis/analysis-biden-returns-to-battle-another-economic-crisis-but-its-no-great-recession-idUSKBN27N0XN">Biden returns to battle another economic crisis, but it's no Great Recession</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1209933"><b>Trump prefers to trust Putin, not US intelligence - US vice-presidential candidate</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1209935">Biden’s running mate pushes ‘Russia bounties’ conspiracy theory during VP debate</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26V0NO"><i>Climate activist Greta Thunberg shows support for Biden in rare political tweet</i></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-legal-challenges/polarized-electorate-mail-in-ballots-could-spark-post-election-legal-fight-of-our-lives-idUSKBN27I1BO">Polarized electorate, mail-in ballots could spark post-election legal 'fight of our lives'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-coronavirus/before-biden-inauguration-70000-more-could-die-from-covid-19-in-the-u-s-idUSKBN27T2W3"><b><i>Before Biden inauguration, 70,000 more could die from COVID-19 in the U.S.</i></b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-broadway/broadway-theaters-sound-alarm-as-closure-extended-through-may-2021-idUSKBN26U1PF">Broadway theaters sound alarm as closure extended through May 2021</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/covid-19-surges-in-u-s-midwest-broadway-dark-until-june-idUSKBN26U1OZ">COVID-19 surges in U.S. Midwest, Broadway dark until June</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/las-vegas-strip-empty-without-conventions-11602322200?mod=hp_lead_pos10">Las Vegas Strip Empty Without Conventions</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-12/ivy-league-nixes-next-sports-season-as-virus-rages-across-u-s?srnd=premium"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ivy League Nixes Next Sports Season as Virus Rages Across U.S.</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-california-climate/california-governor-says-state-will-conserve-30-of-lands-and-waters-by-2030-idUSKBN26S38X">California governor says state will conserve 30% of lands and waters by 2030</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/west-coast-wildfires-devastate-heart-of-californias-wine-industry-11601552616?mod=hp_lead_pos12">West Coast Wildfires Devastate Heart of California’s Wine Industry</a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires/california-wildfires-threaten-towns-wineries-ahead-of-dangerous-weekend-idUSKBN26N3GC"><span style="font-family: georgia;">California wildfires threaten towns, wineries ahead of dangerous weekend</span></a></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-travel/u-s-vehicle-travel-fell-8-6-in-september-lowest-drop-since-pandemic-start-idUSKBN27T2QH?il=0">U.S. vehicle travel fell 8.6% in September, lowest drop since pandemic start</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-oil-donors/u-s-oil-majors-pitch-more-campaign-cash-to-democrats-as-frack-battle-looms-idUSKBN27116P">U.S. oil majors pitch more campaign cash to Democrats as frack battle looms</a></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alaska-quake/magnitude-7-5-quake-strikes-off-alaskas-aleutians-usgs-idUSKBN2742UA">Magnitude 7.5 quake strikes off Alaska's Aleutians: USGS</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfire-colorado/windswept-colorado-wildfire-prompts-evacuations-closure-of-national-park-idUSKBN2772OC">Colorado wildfire jumps U.S. Continental Divide, threatens mountain towns</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-01/covid-19-restrictions-bring-california-county-into-revolt?srnd=premium">Inside a California Covid Revolt</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/1-in-4-u-s-workers-have-considered-quitting-due-to-pandemic-worries-01603117265?mod=home-page">1 in 4 U.S. workers have considered quitting due to pandemic worries</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://reason.com/2020/10/13/san-francisco-will-pay-artists-1000-a-month-in-universal-basic-income/">San Francisco Will Pay Artists $1,000 a Month in Universal Basic Income</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/opinion-with-universal-basic-income-a-brighter-baton-rouge/article_5cb6e23e-0c8c-11eb-a1d6-c7a04aee80a8.html">Opinion: With Universal Basic Income, a 'brighter Baton Rouge'</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-22/landlords-launch-legal-attack-on-cdc-eviction-ban?srnd=premium">Landlords Challenge U.S. Eviction Ban and Continue to Oust Renters</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/17/636583/US-John-Bolton-Mujahedin-e-Khalq-Organization-Mehdi-Hassan"><b>Iran hawk Bolton admits receiving ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ from MKO</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-resident-stockton-california-sentenced-more-15-years-prison-human-trafficking"><i>Former Resident of Stockton, California Sentenced to More Than 15 Years in Prison for Human Trafficking Convictions Related to Forced Labor of Foreign Nationals</i></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-usa-st-louis/st-louis-couple-indicted-for-brandishing-guns-at-protesters-idUSKBN26R3H5">St. Louis couple indicted for brandishing guns at protesters</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netflix-cuties/netflix-faces-indictment-in-texas-over-controversial-french-film-cuties-idUSKBN26R3LC">Netflix faces indictment in Texas over controversial French film 'Cuties'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-man-pleads-guilty-in-gun-sale-to-mass-shooter-11602103216?mod=hp_listb_pos3">Texas Man Pleads Guilty in Gun Sale to Mass Shooter</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/shootings-archive-denver-9e81d258e27874cdc14953b11c0c15d3">Security guard jailed in deadly shooting at Denver protests</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-politics/u-s-detains-mexicos-ex-defense-minister-on-dea-warrant-idUSKBN271099">U.S. detains Mexico's ex-defense minister on DEA warrant</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-journalist/missing-americans-mother-says-pompeo-undermines-his-release-idUSKBN27B2D9?il=0">Missing American's mother says Pompeo undermines his release</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-michigan-whitmer/militia-members-others-charged-in-plot-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-she-says-trump-complicit-idUSKBN26T2ZF">Militia members, others charged in plot to kidnap Michigan governor; she says Trump complicit</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-military/u-s-troops-in-afghanistan-should-be-home-by-christmas-trump-idUSKBN26S3EX">U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be 'home by Christmas': Trump</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3103848/donald-trumps-four-years-power-has-totally-changed"><b>Donald Trump’s four years in power have ‘totally changed manufacturing’, say US firms forced to rethink supply chains</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636684/Trump-suggests-Osama-bin-Laden's-death-was-faked-in-Pakistan-in-2011">Trump suggests Osama bin Laden's death was faked in Pakistan in 2011</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636696/Trump-could-become-an-American-hero-by-revealing-911-truth">Trump could become an American hero by revealing 9/11 truth</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636667/American-media-hasn%E2%80%99t-learn-anything-from-2016-election">American media hasn’t learned anything from 2016 election</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636633/US-Donald-Trump-Michigan%E2%80%99s-Democratic-Governor-Gretchen-Whitmer">Trump slams Michigan governor Whitmer; crowd chants 'lock her up'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990727000954">Trump Supporters Protesting Twitter Censorship Clash with Antifa, BLM Activists in Violent Scenes in San Francisco</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-philadelphia/philadelphia-sets-citywide-curfew-to-quell-unrest-after-fatal-shooting-of-black-man-idUSKBN27D11Z">Philadelphia sets citywide curfew to quell unrest after fatal shooting of Black man</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-philadelphia-explosiv/two-arrested-with-explosives-in-van-during-philadelphia-protests-police-idUSKBN27F11I">Two arrested with explosives in van during Philadelphia protests: police</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-military/after-summer-of-protests-u-s-national-guard-puts-troops-on-standby-for-coming-months-officials-idUSKBN26R1M5">After summer of protests, U.S. National Guard puts troops on standby for coming months: officials</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/walmart-pulls-guns-ammo-from-shelves-ahead-of-potential-civil-unrest-01604011821?mod=home-page">Walmart pulls guns, ammo from shelves ahead of potential ‘civil unrest’</a></span></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/does-trump-really-have-covid-just-nasty-cold/5725728">Does Trump Really Have COVID or Just a Nasty Cold?</a></b></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump/dont-be-afraid-of-covid-trump-says-as-he-returns-to-white-house-that-is-stalked-by-illness-idUSKBN26Q0CS">'Don't be afraid' of COVID, Trump says as he returns to White House that is stalked by illness</a></span></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-rural-hunger/food-workers-rural-americans-go-hungry-despite-u-s-government-farm-aid-idUSKBN27C1IM">Food workers, rural Americans go hungry despite U.S. government farm aid</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.rt.com/business/504239-russia-worlds-largest-gold-mine/">Russia to open WORLD’S LARGEST gold mine in Siberia</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1221653">Not single issue in Russia-US dialogue resolved in strategic aspect under Trump — diplomat</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1215275">Russia will cope with sanctions imposed against it, says Putin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1208937">West is afraid of uncomfortable truth about OPCW at UNSC - Russian envoy</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1209493">Media should behave responsibly, not ‘spew nonsense’ — Putin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1209583"><b>Using ‘Russia’ card to bait Trump plays into Moscow’s hands — Putin</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1209485">Criticizing authorities not prohibited in Russia, but online conduct rules needed — Putin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1217375">Russian foreign policy defined by president, his stance taken as guidance, Kremlin says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1209693">Putin says US harbors ‘bipartisan consensus’ to contain Russia</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1210207">Western countries showed nihilism by refusing to listen to former OPCW chief — diplomat</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1211901">Russian senior diplomat rejects US proposal to freeze nuclear arsenals, extend New START</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1212795">New US administration will have to face many problems in relations with Russia — diplomat</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1213199">US national security advisor says Putin’s initiative on New START extension is non-starter</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1216669">Russia considers all scenarios over US' withdrawal from Treaty on Open Skies — envoy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1217373"><b>Tourist traffic in Russia expected to plunge 40-50% by end of 2020</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1218205">Russian hotels lose 60% of sales in October</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1217241"><b>Russian restaurants, bars losing 22% year-on-year in revenues in October</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1216535">Economic recovery expected in Russia in 2H 2021, says ministry</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1211421"><b>Alrosa becomes largest diamond mining company in the world, says Putin</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1214839">Cargoes supplied via Northern Sea Route to exceed 31 mln tonnes in 2020, says Rosatom</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1214711"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia must ramp up its presence in the Arctic, Prime Minister Mishustin says</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1208755">Kamchatka emergency unlikely to be man-caused — minister</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1210173">Excessive concentrations of three substances found in Kamchatka water samples</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1216647">Putin approves strategy for development of Russian Arctic zone through 2035</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1215625">Putin issued personal instructions to let Navalny be transported to Germany — Kremlin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1212463">EU bans entry to FSB director, other Russian officials over Navalny incident</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1208223"><b>German Foreign Ministry denies Russian Embassy consular access to Navalny</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1210019"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There were no toxic substances in Navalny’s body when he was in Russia — intel chief</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1210803"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>No less than 20 Western countries worked with Novichok agent - Russia’s Foreign Ministry</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1212669">Oslo has no proof of Russia’s role in cyber-attack on Norwegian parliament, says diplomat</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1210423">Russian radars track 41 foreign spy planes and 3 drones over week</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1216829">Russia’s defense chief highlights tension along borders with NATO countries</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1216849">Kremlin: Russian healthcare system more stable than in many other advanced countries</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>DPR/LNR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/bidyevka-ukraine-braces-for-loss-of-sovereignty-and-western-colonization.html">Bidyevka: Ukraine braces for loss of sovereignty and Western colonization</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/dpr-requests-russia-to-supply-covid-19-vaccine.html">DPR requests Russia to supply COVID-19 vaccine</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/influenza-and-ari-below-epidemic-threshold-expected-to-peak-in-february-2021.html"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Influenza and ARI below epidemic threshold, expected to peak in February 2021</b></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/sea-roses-and-spoil-tip-to-represent-dpr-tourism-brand-pictures.html">Sea, roses and spoil tip to represent DPR tourism brand</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/ukrainian-forces-use-drones-to-set-fire-to-fields-near-contact-line-dpr-militia.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Ukrainian forces use drones to set fire to fields near contact line – DPR militia</b></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/dpr-air-defense-drills-repulsion-of-air-attack.html"><span style="font-family: georgia;">DPR Air Defense drills repulsion of air attack</span></a></div><div><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/dpr-mission-to-jccc-reports-blasts-at-ukrainian-positions.html"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>DPR Mission to JCCC reports blasts at Ukrainian positions</b></span></a></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/explosion-rips-through-ukrainian-army-positions-in-mayorsk-crossing-point-area-jccc.html">Explosion rips through Ukrainian army positions in Mayorsk crossing point area – JCCC</a></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/2000-dpr-energy-facilities-damaged-in-ukrainian-army-strikes-since-2014-ministry.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>2,000 DPR energy facilities damaged in Ukrainian army strikes since 2014 – Ministry</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Belarus</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1212547">‘Packing a solid punch’: August drills ‘talked sense’ into foreign forces, Lukashenko says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-opposition/belarus-says-it-has-evidence-opposition-council-members-sought-to-harm-national-security-idUSKBN2711BF?il=0">Belarus says it has evidence opposition council members sought to harm national security</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1216893"><i>Belarus facing terrorist threat, says Lukashenko</i></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1209811">Russia issues arrest warrant against Belarus’s ex-presidential candidate Tikhanovskaya</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1210821">Lukashenko meets with jailed opposition figureheads at pre-trial detention center</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1218369">Lukashenko claims has no intention to flee Belarus</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1218383">Lukashenko reminds national security officers of importance of Belarusian sovereignty</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1220963"><b>Lukashenko proposes Rosatom CEO to create subsidiary in Belarus</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1207799"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Kremlin positive about EU’s decision to refrain from blacklisting Lukashenko</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1220279">Lukashenko says Belarusian doctors who leave for Poland won’t be allowed back</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Ukraine</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1218457">Zelensky’s move to dismiss Constitutional Court bears signs of coup — court head</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>EU</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/germans-should-brace-for-4-5-months-of-severe-covid-19-measures-minister-says-idUSKBN27V080">Germans should brace for 4-5 months of severe COVID-19 measures, minister says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/france-and-germany-thrust-into-lockdown-as-second-covid-19-wave-sweeps-europe-idUSKBN27D1JN"><span style="font-family: georgia;">France and Germany thrust into lockdown as second COVID-19 wave sweeps Europe</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france/france-to-enact-second-lockdown-to-put-brakes-on-covid-19-surge-idUSKBN27D2WO"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>France to enact second lockdown to put brakes on COVID-19 surge</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-merkel/germany-to-go-into-circuit-break-lockdown-as-coronavirus-surges-idUSKBN27D0J0">Germany to go into circuit-break lockdown as coronavirus surges</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain/stay-at-home-johnson-locks-down-england-as-uk-covid-19-cases-pass-1-million-idUSKBN27G0C7?il=0">Johnson locks down England as UK COVID-19 cases pass 1 million</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-gove/uk-minister-says-lockdown-in-england-could-be-extended-idUSKBN27H16C">Lockdown in England could be extended, UK minister warns</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-lockdown-r/pm-johnson-to-impose-england-national-lockdown-until-dec-2-itv-idUSKBN27G0NW"><b>PM Johnson to impose England national lockdown until Dec. 2: ITV</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-01/england-virus-lockdown-could-yet-be-extended-minister-warns"><i>England Virus Lockdown May Be Extended Beyond December</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/europes-covid-curbs-prompt-pushback-amid-bleak-countdown-to-christmas-idUSKBN27I17E?il=0">Europe's COVID-19 curbs prompt pushback amid bleak countdown to Christmas</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-banks-credit/britain-extends-payment-freeze-to-coronavirus-hit-borrowers-idUSKBN27I0LX?il=0">Britain extends payment freeze to coronavirus-hit borrowers</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-nice/three-dead-as-woman-beheaded-in-france-gunman-killed-in-second-incident-idUSKBN27E17D?il=0"><b>Tunisian man beheads woman, kills two more people in Nice church</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-lyon/greek-orthodox-priest-shot-and-wounded-at-church-in-france-idUSKBN27G0P6?il=0"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Greek Orthodox priest shot and wounded at church in France</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/32005"><b>First Full Train Carries Sanctioned Cargo from Europe to China across Russia</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-eu/eu-regrettably-hits-u-s-with-tariffs-seeks-better-biden-ties-idUSKBN27P102?il=0">EU 'regrettably' hits U.S. with tariffs, seeks better Biden ties</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1211411"><b>Unidentified individuals attack ex-Georgian President Saakashvili in Athens</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-police-attacks/dozens-stage-attack-on-police-station-in-paris-suburb-idUSKBN26W0AU?il=0">Dozens stage attack on police station in Paris suburb</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1216411"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Moscow ready not to deploy 9M729 missiles in European Russia, Putin says</b></span></a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1213975">Paris still in the dark about who could have leaked Putin-Macron phone call</a></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1204057"><b>Elysee Palace could not leak Putin-Macron conversation tape to the media — Kremlin</b></a></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1218415">Georgia’s ruling party says Saakashvili backers plotting provocations</a></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>China</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-un/china-accuses-u-s-at-u-n-of-trying-to-take-world-back-to-jungle-age-idUSKBN26N38V"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>China accuses U.S. at U.N. of trying to take world back to 'jungle age'</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3104562/why-did-chinas-forex-reserves-fall-us22-billion-september">Why did China’s forex reserves fall by US$22 billion in September?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3103349/chinas-population-crisis-beijing-must-address-its-falling"><b>China’s population crisis: Beijing must address its falling births and ageing workforce</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3105953/chinese-military-beefs-coastal-forces-it-prepares-possible">Chinese military beefs up coastal forces as it prepares for possible invasion of Taiwan</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3104611/donald-trump-new-video-vows-make-china-pay-coronavirus-pandemic">Donald Trump vows to ‘make China pay’ for coronavirus pandemic</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3106027/us-china-tech-war-beijing-counters-restrictions-new-law-curb-sensitive">US-China tech war: Beijing counters restrictions with new law to curb sensitive exports</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31993">Energy Deals Are Creating a Powerful Alliance Between China and Russia</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31982">Agroexpress Train Carries Sunflower Oil from Russia to China</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/32063">Russia, China Approve Plan on Cooperation Between Media for 2021</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/32075">BRICS to Stand Up for Just World Order — Lavrov</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3107119/china-moves-legalise-digital-yuan-and-ban-competitors-new">China moves to legalise digital yuan and ban competitors with new draft law</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3106672/chinas-yuan-exchange-rate-666-new-sweet-spot-currency-against">China’s yuan exchange rate: is 6.66 a new sweet spot for the currency against the US dollar?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3106274/us-china-decoupling-beijing-ramping-its-diversification-away">US-China decoupling: is Beijing ramping up its diversification away from the US dollar?</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/32098/">Russia-China Military Alliance ‘Quite Possible,’ Putin Says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31972/"><b>Russia and China Both Subject to Unrelenting Economic and Social Warfare</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Israel</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-confronts-revolt-as-ultraorthodox-defy-covid-public-health-rules-11603369369?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1">Israel Confronts Revolt as Ultraorthodox Defy Covid-19 Public-Health Rules</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israeli-journalists-attacked-while-covering-covid-19-haredi-communities-646668">Israeli journalists attacked while covering COVID-19 haredi communities</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/thousands-of-ultra-orthodox-school-children-return-to-school-amid-covid-19-646160">30,000 ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students return to school today</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-economy-finmin/israel-finance-minister-promises-budget-by-december-another-official-quits-idUSKBN26W0KP">Israel finance minister promises budget by December, another official quits</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/anti-netanyahu-protests-continue-amid-is-idUSRTX81JIF"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Anti-Netanyahu protests continue amid Israel's second nationwide lockdown</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636625/Anti-Netanyahu-protests-regain-strength-as-Israel-eases-lockdown-restrictions"><b>Anti-Netanyahu protests regain strength following lower restrictions</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/04/635649/Israel-constantly-meddled-in-Yemen-internal-affairs-during-Saleh-rule-Army-spokesman">Israel constantly meddled in Yemen’s internal affairs under slain dictator: Army spokesman</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/thousands-of-israelis-protest-against-netanyahu-despite-lockdown-idUSKBN26O0XQ"><b>Thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu despite lockdown</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/17/636566/Israel-arsenal-of-nuclear-chemical-warfare-poses-greats-risk-to-Middle-East-peace-Syria-UN-envoy">Israel’s arsenal of nuclear, chemical warfare poses greats risk to Middle East peace: Syria UN envoy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qatar-israel-jets/israel-would-oppose-any-u-s-f-35-sale-to-qatar-israeli-minister-says-idUSKBN26W0E4"><b>Israel would oppose any U.S. F-35 sale to Qatar, Israeli minister says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=206718">Israeli settlers storm al-Aqsa Mosque under protection of occupation forces</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Middle East/Levant/Central Asia</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/01/635419/Yemen-court-Saudi-King-Salman-Trump-airstrike-schoolchildren"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Yemeni court sentences Saudi rulers, Trump to death over roles in 2018 massacre of kids</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636690/Yemen-fighters-Saudi-Arabia">Yemeni fighters hit positions of Saudi Arabia’s mercenaries, fatalities reported</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/19/636766/US-Western-intelligence-services-behind-creation-of-Takfiri-terror-networks-Houthi">US, Western intelligence services behind creation of Takfiri terrorist groups: Houthi</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/13/638502/Fire-erupts-at-Saudi-Arabia-Jizan-oil-products-terminal-after-Yemeni-boat-attack">Fire erupts at Saudi Arabia’s Jizan petroleum products platform after Yemeni boat attack</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/24/637127/Yemen-Saudi-Arabia-drone-attack-Qasif-">Yemen’s Qasef-2k drones target Saudi airports, air base, in response to escalation, continued siege</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/25/637200/Saudi-Arabia-Yemen--Yahya-Saree-Asir-Abha-airport-Sammad-3-Qasef-K2-"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Yemeni army strikes Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport in retaliatory drone attack</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/26/637273/Saudi-Arabia-Abha-International-Airport-hit-again-in-Yemeni-retaliatory-strike"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yemeni forces hit Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport in new retaliatory strike</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/25/637185/Yemen-mercenaries-Qaeda-Daesh">Saudi-led coalition, mercenaries working with al-Qaeda, Daesh in Yemen: Foreign Ministry</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/17/636576/Hashd-Sha%E2%80%99abi-fighters,-security-forces-stopping-Daesh-infiltration-attempts-on-Iraq-Syria-border--Official"><b>Iraq's Hashd Sha’abi fighters, govt. forces foiling Daesh infiltration bids on Syria border: Military official</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636678/US-Iraq-Hashd-PMU">US seeking to eliminate Iraqi Hashd al-Sha’abi by force: Report</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990722000619"><b>Hashd Al-Shaabi Discovers Explosive Detonators Near Tomb of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-militias/iraqi-militias-say-they-have-halted-anti-u-s-attacks-idUSKBN26W0IN">Iraqi militias say they have halted anti-U.S. attacks</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/14/638566/Anti-terror-group-vows-to-not-allow-US-breaches-of-airspace-over-Iraq">Anti-terror group vows to not allow US breaches of airspace over Iraq</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1221413">Hotbed of international terrorism in Syria virtually eliminated, says Putin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/26/637292/Russian-airstrikes-kill-78-Turkish-backed-militants-in-Syria-Idlib-SOHR">Russian airstrikes kill 78 Turkish-backed militants in Syria’s Idlib: SOHR</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1211885"><b>Syrian militants stage another provocation with toxic agents — Reconciliation center</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1211683">Chechen head: Terrorists neutralized in Chechnya came from Syria to launch attacks</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-turkey/turkey-withdraws-from-base-in-northwest-syria-sources-say-idUSKBN27428Y">Turkey withdraws from base in northwest Syria, sources say</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=206452">Russian officials: terrorists’ provocations by using chemical weapons in Syria are failure and uncovered acts</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=206445"><b>Three civilians martyred in landmines explosion in Hasaka and Deir Ezzor </b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=206445">countryside</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/14/636360/Militants-delivered-chlorine-barrels-to-stage-false-flag-chemical-attack-in-Syria-Idlib-Russia">Militants delivered chlorine barrels to White Helmets for false flag gas attack in Syria’s Idlib: Russia</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=206591">Grospic : QSD militia’s crimes serve the US colonial agendas</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=206704">Update-QSD militia storms civilians’ houses, kidnaps a number of them in Raqqa and Deir Ezzor countryside</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=206627">QSD militia kidnaps more civilians in al-Jazeera area</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/23/637031/Car-bomb-explosion-kills-Damascus-mufti-west-of-Syria%E2%80%99s-capital">Car bomb explosion kills Damascus mufti west of Syria’s capital</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-russia-iran/russia-iran-concerned-about-syrian-and-libyan-fighters-in-nagorno-karabakh-moscow-idUSKBN26N2U6">Russia, Iran concerned about Syrian and Libyan fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh: Moscow</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1207675">Over 300 Syrian Islamists arrive in Karabakh via Turkey — Macron</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1207491"><b>Paris says has proof Turkish militants involved in Nagorno-Karabakh</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205929">Armenia ready to request military assistance from Russia, ambassador says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/corpses-and-burnt-out-cars-line-karabakh-road-as-russian-troops-deploy-idUSKBN27T24A?il=0"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Corpses and burnt-out cars line Karabakh road as Russian troops deploy</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/syrias-assad-blames-turkey-for-fighting-between-azeris-and-armenians-idUSKBN26R0T2">Russia warns that Nagorno-Karabakh could become Islamist militant stronghold</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1209727">Armenian PM says Nagorno-Karabakh conflict spills over regional borders</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=206721">Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow discusses with Ankara matter of bringing mercenaries from Syria and Libya to Nagorno Karabakh region</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1221869"><b>Leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia agree peace in Nagorno-Karabakh</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1221897">Armenian PM says signs Karabakh deal based on army’s recommendation</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1221795"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>First Il-76 planes with Russian peacekeepers depart for Karabakh</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1221821">Tenth plane with Russian peacekeepers departs for Nagorno-Karabakh</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1221645"><b>Azerbaijan says downed Russian helicopter by mistake</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wwi-rare-video-armenian-forces-face-face-azerbaijan-army">"Like WWI": Rare Video Of Armenian Forces 'Face To Face' With Azerbaijan Army</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990715000756"><b>DM: Iran Not to Tolerate Shelling on Northwestern Borders</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990723000147">Missile Hits Iran’s East Azarbaijan Province</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990722000662"><b>Drone Crashes in Northwestern Ardabil Province</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/11/06/turkey-creates-its-version-of-nato/">Turkey Creates its Version of NATO?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=206538"><b>Turkish regime recruits Daesh terrorists to take revenge on its political opponents</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1208965">President says attempt made to seize power in Kyrgyzstan</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1210543">Kyrgyz leader orders state of emergency in Bishkek until October 21</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Iran</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636649/Iran-Hassan-Rouhani-US-sanctions-disintegrate"><b>Rouhani: Govt. foiled ominous US plot to disintegrate Iran</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636621/Iran-UN-arms-embargo-termination">Iran declares official termination of UN arms embargo</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636672/Iran-US-UNSC-arms-embargo-Daniel-Kovalik-JCPOA-Trump"><b>Arms embargo termination proves US 'very isolated' in its policy toward Iran: Analyst</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/18/636662/Ryabkov-Iran-Russia-arms-embargo">With Iran arms embargo terminated, Moscow vows to continue military cooperation with Tehran</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990722000378">Top Commander: Iran Unaffected by US’ Hollow Threats</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990721000886">Three Terrorists Killed, One Captured in Clashes with IRGC in Western Iran</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990715000498">IRGC Deputy Commander: Any War in Region Entails Annihilation of US</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990724000505">Iran Confirms Cyber Attacks against 2 Government Departments</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990722000202">Tehran, Moscow Highlight EAEU-Based Cooperation</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1210791">Putin discusses Iran nuclear deal, Karabakh, coronavirus vaccine with Rouhani</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/19/636759/Hatami-Iran-Aljazeera-missile-Israel-Persian-Gulf-normalization-Bahrain-UAE-Karabakh">Iran will give 'direct, clear' response to any Israeli threat in Persian Gulf: Defense minister</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/14/638562/Iran-Saeed-Khatibzadeh">Iran rejects US media report on killing of senior al-Qaeda leader in Tehran</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/11/05/637983/IRGC-commander-salami-firm-response-border-threat">IRGC's chief commander: Any threat to our borders will be met with firm, timely response</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/29/637521/Iran-Army-Ground-Forces-commander-warning-border-security"><b>Iranian Army's Ground Forces cmdr.: No breathing space for enemies near borders</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ECONOMIC</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-response-will-drive-up-global-public-debt-to-a-record-imf-says-11602676800?mod=hp_major_pos2#cxrecs_s"><b>Pandemic Response Will Drive Up Global Public Debt to a Record, IMF Says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/press/2020/10/unemployment-main-concern-for-business-leaders-but-climate-is-moving-up-list-of-top-risks">Unemployment Main Concern for Business Leaders but Climate is Moving Up List of Top Risks</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-world-economic-forum-survey/unemployment-is-worlds-biggest-risk-business-leaders-say-idUSKBN26S3JA">Unemployment is world's biggest risk, business leaders say</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/states-see-31-billion-of-taxes-disappear-due-to-covid-recession?srnd=premium">States See $31 Billion of Taxes Disappear Due to Covid Recession</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/personal-bankruptcies-expected-to-rise-in-2021-as-stimulus-ends-11603844043">Personal Bankruptcies Expected to Rise in 2021 as Stimulus Ends</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-hiring-analysis/as-u-s-job-growth-stalls-some-workers-face-long-term-unemployment-idUSKBN26R1M4">As U.S. job growth stalls, some workers face long-term unemployment</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1220259">Total state debt of Eurozone to be above 100% of GDP in 2020</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-economy-tools-analysis/rich-nations-tighten-firehose-of-aid-as-virus-outlasts-early-efforts-idUSKBN26Q0LG"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rich nations tighten firehose of aid as virus outlasts early efforts</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-debt/g20-strikes-historic-debt-pact-to-help-poorer-states-hit-by-covid-idUSKBN27T1R8?il=0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">G20 strikes historic debt pact to help poorer states hit by COVID</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-debt-imf/imfs-georgieva-hails-g20-debt-framework-but-this-crisis-is-not-over-idUSKBN27T22W?il=0"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">IMF'S Georgieva hails G20 debt framework but 'this crisis is not over'</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-banks-ecb/euro-zone-bank-profitability-collapses-in-second-quarter-ecb-says-idUSKBN26R17E?il=0"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Euro zone bank profitability collapses in second quarter, ECB says</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-30/american-air-moves-ahead-with-19-000-layoffs-as-u-s-weighs-aid?srnd=premium"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>American, United to Lay Off 32,000 as U.S. Aid Talks Drag On</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/over-2k-mccarran-based-employees-to-be-out-of-work-starting-thursday-2133558/">Over 2K McCarran-based employees to be out of work starting Thursday</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/28k-at-disney-theme-parks-headed-for-layoffs-2132767/"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>28K at Disney theme parks headed for layoffs</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-16/goldman-warns-of-more-job-losses-with-jumbo-mergers-on-the-rise?srnd=premium">Goldman Warns of More Job Losses With Jumbo Mergers on the Rise</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-cineworld-regal-cinemas-closing-20201004-qld5djuxqjbnpn4erg6q6fhjxi-story.html">Cineworld to close all of its Regal Cinema venues in U.S. and all cinemas across U.K. and Ireland in response to ‘No Time to Die’ delay</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cineworld/cineworld-brings-down-curtain-on-u-s-uk-theatres-45000-jobs-hit-idUSKBN26Q0ME"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Cineworld brings down curtain on U.S., UK theaters; 45,000 jobs hit</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-santander-jobs/santander-plans-to-cut-14-of-jobs-third-of-branches-in-spain-sources-idUSKBN27T1T2?il=0"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Santander plans to cut 4,000 jobs and up to 1,000 branches in Spain, sources say</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-amtrak/u-s-railroad-amtrak-warns-of-2400-additional-job-losses-without-new-bailout-idUSKBN26T3FS"><span style="font-family: georgia;">U.S. railroad Amtrak warns of 2,400 additional job losses without new bailout</span></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-13/san-francisco-studio-apartment-rents-plunge-31-most-in-u-s?srnd=premium">San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/weekly-jobless-claims-coronavirus-10-15-2020-11602714104?mod=hp_lead_pos2">U.S. Jobless Claims Rose to 898,000 Last Week</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-illinois-bonds/illinois-to-sell-850-million-of-bonds-as-investors-brace-for-junk-status-idUSKBN2742TE">Illinois to sell $850 million of bonds as investors brace for junk status</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fdic-unbanked/pandemic-expected-to-push-poorer-americans-out-of-banking-system-regulator-idUSKBN27427R">Pandemic expected to push poorer Americans out of banking system: regulator</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-job-growth-slows-millions-experiencing-long-bouts-of-unemployment-idUSKBN27M0IJ">U.S. job growth slows; millions experiencing long bouts of unemployment</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3103197/why-us-dollar-only-going-fall-faster-and-harder">Why the US dollar is only going to fall faster and harder</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-forex-poll-dollar-poll/dollars-strength-to-be-short-lived-volatility-and-weakness-ahead-reuters-poll-idUSKBN26R005">Dollar's strength to be short-lived; volatility and weakness ahead - Reuters poll</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-household-income-could-pose-hurdle-for-economic-recovery-11601549369?mod=hp_lead_pos2&mod=hp_lead_pos1">Consumer Spending Rose in August, but Incomes Pose Hurdle for U.S. Recovery</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/frontline-workers-in-eye-of-pandemic-storm-for-months-now-fending-off-repo-man-11601587260?mod=home-page">Frontline workers in eye of pandemic storm for months, now fending off repo man</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/job-losses-mount-for-public-school-employees-as-pandemic-squeezes-education-sector-11601661872?mod=home-page">Job losses mount for public school employees as pandemic squeezes education sector</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-covid-broke-times-square-the-heart-of-new-yorks-economy-11601656831?mod=hp_lead_pos5">How Covid Broke Times Square, the Heart of New York’s Economy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-patty-jenkins/wonder-woman-director-warns-movie-going-could-become-extinct-idUSKBN26S2QF">'Wonder Woman' director warns movie-going could become extinct</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/im-terrified-frankly-meet-the-people-who-are-counting-on-another-stimulus-bill-2020-10-10?mod=home-page">‘I’m terrified, frankly’: These people are depending on another stimulus bill to stay afloat</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-stability/u-s-still-faces-possible-default-wave-asset-declines-due-to-pandemic-fed-idUSKBN27P2T5?il=0"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">U.S. still faces possible default wave, asset declines due to pandemic: Fed</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-markets-dollar/analysis-clouds-gather-over-battered-dollar-in-aftermath-of-u-s-election-idUSL1N2HS33E">Analysis: Clouds gather over battered dollar in aftermath of U.S. election</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/that-v-shaped-economic-recovery-forecasters-have-been-calling-for-dont-hold-your-breath-11602174696?mod=home-page">That V-shaped economic recovery forecasters have been calling for? Don’t hold your breath</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-banks-contingency/jittery-wall-street-banks-war-game-the-election-with-drills-client-calls-special-pollsters-idUSKBN27F2IK">Jittery Wall Street banks 'war game' the election with drills, client calls, special pollsters</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ppp/u-s-starts-forgiving-pandemic-loans-amid-criticism-uncertainty-idUSKBN26S2YA">U.S. starts forgiving pandemic loans amid criticism, uncertainty</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-outlook/failed-u-s-stimulus-talks-could-threaten-economic-recovery-idUSKBN26S2QJ">Failed U.S. stimulus talks could threaten economic recovery</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-is-crushing-small-businesses-thats-bad-news-for-american-innovation-11602235804">Covid Is Crushing Small Businesses. That’s Bad News for American Innovation</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-harker/feds-harker-tolerating-higher-inflation-worth-it-to-help-achieve-employment-goals-idUSKBN2742ME">Fed's Harker: Tolerating higher inflation 'worth it' to help achieve employment goals</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cineworld-ceo/bleeding-cash-cineworld-boss-says-no-choice-but-to-shut-sites-idUSKBN26Q1HF"><b>Bleeding cash, Cineworld boss says no choice but to shut sites</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lufthansa-cash/lufthansa-ceo-says-no-end-in-sight-to-burning-through-cash-idUSKBN26Q2Q5">Lufthansa CEO says no end in sight to burning through cash</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southwest-jobs/southwest-seeks-pay-cuts-from-unions-to-avoid-layoffs-through-2021-idUSKBN26Q323"><b>Southwest seeks pay cuts from unions to avoid layoffs through 2021</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-aviation/faa-waives-minimum-flight-requirements-at-some-u-s-airports-through-march-idUSKBN26Q329">FAA waives minimum flight requirements at some U.S. airports through March</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mega-banks-should-use-their-lending-power-against-big-oil-say-these-rockefeller-family-members-2020-10-12?mod=home-page">Mega banks should use their lending power against Big Oil, say these Rockefeller family members</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jpmorgan-chase-co-agrees-pay-920-million-connection-schemes-defraud-precious-metals-and-us">JPMorgan Chase & Co. Agrees To Pay $920 Million in Connection with Schemes to Defraud Precious Metals and U.S. Treasuries Markets</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-banks/as-world-bank-faces-scrutiny-u-n-chief-warns-lenders-over-fossil-fuels-idUSKBN26X2PB?il=0">As World Bank faces scrutiny, U.N. chief warns lenders over fossil fuels</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-boe-markets/bank-of-england-calls-for-mandatory-company-disclosures-on-climate-risks-idUSKBN2711DZ?il=0">Bank of England says company disclosures on climate risks will be mandatory</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Failed US Banks</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/failed-bank-list/almenastate.html"><b>Failed Bank Information for Almena State Bank, Almena, KS</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/failed-bank-list/firstcitybank.html">Failed Bank Information for First City Bank of Florida, Fort Walton Beach, FL</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Bankruptcy</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-bankruptcy/u-s-commercial-bankruptcies-up-33-year-to-date-idUSKBN26Q2ZF"><b>U.S. commercial bankruptcies up 33% year to date</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/luxury-goods-retailer-furla-usa-files-for-bankruptcy-11604951775">Luxury-Goods Retailer Furla USA Files for Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/youfit-health-floats-75-million-bankruptcy-sale-to-lenders-11604959961"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>YouFit Health Floats $75 Million Bankruptcy Sale to Lenders</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/sun-capitals-furniture-factory-outlet-is-latest-retail-bankruptcy-11604610031">Sun Capital’s Furniture Factory Outlet Is Latest Retail Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/gorham-paper-linked-to-lynn-tilton-files-for-bankruptcy-to-clear-way-for-sale-11604602507"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Gorham Paper, Linked to Lynn Tilton, Files for Bankruptcy to Clear Way for Sale</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/remington-layoffs-roil-ilion-n-y-one-of-americas-oldest-factory-towns-11603963801"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Remington Layoffs Roil Ilion, N.Y., One of America’s Oldest Factory Towns</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankruptcy-judge-approves-sale-of-remington-businesses-11601412676"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Bankruptcy Judge Approves Sale of Remington Businesses</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fast-casual-chain-ruby-tuesday-files-for-bankruptcy-11602067705">Ruby Tuesday Files for Bankruptcy Under Strain From Coronavirus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-mallinckrodt-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-11602500265"><b>Opioid Crisis Pushes Drugmaker Mallinckrodt to File for Bankruptcy</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/yogaworks-files-for-chapter-11-plans-to-close-all-studios-11602764465">YogaWorks Files for Chapter 11, Plans to Close All Studios</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexican-restaurant-chain-rubios-files-for-chapter-11-over-covid-19-closures-11603751088">Mexican-Restaurant Chain Rubio’s Files for Chapter 11 Over Covid-19 Closures</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-pushes-detroit-area-retirement-home-into-bankruptcy-11604010695">Coronavirus Pushes Detroit-Area Retirement Home Into Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><a href="https://apnews.com/article/friendlys-bankruptcy-pandemic-restaurant-4650c9bb799d7e22cde1e17cfbf1fdb2"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Another restaurant chain, Friendly’s, hits wall in pandemic</b></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/friendlys-restaurant-owner-files-for-bankruptcy-amid-pandemic-11604318761"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Friendly’s Restaurant Owner Files for Bankruptcy Amid Pandemic</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>CBDC/Crypto</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cash-is-trash-so-lets-bet-425-million-on-bitcoin-11604070071?mod=hp_lista_pos5">‘Cash Is Trash,’ So Let’s Bet $425 Million on Bitcoin</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3105435/which-central-bank-will-launch-worlds-first-digital-currency">Which central bank will launch world’s first digital currency?</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bis-currency-digital/central-banks-sketch-out-digital-currency-as-china-forges-ahead-idUSKBN26U0KD">Central banks sketch out digital currency as China forges ahead</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/jpmorgans-jpm-coin-is-live-exec-says">JPMorgan’s ‘JPM Coin’ Is Live, Execs Say</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/paypal-merchants-to-accept-cryptocurrency/">26 million PayPal merchants to accept cryptocurrency</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fedtakes-cautious-approach-to-possibly-issuing-digital-currency-11603132490?mod=hp_lista_pos3">Fed Takes Cautious Approach to Possibly Issuing Digital Currency</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bank-of-america-life-plan/bank-of-america-wades-into-digital-financial-planning-space-idUSKBN26Q2OC">Bank of America wades into digital financial planning space</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3104221/europe-mulls-digital-euro-china-pushes-ahead-own-electronic"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Europe mulls digital euro as China pushes ahead with own electronic currency</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32179/">Australia enters the race for digital currency</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/reserve-bank-of-australia-wholesale-cbdc-ethereum/"><b>Reserve Bank of Australia to explore wholesale CBDC using Ethereum tech</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/estonia-launches-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc-digital-euro-project/">Estonia launches central bank digital currency project</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-regulator-cryptoassets/global-watchdogs-agree-rules-for-stablecoins-like-facebooks-libra-idUSKBN26X2OQ?il=0">Global watchdogs agree rules for stablecoins like Facebook's Libra</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/central-banks-havent-made-a-convincing-case-for-digital-currencies-11602502935?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1">Central Banks Haven’t Made a Convincing Case for Digital Currencies</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3104905/china-not-among-major-central-banks-talks-global-digital">China not among major central banks in talks on global digital currency principles</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3104832/chinas-shenzhen-giving-away-millions-sovereign-digital-yuan">China’s Shenzhen giving away millions in sovereign digital yuan to test technology and boost consumption</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/china-central-bank-official-reveals-results-of-first-digital-yuan-pilots">China Central Bank Official Reveals Results of First Digital Yuan Pilots</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/china-should-accelerate-rollout-of-digital-yuan-says-central-bank-official"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">China Should Accelerate Rollout of Digital Yuan, Says Central Bank Officia</span><span style="font-size: large;">l</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3105174/chinas-central-bank-urges-faster-digital-yuan-roll-out-other"><b>China’s central bank urges faster digital yuan roll-out as other countries begin tests</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/eurosystem-digital-euro-currency-cbdc-project-by-mid-2021/">Eurosystem will decide on digital euro project by mid-2021</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-12/lagarde-says-her-hunch-is-that-ecb-will-adopt-digital-currency?srnd=premium-europe"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lagarde Says Her ‘Hunch’ Is That ECB Will Adopt Digital Currency</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-24/eu-plans-to-regulate-cryptocurrencies-in-digital-finance-push?srnd=premium">EU Plans to Regulate Cryptocurrencies in Digital Finance Push</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-boj-cbdc/kuroda-says-boj-will-start-experiments-on-cbdc-next-spring-idUSKBN26X1LJ">Kuroda says BOJ will start experiments on CBDC next spring</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3104469/next-big-thing-hong-kongs-virtual-banks-wealth-management?li_source=LI&li_medium=economy_section_top_picks_for_you"><b>Next big thing for Hong Kong’s virtual banks: wealth management</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Precious Metals</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-gold-boe/uk-court-overturns-venezuela-judgment-in-1-billion-gold-tug-of-war-idUSKBN26Q1IU"><b>UK court overturns Venezuela judgment in $1 billion gold tug-of-war</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Other Developments</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32155/"><b>China & Russian-Led Bloc to Replace Trade in Dollar & Euro with Domestic Currencies</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1217083">China’s share in EAEU foreign trade growing to 20%</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1215639"><b>China to publish the list of regulations for foreign investors by the end of 2020</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1216705">Decline of Russia’s GDP may be below 4% by year end - PM</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32127/"><b>BRICS Bank Provides Member Nations with Over $10 BILLION in Emergency Assistance to Fight Pandemic</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-13/zambia-stares-down-the-default-barrel-with-key-creditors-to-vote?srnd=premium-europe">Zambia Stares Down the Default Barrel With Key Creditors to Vote</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-debt-creditors/argentine-bondholders-say-country-in-credit-wasteland-amid-economic-crises-idUSKBN2772XS">Argentine bondholders say country in credit 'wasteland' amid economic crises</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1216983">Moon mining rush: Russia to draw UN’s attention to US plans to grab lunar resources</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1218039">‘Spoke in the wheel’: Putin castigates schemes to stonewall Russian gas projects</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1215697">Gazprom to sell around 6 mln tonnes of LNG in 2020, boost volumes starting 2021</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1221409"><b>Russia’s nuclear orders portfolio totals around $100 bln, says Novak</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1221549">All Nord Stream 2 project participants appeal against Polish regulator’s decision</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1215405"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Putin urges not to politicize issue of oil prices</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1215261"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Gazprom eyes joint hydrogen projects with EU partners</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1214635"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>‘Hostile takeover’ policy: Kremlin castigates US sanctions against Nord Stream 2</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1211367">Nord Stream 2 pipe supply vessel headed to Baltic Sea</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1213329"><b>Nord Stream 2 will be completed, timing is unknown - German Foreign Minister</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1207391">Denmark authorizes Nord Stream 2 AG to operate gas pipeline on national shelf</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1207445">Nord Stream 2 AG mulls different options of restarting work in Danish waters</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec-novak-uncertainty/russias-novak-sees-more-uncertainty-on-oil-market-in-winter-idUSKBN2742I4">Russia's Novak sees more uncertainty on oil market in winter</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1220955"><b>Belarus: First power unit of BelNPP reaches capacity of 400 MW - Energy Ministry</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1219987">Lukashenko asks Putin about acquiring oil field in Russia by Minsk</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/exxon-to-lay-off-1-900-u-s-employees-as-pandemic-wreaks-havoc-on-oil-demand-11603986398?mod=hp_lista_pos3"><b>Exxon to Slash Up to 15% of Global Workforce, Including 1,900 Jobs in U.S.</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ferc-carbonmarkets/trump-replaces-republican-head-of-energy-regulatory-panel-who-supports-carbon-markets-idUSKBN27M27O?il=0">Trump replaces Republican head of energy regulatory panel who supports carbon markets</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nextera-renewable-energy-giant-seeks-greater-scale-with-a-duke-takeover-11601501637?mod=hp_lista_pos4"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>NextEra, Renewable-Energy Giant, Seeks Greater Scale With a Duke Takeover</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/superior-energy-services-plans-chapter-11-bankruptcy-filing-11601474883"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Superior Energy Services Plans Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/oasis-petroleum-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-11601463740"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Oasis Petroleum Is Latest Driller to Join Bankruptcy Parade</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lonestar-bankruptcy/lonestar-becomes-latest-oil-firm-to-file-for-chapter-11-more-may-follow-idUSKBN26M4VM"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Shale bankruptcies pile on, Lonestar latest to succumb to weak demand</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankrupt-fracker-sable-permian-to-sell-to-bank-lenders-11601675341"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Bankrupt Fracker Sable Permian to Sell to Bank Lenders</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-gasoline-leisure/drop-in-leisure-driving-stalls-global-recovery-in-fuel-demand-idUSKBN27D0FO">Drop in leisure driving stalls global recovery in fuel demand</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-oil-results/chevron-exxon-shrink-spending-as-coronavirus-cuts-demand-idUSKBN27F22N">Chevron, Exxon shrink spending as coronavirus cuts demand</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-exxon-mobil-results/exxon-posts-third-straight-quarterly-loss-as-pandemic-hits-demand-prices-idUSKBN27F1NV">Exxon posts third straight quarterly loss as pandemic hits demand, prices</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-oil-market-has-an-aviation-problem-11602235754?mod=hp_lista_pos1">The Oil Market Has an Aviation Problem</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tribes-oklahoma/tribes-slam-epa-move-to-give-oklahoma-control-of-environmental-rules-idUSKBN26S1OS">Tribes slam EPA move to give Oklahoma control of environmental rules</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-15/the-future-of-energy-is-about-technology-not-fossil-fuels?srnd=premium">The Future of Energy Is About Technology, Not Fossil Fuels</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-natural-gas-demand-peak/?srnd=premium">Peak Gas Is Coming to the U.S. Sooner Than Anyone Expected</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-business-jets/new-business-jet-travelers-help-fuel-order-recovery-during-pandemic-idUSKBN27C0I3"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>New business jet travelers help fuel order recovery during pandemic</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990721000667">Iran Ups Gas Output in Parsian Refinery by 9 Percent Y/Y</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990722000740">Iran’s Oil, Gas Output Unaffected by Coronavirus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/05/635712/Iran-flare-gas--NGL-project-opening"><b>Iranian NGL project using flare gas feedstock to come on line by March</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/32062">Energy Research Platform Takes Central Stage under Russia’s BRICS Chairmanship</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/32035">Russia Invites Other BRICS Countries to Take Part in Arctic Oil and Gas Projects</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32176/"><b>China's CNPC Says Russian Piped Gas Supply to Double from Jan</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/32126">Brazil Becomes One of China’s Top Oil Suppliers</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/32054/"><b>The Report of the BRICS Energy Platform Presents Our Vision of the Group’s Role on the Global Energy Stage - Inyutsyn</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-23/latest-sign-of-venezuela-s-oil-collapse-is-84-surge-in-supplies?srnd=premium"><b>Latest Sign of Venezuela’s Oil Collapse Is 84% Surge in Stockpiles</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-oil/libyan-oil-production-rises-to-290000-bpd-source-idUSKBN26Q1E6">Libyan oil production rises to 290,000 bpd - source</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-oil-workers/losing-control-norways-oil-workers-fear-for-future-as-rigs-go-remote-idUSKBN2750PC"><b>Losing control? Norway's oil workers fear for future as rigs go remote</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1217419"><b>Russia successfully test-fires new ABM interceptor missile</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1219675">Russia’s fleet to receive ten new icebreakers by 2030</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1219619"><b>Russia’s upgraded Tu-160M strategic bomber performs debut flight with new engines</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1219491">Solutions integrated in Russia’s Bulava sea-launched missile prove efficient — developer</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1219001"><b>Russia to complete rearming Strategic Missile Force with advanced Yars ICBMs by 2024</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1207875"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Glonass-K2 satellites to guarantee 30 cm navigation accuracy — general designer</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1209579"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31875">American Space Force installs military base in the Persian Gulf to monitor Iran</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/26/635039/Iraq-US-emabssy-Mike-Pompeo-Barham-Salih-">US threatens to shut embassy in Iraq if attacks continue on American compounds</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/24/634924/Yemen-al-Masirah-TV-discloses-documents-on-US-secret-interference-in-Yemen">Yemen’s al-Masirah TV publishes documents disclosing US interference in Arab country</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205685">US warns Iraq about possible shutdown of embassy in Baghdad - report</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/26/635069/US-Trump-Black-Lives-Matter-BLM-Platinum"><b>Trump unveils Platinum Plan for Blacks, calls BLM supporters 'fools'</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/25/634994/Thomas-Friedman-US-heading-to--second-Civil-War-">Thomas Friedman: US potentially heading to 'second Civil War'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/24/634954/US-electoral-college-popular-vote-Joe-Biden-"><b>61 percent support abolishing Electoral College in US: Poll</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/23/634870/Bloomberg-pays-fines-for-32k-felons-so-they-can-vote-florida">Bloomberg pays fines for 32,000 felons in Florida so they can vote in US election</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/player.aspx?nn=13990705000561"><b>US: Shops Vandalised in Louisville after Another Night of Unrest over Breonna Taylor Ruling</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires/california-wine-country-wildfire-forces-evacuation-of-hospital-hundreds-of-homes-idUSKBN26I10V">California wine country wildfire forces evacuation of hospital, hundreds of homes</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/united-airlines-scales-back-furlough-plans-as-pilots-agree-to-deal-11601324219?mod=home-page"><b>United Airlines scales back furlough plans as pilots agree to deal</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1204597">Putin unwilling to return to restrictions imposed in spring 2020</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3103025/road-moscow-could-open-route-riches-more-chinese-firms-russia">Road to Moscow could open route to riches for more Chinese firms in Russia</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205409">Sweden urges US, Russia to agree on New START extension</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1204057">Elysee Palace could not leak Putin-Macron conversation tape to the media — Kremlin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1205019">Putin: Russia, US must reach agreement on incident prevention in cyberspace</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1206747">Putin instructs government to stop uncontrolled export of unprocessed timber</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1202567">Drunk driver crashes into gates of US ambassador’s Moscow residence</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31834">Arctic tensions rise as Britain leads show of force against Russia in the Barents Sea</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1202425">Russia to boost defense industry’s human capacity, says Putin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/science/1201053">Russia plans to send mission to Venus</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1204819">Russian Su-27 scrambles over US strategic bomber over Poland</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1202819">Kremlin calls dialogue between Russian and Belarusian presidents ‘trust-based</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205673">NATO’s presence near Russian, Belarusian borders seen as potential threat - diplomat</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1202275"><b>European Parliament’s claims indicate foreign intelligence behind Navalny case — speaker</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1202313">Too much absurdity in Navalny case to take anyone’s word on trust — Kremlin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1202197"><b>Germany, other Western states actively "cultivated" OPCW in Navalny situation - diplomat</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-merkel/merkel-visited-kremlin-critic-navalny-in-hospital-idUSKBN26J0IN?il=0">Merkel visited Kremlin critic Navalny in hospital</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205891"><b>German government confirms Merkel visited Navalny in hospital</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Belarus</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1205897">Russian investment fund supplies Sputnik V vaccine to Belarus for clinical trials</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/news/lukashenko-talks-about-seven-stages-of-belarus-destruction-scenario_i_0000118888.html">Lukashenko talks about seven stages of Belarus destruction scenario</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1206455">Russian intelligence head says CIA, Pentagon implicated in Belarus unrest</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1204793"><b>Lukashenko’s legitimacy requires no statement of recognition, Switzerland says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1202151">Minsk forced to shut down borders with Lithuania, Poland and boost control with Ukraine</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1202557">Russia to issue loan to Belarus after additional negotiations</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1202497">Belarus’ response to EU sanctions may be applicable to foreign media, says top diplomat</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-poland-belarus/polish-foreign-minister-flags-possibility-of-national-sanctions-against-belarus-idUSKBN26J1I7?il=0">Polish foreign minister flags possibility of national sanctions against Belarus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>DPR/LNR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/dpr-passports-issued-to-more-than-500000-residents-migration-service.html"><b>DPR passports issued to more than 500,000 residents – Migration Service</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/civilian-wounded-in-ukrainian-ammunition-round-blast-in-southern-dpr-militia.html">Civilian wounded in Ukrainian ammunition round blast in southern DPR – militia</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/ukraine-disavows-additional-ceasefire-control-measures-dpr-foreign-ministry.html"><b>Ukraine disavows additional ceasefire control measures – DPR Foreign Ministry</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Ukraine</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1202201" style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Russian embassy asks US to explain report on assistance to 'Ukrainian units in Crimea'</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1205245">An-26 military plane crashes in northeastern Ukraine, casualties reported</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1205273"><b>Death toll in northeastern Ukraine plane crash rises to 25</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1205245">‘Black boxes’ of crashed Ukrainian plane recovered</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>China</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1201314.shtml">Facebook suspected behind Tencent ban, which hurts US gaming companies</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3101788/chinas-wto-win-over-us-offers-no-concrete-reward-beijing-gets">China’s WTO win over US offers no concrete reward but Beijing gets moral high ground, experts say</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1201399.shtml">TikTok confirms proposed deal with Oracle, Walmart as US delays app store ban by one week</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3103082/china-making-progress-rebuilding-pig-population-supply-gap"><b>China making progress in rebuilding pig population, but supply gap likely to last at least until 2021</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3102714/chinas-northeastern-corn-belt-left-flattened-typhoons">China’s northeastern corn belt left flattened by typhoons, fuelling food-security concerns ahead of autumn harvest</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3102809/chinas-corn-growing-heartland-heilongjiang-grapples-shortage"><b>China’s corn heartland Heilongjiang grapples with shortage of farm workers</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/press-releases/1204701"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/press-releases/1204701">CGTN: China calls for global green revolution in the post-COVID era</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3103187/xi-jinping-defends-totally-correct-xinjiang-policies-despite">Xi Jinping defends ‘totally correct’ Xinjiang policies despite growing human rights concerns</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech-canada/huawei-cfo-meng-back-in-canadian-court-fighting-u-s-extradition-idUSKBN26J0VI"><b>Huawei CFO Meng back in Canadian court fighting U.S. extradition</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31850/">Sino-Russian Ties Vital Amid Turbulence, Wang Yi Stresses</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Israel</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/ehud-olmert-to-post-political-power-is-in-reckless-hands-643499">Ehud Olmert to 'Post': Political power is in reckless hands</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990705000808">Iran: Israeli Nukes Biggest Threat to Region, Nations Need to Stand for Nuke-Free World</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990703000899"><b>Rabbi David Mivasair: Stopping Israeli Annexation Just Immediate Goal</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/gantz-flies-to-washington-for-pentagon-talks/"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Gantz flies to Washington for Pentagon talks</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/netanyahu-pushes-for-hermetic-all-inclusive-lockdown/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>All-inclusive 16-day lockdown goes into effect on Friday</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/the-government-prepares-to-tighten-israels-lockdown/"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The government prepares to tighten Israel’s lockdown</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Middle East/Levant</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/20/634584/US-convoy-Syria-oil-Iraq"><b>US convoy transports stolen Syrian oil to Iraq: SANA</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1201909">Turkish military shell Syria’s Tell Rifaat north of Aleppo, reports say</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31876">Hack reveals UK's propaganda campaign to drive Syrian regime change</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3103203/lebanons-prime-minister-designate-mustapha-adib-bows-out">Lebanon’s Prime Minister designate Mustapha Adib bows out after failing to form government</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/17/634346/Yemen-Samad-3-Saudi-Arabia-Asir-Abha-airport"><b>Military targets at airport in Saudi’s Asir region hit by Yemeni drone strikes: Yemen’s army</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/25/634986/Yemen%E2%80%99s-Ansarullah-dares-Saudi-king-to-face-Iran-directly">Saudi king had better directly face Iran if he has scores to settle: Yemen’s Ansarullah</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/24/634883/Yemen-army-attack-saudi-base">Several killed in Yemen army's attack on Saudi base</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/26/635086/Saudi-Arabia-Mohammed-bin-Salman-MBS-National-Assembly-Party-King-Salman">Exiled Saudi dissidents launch political party; hope to dethrone MBS and open door to democracy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205629"><b>Putin expresses concern over escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205523">Armenian government introduces martial law, announces general mobilization</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205641"><b>16 Karabakh defense army soldiers killed - defense ministry</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205677">Armenian PM tells Macron about Turkey’s aggressive position on Karabakh</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1205791">About 200 military servicemen wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1206605">Armenian PM says Azerbaijan’s operation in Karabakh was plotted during drills with Turkey</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan-turkey-syria/armenian-envoy-says-turkey-sent-4000-syrian-fighters-to-azerbaijan-amid-fighting-ifax-idUSKBN26J150?il=0">Armenian envoy says Turkey sent 4,000 Syrian fighters to Azerbaijan amid fighting: Ifax</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1206105"><b>Armenia reports fierce fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh’s north and south</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1206263">Armenia says Azerbaijani forces attack republic’s territory</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Iran</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/28/635201/Iran-United-States-Daesh-General-Soleimani-Zarif"><b>Zarif: Cowardly, vicious US killed Daesh’s No. 1 enemy</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/29/635271/Iran-rejects-Saudi-Arabia%E2%80%99s-claim-on-terror-cell,-advises-kingdom-to-embrace-honesty">Iran rejects Saudi Arabia’s claim on terror cell, advises kingdom to embrace honesty</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/28/635207/IRGC-Aerospace-Force-ballistic-missile-exhibition-">IRGC Aerospace Force unveils third-generation naval strike ballistic missile</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ECONOMIC</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-retail-bankruptcies-store-closures-hit-record-in-first-half-11601371800?mod=hp_lead_pos2">U.S. Retail Bankruptcies, Store Closures Hit Record in First Half</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3102979/global-economic-outlook-better-june-not-out-woods-imf-says">Global economic outlook better than June, but ‘not out of the woods’, IMF says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1205581">Decline of global GDP will be 4-4.5% in 2020 - Economic Development Ministry</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/jpmorgan-tells-staff-in-consumer-unit-they-can-work-from-home-until-2021-20200929?mod=home-page&adobe_mc=MCMID%3D68940033398579074450633363713799299002%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1601382822">JPMorgan permits home working until 2021 for staff in consumer unit</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-moneysupply/euro-zone-firms-continue-to-load-up-on-credit-as-economy-reopens-ecb-data-idUSKCN26G11T"><b>Euro zone firms continue to load up on credit as economy reopens: ECB data</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fedmainstreet/feds-powell-says-main-street-may-use-up-to-30-billion-by-year-end-idUSKCN26F2UQ">Fed's Powell says Main Street may use up to $30 billion by year end</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fed/mnuchin-powell-say-some-380-billion-in-unused-aid-could-help-u-s-economy-idUSKCN26F2QA"><b>Mnuchin, Powell say some $380 billion in unused aid could help U.S. economy</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ubs-group-ceo/ubs-mum-on-role-in-inevitable-european-bank-consolidation-idUSKCN26D1RL" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">UBS mum on role in 'inevitable' European bank consolidation</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/impresa-parts-maker-for-boeing-737-max-files-for-bankruptcy-11600964702"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Impresa, Parts Maker for Boeing 737 MAX, Files for Bankruptcy</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankrupt-gun-maker-remington-outdoor-to-be-broken-up-and-sold-11601246175?mod=hp_lista_pos4"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Bankrupt Gun Maker Remington Outdoor to Be Broken Up and Sold</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-question-garrett-motion-chapter-11-strategy-11600730032"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Investors Question Garrett Motion Chapter 11 Strategy</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-pizza-kitchen-nears-bankruptcy-deal-with-creditors-11601056921">California Pizza Kitchen Nears Bankruptcy Deal With Creditors</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-mallinckrodt-nears-bankruptcy-filing-over-opioid-lawsuits-11601062672"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Drugmaker Mallinckrodt Nears Bankruptcy Filing Over Opioid Lawsuits</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/steel-giant-arcelormittal-to-sell-u-s-business-to-cleveland-cliffs-11601288411?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1">Steel Giant ArcelorMittal to Sell U.S. Business to Cleveland-Cliffs</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-durable-goods-orders-rise-for-fourth-straight-month-11601038909?mod=hp_major_pos1#cxrecs_s"><b>U.S. Durable-Goods Orders Rise for Fourth Straight Month</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/golds-record-high-gives-new-life-to-dollar-doomsayers-11601371358?mod=hp_lead_pos4">Gold’s Record High Gives New Life to Dollar Doomsayers</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31790">Bypassing the Dollar: The Rise of Alternative Currency Systems</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>CBDC/Crypto</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/bahamas-to-launch-digital-currency-in-october/"><b>Bahamas to launch digital currency in October</b></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/eu-draft-legislation-on-crypto-assets-including-stablecoins/">The EU’s draft legislation on crypto-assets including stablecoins</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/digital-yuan-details-central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc/">More details of digital yuan revealed in rare article by central bank VP</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/wyoming-chainalysis">Wyoming Bank Regulator Taps Chainalysis to Boost Crypto Tracing Efforts</a></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/french-cbdc-digital-currency-socgen-societe-generale-tezos-public-blockchain/"><b>French CBDC tests: SocGen uses Tezos blockchain</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-market-cryptoassets/germany-pledges-to-speed-up-eu-efforts-on-crypto-assets-capital-market-idUSKCN26F30E">Germany pledges to speed up EU efforts on crypto-assets, capital market</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/homeland-security-digital-wallet">US Homeland Security Challenges Freelancers to Design It a Digital Wallet</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/csbs-firms-explained">How US States Are, and Aren’t, Easing Crypto Firms’ Compliance Burden</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/de-fi-to-fund-public-infrastructure-ppp/"><b>Leveraging DeFi to fund major public infrastructure projects</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/investment-firm-blockchain-capital-joins-libra-association">Investment Firm Blockchain Capital Joins Libra Association</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1202385">Bank of Russia keeps key rate at 4.25% after four rounds of reduction</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3103008/china-set-lure-billions-funds-sovereign-debt-enters-ftse?li_source=LI&li_medium=economy_section_top_picks_for_you"><b>China set to lure billions of dollars in funds as sovereign debt enters FTSE index amid decoupling concerns</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3102967/chinas-government-bonds-be-added-ftse-russells-trillion">China’s government bonds to be added to FTSE Russell’s trillion dollar WGBI in 2021</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1202403"><b>Germany looks into participation in Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1201535">President Putin to instruct government to appoint Gazprom as single gas program operator</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1205421"><b>Russia’s crude production projected to recover to record level only in 2023</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1205651">Russia supports renewable resources-based economy concept - energy minister</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1206277"><b>Gazprom expects to see growth of Russian gas purchases by Turkey in 2020</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/valaris-bondholders-win-dispute-over-bankruptcy-financing-11601073371">Valaris Bondholders Win Dispute Over Bankruptcy Financing</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-equinor-oil/equinor-plans-2-billion-breidablikk-oilfield-development-idUSKBN26J0JH">Equinor plans $2 billion Breidablikk oilfield development</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/28/635217/Forest-Iran-Venezuela-tanker-fuel-Faxon-Fortune-Refinitiv-Eikon-Refinitiv-Eikon"><b>First Iranian tanker carrying fuel enters waters of Venezuela in defiance of US sanctions</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/19/634504/Saudi-Yemen-war-oil-for-blood-president-Hadi">Former president Hadi amenable to Aramco deal</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/20/634579/Libya-national-oil-company-export-production-Khalifa-Haftar"><b>Libya’s NOC announces oil production, export in ports without Haftar’s rebels</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1205287">Russia, Belarus train to repel military aggression against Union State</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1202725" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Russian supersonic bombers set world record for longest non-stop flight - Aerospace Forces</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1202223">Russian radars track 44 planes, 10 drones conducting reconnaissance near Russian borders</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1206823">Russia's Sukhoi Su-34 jets make first-ever nighttime flight into stratosphere</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1202451">NATO boosts its presence in Black Sea, Russian Defense Ministry says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1202701" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Work on Avangard complex comparable to USSR nuclear project - Putin</b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1202709">Russian army to be 70% provided with new weapons by year-end - deputy PM</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1205065">Russian military use newest TOS-2 heavy flamethrower for the first time</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1202649"><b>Trump claims Russia created hypersonic missile after receiving info about it from US</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/26/635067/UK-Cyber-Warfare-Offensive-Capability-General-Sanders">UK boasts of attacking and 'destroying' its enemies in cyberspace</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3103095/china-india-border-row-stay-alert-surprise-indian-attack?li_source=LI&li_medium=homepage_int_edition_top_picks_for_you"><b>China-India border row: stay alert for surprise Indian attack, retired Chinese general warns</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3101977/us-china-war-whose-side-southeast-asia-philippines-singapore-and">In a US-China war, whose side is Southeast Asia on? Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia ponder the unthinkable</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-60101983205958949752020-09-14T07:42:00.004-07:002020-09-14T07:51:05.809-07:00GPA Project Headlines September 8-14, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy5OroHFNBbTav3lyxbMhYeJtNH-qOYMI3_IojVJ0r-sQOnNQ2rjOio_YgPdB5EssFQJTU-qsfV6l6CG5LN0bWkH6xxCyBFzuD6h0LrB47o1bUOuYM0L4_6d4BsS0bzRCzSLLmwk9FVnU/s730/old-typewriter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="730" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy5OroHFNBbTav3lyxbMhYeJtNH-qOYMI3_IojVJ0r-sQOnNQ2rjOio_YgPdB5EssFQJTU-qsfV6l6CG5LN0bWkH6xxCyBFzuD6h0LrB47o1bUOuYM0L4_6d4BsS0bzRCzSLLmwk9FVnU/w500-h375/old-typewriter.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>TOP HEADLINES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/young-adults-americans-great-drepression-covid19-coronavirus/" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>This many young Americans haven't lived with their parents since the Great Depression</b></span></a></li><li><a href="ECB explores digital euro: state backing essential for trust in payments, money" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">ECB explores digital euro: state backing essential for trust in payments, money</span></a></li><li><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/mastercard-launches-virtual-testing-environment-for-central-bank-currencies" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b>Mastercard launches virtual testing environment for central bank currencies</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-tax-merger-blockpit" style="font-family: georgia;">European Crypto Tax Companies Announce Merger to Power US Expansion</a></li><li><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100575/chinese-yuan-become-no-3-global-currency-2030-after-us-dollar" style="font-family: georgia;">Chinese yuan to become No 3 global currency by 2030 after US dollar, euro, Morgan Stanley predicts</a></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-current-jobs-great-depression/5723457" style="font-family: georgia;">America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ford-robot-dog-engineer-boston-dynamics-michigan-11599573600?mod=hp_featst_pos5" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>See Spot Scan: Ford Deploys Robot Dog</b></span></a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/ten-years-decade-2030-technology-democracy-politics/" style="font-family: georgia;">From ageing populations to automation - is this what the world will look like in 2030?</a></span></li><li><a href="https://tass.com/world/1199055" style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Belarus to go to war in case of Western aggression against Russia — Lukashenko</span></b></a></li><li><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1199849" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">US bombers flying over Ukraine raise regional tensions, warns Russian top brass</span></a></li><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires/scores-of-wildfires-scorch-u-s-west-coast-killing-at-least-nine-idUSKBN2612N9" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Scores of wildfires scorch U.S. West Coast, killing at least nine</b></span></a></li><li><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1198207" style="font-family: georgia;">Cyberattacks during vote on Russian Constitution originated from US, UK, Ukraine — envoy</a></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>GLOBAL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://williamengdahl.com/englishNEO7Sep2020.php" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Gates Foundation is Also Destroying Africa’s Food Economy</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.eurasiareview.com/10092020-baltic-states-at-epicenter-of-military-exercises-oped/">Baltic States At Epicenter Of Military Exercises – OpEd</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/09/12/cavalry-attack-in-georgia-by-us-ambassador-kelly-degnan/"><b>Cavalry Attack in Georgia by US Ambassador Kelly Degnan</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/foreign-policy-ridiculous-proposal-new-york-times/5723663">A Truly Poisonous Foreign Policy. The Blame Putin Narrative…</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1198777"><b>Russian Union of Journalists awards its Solidarity prize to Julian Assange</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198525">NSA whistleblower Snowden applies for extending Russian residence permit</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-eu-target/worlds-largest-carbon-market-faces-revamp-under-draft-eu-plan-idUSKBN2630H6" target="_blank"><b>The world’s biggest carbon trading market faces a major overhaul under European Union climate change plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions faster this decade</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/452302/David-Ray-Griffin-says-9-11-attacks-were-engineered-by-Cheney" target="_blank">David Ray Griffin says 9/11 attacks were engineered by Cheney and Rumsfeld</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-truth-behind-9-11-who-is-osama-bin-laden-2/3198">The Truth behind 9/11: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Tech</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/blockchain-platform-zilliqa-mentors-startups-in-open-finance/"><b>Intl Chamber appoints leader for digital standards</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/green-chain-blockchain-renewable-energy-manufacturing-un-unido-german/">UN backed Green Chain aims to decarbonize manufacturing with blockchain, German industry help</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/blockchain-platform-zilliqa-mentors-startups-in-open-finance/">Blockchain platform Zilliqa mentors eight startups in Open Finance</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/emerging-technologies-reshaping-financial-services/">Emerging technologies are reshaping financial services. Here's how</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/ten-years-decade-2030-technology-democracy-politics/" style="font-family: georgia;">From ageing populations to automation - is this what the world will look like in 2030?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/how-to-put-ai-ethics-into-practice-in-12-steps/">How to put AI ethics into practice: a 12-step guide</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/climate-change-resilience-urban-infrastructure/">The UN says climate-smart cities are the future – these 3 projects show their potential</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ford-robot-dog-engineer-boston-dynamics-michigan-11599573600?mod=hp_featst_pos5" style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">See Spot Scan: Ford Deploys Robot Dog</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/10/2091370/0/en/Digital-Reasoning-s-Breakthrough-AI-Research-Allows-Customers-to-Rapidly-Build-Multilingual-Models.html">Digital Reasoning’s Breakthrough AI Research Allows Customers to Rapidly Build Multilingual Models</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/09/2091293/0/en/Opera-Limited-to-present-at-Key-Banc-Future-of-Technology-Series.html">Opera Limited to present at Key Banc Future of Technology Series</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198785">Russia creates app to track side effects of coronavirus vaccine</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1198401"><b>New PD-14 plane engine to be equipped with artificial intelligence elements</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1199927" target="_blank">Snow studies: how to control drifting snow in Arctic regions</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200412.shtml">Beijing achieves full 5G coverage</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/daml-bsn-blockchain-interoperability-china-blockchain-service-network/">Digital Asset’s DAML to enable blockchain interoperability for China’s Blockchain Service Network</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3100899/china-eu-relations-liu-he-set-promote-beijings-global-data"><b>China-EU relations: Liu He set to promote Beijing’s global data security initiative at Thursday’s talks</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Bio News</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1200043" target="_blank">First batch of Sputnik V vaccine has been shipped to Russian regions - Health Ministry</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3100773/coronavirus-astrazeneca-pauses-oxford-vaccine-trial-after">Coronavirus: AstraZeneca pauses Oxford vaccine trial after unexplained illness</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1200047" target="_blank">Supplies of Russian coronavirus vaccine to Brazil may be doubled - RDIF</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1199727" target="_blank">Russian investment fund agrees supply of up to 50 mln doses of Sputnik V to Brazil</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pfizer-biontech-conclude-talks-over-supplying-eu-with-sars-cov-2-vaccine-candidate-2020-09-09?mod=home-page"><b>Pfizer, BioNTech conclude talks over supplying EU with SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/09/2091212/0/en/LSU-Researchers-to-Test-Campus-Wastewater-for-COVID-19-Cases.html">LSU Researchers to Test Campus Wastewater for COVID-19 Cases</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1200101" target="_blank"><i>COVID-19 vaccine shipped to all Russian regions to be delivered on September 14</i></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pfizer-ceo-coronavirus-vaccine-could-be-distributed-in-us-by-end-of-year-2020-09-13?mod=home-page">Pfizer CEO: Coronavirus vaccine could be distributed in U.S. by end of year</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-swinefever-china/china-bans-german-pork-imports-after-african-swine-fever-case-idUSKBN2630H0" target="_blank">China bans German pork imports after African swine fever case</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200686.shtml">No antibody-dependent enhancement effect observed in China-developed COVID19 vaccines: experts</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>USA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100793/trump-has-called-us-firms-leave-china-no-mass-exodus-among"><b>Trump has called on US firms to leave China, but no mass exodus among ‘well-rooted’ companies</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-plans-to-withdraw-more-us-troops-from-iraq-2020-09-08?mod=home-page">Trump plans to withdraw more U.S. troops from Iraq</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-is-offered-new-bases-in-the-pacific-11599557401?mod=trending_now_pos5">U.S. Military Is Offered New Bases in the Pacific</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1200203"><b>US Department of Commerce, Rosatom poised to extend uranium agreement</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/11/633834/US-coronavirus-pandemic-Time-magazine-American-failure">US weekly blasts Trump over failure to contain pandemic</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-sally/u-s-gulf-coast-prepares-for-second-hurricane-in-a-month-idUSKBN2640C2">U.S. Gulf Coast prepares for second hurricane in a month</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://community.oilprice.com/topic/20686-jp-morgan-says-investors-should-prepare-for-rising-odds-of-trump-win/">JP Morgan says investors should prepare for rising odds of Trump win</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mike-bloomberg-pledges-100-million-to-help-joe-biden-win-florida-2020-09-13?mod=home-page">Mike Bloomberg pledges $100 million to help Joe Biden win Florida</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/u-s-house-speaker-pelosi-voices-optimism-about-passing-coronavirus-aid-bill-idUSKBN26230L" target="_blank">U.S. House Speaker Pelosi voices optimism about passing coronavirus aid bill</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article210762.html">What will be the foreign policy of the next US President?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-climatechange/democrats-unveil-green-alternative-for-u-s-economic-stimulus-idUSKBN2612TT" target="_blank"><b>Democrats unveil green alternative for U.S. economic stimulus</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.eurasiareview.com/10092020-amid-fire-and-flood-americans-are-looking-for-action/"><b>Amid Fire And Flood, Americans Are Looking For Action</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/more-helicopter-rescues-made-as-conditions-worsen-in-california-2113589/">More helicopter rescues made as conditions worsen in California</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires/oregons-wildfires-force-mass-evacuations-but-shifting-weather-offers-some-hope-idUSKBN2630EB" target="_blank">Oregon's wildfires force mass evacuations, but shifting weather offers some hope</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires-investigation/arson-probe-opened-into-deadly-oregon-wildfire-police-chief-idUSKBN2613LG" target="_blank">Arson probe opened into deadly Oregon wildfire: police chief</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires/scores-of-wildfires-scorch-u-s-west-coast-killing-at-least-nine-idUSKBN2612N9" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b>Scores of wildfires scorch U.S. West Coast, killing at least nine</b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wildfires-oregon-evacuation/showers-and-a-place-to-sleep-portland-convention-center-shelters-wildfire-evacuees-idUSKBN2630IR" target="_blank">Showers and a place to sleep: Portland Convention Center shelters wildfire evacuees</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1200193" target="_blank">At least 28 killed in wildfires raging in western US states - TV</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/11/633839/US-Oregon-wildfire-evacuation-climate-change-Donald-Trump">Half a million forced to evacuate as blaze rages across Oregon</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://katu.com/news/local/western-us-is-literally-out-of-firefighters-and-equipment-clackamas-fire-chief-says">Western US 'literally out of firefighters and equipment,' Clackamas fire official says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/warning-texas-billboards-warn-motorist-enter-austin-your-own-risk-amid-police-cuts">Enter Austin "At Your Own Risk" - Texas Billboards Warn Motorists Amid Police Cuts</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/tourism/las-vegas-strip-violence-causes-security-room-rate-increase-2113930/?itm_source=parsely-api">Las Vegas Strip violence causes security, room rate increase</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-lancaster/shooting-of-27-year-old-man-under-investigation-in-pennsylvania-idUSKBN26527B">Shooting of 27-year-old man under investigation in Pennsylvania</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-los-angeles-shooting/gunman-wounds-two-los-angeles-county-deputies-in-ambush-attack-on-their-car-idUSKBN264072">Gunman wounds two Los Angeles County deputies in ambush attack on their car</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://katu.com/news/local/man-arrested-after-admitting-he-used-molotov-cocktail-to-start-brush-fire-in-portland">Man arrested after admitting he used Molotov cocktail to start brush fire in Portland</a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/americas-color-revolution">America's Color Revolution</a></b></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/facebook-and-fbi-wage-infowar-arson-conspiracy-theories">Facebook And FBI Wage Infowar On West Coast Wildfire Arson "Conspiracy Theories"</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/princeton-math-prof-dares-challenge-universitys-systemic-racism-narrative">Princeton Math Prof Dares To Challenge University's "Systemic Racism" Narrative</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/09/2091307/0/en/Tyson-Foods-Becomes-First-U-S-Food-Company-to-Verify-Sustainable-Cattle-Production-Practices-at-Scale.html"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Tyson Foods Becomes First U.S. Food Company to Verify Sustainable Cattle Production Practices at Scale</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1199849" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank"><b>US bombers flying over Ukraine raise regional tensions, warns Russian top brass</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1199811" target="_blank">Number of NATO military flights near Russian borders on the rise, says military official</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1198755">Putin to lead Russian delegation to General Assembly's 75th session, to address it online</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1198461">Kremlin not ready to recognize that there are political prisoners in Belarus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1198469">Moscow City Court sentences war historian to 12.5 years for high treason</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1199003"><b>Despite sparring on many issues, Lukashenko stands with Putin on security</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1199147">SCO became stronger despite canceled events due to pandemic, says Putin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1198813">Putin, Lukashenko to discuss many issues, including state debt of Belarus — Kremlin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1199139">Moscow to host second Caspian Economic Forum in 2021</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1199909" target="_blank"><b>About half of Russians balking at vaccination for coronavirus, suggests survey</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1199783" target="_blank">Russia ready for honest dialogue with US on election interference — top diplomat</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1199763" target="_blank"><b>Microsoft report about Russian interference in US election lacks proof — Kremlin</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1200131" target="_blank">Russia calls on Apple Inc. not to indulge Ukraine in regard to Russian apps</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article210777.html"><b>Russian statement on the situation around Alexei Navalny</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1198993">Lavrov blasts Germany for snubbing Russian inquiries on Navalny</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1198985"><b>Russian Foreign Ministry expresses protest to German ambassador over Navalny accusations</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.eurasiareview.com/09092020-navalny-and-a-palace-coup-against-putin%e2%80%a8-oped/">Navalny And A Palace Coup Against Putin? – OpEd</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article210783.html"><b>G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statement on the Poisoning of Alexei Navalny</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1200017" target="_blank">No materials on Navalny case received by OPCW Secretariat from Germany - Russian envoy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1199603" target="_blank"><b>Navalny case could be staged by those who benefit from it — Russia’s UN envoy</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1200017">No materials on Navalny case received by OPCW Secretariat from Germany - Russian envoy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1200115" target="_blank">Russia will react to possible new Western sanctions - Lavrov</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1200311">SCO winning bigger authority within international formats - Lavrov</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>DPR/LNR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/pushilin-cancels-order-to-destroy-ukrainian-army-fortifications-in-shumy.html">Pushilin cancels order to destroy Ukrainian army fortifications in Shumy</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/world-en/ukrainian-forces-used-life-threatening-methods-to-prevent-joint-inspection-dpr-militia.html">Ukrainian forces used life-threatening methods to prevent joint inspection – DPR militia</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198773"><b>DPR initiates extraordinary meeting of Contact Group to deescalate situation in Donbass</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1200169" target="_blank">DPR reports Ukraine’s new engineering activity along contact line</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/dpr-militia-views-shumy-inspection-derailing-as-ukrainian-authorities-publicity-stunt.html">DPR militia views Shumy inspection derailing as Ukrainian authorities’ publicity stunt</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Ukraine</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/chainalysis-ukraine-crypto-adoption"><b>Ukraine Leads Global Crypto Adoption, Chainalysis Says in New Report</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1199997" target="_blank">Kiev sends note to Minsk over search of ambassador’s car by Belarusian border guards</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1199973" target="_blank"><b>Ukraine Security Service demands to delete more Russian media apps from Ukraine’s AppStore</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Belarus</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1200161" target="_blank">US redeploys armor unit to Lithuania, 15 km from Belarusian border — Minsk</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1199843" target="_blank">Putin, Lukashenko to discuss integration processes on September 14</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://tass.com/world/1199055">Belarus to go to war in case of Western aggression against Russia — Lukashenko</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198687">Russia will be next if Belarus collapses, Lukashenko tells Russian journalists</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198677">Lukashenko blames US for protests in Belarus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198533">Americans, ‘young bourgeois’ behind protests in Belarus, Lukashenko says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1199117">Belarus has not received Serbia’s refusal to participate in exercise</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198917">Lukashenko says there is unpublished fragment of intercepted conversation about Navalny</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198573">Lukashenko says won’t talk to opposition’s Coordination Council</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198569">Lukashenko attributes heavy-handed response by police during rallies to heat of the moment</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198707">Lukashenko says most Belarussians supported him, though many may see him as a "bore"</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198517">Lukashenko admits he ‘sat a bit too long' in presidential chair</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1199011">Lukashenko does not rule out snap presidential election in Belarus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1199199">Belarusian opposition launches talks with German foreign ministry</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198615">Opposition leader’s representative disappears in Belarus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198335"><b>Belarusian Coordination Council member Maria Kolesnikova detained at the border</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198593">Belarusian activist Kolesnikova taken to Gomel Region — ex-presidential nominee’s team</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1198989">Belarusian opposition member Kolesnikova arrested in Minsk</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1199993" target="_blank">Police detaining most active protesters in central Minsk, TASS reports from the site</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1200307"><b>Belarus’ Interior Ministry: Police officer fired warning shot in air during Minsk protest</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>China</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/09/13/chinese-military-calls-us-biggest-threat-to-world-peace/">Chinese military calls US biggest threat to world peace</a></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3101217/chinas-inbound-foreign-investment-surges-187-cent-august-bank">China’s inbound foreign investment surges 18.7 per cent in August, as bank loans grow more than expected</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3101345/china-revive-international-yuan-drive-along-belt-and-road">China to revive international yuan drive along belt and road countries</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/31737/" style="font-family: georgia;">China, Russia Deepen Ties Amid Pandemic, Conflicts With West – Analysis</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100691/us-must-drop-china-decoupling-threats-and-stop-burying-its">US must drop China decoupling threats and ‘stop burying its head in the sand’, ex-Beijing trade officials say</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100690/chinas-corn-supply-concerns-grow-after-three-typhoons-flatten"><b>China’s corn-supply concerns grow after three typhoons flatten crops in main northeastern grain region</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100565/chinas-export-machine-keeps-humming-despite-geopolitical-woes">China’s export machine keeps humming, despite geopolitical woes and decoupling pressure</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3100868/china-continues-sweet-talk-foreign-firms-business-groups"><b>China continues to sweet-talk foreign firms, but business groups ‘need something solid’</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3101027/china-focuses-modern-efficient-logistics-system-beijing-plots">China focuses on modern, efficient logistics system as Beijing plots response to ‘grim and complicated’ outlook</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3101002/china-tech-firms-embrace-inward-economic-pivot-some-wary">China tech firms embrace inward economic pivot, but some wary of ‘technological isolation’</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200834.shtml">China, Hungary overcome difficulties to pursue common development under BRI</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200856.shtml">Huawei won't run out of microchips despite US’ coercion: expert</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200538.shtml">TikTok sees big potential in Southeast Asia as digital economy grows</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200417.shtml">China-US phase one trade deal on track, farm purchases continue</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Israel</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1138051" style="font-size: xx-large;" target="_blank">Deal between ‘Israel’ and UAE to Be Signed on September 15 in Washington: WH</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1141846" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Netanyahu Says Bahrain Deal Will Result in Direct Flights</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/bahrain-follows-emirates-in-normalizing-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN26226T" target="_blank">Bahrain follows Emirates in normalizing ties with Israel</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/netanyahu-will-fly-privately-to-the-white-house-peace-ceremony/">Netanyahu will fly privately to the White House peace ceremony</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/israel-faces-lockdown-of-up-to-a-month-from-next-week/">Israel faces lockdown of up to a month from next week</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/ministers-will-fight-to-dilute-full-lockdown-over-the-festivals/"><b>Ministers will fight to dilute full lockdown over the festivals</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/israels-biological-inst-ready-for-volunteer-covid-testing/">Israel’s Biological Inst ready for volunteer covid testing</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/lapid-lockdown-will-lead-to-loss-of-life-642227">Lapid: Lockdown will lead to loss of life</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Middle East</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/12/633902/HTS-terrorists-plotting-to-carry-out-false-flag-chemical-attack-in-southern-Idlib-Russia">HTS terrorists plotting to carry out false flag chemical attack in Syria's Idlib: Russia</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/31762/">Power balance in the East Mediterranean is changing as France sends nuclear-powered aircraft carrier</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/13/633999/Palestine-Israel-Hamas-Gaza-Strip-resistance-blockade"><b>Hamas pledges resistance against Israel, says regime's blockade will fail to bring Gaza to its knees</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/11/633843/Arab-League-must-be-disbanded-after-failing-to-approve-resolution-condemning-UAE-Israel-deal--Ansarullah-spox">Arab League must be disbanded after failing to condemn UAE-Israel deal: Ansarullah</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/11/633837/Lebanon-beirut-fire-aoun-sabotage">Lebanese president says fresh Beirut fire likely deliberate act of sabotage</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/11/633824/Syrian-air-defense-units-intercept-destroy-Israeli-missiles-over-Aleppo"><b>Syrian air defense units intercept, destroy Israeli missiles over Aleppo</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/06/633466/Syria-US-Turkey-convoy-military-equipment-Hasakah-al-Walid-border-crossing">US, Turkey send more military reinforcements into bases in oil-rich northeast Syria</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/13/634017/Syria-Hasakah-abduction-SDF-Shaddadi-US-high-school"><b>US-backed SDF abducts, forces locals in Syria’s Hasakah for fighting</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/12/633948/Syria-explosion-Hasakah">At least 4 civilians killed, several others wounded in bomb attack in Syria’s Hasakah</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://sana.sy/en/?p=203131"><b>Turkish occupation forces, their mercenaries attack with artillery shells on villages in Raqqa northern countryside</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=203134">Bodies of three civilians found in al-Hawl Camp in Hasaka Countryside</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=202982"><b>US-Backed QSD prevents students in Hasaka city from entering their school</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=202915">US occupation brings in weapons and logistic materials to its illegitimate bases in Al-Jazeera area</a></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1199503" target="_blank"><b>Rocket targets Baghdad Airport, reports say</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/10/633767/Yemen-missile-attack-Riyadh-"><b>Yemen launches drone, missile attacks against Saudi capital; key target hit: Al-Masirah</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/09/633678/Yemeni-forces-pound-Saudi-Arabia-Abha-airport-with-drones-for-fourth-time-in-less-than-week">Yemeni forces pound Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport with drones for 4th time in days</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/13/633976/Saudi-Arabia-Yemen-Sana-a"><b>Saudi warplanes attack Houthi sites in Yemeni capital: Report</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/13/634032/https---www-presstv-com-Detail-2020-09-13-633976-Saudi-Arabia-Yemen-Sana-a">Four civilians killed in Saudi air raid on Yemen’s Ma'rib</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/12/633909/Four-major-tribes-strike-non-aggression-agreement-with-Ansarullah-fighters-in-Yemen-Marib"><b>Four major tribes strike non-aggression agreement with Ansarullah fighters in Yemen’s Ma’rib</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Iran</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990621000366" target="_blank">Iran’s Power Grid Soon to Connect to Azeri, Russian Grids</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990620000580" target="_blank">IRGC Launches Massive Anti-Terrorism Operations in Northwestern Iran</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990623000562" target="_blank">Navy Commander: Iran’s New Marine Cruise Missile Worries US Forces in Region</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="US Plane, Drones Chased Away by Iranian Homemade Drone" target="_blank">US Plane, Drones Chased Away by Iranian Homemade Drone</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990622000678" target="_blank">Army Commander Warns Enemies of Testing Iran’s Power</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990619000552" target="_blank">Military Commander Cautions Enemies Not to Try Iranian Army, IRGC’s Power</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/11/633847/Iran-Microsoft-meddling-">Iran rejects claim of meddling in US elections, blasts US' own intl. election meddling</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990622000616" target="_blank">Three-Day Zolfaqar Wargames End</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990620000629" target="_blank">Iran's Defense Ministry Asks Britain to Pay Long-Awaited Debt</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990618000398" target="_blank">Iran’s Cyber-Defense to Enjoy Knowledge-Based Firms’ Gadgets</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/452375/Russia-China-reject-U-S-unilateral-actions-aimed-at-kill-nuclear" target="_blank"><b>Russia, China reject U.S. unilateral actions aimed at kill nuclear deal: Lavrov</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/452388/Monthly-red-meat-output-rises-41-yr-yr" target="_blank">Monthly red meat output rises 41% yr/yr</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990622000922" target="_blank"><b>Iran Exports $2.5bln Worth of Non-Oil Goods to Middle Eastern Countries</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990623000629" target="_blank">Iran’s Five-Month Steel Exports Up 1.7mln Tons</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/452335/Over-6m-tons-of-steel-products-produced-in-5-months" target="_blank"><b>Over 6m tons of steel products produced in 5 months</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/452293/Sponge-iron-production-increases-8-in-5-months-on-year" target="_blank">Sponge iron production increases 8% in 5 months on year</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ECONOMIC</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/young-adults-americans-great-drepression-covid19-coronavirus/">This many young Americans haven't lived with their parents since the Great Depression</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/31751">American national debt increases and becomes unpayable</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://beincrypto.com/former-fed-chair-alan-greenspan-says-deficit-and-inflation-worrisome/"><i>Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan Says Deficit and Inflation Worrisome</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hawaiian-airlines-parent-lowers-third-quarter-capacity-outlook-slightly-to-down-87-2020-09-09?mod=mw_latestnews"><b>Hawaiian Airlines parent lowers third-quarter capacity outlook 'slightly' to down 87%</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3100784/cathay-pacific-planning-ship-half-its-fleet-desert">Cathay Pacific planning to park up to half its fleet in desert as aviation industry struggles to recover from coronavirus</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-hire-100-000-in-u-s-and-canada-11600071208?mod=hp_lead_pos3">Amazon to Hire 100,000 in U.S. and Canada</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbus-restructuring/airbus-ceo-warns-of-compulsory-layoffs-as-airline-crisis-deepens-idUSKBN26522J">Airbus CEO warns of compulsory layoffs as airline crisis deepens</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/las-vegas-monorail-files-for-bankruptcy-again-as-coronavirus-shuts-service-11599590799"><b>Las Vegas Monorail Files for Bankruptcy Again as Coronavirus Shuts Service</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fuddruckers-lubys-restaurant-chains-to-be-sold-in-liquidation-plan-11599596274">Fuddruckers, Luby’s Restaurant Chains to Be Sold in Liquidation Plan</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/chuck-e-cheese-lines-up-200-million-bankruptcy-loan-11599588130">Chuck E. Cheese Lines Up $200 Million Bankruptcy Loan</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-division-of-maison-kayser-files-for-bankruptcy-with-offer-from-aurify-11599864366">U.S. Division of Maison Kayser Files for Bankruptcy With Offer From Aurify</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/century-21-wants-to-move-covid-19-insurance-fight-to-bankruptcy-court-11599864136">Century 21 Wants to Move Covid-19 Insurance Fight to Bankruptcy Court</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/owner-of-new-york-sports-clubs-lucille-roberts-files-for-bankruptcy-11600083447">Owner of New York Sports Clubs, Lucille Roberts Files for Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/09/2091312/0/en/YRC-Worldwide-Provides-Quarter-To-Date-Operating-Data-for-Third-Quarter-2020.html"><b>YRC Worldwide Provides Quarter-To-Date Operating Data for Third Quarter 2020</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990623000616" target="_blank"><b>US Jobless Claims Hit 60 Million as Congress Dithers</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-current-jobs-great-depression/5723457">America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/despite-increasing-trade-chinese-yuan-us-dollar-remain-world-biggest-currency-reserve/5723608"><b>Despite Increasing Trade with Chinese Yuan US Dollar Is Likely to Remain the World’s Biggest Currency Reserve</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200431.shtml">China to prioritize currency deal with ASEAN that could sidestep US dollar</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>CBDC/Crypto</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/mastercard-launches-virtual-testing-environment-for-central-bank-currencies" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mastercard launches virtual testing environment for central bank currencies</span></b></a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/09/2091201/0/en/New-York-Fed-Designates-MarketAxess-as-Eligible-Seller-for-Secondary-Market-Corporate-Credit-Facility.html">New York Fed Designates MarketAxess as Eligible Seller for Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/good-for-bitcoin-us-senate-rejects-stimulus-without-1-200-checks"><b>Good for Bitcoin? US Senate rejects stimulus without $1,200 checks</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="ECB explores digital euro: state backing essential for trust in payments, money">ECB explores digital euro: state backing essential for trust in payments, money</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/french-central-bank-governor-case-for-digital-euro/"><b>French Central bank governor makes forceful case for digital Euro. Says there’s a 1-2 year window</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://beincrypto.com/swiss-blockchain-industry-praises-expanded-regulatory-framework/">Swiss Blockchain Industry Praises Expanded Regulatory Framework</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/5-eu-finance-ministers-raise-concerns-re-stablecoin-threats/">5 EU finance ministers raise concerns re stablecoin threats</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200421.shtml">China’s new digital currency will challenge US dollar hegemony: analysts</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200818.shtml">Issue, circulation of digital yuan under the same legal guideline as cash</a></b></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1199189">Export of Russian vodka down 3.8% in Jan-July 2020 to $75.7 mln, says customs service</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1199191">Companies with foreign capital will do business in Russia despite crisis - official</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1198575">Russia, Cyprus sign protocol on amending tax agreement</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1198957">Russian economy hedged from global volatility-related risks, says Kremlin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1198455">Russia adheres to G20 regardless of upcoming summit’s format — Kremlin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1199183">Decline of Russia’s GDP is 8% yoy in 2Q, 3.4% yoy in 1H 2020 - statistics service</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1199859" target="_blank">Accounts Chamber warns of risks of SMEs’ bankruptcies due to low consumer demand</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/chinas-dual-circulation-economic-strategy/">Explainer: What we know about China's 'dual circulation' economic strategy</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100575/chinese-yuan-become-no-3-global-currency-2030-after-us-dollar">Chinese yuan to become No 3 global currency by 2030 after US dollar, euro, Morgan Stanley predicts</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100532/chinas-forex-reserves-rose-us3165-trillion-august-increase"><b>China’s forex reserves rose to US$3.165 trillion in August, but increase less than expected</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100814/china-signals-shift-stronger-yuan-exchange-rate-policy-help"><span style="font-family: georgia;">China signals shift to stronger yuan exchange rate policy to help develop domestic demand, analysts say</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200746.shtml"><b>China becomes Germany's top export market in Q2, illuminating future cooperation</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/09/2091358/0/en/Red-Chris-Drill-Hole-Returns-3-0-g-t-Gold-and-1-5-Copper-Over-166-Metres.html"><b>Red Chris Drill Hole Returns 3.0 g/t Gold and 1.5% Copper Over 166 Metres</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-mining/congo-gold-miners-scour-rubble-for-bodies-after-cave-in-idUSKBN2630H2" target="_blank">Congo gold miners scour rubble for bodies after cave-in</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-turkey-weak-lira-powers-fresh-gold-rush-11600072185?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1">In Turkey, Weak Lira Powers Fresh Gold Rush</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstones-energy-alloys-files-for-bankruptcy-11599687257"><b>Blackstone’s Energy Alloys Files for Bankruptcy</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/opec-deepens-forecast-for-decline-in-global-oil-demand-11600083622?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1">OPEC Extends Forecast for Decline in Global Oil Demand</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-sally-bp/bp-evacuates-non-essential-workers-from-nakika-thunderhorse-due-to-storm-sally-idUSKBN2640YE">BP evacuates non-essential workers from Nakika, Thunderhorse due to Storm Sally</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-sally-energy/oil-companies-idle-production-as-u-s-gulf-coast-braces-for-hurricane-idUSKBN2640IQ">Oil companies idle production as U.S. Gulf Coast braces for hurricane</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/More-Electricity-Outages-Threaten-Californians.html">More Electricity Outages Threaten Californians</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Mexicos-Pemex-Slashes-Oil-Production-Target-For-2021.html">Mexico’s Pemex Slashes Oil Production Target For 2021</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Mexico-Shuts-The-Door-To-Foreign-Oil-Companies.html"><b>Mexico Shuts The Door To Foreign Oil Companies</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russia-Expects-Oil-Demand-To-Drop-By-10-Million-Bpd-In-2020.html">Russia Expects Oil Demand To Drop By 10 Million Bpd In 2020</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1198021">Kremlin sees no risk that Germany will block Nord Stream 2 project</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1198753">Germany should complete Nord Stream 2 project in any case — German politician</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1198437"><b>Foreign players to tap 50% of Russia’s oilfield services if local firms receive no support</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1198449">Russia can increase its global oil market share due to reduced competition</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1199141">Gazprom supplies 2.3 bln cubic meters of gas to China in January-August</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://infobrics.org/post/31736/">Gazprom Supplied 1 bln Cubic Meters of Gas to China at Prices Higher than European in Q2</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1198103"><b>Zvezda shipyard to construct 15 Arc7 tankers for Arctic LNG 2</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.oilfieldtechnology.com/offshore-and-subsea/09092020/api-comments-on-offshore-energy-moratorium-extension/"><b>API comments on offshore energy moratorium extension</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.oilandgas360.com/u-s-natgas-output-demand-to-fall-in-2020-from-peaks-due-to-coronavirus-eia/">U.S. natgas output, demand to fall in 2020 from peaks due to coronavirus: EIA</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.oilandgas360.com/former-u-s-ambassador-to-russia-rejoins-chevron-board/"><b>Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia rejoins Chevron board</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.oilfieldtechnology.com/digital-oilfield/08092020/industry-ingenuity-and-care-in-a-crisis/">Industry ingenuity and care in a crisis</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.oilfieldtechnology.com/offshore-and-subsea/08092020/rystad-energy-europe-could-see-us35-billion-in-ccs-spending-till-2035/"><b>Rystad Energy: Europe could see US$35 billion in CCS spending till 2035</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1200029" target="_blank">Experts: Oil price to remain low in September, and then to rise again</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/press-releases/1199931">Sinopec Holds First Virtual Open Day Event in Saudi Arabia</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/10/633783/Iran-oil-export-terminal-Qeshm-opening"><b>Iran’s oil storage capacity improved with terminal launched in Persian Gulf</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/452390/Combining-theory-and-practice-a-must-for-indigenizing-oil-equipment" target="_blank">Combining theory and practice, a must for indigenizing oil equipment</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/452392/Overhaul-operations-for-South-Pars-platform-SPD8-completed" target="_blank"><b>Overhaul operations for South Pars platform SPD8 completed</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1198441">Upcoming Kavkaz 2020 military drills to involve nine foreign countries</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1198617">Northern Fleet keeps track of US destroyer-led NATO group in Barents Sea</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1197733"><b>Russia’s Shoigu worried about constant presence of non-littoral states’ ships in Black Sea</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1197113">Military pilots from Russia, Belarus demonstrate high skills at Aviadarts contest</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1199133"><b>Russia’s Sukhoi-27 fighter intercepted US spy plane over Black Sea Wed</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1200299" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Specialists decide not to adjust ISS orbit due to US satellite - Roscosmos</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1199889" target="_blank">Russia’s 14 air regiments, long-range aviation unit take part in CIS exercise</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1199685" target="_blank"><b>Russian Northern Fleet submarine fires anti-sub missile in Barents Sea</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1198433" style="font-family: georgia;">Russian, Serbian military to arrive in Belarus for military drills on September 10-15</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1199105"><b>Serbia freezes military exercises with other countries at EU demands over Belarus</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2020/09/13/heres-how-global-strike-command-is-shifting-its-focus-to-china-russia/">Here’s how Global Strike Command is shifting its focus to China, Russia</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/artificial-intelligence/2020/09/14/pentagon-ai-tool-for-battling-coronavirus-hold-lessons-for-war/">Pentagon AI tool for battling coronavirus hold lessons for war</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/09/13/trumps-talk-of-secret-new-weapon-fits-a-pattern-of-puzzles/"><b>Trump’s talk of secret new weapon fits a pattern of puzzles</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/09/12/the-future-us-navy-carrier-air-wing-will-fight-at-extended-ranges-admiral-says/">The future US Navy carrier air wing will be effective at extended ranges, admiral says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/09/11/maintenance-delays-are-blood-in-the-water-for-aircraft-carrier-critics-admiral-says/">Maintenance delays are ‘blood in the water’ for aircraft carrier critics, admiral says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/smr/defense-news-conference/2020/09/09/space-force-developing-a-strategy-for-implementing-its-enterprise-satcom-vision/">US Space Force developing a strategy to improve satellite communications</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990620000661" target="_blank">Iranian, Chinese, Russian Military Forces to Participate in Joint Wargames</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3100917/china-india-border-dispute-video-violent-clash-between">China-India border dispute: video of violent clash between soldiers goes viral</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3100891/china-india-border-dispute-pla-bombers-pictured-close-troubled"><b>China-India border dispute: PLA bombers pictured close to troubled region</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3100986/india-china-border-tibetans-pangong-tso-race-help-amid-warnings">India-China border: Tibetans at Pangong Tso race to help amid warnings military face-off could take ‘any trajectory’</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3100996/china-india-border-dispute-armed-parachute-drills-elite-pla"><b>China-India border dispute: armed parachute drills by elite PLA forces point to military build-up</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-74665689019513875462020-09-07T07:08:00.006-07:002020-09-08T18:48:00.881-07:00GPA Project Headlines September 1-7, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Ugx5gLeCZk65gGXlamND0YK9o-lO9B72xg4jFY-8eO_2JmzzxRlPHAPUPacSSHhNxfAPnOQuWbc8mZpU2Jk5sgzz7QIC5ndLK-8x59XBjKMbxgCehLID_bnc1uyWka32TXIpSBgXq7k/s2416/1-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1208" data-original-width="2416" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Ugx5gLeCZk65gGXlamND0YK9o-lO9B72xg4jFY-8eO_2JmzzxRlPHAPUPacSSHhNxfAPnOQuWbc8mZpU2Jk5sgzz7QIC5ndLK-8x59XBjKMbxgCehLID_bnc1uyWka32TXIpSBgXq7k/w625-h313/1-3.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>TOP HEADLINES</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cdc-issues-nationwide-eviction-ban-through-the-end-of-the-year-in-an-effort-to-control-coronavirus-2020-09-01?mod=home-page">Renters in U.S. cannot be evicted through the end of the year due to coronavirus, CDC order states</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3099984/us-imposes-sanctions-international-criminal-court">US imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court chief prosecutor, aide</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/06/633435/UN-famine-Mark-Lowcock-coronavirus-Yemen-South-Sudan-Nigeria-Congo"><b>UN warns first coronavirus-induced famines to hit countries soon</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1196875">Putin ready to take joint efforts with China on ensuring global stability</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/bank-of-england-governor-stablecoins-digital-pound/"><b>Bank of England Governor wants to ensure stablecoins don’t lead to return of wild-west</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/chinese-region-plans-digital-yuan-cross-border-use/">Chinese region plans digital yuan cross border use</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/162988/US-embassy-coordinating-assassinations-of-Iraqi-activists">'<b>US embassy coordinating assassinations of Iraqi activists'</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199596.shtml">US is world's top telecom spy while bluffing with 'China threat': FM</a></span></li><li><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199854.shtml" style="font-family: georgia;">Unsustainable US debt level a cause for concern</a></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100307/china-may-ditch-us-treasuries-decoupling-risk-looms-global">China may ditch US Treasuries as decoupling risk looms: Global Times</a></i></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1197589">Eight Russian jets scramble to intercept three US bombers over Black Sea</a></b></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>GLOBAL</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/09/07/russia-nord-stream-2-vs-poisoning-of-alexei-navalny-2/">Russia – Nord Stream 2 vs. Poisoning of Alexei Navalny</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/09/05/usa-s-plans-for-a-global-conflict/">USA’s Plans for a Global Conflict</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.unz.com/article/the-2020-election-bourgeois-democracy-meets-global-governance/">The 2020 Election: Bourgeois Democracy Meets Global Governance</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/is-un-preparing-next-lockdown/5722203">Is the UN Preparing for the “Second Covid Lockdown”? 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font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199902.shtml"><b>World food prices reach highest level since February</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/06/633435/UN-famine-Mark-Lowcock-coronavirus-Yemen-South-Sudan-Nigeria-Congo" style="font-family: georgia;">UN warns first coronavirus-induced famines to hit countries soon</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://420intel.com/articles/2020/09/04/time-vote-will-who-cannabis-recommendations-be-accepted">Time to Vote: Will WHO Cannabis Recommendations Be Accepted?</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://420intel.com/articles/2020/09/04/more-australians-back-legalizing-cannabis-and-57-cent-support-pill-testing-0">More Australians back legalizing cannabis and 57 per cent support pill testing, national survey shows</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-security-birmingham/police-hunt-for-man-in-birmingham-after-stabbings-leave-one-dead-seven-injured-idUSKBN25X07E"><b>Police hunt for man in Birmingham after stabbings leave one dead, seven injured</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://usawatchdog.com/we-are-entering-into-a-war-period-catherine-austin-fitts/">We are Entering into a War Period – Catherine Austin Fitts</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-assange/assanges-legal-fight-to-avoid-u-s-espionage-trial-resumes-in-london-idUSKBN25X10D">Assange's legal fight to avoid U.S. espionage trial resumes in London</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Tech</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/ntt-data-covid-19-blockchain-health-certificates/">NTT Data to trial COVID-19 blockchain health certificates</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/koreas-internet-security-agency-kisa-blockchain-identity/">Korea’s Internet Security Agency readies blockchain identity app for employees</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/coinplug-hp-retail-blockchain-decentralized-identity-access/"><b>Coinplug, HP Retail launch blockchain decentralized identity app to access unmanned stores in Korea</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2020/09/02/us-navy-eyes-permanent-solution-for-post-pandemic-collaboration-tools/"><b>US Navy eyes permanent solution for post-pandemic collaboration tools</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seeks-to-expand-biometric-data-it-collects-from-immigrants-11599074061">U.S. Seeks to Expand Biometric Data It Collects From Immigrants</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2020/09/02/national-guard-cyber-exercise-to-increase-focus-on-information-operations/">National Guard cyber exercise to increase focus on information operations</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/industry/2020/09/02/amergint-completes-purchase-of-space-based-optics-business-following-utcraytheon-merger/">AMERGINT buys space-based optics business following UTC-Raytheon merger</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-gets-u-s-approval-for-drone-fleet-a-package-delivery-milestone-11598913514"><b>Amazon Gets U.S. Approval for Drone Fleet, a Package-Delivery Milestone</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech-google/u-s-justice-departments-google-lawsuit-expected-in-weeks-ahead-sources-idUSKBN25V04Z">U.S. Justice Department's Google lawsuit expected in weeks ahead: sources</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/09/03/facebook-still-banning-purported-fake-sites-to-support-us-fake-stories/">Facebook Still Banning Purported “Fake Sites” To Support US Fake Stories</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Bio-News</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1197475">First batch of COVID-19 vaccine arrives in three Moscow clinics</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1197625">Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine effective against any dose of the virus, says developer</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1197429"><b>Scientists publish results of first two phases of Sputnik V clinical trials</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199987.shtml">China's top respiratory disease specialist Zhong Nanshan selected as a member of a panel appointed by WHO</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-asks-states-to-be-ready-for-vaccine-by-november-11599075477?mod=hp_lead_pos6">Trump Administration Asks States to Be Ready for Vaccine by November</a></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1197139">Moldovan leader plans to be vaccinated against coronavirus during trip to Russia</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1196199">Post-registration phase of coronavirus vaccination to begin in Moscow on September 5-7</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1196479">Russia ready to provide all data on its coronavirus vaccine to WHO</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/fiercepharmapolitics-fda-could-consider-covid-vaccines-before-phase-3-trials-finish">FiercePharmaPolitics—FDA would consider COVID-19 vaccines before phase 3 trials finish, commissioner says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/former-fda-commissioner-gottlieb-questions-hahn-s-covid-19-fast-track-statement/?s=130">Former FDA Commissioner Questions Hahn’s COVID-19 Vaccine Fast-Track Statement</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1196271"><b>LDPR leader among world’s first persons injected with COVID-19 vaccine</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/09/third-covid-vaccine-candidate-starts-phase-3-trial-us">Third COVID vaccine candidate starts phase 3 trial in US</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/after-latest-kevzara-fail-covid-19-sanofi-and-regeneron-shift-their-attention-elsewhere">After another Kevzara fail in COVID-19, Sanofi and Regeneron shift their attention elsewhere</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/sanofi-and-regeneron-s-kevzara-miss-the-mark-in-second-phase-iii-covid-19-study/?s=130">IL-6 Inhibitor Kevzara Flops in Second Phase III COVID-19 Study</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1195945"><b>First day back to school in the new reality of coronavirus</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/planning-to-quit-u-s-says-it-will-not-pay-what-it-owes-who-this-year-idUSKBN25T3AS">Planning to quit, U.S. says it will not pay what it owes WHO this year</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199932.shtml"><b>Chinese vaccine firms show COVID-19 candidates at Beijing tradeshow</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199440.shtml">Chinese partners may begin making Russia's Sputnik V vaccine in November</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3100024/what-crispr-gene-editing-technology-carries-much"><i>What is CRISPR? The gene-editing technology carries much promise – and peril – amid pandemic</i></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>USA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3099984/us-imposes-sanctions-international-criminal-court"><b>US imposes sanctions on International Criminal Court chief prosecutor, aide</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/02/633121/-Pompeo-asked-aides-to-find-a-way-to-sell-weapons-" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Revealed: Pompeo asked aides to find a way to push through weapons sale</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/31/632987/US-military-South-Korea-SUV-accident-" style="font-family: georgia;">Crash involving US armored vehicle kills four in South Korea</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1197613">US does not have proof of Navalny’s poisoning, says Trump</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3100312/us-china-tensions-korean-war-was-miscalculation-it-could-happen">US-China tensions: Korean war was a miscalculation. It could happen again with Taiwan</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3100343/china-india-border-tension-us-ready-help-resolve-dispute-trump?li_source=LI&li_medium=homepage_int_edition_top_picks_for_you">China-India border tension: US ready to help resolve dispute, Trump says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-tackle-spending-deadline-look-to-revive-coronavirus-aid-talks-11599480001?mod=hp_lead_pos5"><i>Lawmakers Tackle Spending Deadline, Look to Revive Coronavirus Aid Talks</i></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/president-trump-calls-on-cnn-to-fire-chris-cuomo-following-tucker-carlson-tonight-segment-11599069186?mod=home-page"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>President Trump calls on CNN to fire host Chris Cuomo following ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ segment</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/blowout-pelosi-says-salon-owes-her-an-apology-for-setting-me-up-2020-09-02?mod=home-page">Blowout! Pelosi says salon owes her an apology for ‘setting me up’</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-portland/suspect-in-portland-shooting-killed-by-police-during-arrest-idUSKBN25V0G0"><b>Suspect in Portland shooting killed by police during arrest</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-protests-portland/portland-mayor-to-leave-home-targeted-by-protesters-idUSKBN25T32R">Portland mayor to leave home targeted by protesters</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-trump-cities/trumps-threat-to-defund-cities-unconstitutional-mayors-say-idUSKBN25U2SS"><b>Trump's threat to defund cities 'unconstitutional,' mayors say</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-wolf/defying-critics-u-s-security-chief-pushes-trumps-law-and-order-message-idUSKBN25V1IK">Defying critics, U.S. security chief pushes Trump's law-and-order message</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-portland/portland-police-make-over-50-arrests-use-tear-gas-as-protesters-throw-fire-bombs-idUSKBN25X08R">Portland police make over 50 arrests, use tear gas as protesters throw fire bombs</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-protests/rival-groups-square-off-at-kentucky-derby-rochester-police-use-tear-gas-idUSKBN25W0H4">Rival groups square off at Kentucky Derby, Rochester police use tear gas</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-portland/portland-police-arrest-27-as-u-s-city-nears-100-days-of-protests-idUSKBN25W0GM">Portland police arrest 27 as U.S. city nears 100 days of protests</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://usawatchdog.com/dem-marxist-plans-evil-revealed-everywhere-no-stimulus-deal/"><b>Dem Marxist Plans, Evil Revealed Everywhere, No Stimulus Deal</b></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://usawatchdog.com/judgment-is-coming-for-america-michael-snyder/">Judgment is Coming for America – Michael Snyder</a></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-military/trump-blasts-media-democrats-over-report-he-disparaged-u-s-troops-idUSKBN25X0MQ">Trump blasts media, Democrats over report he disparaged U.S. troops</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199692.shtml" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump’s cards ‘limited’ in trade conflict</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-boats/several-boats-sink-at-trump-parade-on-texas-lake-idUSKBN25X00S"><b>Several boats sink at Trump parade on Texas lake</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/07/633494/National-Guard-rescues-dozens-trapped-by-California-wildfire">National Guard rescues dozens trapped by California wildfire</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/06/633489/US-Navy-searching-Arabian-Sea-for-missing-sailor">US Navy searching Arabian Sea for missing sailor</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/07/633490/Hurricane-Laura-death-toll-in-Louisiana-rises-to-25">Hurricane Laura death toll in Louisiana rises to 25</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-wildfires/fire-on-all-sides-california-wildfires-prompt-evacuations-idUSKBN25X0UO">'Fire on all sides': California wildfires prompt evacuations</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-wildfires-newsom-emergency/california-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-in-five-counties-due-to-fire-idUSKBN25Y0AI">California governor declares state of emergency in five counties due to fire</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://420intel.com/articles/2020/08/31/bill-decriminalize-marijuana-federal-level-house-vote-next-month">Bill to decriminalize marijuana at federal level up for House vote next month</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://420intel.com/articles/2020/09/04/pennsylvania-state-leaders-make-their-case-legal-cannabis">Pennsylvania State Leaders Make Their Case For Legal Cannabis</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1195839">Russia considers US armed forces’ actions in Estonia to be extremely dangerous</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1196813" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Over 40 injured in wildfires in southern Russia</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1197589">Eight Russian jets scramble to intercept three US bombers over Black Sea</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1197743">NATO plans to redeploy more US forces to Poland, says Russian defense minister</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1197711">Russian MiG-31 jets intercept Norway’s Orion aircraft over Barents Sea third day in a row</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1196719">West’s reaction to Navalny situation looks as though prepared in advance -Russian diplomat</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1196571" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Germany claims blogger Navalny was poisoned with Novichok class agent</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1195933">Lavrov says Western allegations of no investigation of Alexey Navalny’s incident untrue</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1197131">German businesses warn against imposing sanctions on Russia over Navalny’s case</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/04/633298/Russia-Germany-Alexei-Navalny-chemical-poisoning-legal-probe"><b>Russia to open probe into possible bid to murder Navalny: Report</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1197591">German lawmaker warns against hasty conclusions about Moscow’s involvement in Navalny case</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1197487">German military toxicologists find poison trace in Navalny’s blood, urine, skin — report</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1197517">Navalny’s tests not requested by German doctors after his transfer to Berlin, says expert</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1197339">Belarusian data on alleged faked poisoning of Navalny handed over to FSB — Kremlin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-health/russia-first-treated-navalny-for-suspected-poisoning-then-u-turned-doctor-idUSKBN25X0MA">Russia first treated Navalny for suspected poisoning then U-turned: doctor</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1197199"><b>Russia wants to outline ‘red lines’ for Belarus in dialogue with the US, says expert</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1197173">Single currency not discussed at talks of Russian PM and Belarusian president</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/in-beslan-russias-special-forces-had-to-act-spontaneously/">In Beslan, Russian Special Forces had to act spontaneously</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>DPR/LNR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/hedgehog-wench-bird-and-sleep-grass-appear-on-commemorative-coins-by-dpr-central-bank.html">Hedgehog, Wench-bird and Sleep-grass appear on commemorative coins by DPR Central Bank</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/politics-en/dpr-peoples-militia-provides-details-on-combine-harvester-explosion.html">DPR People’s Militia provides details on combine harvester explosion</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/dpr-to-work-on-railway-link-with-russia-after-covid-19-related-pause-pushilin.html"><b>DPR to work on railway link with Russia after COVID-19 related pause – Pushilin</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/dpr-lpr-border-might-be-opened-shortly-pushilin.html">DPR-LPR border might be opened shortly – Pushilin</a></div><div><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/ukraine-violates-additional-ceasefire-control-measures-on-contact-line-with-dpr-once-over-24-hours-jccc-2.html"><b>Ukraine violates additional ceasefire control measures on contact line with DPR once over 24 hours – JCCC</b></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Ukraine</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/kiev-changed-its-vector-ukraine-decided-to-extradite-an-american-militant-to-the-us/"><b>KIEV CHANGED ITS VECTOR: UKRAINE DECIDED TO EXTRADITE AN AMERICAN MILITANT TO THE US</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/ukraine-has-proved-that-donbass-was-right-to-separate-from-it/">Ukraine has proved Donbass was right to separate from it</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1197111"><b>Russia’s expanded clout in Belarus dangerous for Ukraine — foreign minister</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Belarus</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1196947">Lukashenko says Minsk intercepted chat proving Navalny’s poisoning was utter fabrication</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1197097">German politician questions credibility of accusations hurled at Russia over Navalny case</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1197155"><b>Germany dismisses Lukashenko’s claims Navalny’s poisoning was faked as untrue</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1197585">Belarus state TV releases recording of Warsaw-Berlin phone call on incident with Navalny</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1196537">Current developments set Belarus’ relations with Europe back by many years — top diplomat</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1196851">Lukashenko appoints new KGB and Security Council chiefs</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1196155">EU stance on Belarus violates principle of non-interference in domestic affairs — diplomat</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1196067"><b>Lukashenko claims turned to West because of no understanding in Russia</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195941">Neighbors of Belarus try to involve entire EU in "anti-Lukashenko platform" - top diplomat</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195627"><b>Baltic states ban entrance to Lukashenko, 29 more Belarusian officials</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195757" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Belarussian Interior Minister denies arrival of Russian forces in the country</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1195629"><b>Russian, Belarusian top diplomats to have talks in Moscow on September 2</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/it-will-be-a-massacre-lukashenko-said-what-will-happen-if-jailbirds-hangers-on-come-to-power/"><b>“IT WILL BE A MASSACRE”: LUKASHENKO SAID WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF “JAILBIRDS & HANGERS-ON” COME TO POWER</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/lukashenko-was-added-to-ukraines-mirotvorets-database/">LUKASHENKO WAS ADDED TO UKRAINE’S “MIROTVORETS” DATABASE</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1197213">Lukashenko must be persuaded that he cannot be president, US OSCE envoy says</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1197243">EU won’t blacklist Lukashenko due to German stance — Die Welt</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>China</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199469.shtml">US intends to force China to 'fire first shot' over Taiwan</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/01/633066/Philippines-US-sanctions-China-will-not-comply">Philippines says will not comply with US sanctions on China</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3100134/dont-be-fooled-us-claims-chinese-military-superiority"><b>Don’t be fooled by US claims of Chinese military superiority</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199658.shtml">China's defense ministry denounces Pentagon report for hyping ‘Chinese military threat theory’</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199883.shtml">Reciprocity never crosses the US' mind: Global Times editorial</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199587.shtml">All Chinese projects in Philippines to continue as planned: Ambassador</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199847.shtml"><b>PLA capable of handling US military provocations and threats</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199596.shtml" style="font-family: georgia;">US is world's top telecom spy while bluffing with 'China threat': FM</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199930.shtml">US attempt to create 'new order' aimed at maintaining hegemony</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3099813/pompeo-wants-see-chinas-confucius-institutes-gone"><b>Pompeo wants to see China’s Confucius Institutes gone from US by end of year</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3100324/us-elections-trumps-republican-heirs-show-china-critics-are">US elections: Trump’s Republican heirs show China critics are here to stay</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199852.shtml"><b>Washington should talk the talk and walk the walk: Global Times editorial</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199850.shtml">West's lies on Uygur population seek to incite ethnic hatred in Xinjiang</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3100366/chinese-researchers-caught-us-academic-no-mans-land?li_source=LI&li_medium=homepage_int_edition_top_picks_for_you"><b>The Chinese researchers caught in a US academic no-man’s land</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199934.shtml">Semiconductor as natl plan a ‘counterattack’ on US</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100091/chinas-yuan-gains-foothold-iron-ore-deals-could-increase">China’s yuan gains foothold in iron ore deals, could increase Chinese self-reliance, analysts say</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199948.shtml"><b>China to implement countervailing measures against US originated n-propanol</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199833.shtml">Amid rising tensions, China likely to reduce US debt holdings</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199634.shtml"><b>BRI thoroughfare connecting Gansu, Qinghai in NW China starts asphalt paving</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199576.shtml">Chinese factory activities record biggest rise in a decade in August</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://420intel.com/articles/2020/09/04/hong-kong-just-opened-its-first-cbd-cafe-0"><i>Hong Kong Just Opened its First CBD Cafe</i></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Israel</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/drone-drops-hundreds-of-bags-of-cannabis-dropped-in-tel-aviv-640981">Drone drops hundreds of bags of cannabis in Tel Aviv</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/gantz-thousands-of-idf-soldiers-will-go-to-red-zones-641355">Gantz: Thousands of IDF soldiers will go to 'red zones'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/ehud-olmert-to-post-israels-divisions-have-reached-near-violent-levels-641048">Ehud Olmert to 'Post': Israel's divisions have reached near-violent levels</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-under-ultra-orthodox-pressure-netanyahu-backs-off-covid-19-lockdown-in-red-cities-1.9133317">Under ultra-Orthodox Pressure, Netanyahu Backs Off Coronavirus Lockdown for ‘Red’ Cities</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/night-curfews-in-41-locales-instead-of-lockdown-in-covid-19-hotbeds/">Night curfews in 41 locales instead of lockdown of covid-19 hotbeds</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/national-security-council-discussed-closure-of-temple-mount-to-worshipers-641319">National Security Council discussed closure of Temple Mount to worshipers</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/liberman-the-right-must-rid-itself-of-netanyahu-if-it-wants-annexation-641278"><b>Liberman: The Right must rid itself of Netanyahu if it wants annexation</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/lapid-agrees-to-yesh-atid-primary-in-2021-641366">Yair Lapid agrees to Yesh Atid primary in 2021</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-thousands-at-anti-netanyahu-protest-in-jerusalem-for-11th-week-in-a-row-1.9131405"><b>Jerusalem Police Clash With anti-Netanyahu Demonstrators as Protest Enters 11th Week</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-trump-and-netanyahu-s-barefaced-gaslighting-on-the-israel-kosovo-deal-1.9132455">Trump and Netanyahu’s Barefaced Gaslighting on the Israel-Kosovo Deal</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/serbia-to-establish-embassy-in-jerusalem-kosovo-may-follow/">Serbia to establish embassy in Jerusalem. Kosovo may follow</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/07/633515/Israel-US-advanced-weapons-F-35-UAE">Israel to ask US for advanced weapons after F-35 jets sale to UAE: Report</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Iran</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1195981"><b>Reminiscent of a bull in a china shop: Lavrov lambasts Washington’s policy on Iran</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/31/633006/Pompeo%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98ticking-clock%E2%80%99-on-Iran-is-broken">Pompeo’s ‘ticking clock’ on Iran is broken</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/163015/JCPOA-parties-unanimously-reject-US-as-participant-to-deal"><b>JCPOA parties unanimously reject US as participant to deal</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-grants-u-n-watchdog-access-to-suspected-nuclear-sites-11598455365">Iran Grants U.N. Watchdog Access to Suspected Nuclear Sites</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990617000545">Spokesman: Iran Not to Change Policies as Long as US Continues Economic Terrorism</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990610000899">Iran’s Judiciary Chief Raps US, Europe for Sheltering Terrorists</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990617000206">Iran: Drug Traffickers Backed by US, Europe</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/163007/27-achievements-of-Army-Air-Defense-Force-to-be-unveiled">27 achievements of Army Air Defense Force to be unveiled</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/162982/Air-defense-prevents-entrance-of-enemies-drones-to-Iran">Air defense prevents entrance of enemies' drones to Iran</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990615001107">How to End America’s Destructive Hegemony</a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Middle East</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/07/633509/Lebanon-United-States-Israel-spy-agencies-Beirut-explosion">US, Israel spy services blew up Beirut port: Lebanese party</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3100177/beirut-blast-signs-life-found-under-rubble-month-after">Beirut blast: signs of life found under rubble a month after deadly Lebanon explosion, says rescuer</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/shin-bet-thwarts-bomb-attack-by-hamas-terrorists-641358" style="font-family: georgia;">Israeli citizens indicted for planning bomb attack for Hamas</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/hamas-and-hizballah-leaders-meet-in-beirut/">Hamas and Hizballah leaders meet in Beirut</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/30/632964/Yemen-s-Ansarullah-targets-Saudi-airport-with-drone">Yemen's Ansarullah targets Saudi airport with drone</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/29/632850/US-charge-Yemen-aid"><b>US charges three over collecting monetary aid for war-torn Yemen</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-security-yemen/saudi-led-coalition-destroys-explosive-laden-drone-launched-by-yemens-houthis-spa-idUSKBN25X0VE">Saudi-Led coalition destroys explosive-laden drone launched by Yemen's Houthis - SPA</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/04/633302/Al-Qaeda-Saudi-Ma-rib-Yemen" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Al-Qaeda joining Saudi-led forces in Ma'rib province: Yemeni govt.</b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/houthi-drones-target-saudi-arabia-amid-allegations-of-qatari-backing-641347">Houthi drones target Saudi Arabia amid allegations of Qatari backing</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/02/633194/Syria-air-defense-Israel-missile-t4-airbase"><b>Syria thwarts fresh Israeli missile attack on T4 airbase</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1131803">Syrian Air Defenses Intercept Missiles Fired by Israeli Warplanes: Video</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/russia-s-lavrov-lands-in-syria-for-talks-with-assad-1.9134985"><b>Russia's Lavrov Lands in Syria for Talks With Assad</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/162988/US-embassy-coordinating-assassinations-of-Iraqi-activists">'US embassy coordinating assassinations of Iraqi activists'</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/07/633523/Iraqis-march-US-Karbala-">Iraqis march against US in Karbala carrying pictures of Soleimani +video</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/06/633474/Iraq-talks-Turkey-PKK-operation">Iraqi parliament committee rejects direct negotiations with Turkey amid PKK operation</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/04/633281/King-Salman-calls-Trump-for-permission-to-invade-Qatar"><b>King Salman of Saudi Arabia called Donald Trump for permission to invade Qatar</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/06/633477/Turkey-Greece-TRNC-Fuat-Oktay-EU-France-Erdogan-">Turkey stages military drills in north Cyprus amid tensions with Greece</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ECONOMIC</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199854.shtml">Unsustainable US debt level a cause for concern</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cdc-issues-nationwide-eviction-ban-through-the-end-of-the-year-in-an-effort-to-control-coronavirus-2020-09-01?mod=home-page"><span style="font-size: large;">Renters in U.S. cannot be evicted through the end of the year due to coronavirus, CDC order states</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-debt-is-set-to-exceed-size-of-the-economy-for-year-a-first-since-world-war-ii-11599051137?mod=hp_lead_pos1">U.S. Debt Is Set to Exceed Size of the Economy Next Year, a First Since World War II</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/business-and-personal-bankruptcy-filings-in-the-u-s-slowed-in-august-11599089229">Business and Personal Bankruptcy Filings in the U.S. Slowed in August</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstone-gip-make-takeover-bid-for-kansas-city-southern-11599073239?mod=hp_lead_pos3">Blackstone, GIP Make Takeover Bid for Kansas City Southern</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/costco-reports-another-month-of-double-digit-comparable-sales-growth-august-51599080742?mod=home-page">Costco Reports Another Month of Double-Digit Sales Growth In August</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget/pelosi-mnuchin-informally-agree-on-stopgap-bill-to-avoid-u-s-government-shutdown-abc-news-idUSKBN25U340" style="font-family: georgia;">Pelosi, Mnuchin informally agree on stopgap bill to avoid U.S. government shutdown: ABC News</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-official-says-economy-faces-high-uncertainty-prominent-risks-11598980162"><i>Fed Official Says Economy Faces High Uncertainty, Prominent Risks</i></a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-california-small-b/california-lets-more-businesses-open-but-for-some-its-too-late-idUSKBN25V1J0?il=0">California lets more businesses open, but for some it's too late</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-mnuchin/deal-likely-to-fund-u-s-government-to-early-december-mnuchin-says-idUSKBN25X0JN"><b>Deal likely to fund U.S. government to early December, Mnuchin says</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ikea-centres-realestate/ikeas-shopping-centers-arm-buys-san-francisco-mall-in-its-first-us-real-estate-deal-idUSKBN25W0FB">IKEA's shopping centers arm buys San Francisco mall in its first US real estate deal</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://usawatchdog.com/permanent-economic-damage-danielle-dimartino-booth/">Permanent Economic Damage – Danielle DiMartino Booth</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/feds-powell-says-interest-rates-likely-to-stay-low-for-years-11599251020">Fed’s Powell Says Economy Likely Will Need More Government Spending, Low Interest Rates</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/united-plans-to-cut-more-than-16-000-staff-11599061023?mod=hp_lista_pos1">United Plans to Cut More Than 16,000 Staff</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ford-looks-to-trim-1-400-salaried-employees-in-u-s-through-buyouts-11599059576?mod=hp_lista_pos3"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Ford Looks to Trim 1,400 Salaried Employees in U.S. Through Buyouts</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-maker-security-first-files-for-bankruptcy-11599000881">Software Maker Security First Files for Bankruptcy</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankrupt-intelsat-buys-gogo-in-flight-wi-fi-business-for-400-million-11598988356">Bankrupt Intelsat Buys Gogo In-Flight Wi-Fi Business for $400 Million</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/juul-to-cut-more-jobs-explore-exiting-europe-and-asia-11599091500?mod=hp_lead_pos3">Juul to Cut More Than Half of Its Workforce</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-virgin-atlantic/virgin-atlantic-plans-1150-more-job-cuts-after-completing-rescue-deal-idUSKBN25V1MG">Virgin Atlantic plans 1,150 more job cuts after completing rescue deal</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/breakdown-podcast-david-graeber-guide-coming-collapse">A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/recovering-dollar-dents-gold-and-silver-prices-11599057366?mod=md_cmd_news">Recovering Dollar Dents Gold and Silver Prices</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.321gold.com/editorials/thomson_s/thomson_s_090120.html"><b>Silver At $140: Can It Really Happen?</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>CBDC/Crytpo</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-dollar-surge-opportunity">The Crypto-Dollar Surge and the American Opportunity</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/breakdown-podcast-digital-dollar">Sorry, Governments, We’re Entering the Era of Private Money</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/bank-of-england-governor-stablecoins-digital-pound/" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Bank of England Governor wants to ensure stablecoins don’t lead to return of wild-west</b></a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/bank-england-stablecoin-regulation">Bank of England Governor Wants Global Regulations as Stablecoins Pick Up Steam</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3100285/what-will-chinas-central-bank-digital-currency-mean-alipay"><b>What will China’s central bank digital currency mean for Alipay and WeChat Pay?</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/brazil-central-bank-digital-currency-by-2022/">Brazil’s Central Bank may be ready for digital currency by 2022</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/analysis-life-after-jp-morgan-for-the-quorum-blockchain/"><b>Analysis: Life after JP Morgan for the Quorum blockchain</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3099733/chinas-sovereign-digital-currency-plans-must-be-globally">China’s sovereign digital currency plans must be globally compatible to internationalise the yuan, analysts say</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/cryptos-earned-from-microtasks-are-taxable-irs/"><b>Cryptos Earned from Microtasks are Taxable: IRS</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/russia-restrict-circulation-cryptocurrency/">Russian legal proposal aims to restrict cryptocurrency circulation</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/digital-bank-revolut-crypto-buying-selling-australia-bitcoin"><b>Digital Bank Revolut Expands Crypto Buying and Selling Service to Australia</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/cftc-ledgerx-beyond-crypto">CFTC Greenlights LedgerX Request to Move Beyond Digital Currency Products</a></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1195609">Russia can join ranks of top five global economies this year, presidential aide says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3099611/china-must-reform-financial-markets-ward-any-us-financial"><b>China must reform financial markets to ward off US financial sanctions, think tank urges</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3099951/china-overtake-us-worlds-top-economy-2032-despite-washington">China to overtake US as world’s top economy in 2032 despite Washington hostilities, state think tank predicts</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199741.shtml">China remains the only middle-income economy in top 30 on global innovation index</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199589.shtml">CSRC approves more businesses for foreign banks</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3100307/china-may-ditch-us-treasuries-decoupling-risk-looms-global">China may ditch US Treasuries as decoupling risk looms: Global Times</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/commodities/article/3100236/chinas-rare-earth-exports-us-could-fall-third-global-demand">China’s rare earth exports to the US could fall by a third as global demand drops 5 per cent this year amid coronavirus, analysts say</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bank-audi-egypt-m-a-first-abu-dhabi/first-abu-dhabi-bank-wants-to-restart-talks-to-buy-bank-audis-egypt-unit-say-sources-idUSKBN25X0CA"><b>First Abu Dhabi Bank wants to restart talks to buy Bank Audi's Egypt unit, say sources</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199622.shtml">Brazil's GDP shrinks with record 9.7 pct in Q2</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199717.shtml"><b>Australian economy faces dim outlook</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.naturalgasintel.com/u-s-lng-exports-record-first-year-year-decline-since-january-2016-as-pandemic-reverberates/">U.S. LNG Exports Record First Year/Year Decline Since January 2016 as Pandemic Reverberates</a></b></span></div><div><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackjewel-settles-with-workers-over-coal-producers-sudden-collapse-11599084081" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blackjewel Settles With Workers Over Coal Producer’s Sudden Collapse</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/alabama-based-fm-coal-files-for-bankruptcy-11599080795">Alabama-Based FM Coal Files for Bankruptcy</a></b></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/colorado-natural-gas-driller-ursa-piceance-files-for-bankruptcy-11599160523">Colorado Natural-Gas Driller Ursa Piceance Files for Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/denbury-resources-cleared-to-exit-bankruptcy-11599152447"><b>Denbury Resources Cleared to Exit Bankruptcy</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.rivieramm.com/news-content-hub/shell-optimisation-software-could-cut-lng-fleets-fuel-consumption-emissions-60775">Shell's optimisation software could cut LNG fleet's carbon footprint</a></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-glut-of-refineries-is-the-oil-industrys-next-problem-11599123822?mod=hp_lead_pos11" style="font-family: georgia;">A Glut of Refineries Is the Oil Industry’s Next Problem</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Oil-Major-Exxon-Considers-Global-Job-Cuts.html"><b>Oil Major Exxon Considers Global Job Cuts</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199836.shtml">Big Oil faces fall-out for disappointing deals</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Worlds-Largest-Oilfield-Services-Provider-Sells-US-Fracking-Business.html">World’s Largest Oilfield Services Provider Sells U.S. Fracking Business</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-US-Energy-Storage-Boom-Is-About-To-Begin.html">The U.S. Energy Storage Boom Is About To Begin</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Why-No-One-Is-Buying-Up-Shale-Assets.html">Why No One Is Buying Up Shale Assets</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1196461">Russian economy’s dependence on oil and gas revenues declining gradually, says Kremlin</a></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1196031">Germany hashes over Nord Stream 2 sanctions with US administration</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/oil-gas-industry/1195683"><b>Gazprom supplied 1 bln cubic meters of gas to China at prices higher than European in Q2</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.rivieramm.com/news-content-hub/two-more-yamal-lng-gas-carriers-near-delivery-60749">Two more Yamal LNG gas carriers near delivery</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1197023"><b>Kremlin describes calls to put Nord Stream 2 in mothballs over Navalny case as 'emotional'</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1197141">Moscow, Minsk addressing redirection of petroleum products supplies from Lithuanian ports</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Worlds-Top-Oil-Importer-Is-Turning-Its-Back-On-Saudi-Arabia.html"><b>The World’s Top Oil Importer Is Turning Its Back On Saudi Arabia</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Saudi-Arabias-Oil-Exports-To-The-US-Slump-To-Lowest-Level-In-Decades.html">Saudi Arabia’s Oil Exports To The U.S. Slump To Lowest Level In Decades</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Kuwait-Looks-To-Ease-Dependence-On-Saudi-Arabia-With-New-Oil-Development.html">Kuwait Looks To Ease Dependence On Saudi Arabia With New Oil Development</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-aramco-slows-diversification-plans-amid-industry-downturn-11599054505?mod=hp_lead_pos7">Saudi Aramco Slows Diversification Plans Amid Industry Downturn</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Venezuela-Faces-The-Real-Possibility-Oil-Production-Dropping-To-Zero.html">Venezuela Faces The Real Possibility Oil Production Dropping To Zero</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Iran-Ramps-Up-Production-At-Supergiant-South-Pars-Gas-Field.html">Iran Ramps Up Production At Supergiant South Pars Gas Field</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/05/633379/Iran-gas-condensate-refinery-company-listing">Iran divesting world’s largest gas condensate refinery</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2020/09/01/army-to-get-two-new-ground-station-prototypes-in-2022/">Army to get two new ground station prototypes in 2022</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/09/02/balls-in-russias-court-on-new-start-extension-says-dod-official/">Ball’s in Russia’s court on New START extension, says DoD official</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2020/09/02/us-army-pursuing-new-mid-range-missile-amid-tactical-missile-upgrade-delay/"><b>US Army pursues new mid-range missile, as tactical missile upgrade hits delay</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/air/2020/09/01/two-hypersonic-weapons-just-completed-a-new-milestone-in-development/">Two hypersonic weapons complete new developmental milestone</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/us-air-force-and-raytheon-are-studying-how-distributed-ledgers-could-help-command-the-skies">US Air Force and Raytheon Are Studying How Distributed Ledgers Could Help Command the Skies</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-affirms-microsoft-award-of-jedi-cloud-computing-contract-11599252361?mod=hp_lista_pos5">Pentagon Affirms Microsoft Award of JEDI Cloud Computing Contract</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/how-many-tsirkon-missiles-will-be-needed-to-neutralise-a-us-navy-carrier-strike-group/"><br /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-33968298007197795172020-09-01T03:48:00.001-07:002020-09-01T03:50:15.278-07:00GPA Project Headlines August 25-31, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnT9Fz3uOiye9aip1d9chn256ekBE_JHDxW3zccS7igyNsM4MyAdoktnurL9QtSMU4BmUEkx5jQ3uFCvUt1rE9JPcHGECPRFZ9IuspAs-i9s8UofD2qlLzDROMnXvll9dqhaS5oAibWp0/s500/coffee-and-newspaper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnT9Fz3uOiye9aip1d9chn256ekBE_JHDxW3zccS7igyNsM4MyAdoktnurL9QtSMU4BmUEkx5jQ3uFCvUt1rE9JPcHGECPRFZ9IuspAs-i9s8UofD2qlLzDROMnXvll9dqhaS5oAibWp0/s0/coffee-and-newspaper.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; 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font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1193743">Russian scientists develop device capable of finding people under 5 meters of snow</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/science/1193575">Hainan launches center for studying gibbons in Haikou</a></b></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Bio-News</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1194433">Putin says his daughter feeling well after coronavirus vaccine injection</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1194687">Research center Vektor may provide first batch of coronavirus vaccine in October</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1194487">Sputnik V vaccine is supplied to medical institutions for Phase 3 of trials</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1195653">Russian biologists create cell culture producing COVID-19 antibodies</a></b></li><li><a href="https://tass.com/science/1194651" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine gives good immune response, says health ministry expert</a></li><li><a href="https://tass.com/science/1192885" style="font-family: georgia;">Russia’s Chumakov Center applies for clinical tests of its anti-coronavirus vaccine</a></li><li><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1195651">Biocad company to produce Russia’s second coronavirus vaccine</a></b></li><li><a href="https://tass.com/society/1195451" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Over 2,500 volunteers picked for Russian COVID-19 vaccine’s post-registration trials</a></li><li><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1193933">Russia to supply over 2 mln doses of Sputnik V vaccine to Kazakhstan</a></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199243.shtml">Four Chinese COVID-19 vaccines undergoing phase-3 clinical trials</a></span></li><li><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31617/" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Coronavirus Vaccine Sputnik V: Russia Eyeing to Produce COVID Vaccine in India</b></a></li><li><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31645" style="font-family: georgia;">China and Russia Share Tech, Data for Vaccine Trials Amid Hopes of Mass Production</a></li><li><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199145.shtml">China seeks to manage supply of horseshoe crab's indispensable blood in race to develop COVID-19 vaccines</a></b></li><li><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/moderna-and-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-require-ultra-low-temperatures-raising-questions-about-storage-distribution-2020-08-27?mod=home-page" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b>Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine candidates require ultra-low temperatures, raising questions about storage, distribution</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-freezer-farms-to-jets-logistics-operators-prepare-for-a-covid-19-vaccine-11598639012?mod=hp_minor_pos13" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">From ‘Freezer Farms’ to Jets, Logistics Operators Prepare for a Covid-19 Vaccine</a></li><li><a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/trump-claims-covid-19-vaccine-will-be-available-by-the-end-of-2020-in-speech-/" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Trump Claims COVID-19 Vaccine Will be Available by the End of 2020 in Speech</b></a></li><li><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3099399/coronavirus-canada-confirms-planned-chinese-vaccine-trial-has" style="font-family: georgia;">Coronavirus: Canada confirms planned Chinese vaccine trial has been scrapped after shipments delayed</a></li><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-universiti/british-universities-should-not-reopen-next-month-says-union-idUSKBN25Q0AN" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">British universities should not reopen next month, says union</a></li><li><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-some-say-shaming-college-students-is-unfair-and-counterproductive-to-preventing-covid-outbreaks-11598565539?mod=home-page" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Colleges have threatened a return to remote instruction and suspended students over safety violations</b></a></li><li><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195749" style="font-family: georgia;">Uncontrolled lifting of COVID-19 restrictions ‘recipe for disaster’ - WHO</a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-wuhan/chinas-wuhan-says-all-schools-to-reopen-on-tuesday-idUSKBN25P04M?il=0">China's Wuhan says all schools to reopen on Tuesday</a></b></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>USA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3098897/america-must-brace-itself-double-dip-economic-recession?li_source=LI&li_medium=economy_section_top_picks_for_you">America must brace itself for a double-dip economic recession</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3099423/trump-heads-hurricane-hit-louisiana-and-texas-after"><b>Hurricane Laura: Trump surveys damage from ‘tremendously powerful storm’ in Louisiana and Texas</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-begins-payroll-tax-deferral-plan-set-to-start-sept-1-11598649525?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1">Trump Administration Begins Payroll Tax Deferral Plan</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-enviroment-lawsuit/more-than-20-states-sue-over-trump-changes-to-key-environmental-law-idUSKBN25O2QR">More than 20 states sue over Trump changes to key environmental law</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayer-lawsuit/bayer-acknowledges-bumps-in-11-billion-roundup-deal-after-judge-raises-doubts-idUSKBN25N2YK">Bayer acknowledges 'bumps' in $11 billion Roundup deal after judge raises doubts</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/08.20/breathtaking.html">The Breathtaking Ignorance and Gullibility of America’s Elites</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/08.20/livefree.html">It Is Live Or Die Time America?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/08.20/thebeast.html"><b>Stand Between The Beast and the Dismantling of America’s Culture</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-washington-paul/republican-senator-swarmed-by-protesters-after-trump-speech-calls-for-fbi-probe-idUSKBN25O0LW">Republican senator, swarmed by protesters after Trump speech, calls for FBI probe</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-portland-man-fatally-shot-as-rival-protesters-clash-11598769075?mod=hp_lead_pos3"><b>In Portland, Man Is Fatally Shot in Another Night of Unrest</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/remington-wont-have-to-answer-questions-from-sandy-hook-families-11598565991">Remington Won’t Have to Answer Questions From Sandy Hook Families</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/30/632958/US-Senator-Amy-Klobuchar-various-crises-President-Donald-Trump-administration"><b>Amy Klobuchar: 'We are not safe in Donald Trump's America'</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990608000147">Trump Decries Washington DC Protesters as 'Thugs'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990608000147"><b>Trump Says He Will ‘Go in, Take Care of Matters’ in Portland If Mayor Fails to Reclaim City from ‘Anarchists, Looters’</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990609000156">Protesters in Portland Target Mayor's House, Police Union Building</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/protesters-pour-into-national-mall-renewing-racial-justice-push-11598615232?mod=hp_listb_pos1">Thousands March on National Mall, Continuing Racial-Justice Push</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-minneapolis/minneapolis-under-curfew-state-of-emergency-after-black-homicide-suspects-death-idUSKBN25N14X">Minneapolis under curfew, state of emergency after Black homicide suspect's death</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-rittenhouse/teenager-in-wisconsin-shootings-charged-with-six-criminal-counts-complaint-idUSKBN25N382">Teenager in Wisconsin shootings charged with six criminal counts: complaint</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-dead-in-kenosha-shooting-police-say-11598436656?mod=hp_lead_pos4">Wisconsin Identifies Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/us-troops-syria-russia-collision-injured-patrol-vehicle-isis.html">US troops injured after encounter with Russian vehicle in Syria</a></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990609000189">Trump Confirms US Plans to Reduce Military Presence in Iraq</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/28/632819/US-troops-Iraq-one-third-Wall-Street-Journal">US to slash number of troops in Iraq by about one-third: Report</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1194205">White House says Russia breached de-confliction protocols after incident in Syria</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1194835">Diplomat blasts US sanctions for targeting Russian scientists working on COVID-19 vaccine</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="Russian major general killed in roadside bomb in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/syria-russia-general-killed-isis.html#ixzz6WkinZMcj">Russian major general killed in roadside bomb in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199158.shtml">Russia ready to intervene if Belarus situation out of control: Putin</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195127">Western stance on Belarusian election was prepared in advance, Putin thinks</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1195079"><b>Foreign Ministry warns Russians of threat of persecution from US intel agencies</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1194425">Putin: Detention of Russian citizens in Belarus set up by Ukrainian and US intelligence</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1194359">Russia sets up law enforcement unit on Lukashenko’s request to aid Belarus — Putin</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1194889">Lukashenko says agrees with Putin that situation in Belarus could be used against Russia</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1195525">Kremlin says situation in Belarus under control, no need to use Russian police reserve</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1194831">Size of Russia’s backup law enforcement unit set up to aid Belarus ‘reasonable’ — Kremlin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1194807">Putin hopes Russia’s law enforcement units won’t be used in Belarus — Kremlin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1194155">There is enough evidence of foreign meddling in Belarus, Moscow says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1194685">Brussels pushes ahead with its policy of rewriting history of World War II - diplomat</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1194883"><b>Putin discusses development of Russia-Belarus ties with Security Council</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="President Putin expects increase in road construction pace in Russia">President Putin expects increase in road construction pace in Russia</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1194919">Navalny still in coma, on ventilator but his life is out of danger — Charite hospital</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>DPR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/culture-en/dpr-education-centres-to-start-new-school-year-onsite-from-september-1-decree.html"><b>DPR education centres to start new school year onsite from September 1 – decree</b></a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/august-in-donbass-is-calmest-period-in-six-years-of-conflict-jccc.html">August in Donbass is calmest period in six years of conflict – JCCC</a></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/politics-en/dpr-to-adopt-russian-classification-system-for-occupations-standards-by-2021.html"><b>DPR to adopt Russian classification system for occupations, standards by 2021</b></a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/russia-delivers-60-tons-of-medications-medical-supplies-to-dpr-emergencies-ministry.html">Russia delivers 60 tons of medications, medical supplies to DPR – Emergencies Ministry</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/society/monument-to-legendary-somali-commander-added-to-donetsks-alley-of-heroes.html"><b>Monument to legendary “Somali” commander added to Donetsk’s Alley of Heroes</b></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/economy/dpr-coal-mining-companies-to-launch-three-new-coal-faces-by-late-2020.html">DPR coal mining companies to launch three new coal faces by late 2020</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/dpr-to-resort-to-extraordinary-measures-unless-kiev-eliminates-violations-of-additional-measures-pushilin.html">DPR to resort to extraordinary measures unless Kiev eliminates violations of Additional Measures – Pushilin</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Belarus</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195269"><b>Protection of Lukashenko’s residence in Minsk tightened as protesters are approaching</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195285">Protesters come close to Lukashenko’s residence in Minsk</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1194851"><b>Belarus leader vows harsh response to sanctions</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195255">Riot police block protesters in downtown Minsk</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/29/632879/UK-Belarus-BBC-Journalists-Accreditation-FCO"><b>Two BBC journalists de-accredited in Belarus</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1194315">Lukashenko claims 'hybrid war', 'diplomatic onslaught' being waged against Belarus</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1194617">Belarusian Foreign Ministry summons Polish envoy over meddling in internal affairs</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195073">Belarusian opposition leader says ready to consider Russia as mediator</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1194503"><b>Russia to consider debt refinancing request from Belarus if it is received</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-putin-lukashenko/putin-and-lukashenko-plan-to-meet-in-moscow-kremlin-idUSKBN25Q0C6">Putin and Lukashenko plan to meet in Moscow - Kremlin</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1194817">Talks on refinancing Belarus state debt to Russia continue — Kremlin</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/press-release/belarus-to-be-first-country-to-get-russias-coronavirus-vaccine_i_0000118100.html"><b>Belarus to be first country to get Russia's coronavirus vaccine</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1194901">Belarus mulls over refocusing trade flows from Lithuanian ports</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>China</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3099473/china-calls-europe-unite-against-extremist-us-forces"><b>China calls on Europe to unite against ‘extremist’ US forces</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3098940/china-could-weaponise-drug-exports-retaliate-against-us-chip">China could weaponise drug exports to retaliate against US chip restrictions, Beijing adviser says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3099396/china-puts-drones-and-laser-tech-restricted-export-list-after-us">China puts drones and laser tech on restricted export list after US tightens rul</a><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3099396/china-puts-drones-and-laser-tech-restricted-export-list-after-us">es</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199006.shtml">US products used to smuggle suspected Canadian drugs into China: customs officials</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199023.shtml">China’s industrial profits grow 19.6% year-on-year in July, rebounding for the 3rd month in a row</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199229.shtml">Xi stresses building new modern socialist Tibet</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3099411/chinese-president-xi-jinping-turns-focus-tibet-border-security?li_source=LI&li_medium=homepage_int_edition_top_picks_for_you">Chinese President Xi Jinping turns focus onto Tibet border security</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3098811/us-china-trade-war-both-sides-cling-phase-one-deal-wider"><b>US-China trade war: both sides cling to phase one deal as wider relationship crumbles</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3098799/china-keen-work-us-states-local-councils-businesses-despite">China keen to work with ‘US states, local councils, businesses’ despite Washington’s hostility, Xi Jinping says</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990608000236">Beijing Urges US "Not to Make an Issue Out of China in Its Election"</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3098746/us-china-trade-war-who-really-bleeding-more-donald-trumps-tariffs?li_source=LI&li_medium=economy_section_top_picks_for_you">US-China trade war: who is really bleeding more from Donald Trump’s tariffs?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31654"><b>China Keen to Establish BRICS Innovation Base Focussing on 5G</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3099288/taiwan-lifting-us-beef-pork-import-restrictions-important" style="font-family: georgia;">Taiwan lifting US beef, pork import restrictions an ‘important start for economic cooperation’, Tsai Ing-wen says</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3099249/china-and-indias-road-peace-blocked-both-sides-build-border">China and India’s road to peace blocked as both sides build in border region</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/29/632845/China-US-military-confrontation-PLA-South-China-Sea-">China warns of 'accidental' military confrontation with US</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3099407/us-china-relations-chinese-military-mounts-another-show-force">US-China relations: Chinese military mounts another show of force in Bohai and Yellow seas</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-security/taiwan-unveils-f-16-maintenance-hub-as-china-tensions-build-idUSKBN25O0CS"><b>Taiwan unveils F-16 maintenance hub as China tensions build</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Israel</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/netanyahu-and-kushner-speak-on-uae-israel-deal-future-of-middle-east-640469"><b>Netanyahu: Palestinians no longer have a veto on peace</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990609000441">Time to Deal With Israeli Nukes</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990609000387">Israeli Tanks Shell Southern Gaza on 24th Day of Attacks</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.debka.com/mivzak/the-idf-continues-to-batter-hamas-for-balloon-terror/">The IDF continues to batter Hamas for balloon terror</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT"><b>Israel strikes Hamas in Gaza over rockets, fire balloons</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/right-dismisses-netanyahus-pledge-to-annex-and-not-uproot-settlements-640512"><b>Right dismisses Netanyahu’s pledge to annex and not uproot settlements</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/historic-flight-from-israel-to-uae-takes-off-640536"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Israel-UAE flight - Kushner to Arab world: 'We are all children of God'</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990609000091"><b>Tens of Thousands of Anti-Netanyahu Protesters Hit Israel Streets</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Middle East</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990610000741" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b>One Killed, Several Injured in Two Explosions in UAE</b></a><br /><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/30/632914/Turkey-Greece-dispute-Meditera" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Greece plan to extend territorial waters could cause war: Turkey</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.debka.com/turkish-greek-gas-row-boils-up-as-each-plan-rival-exercises-in-e-mediterranean/" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Turkish-Greek gas row boils up as each plan rival exercises in E. Mediterranean</b></a><br /><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990608000484" style="font-family: georgia;">Turkey Expects 'Equity' from EU Amid East Med Tension</a><br /><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990609000120" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Top Official: Saudi-Led Coalition, Mercenaries Plunder Oil in Yemen</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/28/632792/Yemen-Houthi-Saudi-Arabia-offensive-Ma'arib-">Countdown begins for most decisive battle of Yemen war</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/29/632876/Yemen-Sana-a-al-Qaeda-leader">Yemeni forces arrest senior al-Qaeda leader in Sana'a: Interior ministry</a></span><br /><a href="https://tass.com/world/1195245" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b>Assad approves new Syrian government led by Hussein Arnous</b></a><br /><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/30/632928/UAE-spy-agency-YPG-Syria" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">UAE intelligence agents training YPG militants in northern, eastern Syria: Report</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/28/632771/Nearly-two-dozen-Saudi-troops-enter-US-base-in-northeastern-Syria--Report" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Nearly two dozen Saudi troops enter US base in northeastern Syria: Report</b></a><br /><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1129119"><span style="font-family: georgia;">QSD Commander, 4 Militants Killed in Syria’s Deir Ezzor</span></a><br /><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451776/Iran-Russia-Turkey-slam-Israeli-attacks-on-Syria">Iran, Russia, Turkey slam Israeli attacks on Syria</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/syria-eastern-front-idlib-battle-turkey-erdogan-tensions.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Is Syria’s eastern front about to boil over?</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/syria-clashes-russa-us-sdf-arab-tribes-assad-deir-conoco.html"><b>Clashes between US, regime forces present new challenges for Russia in Syria</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div></span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-hezbollah/hezbollah-open-to-discussing-new-political-order-in-lebanon-says-nasrallah-idUSKBN25Q0I4" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hezbollah open to discussing new political order in Lebanon, says Nasrallah</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/30/632952/Palestine-Gaza-Ismail-Haniyeh--Trump-Israel" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Hamas vows to end all forms of Israeli siege on Gaza</b></a><br /><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1130384" style="font-family: georgia;">Sayyed Nasrallah to Zionists: ‘One Israeli Soldier for Every Hezbollah Fighter’</a><br /><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1129207"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Palestinian Resistance Ready for Long-term Battle with Israeli Occupation: Report</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1128954"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After Mannequin, Frightened Israeli Army Uses Robot at Lebanon Border</span></a><br /><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1129185"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Lebanon Army: Seven Still Missing after Beirut Port Blast</b></span></a><br /><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1126743" style="font-family: georgia;">Video Shows Fire in Vicinity of Israeli Military Post on Lebanon’s Border</a><br /><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1109066" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Sayyed Nasrallah Denies Fabrications about Missile Cashes in Beirut Port: Hezbollah Eyes Haifa Port (Video)</b></a><br /><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990609000124" style="font-family: georgia;">Palestinian Groups Ready for 'Long-Term' Battle Against Israel Amid Gaza Escalation</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Iran</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990609000153"><b>Iran Blasts US, EU for Sheltering Terrorists</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451824/Parliament-aide-highlights-expulsion-of-American-cowboys-from">Parliament aide highlights expulsion of ‘American cowboys’ from region</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451846/China-and-France-should-safeguard-Iran-nuclear-deal-Chinese"><b>China and France should safeguard Iran nuclear deal, Chinese FM says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451758/Dredging-project-to-give-30-000-ton-vessels-access-to-Bushehr">Dredging project to give 30,000-ton vessels access to Bushehr port</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990601001006">Military Official: Iran Ranks 5th in World in Drone Production</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990603000885"><b>Anti-Revolutionary Terrorist Team Disbanded by IRGC in Northwestern Iran</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990602000924">Notorious Terrorist Hunted Down by Border Guards in Southeastern Iran</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990603000309"><b>Iran's Navy to Receive Long-Range Abu Mahdi Cruise Missiles Soon</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990609000292"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Iran Ranks 1st in World in Production of Sponge Iron</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451756/Iranian-steel-industry-outshining-the-world-against-the-odds">Iranian steel industry outshining the world against the odds</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451710/Non-oil-trade-tops-24b-in-5-months"><b>Non-oil trade tops $24b in 5 months</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451703/Rouhani-inaugurates-3-major-industrial-mining-projects-worth">Rouhani inaugurates 3 major industrial, mining projects worth $641.6m</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451547/Construction-of-Iran-s-biggest-mineral-port-terminal-to-begin"><b>Construction of Iran’s biggest mineral port terminal to begin soon</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ECONOMIC</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1194143"><b>Davos Forum postpones meeting to summer 2021 due to coronavirus</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-feds-new-policy-may-have-just-ushered-in-a-new-era-of-uncertainty-on-wall-street-11598722889?mod=home-page">The Fed’s new policy may have just ushered in a new era of uncertainty on Wall Street</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-wave-of-layoffs-points-to-fresh-hurdles-for-us-economic-recovery-heading-into-the-fall-2020-08-29?mod=home-page">New wave of layoffs points to fresh hurdles for U.S. economic recovery heading into the fall</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-closes-in-on-something-it-hasnt-done-since-wwii-borrow-more-money-than-it-raises-11597494896?mod=economy-politics">U.S. is closing in on doing something it hasn’t done since World War II — borrowing more money than it raises</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/smith-wesson-shuffles-finance-chiefs-amid-boom-in-gun-sales-11598347801?mod=hp_minor_pos7">Smith & Wesson Shuffles Finance Chiefs Amid Boom in Gun Sales</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/fed-powell-jackson-hole-us-dollar">Fed Chair Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech Could Hint at US Dollar’s Future</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/watch-fed-chair-powell-2020" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>WATCH: Fed Chair Powell Lays Out Plan to Let Inflation Rise Above 2% for a While</b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/monetary-challenges-federal-reserve-powell-jackson-hole"><span style="font-family: georgia;">First Mover: Monetary Challenges Aren’t Just Virtual as Fed’s Powell Returns to Jackson Hole</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/liveblog-jerome-powell-fed-speech">Commentary: Fed Chair Jerome Powell Details Inflation Target Changes</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/owner-of-kings-and-balduccis-supermarkets-files-for-bankruptcy-11598289178">Owner of Kings and Balducci’s Supermarkets Files for Bankruptcy</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mgm-resorts-intl-redundancies/mgm-resorts-to-lay-off-18000-furloughed-u-s-employees-idUSKBN25O2B7">MGM Resorts to lay off 18,000 furloughed U.S. employees</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-trump/operator-of-trump-international-hotel-in-vancouver-files-for-bankruptcy-idUSKBN25O31N?il=0">Operator of Trump International Hotel in Vancouver files for bankruptcy</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/thousands-of-mgm-resorts-workers-to-be-laid-off-monday-2106897/?itm_source=parsely-api">Thousands of MGM Resorts workers to be laid off Monday</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/08.20/liquidity.html"><b>Global Bankruptcies Soar Despite Trillions In Liquidity</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/08.20/regimechange.html">The U.S. Will See a Monetary Regime Change</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chuck-reed-warned-of-city-services-insolvency-after-the-great-recession-he-thinks-the-corona-crisis-may-be-worse-11598540258?mod=home-page"><b>Chuck Reed warned of city services ‘insolvency’ after the Great Recession. He thinks the corona-crisis may be worse</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/08.20/silvermarket.html">The Silver Market Is Manipulated</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rolls-royce-hldg-results-breakingview/breakingviews-rolls-royce-self-harms-by-selling-family-silver-idUSKBN25N1GH">Breakingviews - Rolls-Royce self-harms by selling family silver</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/08.20/debate.html"><b>Gold Debate: Is A New Gold Standard Coming?</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>CBDCs/Crypto</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/payments/jpmorgan-chase-to-launch-uk-digital-bank-in-q1-2021/">JPMorgan Chase to Launch UK Digital Bank in Q1 2021</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/jp-morgan-quorum-blockchain-sale-to-consensys/">JP Morgan confirms Quorum blockchain transfer to ConsenSys</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/libra-association-hire-homeland-security-general-counsel-legal">Libra Taps Ex-Homeland Security General Counsel as New Legal Chief</a></b></span></li><li><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/bitwage-rolls-out-tax-calculator-tool-as-irs-ramps-up-crypto-pressure" style="font-family: georgia;">Bitwage Rolls Out Tax Calculator Tool as IRS Ramps Up Crypto Pressure</a></li><li><br /></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/bis-explores-drivers-of-central-bank-digital-currencies-cbdc/">BIS explores drivers of central bank digital currencies</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/nobel-laureate-why-central-bank-digital-currencies-will-drive-out-cryptocurrencies/">Nobel laureate: why central bank digital currencies will drive out cryptocurrencies</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/china-digital-yuan-trial-goes-public-withdrawn/">China’s digital yuan wallet trial goes public, then withdrawn</a></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/korean-central-bank-looking-for-digital-currency-cbdc-partner/">Korean central bank looking for digital currency partner</a></span></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-lending-insight/boom-or-bust-welcome-to-the-freewheeling-world-of-crypto-lending-idUSKBN25M0GP">Boom or bust? Welcome to the freewheeling world of crypto lending</a></span></li><li><br /></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/08.20/fedcoin2.html">The Government Just Took This Big Step Closer to Controversial 'Fedcoin'</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/china-digital-currency-cbdc-timing/">China’s digital currency tests to remain small scale for some time</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/russias-largest-bank-sberbank-tokenizes-travel-agent-payments-using-blockchain/">Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, tokenizes travel agent payments using blockchain</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/chainalysis-report-shows-healthy-crypto-usage-in-venezuela">Chainalysis Report Shows Healthy Crypto Usage in Venezuela</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/more-than-95-of-crypto-futures-volume-is-in-asia-report">More Than 95% of Crypto Futures Volume Is in Asia: Report</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="‘Gasless’ Technical Update Brings USDC One Step Closer to Venmo">‘Gasless’ Technical Update Brings USDC One Step Closer to Venmo</a></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/figure-blockchain-loan-marketplace/">Figure launches blockchain loan marketplace</a></span></b></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31625">China and Russia Imagine a World Without the Dollar</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31655"><b>BRICS supreme audit institutions approve declaration of cooperation</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1194515"><b>Russian economy may see 5-6% slump, Putin says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1193963">Ex-PM: Russian companies will need support measures if EU introduces carbon tax</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1193669"><b>St. Petersburg’s 50 companies and Arctic regions ink contracts worth $9.4 million</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3099457/china-construction-bank-posts-worst-earnings-more-decade"><b>China Construction Bank posts worst earnings in more than a decade on bad loan surge</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199241.shtml">Economic decoupling of US, China "long way away": former IMF economist</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199177.shtml"><b>American Express's China bank card clearing venture begins operations</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-virgin-atlantic-cr-idUKKBN25L1ZZ">Remaining Virgin Atlantic creditors back £1.2 billion rescue plan</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finnair-cash/finnair-to-cut-up-to-1000-jobs-seeks-further-savings-idUSKBN25L0K6">Finnair to cut up to 1,000 jobs, seeks further savings</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1194837"><b>Merkel supports completion of Nord Stream 2 project</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1195709">Gazprom expects gas exports to Europe in 2020 at 170 bln cubic meters</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31626"><b>Russia’s Yamal Gets Third China-Built LNG Vessel</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31616">Russian SIBUR Breaks Ground on Amur GCC Project, Looks to China</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-laura-energy/hurricane-related-shut-ins-curb-82-of-oil-59-of-natural-gas-output-in-u-s-gulf-of-mexico-regulator-says-idUSKBN25P0PW"><b>Hurricane-related shut-ins curb 82% of oil, 59% of natural gas output in U.S. Gulf of Mexico, regulator says</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/seismic-data-provider-saexploration-files-for-bankruptcy-11598641364" style="font-family: georgia;">Seismic-Data Provider SAExploration Files for Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-laura-lng/u-s-energy-exports-severely-disrupted-by-hurricane-laura-idUSKBN25O0AP">U.S. energy exports severely disrupted by Hurricane Laura</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fracking-company-fts-to-file-for-bankruptcy-11598283125">Fracking Company FTS to File for Bankruptcy</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kinder-morgan-pipeline/u-s-court-rejects-bid-to-halt-kinder-morgan-gas-pipeline-idUSKBN25O2MU">U.S. court rejects bid to halt Kinder Morgan gas pipeline</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-laura-energy/oil-markets-flat-as-restarts-begin-at-storm-hit-energy-operations-idUSKBN25O29T">Oil markets flat as restarts begin at storm-hit energy operations</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451806/South-Pars-daily-gas-production-at-700-mcm"><b>South Pars daily gas production at 700 mcm</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451757/94-of-POGC-annual-goals-realized-says-managing-director">94% of POGC annual goals realized, says managing director</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451802/Plan-for-offering-oil-via-salaf-bonds-temporarily-stopped"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Plan for offering oil via salaf bonds temporarily stopped</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451545/Gas-extraction-from-3rd-platform-of-South-Pars-phase-13-started">Gas extraction from 3rd platform of South Pars phase 13 started</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451438/Gas-supply-to-power-plants-hits-record-high"><b>Gas supply to power plants hits record high</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199208.shtml">Hopefully, ‘carrier killer’ missiles would never be used in the South China Sea: Global Times editorial</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1195165">Launch of US Delta IV rocket with spy satellite to take place not earlier than September 5</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1195187"><b>Washington concerned over China’s attempts to buy Ukraine’s Motor Sich</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2020/08/28/six-us-air-force-b-52-bombers-make-symbolic-sweep-over-all-nato-members/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Six US Air Force B-52 bombers make symbolic sweep over all NATO members</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/08/21/the-dod-needs-to-rethink-long-range-strike-in-its-joint-war-fighting-concept/"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The DoD needs to rethink long-range strike in its joint war-fighting concept</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/08/14/pentagon-wins-brief-waiver-from-governments-huawei-ban/">Pentagon wins brief waiver from government’s Huawei ban</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2020/08/27/darpa-awards-contracts-for-advancing-modeling-and-simulation-capabilities/">DARPA awards contracts for advancing modeling and simulation capabilities</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/smd/2020/08/21/army-space-and-missile-defense-command-firms-up-role-with-new-space-command/"><b>US Army Space and Missile Defense Command firms up role with new space organization</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/08/25/trump-administration-sends-mixed-signals-on-nuclear-weapons-budgeting/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Trump administration sends mixed signals on nuclear weapons budgeting</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/land/2020/08/28/airbus-unveils-b-model-lakotas-will-enter-us-army-fleet-in-2021/"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Airbus unveils B-model Lakota helos to enter US Army fleet next year</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2020/08/27/us-army-cyber-command-to-get-new-uniformed-deputy/"><b>US Army Cyber Command to get new uniformed deputy</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2020/08/27/us-navy-wants-to-create-a-hardware-factory/">US Navy wants to create a ‘hardware factory’</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/c2-comms/2020/08/26/space-force-tests-new-anti-jamming-capability/"><b>US Space Force tests new anti-jamming capability</b></a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1195189"><b>US claims Russian Su-27 jets intercepted B-52 bomber in ‘unprofessional manner</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1195441">First batch of latest Armata tanks to arrive for Russian troops</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1194409"><b>Russia’s latest helicopter carriers to carry multi-purpose gunships</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/08/27/russian-submarine-surfaces-near-alaska-during-war-exercise/">Russian submarine surfaces near Alaska during war exercise</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1194055">Russia considers creating stealth parachute</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1194899">Tanks, artillery and aircraft eliminate enemy force in large-scale Urals drills</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1194783">Russia’s latest nuclear-powered subs to carry cruise missiles with range of over 4,000 km</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1195559">Russian troops to get most compact satellite communications station by year-end</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1194821"><b>Russian tech firm to develop army flying vehicle for airborne operations</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1194767" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Belarus kicks off large-scale drills on western borders</b></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/30/632955/Nigeria-Kaduna-Ashura-procession-live-fire-police-Zakzaky">Nigerian forces kill reporter, mourner in Kaduna’s Ashura procession</a></span></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-46830781409284504542020-08-25T03:57:00.002-07:002020-08-25T04:00:00.316-07:00GPA Project Headlines August 16-24, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12Iv675ZFTCTr-OWCy94pTRpVaLq9lo2IGrBhs_IHpTVB1E4QgTKk-kJkpcaxOka3CNovAcMcmJzvjaoHEBIAoLZ8nm003H6EagDmQuTE9SN2GohAihH3W5kOamEnoxVdpnP21SscoxU/s1920/1-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12Iv675ZFTCTr-OWCy94pTRpVaLq9lo2IGrBhs_IHpTVB1E4QgTKk-kJkpcaxOka3CNovAcMcmJzvjaoHEBIAoLZ8nm003H6EagDmQuTE9SN2GohAihH3W5kOamEnoxVdpnP21SscoxU/s640/1-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>TOP HEADLINES</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-lifts-government-debt-to-wwii-levelscutting-it-wont-be-easy-11598191201?mod=hp_lead_pos4" style="font-family: georgia;">Coronavirus Lifts Government Debt to WWII Levels—Cutting It Won’t Be Easy</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Kuwait-Is-Running-Out-Of-Money-To-Pay-Public-Salaries.html">Kuwait Is Running Out Of Money To Pay Public Salaries</a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/apis-will-decentralize-cbdcs">APIs Will Decentralize CBDCs</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192875">Lukashenko flies to his Minsk residence in bulletproof vest with submachine gun in hands</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>GLOBAL</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>TOP ANALYSIS>>></i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="http://williamengdahl.com/englishNEO21Aug2020.php">Why Is Lukshenko Being Color Revolutioned Just Now?</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/women-in-white-american-protest-technologies-in-belarus/">“WOMEN IN WHITE”: AMERICAN PROTEST TECHNOLOGIES IN BELARUS</a></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/finishing-touches-to-ukraine-under-external-american-management/">FINISHING TOUCHES TO UKRAINE UNDER EXTERNAL AMERICAN MANAGEMENT</a></span></b></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/08/18/the-strange-case-of-beirut-s-missing-port/">The Strange Case of Beirut’s Missing Port</a></span></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/lebanon-pearl-new-silk-road-zone-dark-age-chaos/5721258">Lebanon: Pearl on the New Silk Road or Zone of Dark Age Chaos</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/imf-wef-great-lockdown-great-transformation/5721090"><b>IMF and WEF – From Great Lockdown to Great Transformation. The COVID Aftermath</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/agenda-id2020-continued-diabolical-agenda-within-agenda/5721717">Agenda ID2020: The Diabolical Agenda within the Agenda. “Genetically Modified Humanity”</a></span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>TECH>>></i></b><b><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-elections/facebook-weighs-kill-switch-for-political-ads-after-u-s-election-to-curb-misinformation-source-says-idUSKBN25H202">Facebook weighs 'kill switch' for political ads after U.S. election to curb misinformation, source says</a></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-lawsuit/facebook-wins-preliminary-approval-to-settle-facial-recognition-lawsuit-idUSKCN25G08M">Facebook wins preliminary approval to settle facial recognition lawsuit</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1190961">Google remains tight-lipped after blocking YouTube channels of Russian news outlets</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/could-the-us-postal-services-blockchain-be-built-on-the-ethereum-network/"><i>Could the US Postal Service’s Blockchain Be Built on the Ethereum Network?</i></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/worlds-second-largest-steel-producer-launches-blockchain/">World’s second largest steel producer launches blockchain</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198560.shtml">China sees 210,000 new AI-related enterprises</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/08/24/2082695/0/en/Bombardier-Delivers-First-Global-7500-Aircraft-Equipped-with-Dual-Head-up-Display-HUD.html"><b>Bombardier Delivers First Global 7500 Aircraft Equipped with Dual Head-up Display (HUD)</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-tracing/u-s-international-airline-passenger-contact-tracing-plan-stalls-sources-say-idUSKBN25H2N3" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">U.S. international airline passenger contact tracing plan stalls, sources say</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/tradelens-blockchain-yilport-turkish-ports/">TradeLens blockchain adds Turkish ports</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/decentralized-web-development">Why the Decentralized Web’s Development Is Unstoppable</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/los-alamos-scientists-develop-ai-fight-cryptojacking">Los Alamos Scientists Develop AI to Fight Cryptojacking</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/russia-vote-blockchain">Russia’s New Blockchain Elections Remain Centralized</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>BIO-NEWS>>></i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1191187">Critical attitude to Russian anti-coronavirus vaccine stems from competition — academician</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><a href="https://tass.com/society/1192041">Russia to begin vaccination of medics against COVID-19 next week</a></i></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1191991">Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine trials reveal no serious side effects</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/science/1192885">Russia’s Chumakov Center applies for clinical tests of its anti-coronavirus vaccine</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/russia-plans-40-000-patient-study-for-approved-coronavirus-vaccine/">Russia Plans 40,000 Patient Study for Approved Coronavirus Vaccine</a></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1192207">No side effects recorded among inoculated with COVID-19 vaccine by Vector center</a></span></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31576"><b>China Likely to Take Lead Along Russia in Accelerated Global Vaccine Race: Experts</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/coronavirus-outbreak-in-china/1192111">Russia to send 2,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Mexico for testing</a></span></li><li><a href="https://tass.com/world/1191243" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>G7 to put forward its plan for WHO reform</b></a></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1192597">Venezuela is ready to participate in testing of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31608/">India Contacts Russia Over COVID-19 Vaccine</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3098505/coronavirus-china-has-been-using-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-key">Coronavirus: China has been using Covid-19 vaccine candidate on key workers since July, health official says</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198463.shtml">Chinese ambassador slams fake news claiming China testing COVID-19 vaccine in PNG</a></span></li><li><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198598.shtml" style="font-family: georgia;">493 residents in E.China's Anhui suffer fever, diarrhea</a></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198599.shtml">Beijing universities to reopen, ask all returning non-local students to undergo COVID-19 tests</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/chd-sues-the-university-of-california-over-mandatory-flu-vaccine-policy/"><b><i>CHD Will Sue the University of California Over Mandatory Flu Vaccine Policy</i></b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/fauci-out-common-sense-returning/5721406">Anthony Fauci Is Out, “Sidelined” by Trump. Enter Dr. Scott Atlas to the Coronavirus Task Force</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-boeing-cleaning/boeing-testing-hand-held-uv-wand-to-sanitize-cockpits-cabins-idUSKBN25H2RM"><b>Boeing testing hand-held UV wand to sanitize cockpits, cabins</b></a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-mexico/u-s-closes-lanes-adds-checks-at-mexico-border-to-contain-coronavirus-idUSKBN25H2RY">U.S. closes lanes, adds checks at Mexico border to contain coronavirus</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/operation-warp-speed-selects-mckesson-for-covid-19-vaccine-distribution/?s=130">Operation Warp Speed Selects McKesson for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/pfizer-and-biontech-release-additional-early-stage-data-on-covid-19-vaccine/">Pfizer and BioNTech Release Additional Early-Stage Data on COVID-19 Vaccine</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Article/2020/08/20/Roche-Regeneron-ally-to-triple-supply-of-COVID-19-antibody-cocktail?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS">Roche, Regeneron ally to triple supply of COVID-19 antibody cocktail</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/third-pediatric-patient-dies-in-audentes-gene-therapy-study-for-rare-neuromuscular-disease/">Third Patient Dies in Audentes' Gene Therapy Study for Neuromuscular Disease</a></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198508.shtml">WHO chief hopes COVID-19 pandemic to last less than two years</a></span></b></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-children-vaccinati/u-s-to-let-pharmacists-vaccinate-kids-as-lockdowns-slash-immunization-levels-idUSKCN25F2BD">U.S. to let pharmacists vaccinate kids as lockdowns slash immunization levels</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-calls-for-end-to-vaccine-nationalism-idUSKCN25E1B0?il=0">WHO calls for end to 'vaccine nationalism'</a></b></span></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>USA>>></i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pardon-susan-b-anthony/trump-says-he-will-posthumously-pardon-u-s-womens-rights-activist-susan-b-anthony-idUSKCN25E1TF">Trump says he will posthumously pardon U.S. women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony</a></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-snowden/trump-says-he-is-considering-pardon-for-leaker-edward-snowden-idUSKCN25B10Z">Trump says he is considering pardon for leaker Edward Snowden</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-goodyear-trump-boycott/trump-says-not-happy-with-goodyear-would-swap-tires-on-presidential-limo-idUSKCN25F2TQ"><i>Trump says 'not happy' with Goodyear; would swap tires on presidential limo</i></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-goodyear-trump/trump-urges-goodyear-tire-boycott-after-company-bars-political-attire-idUSKCN25F1XQ"><b>Trump urges Goodyear tire boycott after company bars political attire</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump/trump-touts-convalescent-plasma-as-a-coronavirus-treatment-idUSKCN25F2UE">Trump touts convalescent plasma as a coronavirus treatment</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-fda-exclu/exclusive-top-fda-official-says-would-resign-if-agency-rubber-stamps-an-unproven-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN25H03H">Exclusive: Top FDA official says would resign if agency rubber-stamps an unproven COVID-19 vaccine</a></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-teachers/u-s-teachers-added-to-essential-worker-list-as-they-face-white-house-pressure-to-return-to-classrooms-idUSKBN25H011" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">U.S. teachers added to essential-worker list as they face White House pressure to return to classrooms</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arizona-marijuana/arizona-voters-put-tax-to-fund-education-recreational-marijuana-on-november-ballot-idUSKBN25H2UD">Arizona voters put tax to fund education, recreational marijuana on November ballot</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/even-with-a-strong-crop-this-year-u-s-farmers-are-suffering-11598088601?mod=hp_lista_pos5">Even With a Strong Crop This Year, U.S. Farmers Are Suffering</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-is-dividing-the-american-worker-11598068859">Covid-19 Is Dividing the American Worker</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/north-carolina-university-is-latest-u-s-school-to-roll-back-campus-reopening-idUSKCN25D28R">North Carolina university is latest U.S. school to roll back campus reopening</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/notre-dame-becomes-latest-university-to-suspend-in-person-classes-idUSKCN25E2NA">Notre Dame becomes latest university to suspend in-person classes</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-race/american-indians-alaska-natives-hit-harder-by-covid-19-u-s-cdc-says-idUSKCN25F2KG">American Indians, Alaska Natives hit harder by COVID-19, U.S. CDC says</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/new-york-teachers-threaten-strike-if-schools-reopen-without-more-covid-19-testing-idUSKCN25F2IE">New York teachers threaten strike if schools reopen without more COVID-19 testing</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/sandy-hook-families-cant-get-committee-voice-in-remington-bankruptcy-11597783309">Sandy Hook Families Can’t Get Committee Voice in Remington Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-wildfire/fast-moving-california-wildfires-threaten-tens-of-thousands-idUSKBN25G28F" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Fast-moving California wildfires threaten tens of thousands</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-wildfire/california-governor-calls-wildfires-deadly-moment-urges-residents-to-flee-idUSKBN25H0WR">California governor calls wildfires 'deadly moment,' urges residents to flee</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/23/632429/California-fires-force-thousands-to-flee-as-more-blazes-feared">California fires force thousands to flee as more blazes feared</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-storms/two-storms-head-for-u-s-gulf-in-rare-hurricane-season-event-idUSKBN25H2H6">Two storms head for U.S. Gulf in rare hurricane season event</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-california-keeps-having-blackouts-11598198401?mod=hp_lead_pos8">Why California Keeps Having Blackouts</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-power-californiaiso/california-iso-cancels-stage-2-power-emergency-planned-outages-idUSKCN25F0CX">California ISO cancels Stage 2 power emergency, planned outages</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-wildfire-crash/helicopter-pilot-killed-in-crash-while-fighting-california-wildfire-idUSKCN25F2W5">Helicopter pilot killed in crash while fighting California wildfire</a></b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-portland-protests/portland-man-arrested-in-beating-near-black-lives-matter-protests-idUSKBN25H1ES">Portland man arrested in beating near Black Lives Matter protests</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-portland-ruling/judge-exempts-journalists-legal-observers-from-portland-protest-dispersal-orders-idUSKBN25H0MF">Judge exempts journalists, legal observers from Portland protest dispersal orders</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/24/632464/Second-night-of-protests-against-Republican-convention-in-Charlotte">Second night of protests against Republican convention in Charlotte</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/23/632446/Portland-police-clashes-protesters">Portland police arrest 14 during clashes with protesters</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-portland-protests/portland-police-use-tear-gas-after-declaring-riot-for-second-night-idUSKCN25G0H7">Portland police use tear gas after declaring riot for second night</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-portland-protests/portland-police-says-officers-targeted-with-powerful-green-laser-in-protest-idUSKCN25E0P8">Portland Police says officers targeted with 'powerful green laser' in protest</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-portland/police-declare-riot-as-portland-protesters-set-fires-attack-government-building-idUSKCN25F0OH"><b>Police declare riot as Portland protesters set fires, attack government building</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-american-airline/american-airlines-will-suspend-flights-to-15-u-s-cities-amid-aid-debate-idUSKBN25G1AW">American Airlines will suspend flights to 15 U.S. cities amid aid debate</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-delta-air-flight-s/delta-air-lines-plans-to-resume-more-flights-on-international-routes-idUSKBN25H2SD">Delta Air Lines plans to resume more flights on international routes</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-flights/china-u-s-will-allow-air-carriers-to-double-flights-between-nations-idUSKCN25E2W0">China, U.S. will allow air carriers to double flights between nations</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198532.shtml">US, EU announce tariff agreement on lobsters, other products</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198554.shtml">US House preserves post office</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1191989" style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;">US push to reimpose sanctions on Iran can lead to crisis within UNSC — Russian diplomat</a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-un/u-s-moves-to-restore-all-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-in-dispute-over-nuclear-deal-idUSKBN25G21M">U.S. moves to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran in dispute over nuclear deal</a></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-un/thirteen-of-15-member-u-n-security-council-oppose-u-s-push-for-iran-sanctions-idUSKBN25H1Q5"><b>Thirteen of 15-member U.N. Security Council oppose U.S. push for Iran sanctions</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1191797" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Beijing dismisses potential US sanctions against Russia and China over Iran as ‘illegal’</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3098485/donald-trump-says-us-and-china-could-decouple-if-they-dont"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b>Donald Trump says US and China could decouple, if ‘they don’t treat us right’</b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3098515/why-china-and-us-cant-be-friends-any-more">Why China and the US can’t be friends any more</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198549.shtml" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><i>TikTok to sue Trump administration over ban</i></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198507.shtml">US WeChat users to file lawsuit against Trump ban plan, citing violation of Constitution</a></b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Russia>>></span></b></i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1191941" target="_blank">Putin tells European Council president meddling in Belarus’ affairs is counterproductive</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1190881">Putin tells Merkel foreign interference in Belarus’ affairs is unacceptable</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1192817">Belarusians can cope with the situation in the country on their own - Lavrov</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/23/632433/Russia-Belarus-election-protest-bloodshed-Lavrov">Russia's FM: Belarusian opposition members who left for West seek 'bloodshed'</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31589/">Atran Expands China Freighter Network to Cater for e-Commerce Demand</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31581/">First Ever Railway Bridge Connecting Russia & China to Open in 2022</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1191729"><b>Navalny’s plane conducts emergency landing in Omsk over blogger’s suspected poisoning</b></a></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1192089">Navalny remains in serious condition</a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1191877"><b>Kremlin vows should Navalny’s poisoning be confirmed, an investigation will follow</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/navalnys-daughter-confirmed-her-fathers-cocaine-use/">FLASHBACK: NAVALNY’S DAUGHTER CONFIRMED HER FATHER’S COCAINE USE</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1191801">Russian law enforcement agencies not considering theory of Navalny’s deliberate poisoning</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1192757" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Security forces eliminate two militants in counter-terror operation in Ingushetia</i></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1191741">FSB foils Ukrainian intelligence’s kidnapping plot against Donbass military leader</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1192113">Lavrov: Kiev uses conflict in Donbass to maintain EU sanctions against Russia</a></b></div><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1192105">Lavrov urges Kiev to stop making excuses for not implementing Minsk agreements</a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Belarus>>></i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192875">Lukashenko flies to his Minsk residence in bulletproof vest with submachine gun in hands</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/23/632462/Belarus--Video-shows-Lukashenko-holding-a-rifle,-wearing-body-armor">Belarus: Video shows Lukashenko holding an automatic rifle, wearing body armor</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192895">Lukashenko thanks law enforcers protecting his residence - agency</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192873">Protesters move away from Lukashenko’s residence heading for central Minsk</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1191347">Lukashenko urges EU not to discuss Belarus, but focus on its own problems</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1191107" style="font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;">Belarus puts troops along Western border on full combat alert</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1191509">Lukashenko orders defense ministry to track NATO forces movement in Poland, Lithuania</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192317"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;">Lukashenko accuses US and Europe of orchestrating Belarusian protests</span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1191079" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Belarus’s Lukashenko says creation of opposition’s Coordination Council ‘coup attempt’</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1191905">EU does not recognize results of Belarusian election, European Council president says</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192083">All Belarusian factories operating as normal - PM</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/crisis-in-belarus/1192311">Lukashenko promises to resolve situation in Belarus in upcoming days, media reports say</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192599">US top diplomat to visit Russia, Lithuania to discuss situation in Belarus - Reuters</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1191615">EU does not recognize results of Belarusian election, European Council president says</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1191449">Lavrov suggests mediation bids be offered directly to Minsk, not 'through the microphone'</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>CHINA>>></i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198616.shtml">DPP authorities must act to reduce risks of war: Global Times editorial</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198605.shtml">Former Taiwan regional leader defends criticism of DPP’s US-leaning policy following pledge to prevent war with mainland</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3098396/what-does-us-confucius-institute-move-mean-chinese-soft-power"><b>What does US Confucius Institute move mean for Chinese soft power in Asia?</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3098444/china-planning-high-speed-rail-freight-network-help-e-commerce">China planning high-speed rail freight network to help e-commerce sector</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3098419/china-pakistan-agree-push-rail-and-power-projects"><span style="font-size: x-large;">China, Pakistan agree to push on with rail and power projects</span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3097623/china-drought-heavy-rains-spark-concern-over-grain-supply-xi">China drought, heavy rains spark concern over grain supply as Xi Jinping launches campaign against food waste</a></b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3096777/chinese-consumers-grapple-flying-pigs-and-rocketing-eggs">Chinese consumers grapple with ‘flying pigs and rocketing eggs’ as supply disruptions send food inflation soaring</a></span></li><li><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3097781/china-food-security-country-faces-grain-supply-gap-130">China food security: country faces ‘grain supply gap of 130 million tonnes by 2025’ as rural workforce dwindles</a></span></b></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3098369/us-china-trade-talks-opportunity-beijing-negotiate-and-manage">US-China trade talks opportunity for Beijing to ‘negotiate and manage’ growing hostilities</a></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198615.shtml">Politics trumping the law is a tragedy for US as a country under "rule of the law"</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198608.shtml">As US cuts Chinese supplies, it only ends up damaging itself</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198420.shtml">China’s position in global manufacturing won’t change: commerce ministry</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198368.shtml">US' further crackdown on Huawei seriously violates free trade rules: Chinese commerce ministry</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31602/">Chinese Presence in Africa Is on the Rise – Economically and Militarily</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3098480/us-china-relations-beijing-condemns-financial-sanctions-hong" style="font-size: x-large;">US-China relations: Beijing condemns financial sanctions on Hong Kong</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-huawei-tech/china-vows-all-necessary-measures-to-protect-its-firms-following-u-s-curbs-on-huawei-idUSKBN25G0Y8">China vows all necessary measures to protect its firms following U.S. curbs on Huawei</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-market-tech/in-u-s-china-tech-war-investors-bet-on-chinas-localisation-push-idUSKCN25G0PU">In U.S.-China tech war, investors bet on China's localisation push</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Iran>>></i><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/23/632452/Kamalvandi-AEOI-Natanz-IAEA-Al-Alam-Rafael-Grossi">Explosion at Natanz nuclear facility act of sabotage: AEOI spokesman</a></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/23/632437/US-led-coalition-prevents-independent-media-from-covering-Camp-Taji-handover">US-led coalition prevents independent media from covering Camp Taji handover</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/23/632418/Iran-Touraj-Dehqani-Zanganeh-analyzable-data"><b>Iran says analyzable data retrieved from downed Ukraine plane</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-military-missiles/iran-announces-locally-made-ballistic-and-cruise-missiles-amid-u-s-tensions-idUSKBN25G0NK">Iran announces locally made ballistic and cruise missiles amid U.S. tensions</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1191835">All members of Iranian nuclear deal must oppose US sanctions, says Russian MP</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1191463">US refusal makes it impossible to hold summit on Iran as proposed by Russia, says Kremlin</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ECONOMIC</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><i><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Kuwait-Is-Running-Out-Of-Money-To-Pay-Public-Salaries.html">Kuwait Is Running Out Of Money To Pay Public Salaries</a></b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-lifts-government-debt-to-wwii-levelscutting-it-wont-be-easy-11598191201?mod=hp_lead_pos4">Coronavirus Lifts Government Debt to WWII Levels—Cutting It Won’t Be Easy</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-economy-poll/britains-economy-wont-reach-pre-pandemic-size-for-at-least-two-years-reuters-poll-idUSKCN25G02T">Britain's economy won't reach pre-pandemic size for at least two years: Reuters Poll</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/g-7-discusses-extending-debt-relief-for-low-income-countries-into-2021-11597689212?mod=home-page">G-7 discusses extending debt relief for low-income countries into 2021</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-faces-toughest-fiscal-crisis-since-the-1970s-11598205600">New York City Faces Toughest Fiscal Crisis Since the 1970s</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198339.shtml" style="font-family: georgia;">Apple becomes first US company to hit 2 trln USD market cap</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-weekly-jobless-claims-back-over-one-million-idUSKBN25G1E8?il=0"><b>Rise in U.S. weekly jobless claims clouds labor market recovery</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mnuchin-says-stimulus-talks-remain-stalled-11597762971?mod=hp_major_pos2#cxrecs_s">Mnuchin Says Stimulus Talks Remain Stalled</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-08-20-2020-11597873460?mod=hp_major_pos3">U.S. Jobless Claims Rose to 1.1 Million in Latest Week</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-newyork-fed-debt/new-york-transit-agency-turns-to-fed-for-450-million-borrowing-idUSKCN25E2R3">New York transit agency turns to Fed for $450 million borrowing</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cbl-reaches-deal-with-lenders-plans-bankruptcy-by-oct-1-11597843288">Mall Owner CBL Plans to File for Bankruptcy</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/npc-to-close-300-pizza-hut-sites-launch-sale-process-for-rest-11597692359">NPC to Close 300 Pizza Hut Sites, Launch Sale Process for Rest</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/workspace-provider-regus-puts-part-of-u-s-portfolio-in-chapter-11-11597691523">Workspace Provider Regus Puts Part of U.S. Portfolio in Chapter 11</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>CBDC/Crypto>>></i></b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/apis-will-decentralize-cbdcs" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;">APIs Will Decentralize CBDCs</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/China-Charters-Tankers-For-37-Million-Barrels-Of-US-Oil.html"><b>China Charters Tankers For 37 Million Barrels Of U.S. Oil</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Arab-Worlds-First-Nuclear-Plant-Now-On-The-Grid.html"><b>Arab World’s First Nuclear Plant Now On The Grid</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Saudi-Arabias-Crude-Oil-Exports-Dip-To-Record-Low-In-June.html">Saudi Arabia’s Crude Oil Exports Dip To Record Low In June</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="Saudi Arabia To Force OPEC+ Overproducers To Compensate For 2.3 Million Bpd"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Saudi Arabia To Force OPEC+ Overproducers To Compensate For 2.3 Million Bpd</b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/General-Haftar-Reopens-Libyan-Oil-Ports-Temporarily.html">General Haftar Reopens Libyan Oil Ports Temporarily</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Africas-Largest-Energy-Project-Faces-A-Major-Terrorist-Threat.html" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Africa’s Largest Energy Project Faces A Major Terrorist Threat</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-energy/turkey-makes-significant-black-sea-gas-find-sources-idUSKBN25G2A5">Turkey makes significant Black Sea gas find: sources</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-lithium-sqm/top-lithium-producer-sqm-posts-record-sales-profits-plagued-by-low-prices-idUSKBN25G140" style="font-family: georgia;">Chile lithium producer SQM posts record sales, profits plagued by low prices</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31619/">US 'invisible' presence in Africa</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192691">Lukashenko orders military to react without warning to violations of western border</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192211">Belarus army to hold large-scale drills on August 28-31</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1192633"><b>Lukashenko urges military to take toughest measures to protect territorial integrity</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><a href="https://www.pravdareport.com/russia/144822-russia_nuclear_strike/">Russia's top military administration shows all the aces of possible nuclear strike</a></b></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.stalkerzone.org/russia-has-launched-a-giant-factory-to-replace-ukrainian-engines/">RUSSIA HAS LAUNCHED A GIANT FACTORY TO REPLACE UKRAINIAN ENGINES</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1191857">Russian defense firm to feature latest ABM launcher at Army-2020 forum</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1192761">Russia’s state arms seller to offer almost 50 new weapon systems to world market</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1192793">Russia signs contract with Turkey on 2nd batch of S-400 air defense systems</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31590">India, Russia Could Sign Whopping $15 Billion Inter-Governmental Defence Agreements</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31575">India-Russia to Scale up Military Cooperation</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1191807">Russia to unveil export version of Su-57 fifth-generation fighter at Army-2020 forum</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1191223">Russia to unveil its newest Hermes missile system during Army-2020 forum</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/science/1191653">UFO video footage captured by Russian cosmonaut sent for analysis - Roscosmos</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/science/1192035">Russian cosmonauts face no threat after air leak at orbital outpost</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/science/1192567">ISS crew locks itself down inside Russian segment</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198593.shtml">China holds concentrated military drills to deter Taiwan secessionists, US</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-74311346062801770262020-08-16T11:05:00.005-07:002020-08-16T11:06:09.827-07:00GPA Project Headlines August 8-15, 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Pptp0f2EfKDqCMG-vQ3UMMJ4tXEef7nIfR-Vu6qFk6kO_dMpEMp4nr32BVqQZsCf4ttxjlFBvO1rkVE82m5NHRj4twWlQrv37tNQBJnyJXzXkLmU9XXCZ6q15pz2R_YDKJc1m1a_jP0/s1920/1-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1920" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Pptp0f2EfKDqCMG-vQ3UMMJ4tXEef7nIfR-Vu6qFk6kO_dMpEMp4nr32BVqQZsCf4ttxjlFBvO1rkVE82m5NHRj4twWlQrv37tNQBJnyJXzXkLmU9XXCZ6q15pz2R_YDKJc1m1a_jP0/w640-h400/1-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i>TOP HEADLINES</i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/federal-reserve-digital-dollar-cbdc-research/"><b>Federal Reserve reveals scope of its digital dollar research</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/congressman-tom-emmer-to-lead-first-ever-crypto-town-hall">Congressman Tom Emmer to Lead First-Ever Crypto Town Hall</a></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/digital-currency-china-central-bank-yuan-tests">China to Launch Major Expansion of Digital Currency Trials</a></span></b></div><div><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31518" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;">Bye Bye Benjamin! 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font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-education/white-house-to-unveil-new-anti-coronavirus-steps-for-reopening-u-s-schools-aide-says-idUSKCN2581ZQ">White House to unveil new anti-coronavirus steps for reopening U.S. schools, aide says</a></b></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-yale-discrimination/u-s-justice-department-says-yale-illegally-discriminates-against-asians-whites-idUSKCN2592YT">U.S. Justice Department says Yale illegally discriminates against Asians, whites</a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-ups-fedex-exclusive/exclusive-ups-fedex-warn-they-cannot-carry-ballots-like-u-s-postal-service-idUSKCN25B00I"><b>Exclusive: UPS, FedEx warn they cannot carry ballots like U.S. Postal Service</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-americans-go-hungry-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-census-shows-11597570200?mod=hp_lead_pos8"><b>More Americans Go Hungry Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Census Shows</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/heat-wave-forces-power-outages-in-california-11597511654?mod=hp_listb_pos1">California Heat Wave Forces Power Outages</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/player.aspx?nn=13990522000368">Powerful Storm Leaves 2 Dead, Heavy Crop Damage across US Midwest</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-farms-derecho/derecho-winds-tear-through-u-s-farmland-leave-500000-plus-without-power-idUSKCN2562TS">Derecho winds tear through U.S. farmland, leave 500,000-plus without power</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/trucking-company-refuses-to-deliver-to-cities-calling-to-defund-the-police_3452184.html">Trucking Company Refuses to Deliver to Cities Calling to ‘Defund the Police’</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-seattle/seattle-police-chief-resigns-after-cuts-to-police-budget-idUSKCN2572LP?il=0">Seattle police chief resigns after cuts to police budget</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-seattle/seattle-reduces-police-funding-signals-deeper-cuts-ahead-idUSKCN2570CM?il=0"><b>Seattle reduces police funding, signals deeper cuts ahead</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>RUSSIA>>> </i></b> <span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1188805">Ex-PM Medvedev: US trying to use Internet as its fiefdom</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1187181">Medvedev: events in Abkhazia, South Ossetia 12 years ago "declaration of war on Russia"</a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1189427">Moscow residents will be able to choose out of a few coronavirus vaccines — mayor</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/pressreview/1189531">Press review: Belarus sanctions may hit Moscow and Europe chooses LNG over Russian gas</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/russian-financial-crime-agency-plans-ai-tool-to-link-crypto-transfers-to-users">Russian Financial Crime Agency Plans AI Tool to Link Crypto Transfers to Users</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1189155">Russia reports drop in prison population for the first time</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1188605">Russian Emergencies Ministry’s hospital in Beirut receives over 500 patients</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>BELARUS>>></i></b> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1187331">Lukashenko guarantees election won’t spiral into chaos and civil war</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1189847">Lukashenko: protests orchestrated from abroad, criminals involved</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1187689">Lukashenko says protests were orchestrated from Poland, UK, Czech Republic</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1188035">One protester killed in Minsk after explosive device blows up</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1187749">Interruption in internet service in Belarus is due to numerous cyberattacks, company says</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1188651">Mobile web access is on again in Minsk after three-day interruption</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1188671">Belarus bans trade in pyrotechnics starting from August 12</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/vpn-usage-surges-as-belarus-remains-offline">VPN Usage Surges as Belarus Remains Offline</a></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1187923">Riot police pulled to central Minsk, problems with mobile communication reported</a></span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1187779">Internet in Belarus cut off ‘from abroad’ rather than by authorities — president</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/498063-belarus-russians-released-kgb/">Belarus hands over 32 ‘Russian mercenaries’ KGB accused of ‘planning riots’ – ignoring Ukraine’s extradition demand</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/498029-caitlin-johnstone-imperialists-belarus-protests/"><b>Caitlin Johnstone on Belarus: Imperialists run the same tired old script day after day</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1189585">Belarusian opposition leader urges to continue protests</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/speeches-and-interviews/lukashenko-describes-pandemic-as-political-and-economic-warfare_i_0000117047.html">Lukashenko describes pandemic as political and economic warfare</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1188769">Belarusian police open fire at attackers in Brest</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1189069"><b>Pompeo says US may consider sanctions against Belarus</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1187849">Belarus and Russia invited OSCE to develop election standards to no avail — Lukashenko</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1189209">Unknown armed men raid Yandex, Uber offices in Minsk</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1189481">Belarus interior minister takes responsibility for injuries of passers-by in protests</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-eu-measures/eu-raps-belarus-over-election-violence-says-may-take-measures-idUSKCN2572DN"><b>EU raps Belarus over election violence, says may take measures</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1187931">Belarusian security chief says assassination attempt on candidate Tikhanovskaya was foiled</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">CHINA>>> </i><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3097129/us-sanctions-economist-yu-yongding-flags-risk-chinese-bank"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>US sanctions: economist Yu Yongding flags risk of Chinese bank assets being seized overseas</b></span></a></span><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3097129/us-sanctions-economist-yu-yongding-flags-risk-chinese-bank"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/chinas-blockchain-infrastructure-launches-website-for-global-devs">China’s Blockchain Infrastructure Launches Website for Global Devs</a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3097095/tencent-posts-quarterly-earnings-increase-back-games-us-wechat-ban">Tencent posts 37 per cent quarterly profit increase on back of games as US WeChat ban looms</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tencent-results/tencent-profit-beats-as-games-outperform-idUSKCN25812Y?il=0">Tencent tries to soothe concerns about U.S. ban as profit jumps</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-07/why-tencent-and-wechat-are-such-a-big-deal-in-china-quicktake?srnd=economics-vp">Why Tencent and WeChat Are Such a Big Deal in China</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/tiktok-seeks-more-lobbyists-as-trump-ban-aims-to-force-u-s-sale">TikTok Seeks More Lobbyists as Trump Ban Aims to Force U.S. Sale</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197784.shtml"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Who are funding Hong Kong SAR secessionist groups for anti-China activities?</b></span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/nigeria-using-bitcoin-trade-with-china">Nigerians Are Using Bitcoin to Bypass Trade Hurdles With China</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-08-14/Assault-on-Confucius-Institutes-is-more-groundless-McCarthyism-SWpXMW8uxG/index.html">Assault on Confucius Institutes is more groundless McCarthyism</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197782.shtml">Major Chinese carriers report rising passenger traffic in July</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3096762/us-china-trade-war-beijing-will-honour-phase-one-deal-opening?li_source=LI&li_medium=business_section_top_picks_for_you">US-China trade war: Beijing will honour phase one deal by opening financial sector wider, its central bank chief says</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197576.shtml">Chinese canola oil traders seek sources other than Canada</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197491.shtml"><b>US companies not leaving Chinese market: USCBC report</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197599.shtml">Chinese AI firm advances against headwinds, doesn't fear US' bullying</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-08/14/c_139290561.htm"><b>China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 21st lunar day</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-08/13/c_139288260.htm">Researchers develop adsorbent for sustainable seawater desalination</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>IRAN>>> </i></b><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/14/631809/Iran-fuel-seize-US-Venezuela">Exclusive: Report of US seizure of Iranian fuel cargoes false</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451196/Iran-Turkey-considering-new-rail-border-crossing-to-expand-trade">Iran, Turkey considering new rail border crossing to expand trade</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451203/Iran-rejects-claims-about-seizure-of-its-tankers-by-U-S"><b>Iran rejects claims about seizure of its tankers by U.S.</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/16/631916/Iran-Hossein-Dehqan-Israel-Beirut-blast">Beirut blast ‘100 percent Israeli job’: Advisor to Iran’s Leader</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/16/631897/China-Russia-Putin-summit-Iran-Trump">China welcomes Putin’s call for Iran summit; Trump seeks 'snapback'</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/15/631864/Russia-Foreign-Ministry-Iran-arms-embargo-Security-Council-international-law">UN refusal to back US-drafted anti-Iran resolution proves existence of intl. law: Russia</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="Flights through Iranian airspace up by 71% y/y in July: Report">Flights through Iranian airspace up by 71% y/y in July: Report</a></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/15/631879/Failure-not-an-option,-says-US-diplomat-after-failure">Failure to extend Iran arms embargo 'not an option,' says US diplomat after UNSC defeat</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/08/631337/IRGC-Iran-Zahedan-Quds-Force-Ziba-Shahr-Sistan-Baluchestan-sound-bomb-explosives">IRGC Quds Force arrests perpetrator of sound bomb blast in Iran's Sistan & Baluchestan</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451321/Putin-proposal-for-summit-with-Iran-on-table-even-without-Trump"><b>Putin proposal for summit with Iran on table even without Trump, Moscow says</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451291/Iran-Uzbekistan-ready-to-hold-joint-economic-committee-meeting">Iran, Uzbekistan ready to hold joint economic committee meeting next week</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990526000685">DM: Iran to Send Satellites into Space with Home-Made Carriers</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990526001019">Official: Iran Ranks First in Islamic World in Number of Top Universities</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://english.almanar.com.lb/1094887"><b>MBS Expected to Be Saudi King by Year’s End: Asia Times</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/world/1187881" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Lebanese government resigns in full</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/lebanon-crisis-timeline-beirut-blast-gov-resignation-200810171817351.html">Lebanon crisis timeline: From Beirut blast to gov't's resignation</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>FINANCIAL</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/u-s-stimulus-impasse-could-last-to-september-escalating-risks?srnd=premium">Stimulus Impasse Risks Dragging to September, Imperiling Economy</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-evans/feds-evans-says-another-coronavirus-aid-package-incredibly-important-interview-idUSKCN255109">Fed's Evans says another coronavirus aid package 'incredibly important': interview</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/federal-reserve-digital-dollar-cbdc-research/" style="font-family: georgia;">Federal Reserve reveals scope of its digital dollar research</a></b></span></div><div><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/congressman-tom-emmer-to-lead-first-ever-crypto-town-hall" style="font-family: georgia;">Congressman Tom Emmer to Lead First-Ever Crypto Town Hall</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/dollar-s-decline-not-as-stunning-after-adjusting-for-inflation">Alternative Dollar Gauge Signals Talk of Demise Is Premature</a></b></span></div><div><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/bove-says-dollars-dominance-challenges-include-cryptocurrency"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Long-Time Analyst Bove Says Cryptocurrency One Challenge to Dollar’s Dominance</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-mainstreet/feds-main-street-program-sees-largest-weekly-increase-so-far-idUSKCN25932W?il=0">Fed's Main Street program sees largest weekly increase so far</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-parents/households-with-children-taking-the-biggest-financial-hit-during-pandemic-new-york-fed-report-idUSKCN2592MZ?il=0">Households with children taking the biggest financial hit during pandemic: New York Fed report</a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cftc-nominee/trump-to-nominate-robert-benedict-bowes-as-u-s-cftc-commissioner-idUSKCN2592TH?il=0"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Trump to nominate Robert Benedict Bowes as U.S. CFTC commissioner</b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/rent-the-runway-to-close-all-retail-stores-permanently-11597434927">Rent the Runway to Close All Retail Stores Permanently</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/off-price-retailer-stein-mart-files-for-bankruptcy-11597236137">Off-Price Retailer Stein Mart Files for Bankruptcy, Plans to Close Stores</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-says-most-coronavirus-job-losses-likely-to-be-temporary-11597335261">White House Says Most Coronavirus Job Losses Likely to Be Temporary</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-aviation/airport-contractors-to-be-included-in-covid-19-stimulus-program-audit-treasury-watchdog-idUSKCN2582RX?il=0">Airport contractors to be included in COVID-19 stimulus program audit -Treasury watchdog</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oecd-tax-airbnb/airbnb-backs-oecd-approach-to-digital-services-tax-idUSKCN2572YI">Boeing 737 MAX cancellations rise, deliveries drop as crises drag on</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed/fed-policymakers-say-economic-growth-will-be-muted-until-virus-contained-idUSKCN2581UU?il=0">Fed policymakers say economic growth will be muted until virus contained</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-what-works-vistaequity/u-s-companies-should-consider-slave-trade-reparations-vista-equity-ceo-idUSKCN2581A2">U.S. companies should consider slavery reparations, Vista Equity CEO says</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/gold-is-flying-high-but-getting-harder-to-mine-11597579201?mod=hp_lista_pos2">Gold Is Flying High, but Getting Harder to Mine</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/weaker-dollar-is-reprieve-for-central-banks-hoping-to-ease-more?srnd=economics-vp">Weaker Dollar Is a Reprieve for Central Banks Hoping to Ease</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-global-forex/dollar-slips-as-u-s-stimulus-stalemate-persists-idUSKCN25900P">Dollar slips as U.S. stimulus stalemate persists</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-banks-baoshang-breakingviews/breakingviews-china-bank-failure-fires-quiet-warning-shot-idUSKCN25608S">Breakingviews - China bank failure fires quiet warning shot</a></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/digital-currency-china-central-bank-yuan-tests">China to Launch Major Expansion of Digital Currency Trials</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-bites-ripple-defi-china">Blockchain Bites: Ripple’s Rebuff, DeFi’s ‘Degens’ and China’s CBDC</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/jp-morgan-close-to-transferring-quorum-blockchain-to-consensys-investing/">JP Morgan close to transferring Quorum blockchain to ConsenSys, investing</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/news/standard-chartered-taps-microsoft-to-roll-out-cloud-banking-services/">Standard Chartered Taps Microsoft to Roll Out Cloud Banking Services</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/bcb-group-adopts-circles-usdc-in-its-unified-infrastructure/">BCB Group Adopts Circle’s USDC in Its Unified Infrastructure</a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/south-koreas-largest-bank-to-offer-digital-assets-custody-services/" style="font-family: georgia;"><b>South Korea’s Largest Bank to Offer Digital Assets Custody Services</b></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/following-occ-letter-some-us-banks-appear-open-to-providing-crypto-services">Following OCC Letter, Some US Banks Appear Open to Providing Crypto Services</a></b></span></div><div><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/russia-sberbank-hyperledger-stablecoin" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Russia’s Sberbank Launches Blockchain on Hyperledger, Mulls Stablecoin in 2021</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/payments/facebook-forms-financial-unit-led-by-david-marcus-hires-ex-upowrk-ceo/">Facebook Forms Financial Unit Led By David Marcus, Hires Ex-Upwork CEO</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/david-marcus-payments-facebook-blockchain-plans/">David Marcus’ payments role at Facebook expands. Facebook’s payment strategy explored</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/facebook-goes-all-in-on-fintech-with-launch-of-new-subsidiary">Facebook Goes All-In on Fintech With Launch of New Product Group</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/microstrategy-bitcoin-buy-protects-against-fiat-inflation">MicroStrategy Buys $250M in Bitcoin, Calling the Crypto ‘Superior to Cash’</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oecd-tax-airbnb/airbnb-backs-oecd-approach-to-digital-services-tax-idUSKCN2572YI">Airbnb backs OECD approach to digital services tax</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31518">Bye Bye Benjamin! Russia & China Speed up De-dollarization Process</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31517">Economic Decline Reversal Vital for BRICS as Long Recession Could Undermine Growth - NDB</a></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31527" style="font-family: georgia;">India Biggest Borrower from China-Based Bank for COVID-19 Relief Fund</a></b></div><div><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3093639/buying-frenzy-takes-chinas-stock-market-close-us10-trillion" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Buying frenzy takes China’s stock market close to US$10 trillion – the ominous milestone that marked the start of the 2015 crash</i></span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990526000891"><b>Iran's Central Bank to Sue South Korea for Blocking Iran's Funds</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wirecard-dax/deutsche-boerse-expels-wirecard-from-germanys-blue-chip-index-dax-idUSKCN2582SG?il=0">Deutsche Boerse expels Wirecard from Germany's blue-chip index DAX</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/venezuela-moving-to-accept-taxes-in-state-issued-crypto/">Venezuela Moving to Accept Taxes in State-Issued Crypto</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-arctic/canary-in-the-coal-mine-greenland-ice-has-shrunk-beyond-return-study-finds-idUSKCN25A2X3">'Canary in the coal mine': Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-07-24/doom-or-denial-is-there-another-path/">Doom or denial: Is there another path?</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-08-13/this-texas-town-is-growing-stronger-by-thinking-inside-the-box/">This Texas Town Is Growing Stronger By Thinking *Inside* the Box</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Jet-Fuel-Demand-Still-Has-A-Long-Way-To-Recovery.html" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">Jet Fuel Demand Still Has A Long Way To Recovery</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1188797">OPEC countries fulfill their obligations under oil production cut deal by 97% in July</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-noble-energy-m-a-chevron/chevrons-interest-in-giant-gas-field-led-to-5-billion-bid-for-noble-energy-idUSKCN2572PZ">Chevron's interest in giant gas field led to $5 billion bid for Noble Energy</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Shale-Drilling-Unlikely-To-Rebound-In-2020.html">U.S. Shale Drilling Unlikely To Rebound In 2020</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-08-05/as-trump-leaves-permian-oilfield-industry-insiders-question-if-2020-bust-marks-texas-oils-last-big-boom/">As Trump Leaves Permian Oilfield, Industry Insiders Question If 2020 Bust Marks Texas Oil’s Last Big Boom</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/remora-petroleum-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-11597345254">Remora Petroleum Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Atlantic-Basin-Oil-Supply-Plunges-To-8-Year-Low.html">Atlantic Basin Oil Supply Plunges To 8-Year Low</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Oilfield-Services-Job-Losses-Accelerate.html">U.S. Oilfield Services Job Losses Accelerate</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Tellurian-Scraps-Two-LNG-Pipelines-To-Cut-Costs.html">Tellurian Scraps Two LNG Pipelines To Cut Costs</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Demand-Crash-Hit-US-Refiners-With-Surging-Biofuel-Blending-Costs.html">Demand Crash Hit U.S. Refiners With Surging Biofuel Blending Costs</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Shale-Giant-Occidental-Petroleum-Reports-Major-Loss-In-Q2.html">Shale Giant Occidental Petroleum Reports Major Loss In Q2</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Cost-Of-Shale-Gas-Drilling-Permit-In-Pennsylvania-Jumps-150.html">Cost Of Shale Gas Drilling Permit In Pennsylvania Jumps 150%</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Oil-Rig-Count-Falls-Despite-Stabilizing-Crude-Prices.html">U.S. Oil Rig Count Falls Despite Stabilizing Crude Prices</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/BP-Set-For-Biggest-Downsizing-Of-Its-Office-Space-Ever.html">BP Set For Biggest Downsizing Of Its Office Space Ever</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/hermitage-offshore-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-in-u-s-11597253316">Hermitage Offshore Files for Bankruptcy Protection in U.S.</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/extraction-oil-gas-gave-10-million-to-political-causes-on-way-to-bankruptcy-11597443902">Extraction Oil & Gas Gave $10 Million to Political Causes on Way to Bankruptcy</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/riverstones-1-8-billion-fieldwood-energy-investment-put-at-risk-by-bankruptcy-11596847949">Riverstone’s $1.8 Billion Fieldwood Energy Investment Put at Risk by Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/08/12/nord-stream-2-is-european-self-interest-finally-surpassing-us-influence/">Nord Stream 2: Is European Self-Interest Finally Surpassing US Influence</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1187875">Germany in contact with companies exposed to Nord Stream 2 sanctions</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russias-Oil-Product-Exports-To-The-US-Jump-To-16-Year-High.html">Russia’s Oil Product Exports To The U.S. Jump To 16-Year High</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/German-Utility-Warns-That-It-May-Have-To-Impair-Loan-If-Nord-Stream-2-Fails.html">German Utility Warns That It May Have To Impair Loan If Nord Stream 2 Fails</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31536">Sibur May Tap Russian Wealth Fund to Build Amur Gas Complex</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Why-Is-The-US-Importing-So-Much-Russian-Fuel-Oil.html">Why Is The U.S. Importing So Much Russian Fuel Oil?</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Private-Chinese-Refiner-Boosts-Crude-Storage-Capacity.html">Private Chinese Refiner Boosts Crude Storage Capacity</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/08/06/sino-iran-deal-and-the-future-of-gulf-geo-politics/">Sino-Iran Deal and the Future of Gulf Geo-Politics</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/India-Stops-Using-Chinese-Vessels-For-Oil-Trade.html">India Stops Using Chinese Vessels For Oil Trade</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197730.shtml"><b>Chinese independent refining giants see big H1 profits after easing of coronavirus restrictions</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Diesel-Demand-Set-To-Jump-To-Record-This-Year.html">China’s Diesel Demand Set To Jump To Record This Year</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinese-Oil-Imports-Slip-But-Remain-25-Higher-Than-In-2019.html"><b>Chinese Oil Imports Slip But Remain 25% Higher Than In 2019</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Venezuela-Looks-To-Ease-Gasoline-Shortage-By-Restarting-Production-Units.html">Venezuela Looks To Ease Gasoline Shortage By Restarting Production Units</a></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Venezuela-Ramps-Up-Oil-Exports-Against-All-Odds.html">Venezuela Ramps Up Oil Exports Against All Odds</a></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Overflowing-Oil-Storage-Tanks-Raise-Risk-Of-Accidents-In-Libya.html">Overflowing Oil Storage Tanks Raise Risk Of Accidents In Libya</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Eastern-Libya-Sees-Power-Outages-As-A-Result-Of-Oil-Blockade.html">Eastern Libya Sees Power Outages As A Result Of Oil Blockade</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/06/631224/Iran-petrochemicals-Kaveh-methanol-plant-opening">World’s largest methanol plant opened in southern Iran</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/03/631013/Iran-natural-gas-network-penetration-Zanganeh">Iran reaching full penetration rate for natural gas: Minister</a></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Iran-Considers-Allowing-People-To-Invest-In-Oil-On-Local-Exchange.html">Iran Considers Allowing People To Invest In Oil On Local Exchange</a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451192/1st-phase-of-West-Karoun-oil-transmission-project-inaugurated">1st phase of West Karoun oil transmission project inaugurated</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-aramco-results-breakingviews/breakingviews-aramcos-dividend-defences-are-triple-locked-idUSKCN25612D">Breakingviews - Aramco’s dividend defences are triple-locked</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/opinion/2020/08/13/artificial-intelligence-removing-the-human-from-mission-command/">Artificial intelligence: Removing the human from mission command</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.defensenews.com/battlefield-tech/it-networks/2020/08/13/new-pentagon-tech-chief-to-focus-on-improving-project-coordination/">New Pentagon tech chief to focus on improving project coordination</a></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2020/08/13/army-buys-189m-counter-drone-system-but-already-has-plans-to-replace-it/">Army buys $189M counter drone system but already has plans to replace it</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/electronic-warfare/2020/08/12/navy-completes-first-flight-test-of-new-jamming-pod/">Navy completes first flight test of new jamming pod</a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/c2-comms/2020/08/14/silvus-technologies-develops-toughened-waveform-for-us-army/"><b>S</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>ilvus Technologies develops toughened waveform for US Army</b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/2020/08/14/us-army-seeks-new-airborne-tech-to-detect-defeat-radar-systems/">US Army seeks new airborne tech to detect, defeat radar systems</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security/explosions-hit-u-s-coalition-supply-convoys-in-iraq-sources-and-military-say-idUSKCN2562N7">Explosions hit U.S. coalition supply convoys in Iraq: sources and military say</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1189063">US Central Command claims Iranian military overtook ship in international waters</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/cyber/2020/08/13/the-new-strategy-from-navys-cyber-command/"><b>The new strategy from Navy’s cyber command</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/electronic-warfare/2020/08/07/us-air-force-tests-electronic-warfare-capabilities-with-fighter-recon-and-bomber-aircraft/">US Air Force tests electronic warfare capabilities with fighter, recon and bomber aircraft</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1188829"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Russia to set up continuous assembly line for Su-57 fifth-generation fighter</b></span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>s</b></span></a></span></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1188705"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Russia’s Aerospace Force to get Su-57 fifth-generation fighter jets by year-end</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1189019">Six people detained for attempt to break into Yemen embassy grounds in Moscow</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1188883">Tu-160M2, Tu-22M3M bombers to get communications suite from latest Su-57 fighter</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/defense/1189625">Russian defense firm develops new 9x19mm compact pistol</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3097489/us-bid-extend-iran-arms-embargo-rejected-un-security-council"><b>US bid to extend Iran arms embargo rejected by UN Security Council</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-un-israel/israel-condemns-u-n-decision-not-to-extend-iran-arms-embargo-idUSKCN25B0VI?il=0">Israel condemns U.N. decision not to extend Iran arms embargo</a></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-emirates-trump/israel-uae-to-normalize-relations-in-shift-in-mideast-politics-west-bank-annexations-on-hold-idUSKCN25926W?il=0" style="font-family: georgia;">Israel, UAE to normalize relations in shift in Mideast politics; West Bank annexations on hold</a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://journal-neo.org/2020/08/09/iran-chinese-joker-in-a-game-against-the-united-states/">Iran-Chinese Joker in a Game against the United States</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990526000330">Israel Launches Air Raids Against Hamas Positions in Gaza</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197668.shtml" style="font-family: georgia;">Syrian President Assad slams US sanctions in speech to parliament</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-eyes-new-phase-of-syria-sanctions-11597570216?mod=hp_lead_pos6">Trump Administration Eyes New Phase of Syria Sanctions</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-greece/erdogan-says-turkey-will-not-back-down-in-east-med-standoff-idUSKCN25B0SJ?il=0"><b>Erdogan says Turkey 'will not back down' in east Med standoff</b></a></span></div><div><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-08-14/Lebanon-parliament-approves-sweeping-powers-for-the-army-SWZNIcxSPm/index.html" style="font-family: georgia;">Lebanon parliament ratifies state of emergency after deadly blast</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-turkey/turkish-strike-kills-iraqi-border-guards-iraqi-military-says-idUSKCN25720M">Turkish strike kills Iraqi border guards, Iraqi military says</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-turkey/iraq-cancels-turkish-defense-minister-visit-summons-ambassador-statement-idUSKCN2572S9">Iraq cancels Turkish Defense minister visit, summons ambassador: statement</a></b></span></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-79085693173366898782020-08-08T12:36:00.003-07:002020-08-16T08:32:31.928-07:00GPA Project Headlines August 1-7, 2020<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6pid_uwmx2Bi6qYLf5kJJZ0gnAIVCJVPeCYUhmZ8xr_xkLE5KKIR_UC5uDGDUUTCEDIPMDBB4XWzJC6oE5rH6PoPfbtgAra4nqQrOfUH6950retjUDjGJj7Km8oewfIZJcmEX-HqEiA/s2048/1+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6pid_uwmx2Bi6qYLf5kJJZ0gnAIVCJVPeCYUhmZ8xr_xkLE5KKIR_UC5uDGDUUTCEDIPMDBB4XWzJC6oE5rH6PoPfbtgAra4nqQrOfUH6950retjUDjGJj7Km8oewfIZJcmEX-HqEiA/s640/1+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><font color="#b45f06" face="georgia"><b><i>TOP HEADLINES</i></b></font></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196941.shtml">China’s four largest banks trial digital currency payments</a></b></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196455.shtml">Former Chinese banker urges that digital currency substitutes all currencies</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196699.shtml">Early start on blockchain prevents West from kicking China out of digital currency race</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3085290/coronavirus-wto-warns-global-trade-brink-pandemic-wreaks">Coronavirus: WTO warns global trade on the brink as pandemic wreaks havoc on supply chains</a></span></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#b45f06" face="georgia"><b><i>GLOBAL</i></b></font></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia" size="6"><b><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/davos-great-reset/5715515">Now Comes the Davos Global Economy “Great Reset”. What Happens After the Covid-19 Pandemic?</a></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stockman-slams-lockdown-lunacy-your-government-ordered-depression-has-arrived">Stockman Slams "Lockdown Lunacy" - Your Government Ordered Depression Has Arrived</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://usawatchdog.com/world-on-verge-of-spinning-out-of-control-john-rubino/">World on Verge of Spinning Out of Control – John Rubino</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-normal-emerges-for-companies-navigating-covid-19-pandemic-11596376801?mod=hp_lista_pos3">‘New Normal’ Emerges for Companies Navigating Covid-19 Pandemic</a></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31486">Pompeo has signalled the start of a new Cold War with China</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/worldpay-fis-joins-governance-klaytn-public-blockchain/">Worldpay joins governance council of Klaytn public blockchain</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/coca-cola-bottlers-coke-blockchain-ethereum-baseline/">Coca Cola bottlers to trial public Ethereum for supply chain transparency</a></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/avery-dennison-integrates-public-blockchain-vechain/">Intelligent label firm Avery Dennison integrates with public blockchain VeChainThor</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196909.shtml">Guangzhou international airport introduces facial recognition service</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196780.shtml">Peking University’s ledger breakthrough to promote application of blockchain technology</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196040.shtml">Scientists Find Efficient Replacement for Lithium Batteries</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196829.shtml"><b>World’s first COVID-19 vaccine production line wins approval</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196845.shtml">Fosun and BioNTech jointly begin phase I clinical test of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine in China</a></span></div><div><font face="georgia"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1185327">Russia in talks on production of anti-coronavirus vaccine in Brazil, India</a></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31484/">Biocad Discussing Potential COVID-19 Vaccine Production in China</a></font></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia" size="6"><b><a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/russia-plans-mass-covid-19-vaccination-in-october/">Russia Plans Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Program in October</a></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1185053">Russia to make several million doses of COVID-19 vaccines per month by 2021, says minister</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1185007">No worries about opening schools in traditional format — Russian minister of education</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1184959">Russian sanitary watchdog chief says sure of safety of Russian anti-coronavirus vaccine</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1184939">Russia’s Vector research center plans to launch COVID-19 vaccine production in November</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/russia/1184911">No second wave of coronavirus infection in Moscow - mayor</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1184873">WHO extends state of emergency over coronavirus pandemic</a></b></span></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://www.biospace.com/article/johns-hopkins-lays-out-the-public-health-challenges-of-achieving-massive-covid-19-vaccination/">Johns Hopkins Outlines Public Health Challenges of Achieving Massive COVID-19 Vaccination</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31484">Biocad Discussing Potential COVID-19 Vaccine Production in China</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1186587">Another 86 volunteers to be inoculated with vaccine by Vektor during stage two of trials</a></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-vaccine/trump-says-coronavirus-vaccine-possible-before-nov-3-idUSKCN25221Q">Trump says coronavirus vaccine possible before Nov. 3</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31474">Russia Offers to Supply Anti-Covid Drugs to India</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197067.shtml"><b>China’s first ISO-containerized P2+ mobile lab delivered in Shanghai to combat COVID-19</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-apps-virginia/virginia-touts-nations-first-contact-tracing-app-with-apple-google-tech-idUSKCN2512UU">Virginia touts nation's first contact tracing app with Apple-Google tech</a></b></span></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/anxious-who-implores-world-to-do-it-all-in-long-war-on-covid-19-idUSKBN24Z1AG">Anxious WHO implores world to 'do it all' in long war on COVID-19</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cdc-warns-that-people-are-going-blind-and-dying-from-drinking-hand-sanitizer-2020-08-06?mod=home-page"><b>CDC warns that people are going blind and dying from drinking hand sanitizer</b></a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tyson-foods-results/tyson-foods-names-new-ceo-as-coronavirus-raises-costs-idUSKBN24Z1H0?il=0" style="font-family: georgia;">Tyson Foods names new CEO as coronavirus raises costs</a></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tyson-foods-results-coronavirus/tyson-foods-wants-china-to-lift-ban-on-u-s-plant-with-covid-19-cases-idUSKCN24Z2I6?il=0"><b>Tyson Foods wants China to lift ban on U.S. plant with COVID-19 cases</b></a></font></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia" size="6"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/teachers-in-car-parades-protest-reopening-u-s-schools-while-coronavirus-lurks-idUSKCN24Z292">U.S. teachers protest reopening schools while coronavirus lurks</a></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pac-12-football-players-threaten-to-sit-out-amid-pandemic-inequality-concerns-11596389208?mod=hp_listc_pos1">Pac-12 Football Players Threaten to Sit Out Amid Pandemic, Inequality Concerns</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-schools-among-few-top-10-districts-reopening-schools-for-in-person-learning-11596635317?mod=hp_listb_pos2"><b>Chicago Schools Reopening Online Only as Coronavirus Cases Rise</b></a></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-nevada/trump-threatens-to-sue-nevada-to-block-universal-mail-in-ballots-idUSKCN24Z2DV">Trump threatens to sue Nevada to block universal mail-in ballots</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31520/">Biden dithers</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-nevada/trump-campaign-sues-nevada-over-mail-in-ballots-asserting-inevitable-fraud-idUSKCN2512CZ">Trump campaign sues Nevada over mail-in ballots, asserting 'inevitable' fraud</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-new-york-attorney-general/new-york-seeks-to-break-up-national-rifle-association-alleging-financial-mismanagement-idUSKCN2522BG">New York sues to break up NRA, accuses it of corruption</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-trump/trump-says-texas-would-be-great-place-for-nra-to-relocate-idUSKCN2522H0">Trump says Texas would be great place for NRA to relocate</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/trump-seeks-to-go-it-alone-after-coronavirus-stimulus-talks-break-down-idUSKCN2540TA">Trump seeks to go it alone after coronavirus stimulus talks break down</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196750.shtml">US efforts to contain China's rising high-tech sector weaker than expected: SMIC founder</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-new-york-schools/all-new-york-schools-meet-state-standard-to-open-for-in-person-classes-governor-cuomo-says-idUSKCN2532GI">All New York schools meet state standard to open for in-person classes, Governor Cuomo says</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-cities/trump-says-he-is-going-a-different-way-after-coronavirus-aid-talks-break-down-idUSKCN25334N">Trump says he is going a 'different way' after coronavirus aid talks break down</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ups-fees/ups-plans-heavy-holiday-fees-amid-coronavirus-related-shipment-surge-idUSKCN2533AA">UPS plans heavy holiday fees amid coronavirus-related shipment surge</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://usawatchdog.com/massive-psyop-continues-stop-voting-democrat-economic-update/">Massive Psyop Continues, Stop Voting Democrat, Economic Update</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/homicide-spike-cities-chicago-newyork-detroit-us-crime-police-lockdown-coronavirus-protests-11596395181?mod=hp_lead_pos7">Homicide Spike Hits Most Large U.S. Cities</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31503"><b>Russia to Build Port in Caspian Sea to Connect India & Iran</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1186339">Lavrov emphasizes need to rule out possibility of nuclear war</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1186323"><b>US Department of State’s report geared to silence Russia’s cooperation proposals - embassy</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/business-officials/1185811">Vitaly Saveliev: We can take a punch</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1186647">Belarusian president says union state with Russia impossible</a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/russian-voters-data-on-sale-after-blockchain-vote-to-keep-putin-in-power-report"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Russian Voters’ Data on Sale After Blockchain Poll to Keep Putin in Power: Report</span></a></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="6"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1186463">Lukashenko: US passport holders among those detained in Belarus ahead of election</a></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1185563">Belarusian leader says another foreign unit was deployed to destabilize country</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1186407"><b>Lukashenko invites Russian, Ukrainian prosecutors to deal with Russians’ affair</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1186621">Lukashenko says he regards Putin as his elder brother</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.belarus.by/en/press-center/speeches-and-interviews/lukashenko-modern-wars-are-triggered-by-street-protests_i_0000116386.html">Lukashenko: Modern wars are triggered by street protests</a></span></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197058.shtml">Huawei shipments set to drop due to lack of Kirin chip supply</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197026.shtml">China's rare-earth exports drop by 44% in July amid pandemic</a></span></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196968.shtml"><b>US 'decoupling' attempt will be doomed to fail</b></a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197108.shtml">WeChat US ban cuts off users link to families in China</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197036.shtml">China's exports, imports improve in July, but trade with US down</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196692.shtml">US degrades from innovator to digital rogue</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196407.shtml">New cold war will not stop US decline</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196979.shtml">'Clean network' is an all-out incitement for a confrontation between China & US</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196985.shtml">China to develop 600kmph maglev trains</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196873.shtml">China to strengthen copyright protection to adapt high-tech developments</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196813.shtml">China, US to hold rare trade talks</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31485">China Becomes Largest Importer of Russian Meat</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1185841">Beirut port blast was equivalent to 4.5-magnitude earthquake — seismologists</a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/05/631114/Lebanon-Beirut-explosion-mourning">Beirut blast: Two-week state of emergency declared in ‘disaster-stricken’ city</a></span><br /><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1186413">Lebanon has no financial means to cope with explosion aftermath, economy minister says</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/society/1186501">Russian hospital opens in Beirut</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3096075/corpses-everywhere-apocalyptic-scenes-blasts-ravage-beirut">‘Corpses everywhere’: apocalyptic scenes in Beirut</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/world/1185795">Lebanese Kataeb party leader killed in Beirut blast — media</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/world/1185777">Israel not involved in Beirut explosion, state radio reports</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1185849">Israeli army says it’s time to ‘transcend conflict’ with Lebanon</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://williamengdahl.com/englishNEO30Jul2020.php">Turkey’s Erdogan – From Hagia Sophia to the Shores of Tripoli and Beyond</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#b45f06" face="georgia"><i><b>ECONOMIC</b></i></font></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-printed-more-money-in-one-month-than-in-two-centuries">US Printed More Money in One Month Than in Two Centuries</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://realinvestmentadvice.com/macroview-universal-basic-income-is-not-an-economic-savior/">MacroView: Universal Basic Income Is Not An Economic Savior</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-fed/feds-kashkari-suggests-4-6-week-shutdown-says-u-s-congress-can-spend-big-on-coronavirus-relief-idUSKBN24Y0IM">Fed's Kashkari suggests 4-6 week shutdown; says U.S. Congress can spend big on coronavirus relief</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blog.evergreengavekal.com/the-consequences-of-worthless-cash/">THE CONSEQUENCES OF ‘WORTHLESS CASH<b>’</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-prices-notch-record-close-for-fifth-straight-session-as-metal-approaches-2100-2020-08-06?mod=mw_latestnews">Gold prices notch record close for fifth straight session as metal approaches $2,100</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-collapse-is-nothing-less-than-a-depression-a-pandemic-depression-warn-top-economists-11596728170?mod=home-page">This ‘dire’ economic situation ‘deserves to be called a depression — a pandemic depression’</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-going-cashless-means-for-the-14-million-unbanked-americans-11596664581?mod=home-page">Going cashless during the COVID pandemic makes life even more difficult for the 14 million unbanked Americans</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-rising-to-4000-an-ounce-would-not-be-an-unreasonable-move-fund-manager-says-2020-08-06?mod=home-page">Gold rising to $4,000 an ounce ‘would not be an unreasonable move,’ fund manager says</a></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/gold-activity-leads-advance-in-primexm-trading-volumes-for-july/">Gold Activity Leads Advance in PrimeXM Trading Volumes for July</a></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed/fed-policymakers-call-for-fiscal-support-to-save-u-s-economy-idUSKBN24Z1NE?il=0">Fed policymakers call for fiscal support to save U.S. economy</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-mester/feds-mester-says-reopening-phase-may-be-more-protracted-than-many-anticipated-idUSKCN25131L?il=0">Fed's Mester says reopening phase may be more protracted than many anticipated</a></span></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-white-house/mnuchin-says-a-little-bit-closer-to-larger-virus-aid-deal-idUSKCN24Z2KD?il=0"><b>Mnuchin says 'a little bit' closer to larger virus aid deal</b></a></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed/u-s-economy-needs-more-stimulus-and-more-masks-fed-policymakers-say-idUSKBN24Z1NE?il=0">U.S. economy needs more stimulus and more masks, Fed policymakers say</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/americas-coin-shortage-getting-worse">America's Coin Shortage Is Getting Worse</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-reopen-graphic/more-signs-point-to-u-s-economic-recovery-losing-momentum-idUSKCN2522JI?il=0"><b>More signs point to U.S. economic recovery losing momentum</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-brainard/feds-brainard-lays-out-central-banks-instant-payment-framework-idUSKCN2522J0?il=0">Fed's Brainard lays out central bank's instant payment framework</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-kaplan/feds-kaplan-resurgence-of-virus-is-muting-economic-recovery-more-aid-needed-idUSKCN2512JA?il=0">Fed's Kaplan: Resurgence of virus is muting economic recovery, more aid needed</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/30/c_139252225.htm">EU unemployment up by around 280,000 in June</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/31/c_139253893.htm">U.S. jobless claims rise for 2nd consecutive week amid resurgence in COVID-19 cases</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-insurance-credit-survey/aviation-sector-has-biggest-pandemic-default-risk-insurance-survey-idUSKCN2500MM?il=0"><b>Aviation sector has biggest pandemic default risk: insurance survey</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-markets-elerian/u-s-equities-wont-revisit-march-lows-corporate-defaults-next-trigger-el-erian-idUSKCN2502PF?il=0">U.S. equities won't revisit March lows, corporate defaults next trigger: El-Erian</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/virgin-atlantic-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-in-the-u-s-11596584590">Virgin Atlantic Files for Bankruptcy Protection in the U.S.</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-embraer-results/embraers-commercial-aviation-revenue-plummets-by-82-on-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKCN2511DX">Embraer's commercial aviation revenue falls by 82%</a></span></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aig-results/aig-quarterly-profit-tumbles-on-catastrophe-losses-private-equity-losses-idUSKCN24Z2L2?il=0"><b>AIG quarterly profit tumbles on catastrophe losses, private-equity losses</b></a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-metropolitan-museum-of-art-cuts-staff-by-353-11596656106?mod=hp_listc_pos2">New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Cuts Staff by 353</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wynn-resorts-sales-drops-nearly-95-2020-08-04?mod=mw_latestnews">Wynn Resorts' sales drops nearly 95%</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines-exclu/republican-senators-back-extending-25-billion-payroll-aid-for-u-s-airlines-shares-jump-idUSKCN2512QE">Republican senators back extending $25 billion payroll aid for U.S. airlines; shares jump</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/americcan-beach-towns-fear-collapse-summer-pandemic-causes-havoc">US Beach Towns Fear Collapse As Summer Of Pandemic Causes Havoc</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/litigation-against-illinois-debt-payments-can-continue-appeals-court-rules-11596746386"><b>Challenge to $14 Billion in Illinois Debt Revived</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/benevis-provider-of-support-services-to-dentists-files-for-bankruptcy-11596487729">Benevis, Provider of Support Services to Dentists, Files for Bankruptcy</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-seeks-as-much-as-18-1-billion-from-purdue-pharma-11596595629?mod=hp_lead_pos1">Justice Department Seeks as Much as $18.1 Billion From Purdue Pharma</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mallinckrodt-may-file-for-bankruptcy-undercutting-opioid-settlement-11596548714">Mallinckrodt May File for Bankruptcy, Undercutting Opioid Settlement</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankruptcy-judge-confirms-skillsoft-chapter-11-plan-11596745234">Bankruptcy Judge Confirms Skillsoft Chapter 11 Plan</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-farmers-declare-bankruptcy-despite-record-levels-of-federal-aid-11596706201?mod=hp_lista_pos2">More Farmers Declare Bankruptcy Despite Record Levels of Federal Aid</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/luxury-department-store-lord-taylor-files-for-bankruptcy-11596409396?mod=hp_lead_pos3">Lord & Taylor, Once-Grand Department Store, Files for Bankruptcy</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tailored-brands-bankruptcy/tailored-brands-files-for-bankruptcy-as-pandemic-hammers-sales-idUSKBN24Z0AW">Tailored Brands files for bankruptcy as pandemic hammers sales</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3095534/why-us-dollar-slide-may-be-sign-real-danger-time">Why the US dollar slide may be a sign of real danger this time</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://katusaresearch.com/the-dethroning-of-the-us-dollar/?utm_medium=post&utm_source=dollar-collapse&utm_term=dollar-collapse">The Dethroning of the US Dollar</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/chinese-ex-banker-says-digital-currency-should-replace-fiat-money">Chinese Ex-Banker Says Digital Currency Should Replace Fiat Money</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/chinese-predict-end-of-dollar-dominance-digital-yuan/">Several Chinese economists, academics predict end of dollar dominance, not only via digital yuan</a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/first-mover-as-fed-nears-inflation-rubicon-analysts-see-50k-bitcoin-in-play"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>First Mover: As Fed Nears Inflation Rubicon, Analysts See $50K Bitcoin in Play</b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/executives/moves/goldman-sachs-promotes-mathew-mcdermott-to-lead-crypto-ambitions/">Goldman Sachs Promotes Mathew McDermott to Lead Crypto Ambitions</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/mastercard-and-visa-are-making-bold-moves-toward-mass-crypto-adoption">Mastercard and Visa Are Making Bold Moves Toward Mass Crypto Adoption</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/now-that-us-banks-can-offer-crypto-custody-services-will-they/">Now That US Banks Can Offer Crypto Custody Services–Will They?</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/sec-seeks-binance-chain-scrutiny-intends-to-tap-ciphertrace/">SEC Seeks Binance Chain Scrutiny, Intends to Tap CipherTrace</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/sec-smart-contract-tracing-tool"><b>SEC Seeking ‘Smart Contract’ Tracing Tool That Can Spot Security Vulnerabilities</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/italian-insurer-digital-guarantee-surety-bond-blockchain/">Major Italian insurer launches digital guarantee on blockchain supported by central bank</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196941.shtml">China’s four largest banks trial digital currency payments</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.occ.treas.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2020/nr-occ-2020-98.html">Federally Chartered Banks and Thrifts May Provide Custody Services For Crypto Assets</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/news/sia-joins-european-digital-payments-body-edpia/">SIA Joins European Digital Payments Body EDPIA</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196699.shtml">Early start on blockchain prevents West from kicking China out of digital currency race</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/japan-blockchain-consortium-asean-trade-tradewaltz-ntt-data/"><b>Japanese government pushes blockchain consortium for ASEAN trade</b></a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/exchanges/1-8-million-retail-investors-flocked-to-moscow-exchange-in-2020/"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1.8 Million Retail Investors Flocked to Moscow Exchange in 2020</span></a></div><div><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/payments/russia-bans-cash-deposits-to-anonymous-online-wallets/"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Russia Bans Cash Deposits to Anonymous Online Wallets</b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3096122/china-omits-us-dollar-forex-trading-fee-waivers-bid-bolster">China omits US dollar from forex trading fee waivers in bid to bolster yuan</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia" size="6"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31509">BRICS New Development Bank to Open Office in Moscow 'in Near Future' - Vice President</a></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1185149">Russian antimonopoly watchdog approves Hyundai’s application to buy GM plant</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31502"><b>Fitch Affirms New Development Bank at 'AA+'</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1197106.shtml">China's forex reserves score 4-month rising streak</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196987.shtml">HSBC Bank China fined 530,000 yuan for seeking customers' credit info, further damaging reputation</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-hldg-results/hsbc-warns-loan-losses-could-hit-13-billion-as-profit-plunges-65-idUSKBN24Z0BD?il=0">HSBC warns loan losses could hit $13 billion as profit plunges 65%</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196756.shtml">China's economic rebound better than expected in Q2: World Bank official</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3095770/hsbc-boosts-bad-loan-provisions-sees-second-quarter-profit">HSBC boosts bad loan provisions, sees second-quarter profit plunge as coronavirus crushes global business activity</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/macaus-gaming-revenues-crash-945-july-recovery-hopes-dim"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b>Macau's Gaming Revenues Crash 94.5% In July As Recovery Hopes Dim</b></span> </a></div><div><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/kuwait-backed-prysm-to-split-apart-in-bankruptcy-11596750800" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Kuwait-Backed Prysm to Split Apart in Bankruptcy</span></a></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-greece/egypt-and-greece-sign-agreement-on-exclusive-economic-zone-idUSKCN252216?il=0"><b>Egypt and Greece sign agreement on exclusive economic zone</b></a></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#b45f06" face="georgia"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31483"><b>China Starts Building Southern Part of China-Russia East Gas Pipeline</b></a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/China-Is-Using-The-Pandemic-As-An-Excuse-To-Not-Buy-US-Energy.html">China Is Using The Pandemic As An Excuse To Not Buy U.S. Energy</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31467">Russia Reportedly Surpassed US in LNG Exports to China in June</a></b></span></div><div><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1186509" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Environmentalists' claim against Nord Stream 2 will hardly be successful — German lawmaker</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/20-Of-Global-Oil-Gas-Reserves-Could-Be-Wiped-Out-If-Crude-Prices-Dont-Recove.html"><b>Exxon: 20 Percent Of Global Oil And Gas Reserves May Be Wiped Out</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Exxon-To-Halt-Employee-Savings-Plan-Match-To-Cut-Costs.html">Exxon To Halt Employee Savings Plan Match To Cut Costs</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Indias-Reliance-Overtakes-Exxon-As-Second-Most-Valuable-Energy-Firm.html"><b>India’s Reliance Overtakes Exxon As Second Most Valuable Energy Firm</b></a></span></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pacific-drilling-considers-filing-for-chapter-11-11596823069">Pacific Drilling Considers Filing for Chapter 11</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/offshore-driller-fieldwood-energy-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-11596549661"><b>Offshore Driller Fieldwood Energy Files for Bankruptcy Protection</b></a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/arclight-backed-shale-driller-bruin-seeks-chapter-11-protection-11595000682">ArcLight-Backed Shale Driller Bruin Seeks Chapter 11 Protection</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-marathon-ptrlum-speedway-seven-i-hldg/marathon-petroleum-sells-speedway-to-7-eleven-owner-for-21-billion-idUSKBN24Y0RT">Japan's Seven & i seals $21 billion deal for Marathon Petroleum's Speedway gas stations</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1196958.shtml">Seven & i seals billion dollar deal for US Speedway gas stations</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bp-slashes-dividend-in-half-after-16-8-billion-loss-11596521840?mod=home-page">BP sets new low-carbon goals as it slashes dividend in half and reports $16.8 billion loss</a></b></span></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/The-Worlds-Largest-Nuclear-Fusion-Reactor-Is-Finally-Being-Built.html"><b>The World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is Finally Being Built</b></a></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/Natural-Gas-Has-Replaced-Over-100-US-Coal-Plants-In-The-Last-Decade.html">Natural Gas Has Replaced Over 100 U.S. Coal Plants In The Last Decade</a></font></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Venezuelas-Rig-Count-Officially-Falls-To-Zero.html">Venezuela’s Rig Count Officially Falls To Zero</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Saudi-Arabia-May-Be-Forced-To-Cut-Oil-Prices-Once-Again.html">Saudi Arabia May Be Forced To Cut Oil Prices Once Again</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/04/631080/Mousavi-Iran-Syria-oil-US-SDF-agreement-">Iran: Oil deal between US firm, SDF militias lacks legal validity</a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-energy-graphic/china-only-fulfils-5-of-sino-u-s-energy-trade-deal-in-first-half-of-2020-idUSKCN2500EW">China only fulfils 5% of Sino-U.S. energy trade deal in first half of 2020</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#b45f06" face="georgia"><b><i>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS</i></b></font></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://www.naval-technology.com/news/russian-navy-set-to-receive-hypersonic-nuclear-strike-weapons/">Russian Navy set to receive hypersonic nuclear strike weapons</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31473">Russia Delivers Second S-400 Systems to China Amid Flaring Tensions With The US</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31487">New ceasefire reached in Donbass, but for how long?</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/one-ukrainian-serviceman-killed-three-wounded-in-mine-blast-outside-volnovakha.html">One Ukrainian serviceman killed, three wounded in mine blast outside Volnovakha</a></span></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://dan-news.info/en/defence-en/explosion-rocks-ukrainian-positions-outside-novotroitskoye-checkpoint.html">Explosion rocks Ukrainian positions outside Novotroitskoye checkpoint</a></span></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia" size="6"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-syria-violence-strikes/israel-says-it-strikes-syria-targets-in-response-to-border-incident-idUSKCN24Z2KY?il=0">Israel says it strikes Syria targets in response to border incident</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia" size="6"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-damascus/syrias-air-defenses-intercept-hostile-targets-above-southwestern-damascus-countryside-idUSKCN24Z2KS?il=0"><b>Syria's air defenses intercept 'hostile targets' above southwestern Damascus countryside</b></a></font></div><div><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31521/" style="font-family: georgia;">Why did Israel offer aid to Lebanon knowing it will be rejected?</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31488">Will Hezbollah seek revenge against Israel?</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/02/630925/Yemen-drone-Hajjah"><b>American drone operated by Saudi-led coalition shot down by Yemen’s army</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/07/30/630769/Thousands-of-Yemeni-patients-at-risk-of-death-due-to-exit-of-intl--organizations,-ongoing-siege--Health-Minister">Thousands of Yemeni patients at risk of death due to ongoing siege: Health Minister</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration/pentagon-awards-united-launch-alliance-spacex-launch-contracts-idUSKCN25337B"><b>Pentagon awards United Launch Alliance, SpaceX launch contracts</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31489">US sends speedboats and combat arsenal to Ukrainian Navy</a></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-usa/trump-security-adviser-warns-against-foreign-military-involvement-in-libya-idUSKCN2502QN?il=0" style="font-family: georgia;">Trump security adviser warns against foreign military involvement in Libya</a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31478">Will US really send troops to Poland?</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-somalia-blast/blast-rocks-military-base-in-somali-capital-at-least-eight-dead-idUSKCN2540E4">Blast rocks military base in Somali capital, at least eight dead</a></b></span></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-9502318420690052282020-07-31T04:49:00.008-07:002020-07-31T04:55:44.402-07:00GPA Project Headlines July 27-31, 2020<div><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnT9Fz3uOiye9aip1d9chn256ekBE_JHDxW3zccS7igyNsM4MyAdoktnurL9QtSMU4BmUEkx5jQ3uFCvUt1rE9JPcHGECPRFZ9IuspAs-i9s8UofD2qlLzDROMnXvll9dqhaS5oAibWp0/s500/coffee-and-newspaper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnT9Fz3uOiye9aip1d9chn256ekBE_JHDxW3zccS7igyNsM4MyAdoktnurL9QtSMU4BmUEkx5jQ3uFCvUt1rE9JPcHGECPRFZ9IuspAs-i9s8UofD2qlLzDROMnXvll9dqhaS5oAibWp0/s0/coffee-and-newspaper.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i><font face="georgia"><br /></font></i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i><font face="georgia">TOP HEADLINE </font></i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i><font face="georgia"><br /></font></i></b></span></div><div><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/economy-suffers-titanic-329-plunge-in-2nd-quarter-gdp-shows-and-points-to-drawn-out-recovery-2020-07-30?mod=home-page" target="_blank"><font face="georgia">U.S. economy suffers titanic 32.9% plunge in 2nd quarter and points to drawn-out recovery</font></a></b></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i><font face="georgia"><br /></font></i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i><font face="georgia">GLOBAL</font></i></b></span></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><span><b><a href="http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/07.20/lostyear.html" target="_blank"><font face="georgia">A Lost Year – Where Do You Go From Here?</font></a></b></span></div><div><font face=""><div><a href="https://www.pravdareport.com/world/144779-america_collapsing/" target="_blank">Unfortunately, America is falling apart</a></div><div><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31433" target="_blank"><b><span>Chaos in the Blue Cities</span></b></a></div><div><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31389" target="_blank"><span>What’s in a Name? Nothing, if the Woke don’t like it</span></a></div><div><a href="https://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/144793-covid_19_fear/" target="_blank"><b><span>The fear of COVID-19 will kill you</span></b></a></div><div><a href="https://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/144786-fake_news/" target="_blank"><span>Fake news and reality: when lying is convenient for the powerful</span></a></div><div><a href="https://www.unz.com/tsaker/russia-and-the-next-presidential-election-in-the-usa/" target="_blank"><b><span>Russia and the Next Presidential Election in the US</span></b></a></div><div><a href="https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/crash-the-economy-burn-the-cities-infect-the-people-the-evil-plan-to-remake-america/" target="_blank"><span>Crash the Economy, Burn the Cities, Infect the People: the Evil Plan to Remake America</span></a></div><div><a href="https://www.unz.com/article/the-coming-decline-of-globalism/" target="_blank"><b><span>The Coming Decline of Globalism</span></b></a></div><div><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/30/whats-going-on-in-portland/" target="_blank"><span>What’s Going on in Portland</span></a></div><div><br /></div></font><div><font face="georgia" size="5"><b><a href="https://tass.com/science/1182901" target="_blank">Russia to have anti-COVID vaccine enough for mass vaccination in early 2021</a></b></font></div><div><font face="" size="5"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3094918/duterte-seeks-chinese-coronavirus-vaccine-rules-out-us-bases?li_source=LI&li_medium=homepage_int_edition_top_picks_for_you" target="_blank">Duterte seeks Chinese coronavirus vaccine, rules out US bases in Philippines</a></font></div><div><font face=""><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/modernas-coronavirus-vaccine-begins-final-stage-testing-11595854440" target="_blank">Moderna, Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccines Begin Final-Stage Testing</a></b></font></div><div><font face=""><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/moderna-board-member-resigns-to-prevent-perception-of-conflict-of-interest-in-vaccine-trial-2020-07-30?mod=newsviewer_click_seemore" target="_blank">Moderna board member resigns to prevent perception of conflict of interest in vaccine trial</a></font></div><div><font face="" size="5"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cansino-analysis/a-big-obstacle-where-can-cansino-test-its-vaccine-abroad-idUSKCN24V1NF" target="_blank">A big obstacle: Where can CanSino test its vaccine abroad?</a></font></div><div><font face=""><font face="georgia"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/us/202007291080006360-possible-price-tag-for-us-covid-19-vaccine-revealed/" target="_blank"><b>Possible Price Tag for US COVID-19 Vaccine Revealed</b></a></font></font></div><div><font face=""><font face="georgia"><a href="https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007291080007370-eu-signs-deal-with-gilead-to-secure-access-to-remdesivir/" target="_blank">EU Signs Deal With Gilead to Secure Access to Remdesivir</a></font></font></div><div><font face=""><font face="georgia"><br /></font></font></div><div><font face=""><div><font face="" size="6"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-keep-employees-home-until-summer-2021-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-11595854201?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1" target="_blank">Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic</a></font></div><div><font face="" size="5"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-cancels-gatherings-with-50-or-more-people-through-june-2021-11587089911?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3" target="_blank"><b>Facebook Cancels Gatherings With 50 or More People Through June 2021</b></a></font></div><div><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/it-will-be-painful-for-colleges-and-also-painful-for-students-plans-to-bring-back-students-get-derailed-by-covid-19-surge-11596032585?mod=home-page" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘It will be painful for colleges and also painful for students’: Plans to bring back students get derailed by COVID-19 surge</span></a></div></font></div><div><font face=""><font face="georgia"><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3095094/hong-kong-third-wave-fedex-pilots-want-us-company-suspend" target="_blank">Hong Kong third wave: FedEx pilots want US company to suspend flights to city, say Covid-19 measures present ‘unacceptable risk’</a></b></font></font></div><div><a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/495933-portland-molotov-backpack-protesters-police/" target="_blank"><font face="georgia">Portland Police say Molotov cocktails & rifle magazines found in bag as city reels from violent protests</font></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1182867" target="_blank"><b><font face="georgia" size="5">Deputy chief of Russian Security Council dismisses G8 as ‘obsolete platform’</font></b></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://tass.com/politics/1182851" target="_blank"><font face="georgia">Germany’s statement on impossibility of restoring G8 format stem from strains with US — MP</font></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://www.pravdareport.com/world/144781-russia_g7/" target="_blank"><b><font face="georgia">What is hidden behind 'no Russia in G7' rhetoric</font></b></a></span></div><br /><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3094961/tencent-overtakes-facebook-worlds-most-valuable-social-media" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tencent steals Facebook’s social media crown with rally that adds US$207 billion to market value this year</span></a> </font></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-vision-post-covid-world/5719635" target="_blank">China’s Vision in a Post-COVID World</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><font color="#b45f06" face="georgia"><b><i>ECONOMIC</i></b></font><br /><div><span><font face="georgia"><br /></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mnuchin-virus-aid-package-soon-1200-checks-by-august-2020-07-25?mod=home-page" target="_blank"><font face="georgia">Mnuchin: Virus aid package soon, $1,200 checks by August</font></a></span></div><div><b><a href="https://infobrics.org/post/31427" target="_blank"><span><font face="georgia">Has the coronavirus pandemic weakened the U.S. dollar status as the international reserve currency?</font></span></a></b></div><div><span><font face="georgia"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-instant/u-s-second-quarter-gdp-falls-at-steepest-rate-since-great-depression-idUSKCN24V2GJ?il=0" target="_blank">U.S. second-quarter GDP falls at steepest rate since Great Depression</a></font></span></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="" size="5"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/rival-companies-tussle-to-buy-los-angeles-hospital-out-of-bankruptcy-11595968409" target="_blank">Rival Companies Tussle to Buy Los Angeles Hospital Out of Bankruptcy</a></font></div><div><font face=""><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mens-wearhouse-parent-prepares-for-bankruptcy-11595960336" target="_blank"><b>Men’s Wearhouse Parent Prepares for Bankruptcy</b></a></font></div><div><span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4129939502711688519/1763815786394153939?hl=en#"><font face="georgia">JPMorgan to Take Over Bankrupt Real Estate Investor IMH</font></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-is-a-form-of-money-d-c-federal-court-rules-bloomberg" target="_blank"><b><font face="georgia" size="5">Bitcoin Is a Form of Money in DC, Federal Court Rules</font></b></a></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/fedcoin-new-scheme-tyranny-poverty/5719657" target="_blank"><span><font face="georgia">Fedcoin: A New Scheme for Tyranny and Poverty</font></span></a></span></div><div><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/philippines-central-bank-explores-digital-currency/" target="_blank"><span><font face="georgia">Philippines central bank explores digital currency</font></span></a></div><div><span><font face="georgia"><br /></font></span></div><div><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecb-panetta/euro-zone-economy-not-yet-out-of-danger-from-coronavirus-ecbs-panetta-idUSKCN24S0F8?il=0" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><b><font face="georgia">Euro zone economy not yet out of danger from coronavirus: ECB's Panetta</font></b></a></div><div><a href="https://www.coindesk.com/ukraine-crypto-tracing-crystal-blockchain" target="_blank"><span><font face="georgia">Ukraine’s Digital Ministry to Trace Suspicious Crypto Using Crystal Blockchain Software</font></span></a></div><div><font face=""><b><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/sbi-combines-corda-blockchainripple-tech-s-coin-digital-currency/" target="_blank">SBI combines Corda blockchain, Ripple tech for S Coin local currency</a></b></font></div><div><font face=""><font face="georgia" size="5"><a href="https://www.ledgerinsights.com/automating-bond-issuance-using-blockchain/" target="_blank">The case for digitizing bond issuance using blockchain</a></font></font></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/chinese-central-bank-onboards-over-20-firms-to-test-digital-yuan/" target="_blank"><font face="georgia"><b>Chinese Central Bank Onboards Over 20 Firms to Test Digital Yuan</b></font></a></span></div><span><a href="https://www.pravdareport.com/world/144764-china_yuan/" target="_blank"><font face="georgia">China loses chances to make yuan reserve currency</font></a></span></div><div><span><b><a href="https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3094600/hong-kongs-exchange-fund-reports-us13-billion-gain-second" target="_blank"><font face="georgia">Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund reports US$13 billion gain in second quarter, but outlook remains uncertain</font></a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><font color="#b45f06" face="georgia"><b><i>ENERGY</i></b></font></div><div><span><b><font face="georgia"><br /></font></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1182501" target="_blank"><font face="georgia">US intensifies pressure on European contractors of Nord Stream 2, says paper</font></a></span></div><div><span><font face="georgia"><br /></font></span></div><div><font face="" size="5"><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1182841" target="_blank"><b>No seasonal restrictions to impede completion of Nord Stream 2, says project operator</b></a></font></div><div><font face=""><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1182791" target="_blank">Denmark denies reports about halting Nord Stream 2 construction due to cod spawning</a></font></div><div><font face=""><a href="https://tass.com/economy/1182777" target="_blank"><b>US ignores its allies’ interests attempting to stop Nord Stream 2, says Bundestag official</b></a></font></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4129939502711688519.post-73460199403054129762020-07-29T04:25:00.013-07:002020-07-29T15:37:09.040-07:00GPA Project Special Report: Russia Projects Target Date of World's First SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine<div><font face="georgia" size="5"><b>Russia aims to become world’s first country to approve coronavirus vaccine — CNN</b></font></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BNuv7UebKbz9iiP8hNEFliXYmom3QIMY0RY5Eh5MwIV-D-QDDxAH6ddPNMOVJfg0kXuvnDz2p6DGYB6W4jRZ9H_uJRlToILoHjxyTCwwPqIJR1IpHH39Hvllp7jgyYLU_7pY9S14O6M/s1016/1276523.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="1016" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BNuv7UebKbz9iiP8hNEFliXYmom3QIMY0RY5Eh5MwIV-D-QDDxAH6ddPNMOVJfg0kXuvnDz2p6DGYB6W4jRZ9H_uJRlToILoHjxyTCwwPqIJR1IpHH39Hvllp7jgyYLU_7pY9S14O6M/w625-h398/1276523.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5"><br /></font></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i style="font-family: georgia;"><font size="5">"Russian officials said they are working toward a date of August 10 or earlier for approval of the vaccine"</font></i></div><div><br /></div><div><font color="#b45f06" face="georgia"><b><br /></b></font></div><div><font color="#b45f06" face="georgia"><b>Itar-Tass</b></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><a href="https://tass.com/society/1183437">https://tass.com/society/1183437</a></font></div><div><br /></div><div><font face="georgia"><div>NEW YORK, July 29. /TASS/. Russia aims to become the world’s first country to have a novel coronavirus vaccine approved, CNN said citing Russian officials, including the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Russian officials told CNN they are working toward a date of August 10 or earlier for approval of the vaccine, which has been created by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute," the US TV channel said.</div></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div><font face="georgia"><div>"Americans were surprised when they heard Sputnik's beeping. It's the same with this vaccine. Russia will have got there first," it quoted Dmitriev as saying. "Our scientists focused not on being the first but on protecting people."</div><div><br /></div><div>The second phase of clinical tests of an anti-coronavirus vaccine developed by the Gamalei National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology is nearing completion, the press service of the Russian Health Ministry said on Monday. The vaccine’s state registration will be addressed after the tests are over.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Center’s director Alexander Gintsburg said earlier that it was planned to finish the second phase of vaccine tests before July 28. Later, chief of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriyev said that the second phase would be over on August 3, 2020.</div></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKuLRfcu3bvZUuwRI7jCMAKj3H4ZO50lbmmttQzvUXXuP5pClsMH5nfQ1hHFsL_zpCIlTTgEZusC0MUjsk6CIGmj1oXjsIGWfTL3twbKJJnTawvcMdESvIR_WZSU8ti1-PS0K83tk0F4/s1016/1276523.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div>R.A. Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01985439145914417568noreply@blogger.com