Pro-EU government goes after former-president
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Igor Dodon has been accused of abuse of office in relation to electricity purchases for Moldova
Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon is facing new criminal charges, and is accused of abuse of office โin the interests of an organized criminal group,โ the countryโs Office of the Prosecutor General announced on Monday.
According to a statement, the charges were filed in connection with the โEnergocomโ criminal case and relate to the period of 2008-2009, when Dodon held the positions of first deputy prime minister and minister of economy and trade.
The prosecutorโs office claims that Dodon signed a d...
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Igor Dodon has been accused of abuse of office in relation to electricity purchases for Moldova
Former Moldovan President Igor Dodon is facing new criminal charges, and is accused of abuse of office โin the interests of an organized criminal group,โ the countryโs Office of the Prosecutor General announced on Monday.
According to a statement, the charges were filed in connection with the โEnergocomโ criminal case and relate to the period of 2008-2009, when Dodon held the positions of first deputy prime minister and minister of economy and trade.
The prosecutorโs office claims that Dodon signed a d...
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Court in US rules on letting non-citizens vote
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The New York Supreme Court has invalidated a law allowing foreign nationals to vote in New York City elections
The New York Supreme Court has struck down a law passed in January that would have given foreign nationals who had lived in New York City as little as 30 days the right to vote in local elections. In its decision on Monday, the court declared the law, which had been signed by incoming mayor Eric Adams just days after his inauguration, โillegal, null and voidโ because โit is clearโฆthat voting is a right granted to citizens of the United States.โ
The courtโs decision granted a p...
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The New York Supreme Court has invalidated a law allowing foreign nationals to vote in New York City elections
The New York Supreme Court has struck down a law passed in January that would have given foreign nationals who had lived in New York City as little as 30 days the right to vote in local elections. In its decision on Monday, the court declared the law, which had been signed by incoming mayor Eric Adams just days after his inauguration, โillegal, null and voidโ because โit is clearโฆthat voting is a right granted to citizens of the United States.โ
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Joe Biden paid his sonโs bills for prostitutes โ media
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Hunter Biden reportedly spent over $30,000 on Eastern European prostitutes, with his bank blocking transfers to Russian addresses
Data found on Hunter Bidenโs laptop reveal that the US presidentโs son spent over $30,000 on escorts from a โmodel agencyโ with offices in Kiev and Moscow, the Washington Examiner reported on Monday.
According to the report, Hunter Biden racked up his five-figure bill between November 2018 and March 2019, in between Joe Bidenโs terms as vice president and...
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Hunter Biden reportedly spent over $30,000 on Eastern European prostitutes, with his bank blocking transfers to Russian addresses
Data found on Hunter Bidenโs laptop reveal that the US presidentโs son spent over $30,000 on escorts from a โmodel agencyโ with offices in Kiev and Moscow, the Washington Examiner reported on Monday.
According to the report, Hunter Biden racked up his five-figure bill between November 2018 and March 2019, in between Joe Bidenโs terms as vice president and...
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Officers reveal problems with US army recruiting
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Widely panned โwokeโ ads are part of the problem, say reform advocates
The US military is posting the lowest recruitment numbers in decades, with the army doing worse than all the other service branches. An op-ed on Monday carefully blamed an โantiquatedโ recruitment system and the recent โwokeโ ads as the main culprits, proposing an overhaul of both.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon confirmed that the military was 23% behind its recruiting goals for the year. The problem was already appa...
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Widely panned โwokeโ ads are part of the problem, say reform advocates
The US military is posting the lowest recruitment numbers in decades, with the army doing worse than all the other service branches. An op-ed on Monday carefully blamed an โantiquatedโ recruitment system and the recent โwokeโ ads as the main culprits, proposing an overhaul of both.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon confirmed that the military was 23% behind its recruiting goals for the year. The problem was already appa...
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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word. Biden Aims to Bite the Bullet and Fix Relations With the Saudis
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Biden needs to now show the Saudis that he was wrong and is sorry as he needs Riyadh more than ever before.
The so-called strategy of Biden to put the Kingdom in line and to alienate MbS has been a disaster and massively backfired. Biden needs to now show the Saudis that he was wrong and is sorry as he needs Riyadh more than ever before.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has always grown accustomed to the game of the seesaw when U.S. presidents take office, as one great friend and supporter is replaced by a โfrenemyโ who gives Riyadh the cold shoulder. But few could have predicted that this seesaw would swing back within the four-year span of a U.S. presidency, which is what we are witnessing now with the somewhat preposterous stance that Joe Biden is now forced to take with the Saudis.
When Biden came into office he made a song and a dance about not โgiving blank chequesโ to regional players like the Saudis and it was obvious that he had Saudiโs mercurial Crown Prince โMbSโ in his sights, after a catalogue of appalling human rights calamities such as the Yemen war and the ghastly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
He imposed a weapons ban on the kingdom, restricted the movement of a number of top officials and made MbS persona non grata all as part of a churlish campaign to bring KSA into line with so-called U.S. โdemocratic valuesโ.
It didnโt take long though for Biden to cave into some stark realities which have turned the tables on him and his feeble gesturing. The moral tutelage quickly evaporated and reduced the American president to a more servile role in the aftermath of the Ukraine conflict โ which Biden is largely responsible for starting when he was vice president in 2014 and he was part of a ruse to overthrow the Russian-friendly leader at the time. Biden quickly realised that while the U.S. can adapt to a new oil crisis, Europe would find it much harder. The U.S. imposed maximum oil sanctions against Russia, but the EU could not follow through as a number of countries in Europe have no way of surviving without gas from Russia.
And so Biden now views Saudi Arabia through a new prism. Biden wised up and made the call to MbS shortly after the conflict started in mid-February but the Crown Prince refused to pick up โ a churlish gesture followed by the UAE and which has resonated across the Atlantic and given Biden a harsh lesson, which at his age and with his experience in the White House he really shouldnโt need. Be kind to your friends when you climb as you may need them on the way down.
The Ukraine crisis was massively misjudged by Biden. Itโs as though the U.S. president didnโt even care to do some peripheral research into the realities of going to war with Russia. The division between EU countries and also within the EU itself in Brussels guaranties that Europe will continue to fund Russiaโs military campaign through energy sales.
But Biden didnโt just misjudge how the war would play out in Ukraine and how the EU would be forced to play both a role in financing it on Russiaโs side but also facing crippling inflation at home at the gas pumps and the supermarkets.
Biden also misjudged how the price of gasoline in the U.S. would determine how well he has performed as U.S. president as midterm elections loom. The quick fix for him would be to get KSA on board with higher production which, he hopes, would bring down prices at the pump back home. A hard call from people he once called โmurderersโ, some might argue, and for that matter those who are feeling the...
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Biden needs to now show the Saudis that he was wrong and is sorry as he needs Riyadh more than ever before.
The so-called strategy of Biden to put the Kingdom in line and to alienate MbS has been a disaster and massively backfired. Biden needs to now show the Saudis that he was wrong and is sorry as he needs Riyadh more than ever before.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has always grown accustomed to the game of the seesaw when U.S. presidents take office, as one great friend and supporter is replaced by a โfrenemyโ who gives Riyadh the cold shoulder. But few could have predicted that this seesaw would swing back within the four-year span of a U.S. presidency, which is what we are witnessing now with the somewhat preposterous stance that Joe Biden is now forced to take with the Saudis.
When Biden came into office he made a song and a dance about not โgiving blank chequesโ to regional players like the Saudis and it was obvious that he had Saudiโs mercurial Crown Prince โMbSโ in his sights, after a catalogue of appalling human rights calamities such as the Yemen war and the ghastly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
He imposed a weapons ban on the kingdom, restricted the movement of a number of top officials and made MbS persona non grata all as part of a churlish campaign to bring KSA into line with so-called U.S. โdemocratic valuesโ.
It didnโt take long though for Biden to cave into some stark realities which have turned the tables on him and his feeble gesturing. The moral tutelage quickly evaporated and reduced the American president to a more servile role in the aftermath of the Ukraine conflict โ which Biden is largely responsible for starting when he was vice president in 2014 and he was part of a ruse to overthrow the Russian-friendly leader at the time. Biden quickly realised that while the U.S. can adapt to a new oil crisis, Europe would find it much harder. The U.S. imposed maximum oil sanctions against Russia, but the EU could not follow through as a number of countries in Europe have no way of surviving without gas from Russia.
And so Biden now views Saudi Arabia through a new prism. Biden wised up and made the call to MbS shortly after the conflict started in mid-February but the Crown Prince refused to pick up โ a churlish gesture followed by the UAE and which has resonated across the Atlantic and given Biden a harsh lesson, which at his age and with his experience in the White House he really shouldnโt need. Be kind to your friends when you climb as you may need them on the way down.
The Ukraine crisis was massively misjudged by Biden. Itโs as though the U.S. president didnโt even care to do some peripheral research into the realities of going to war with Russia. The division between EU countries and also within the EU itself in Brussels guaranties that Europe will continue to fund Russiaโs military campaign through energy sales.
But Biden didnโt just misjudge how the war would play out in Ukraine and how the EU would be forced to play both a role in financing it on Russiaโs side but also facing crippling inflation at home at the gas pumps and the supermarkets.
Biden also misjudged how the price of gasoline in the U.S. would determine how well he has performed as U.S. president as midterm elections loom. The quick fix for him would be to get KSA on board with higher production which, he hopes, would bring down prices at the pump back home. A hard call from people he once called โmurderersโ, some might argue, and for that matter those who are feeling the...
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โBiden Pays Big Bucks For Pfizerโs Latest Flop
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The Biden administration is paying $10.6 billion in taxpayer money for Pfizerโs unoriginal and ineffective Covid-19 drug, Paxlovid.
Dr. David GORTLER
Back in November 2021, the White House paid drugmaker Pfizer nearly $5.3 billion for 10 million treatment courses of its experimental Covid-19 treatment, Paxlovid, an antiviral combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir.
Ritonavir was developed in 1989 and nirmatrelvir was developed in 2020. In other words, Paxlovid wasnโt developed from scratch to treat Covid-19; the compounds already existed.
In December 2021, Pfizer claimed initial study findings showed that Paxlovid cut the risk of hospitalization and death by nearly 90 percent in people with mild to moderate coronavirus infections. Without context this statement is grossly misleading. Just about everyone who gets the existing Covid-19 mutation will have mild or moderate disease, yet the drugmaker limited its study to people who were unvaccinated and faced the greatest risk from the virus due to age or health problems, such as obesity. An updated, more recent analysis from 1,153 patients (out of a possible 2,246 patients) showed a lackluster, non-significant 51 percent relative risk reduction. A sub-group analysis of 721 vaccinated adults with at least one risk factor for progression to severe Covid-19 showed a non-significant relative risk reduction in hospitalization or death (treatment arm: 3/361; placebo: 7/360).
According to Pfizerโs official June 14 press release, results from the Phase 2/3 of the amended Paxlovid EPIC-SR (Evaluation of Protease Inhibition for COVID-19 in Standard-Risk Patients) study showed, with my emphasis:
The novel primary endpoint of self-reported, sustained alleviation of all symptoms for four consecutive days was not met.
Pfizer will cease enrollment into the EPIC-SR trial due to low rate of hospitalization or death in the standard-risk population.
Tucked within Pfizerโs press release was the following financial nugget for investors: โThe results from these additional analyses are not expected to impact Pfizerโs full-year 2022 revenue guidance.โ The reason for that is: Pfizer already has $5.3 billion in hand from taxpayers, and has locked in โblockbuster statusโ (defined as one billion dollars in sales of a single drug).
In addition to the $5.3 billion already committed, in January the U.S. announced a confidential additional โcommitmentโ to order an additional 10 million doses (at the price of 5.3 billion dollars more, for a total of $10.6 billion), giving Pfizer highly sought-after โsuper blockbuster statusโ (defined as 10 billion dollars in sales of a single drug). The administration remained โfirmly committed to proceeding with the [additional] purchase,โ according to an April 2022 Bloomberg report.
According to Bloomberg, the White House initially sought $22.5 billion in new pandemic funding. Democrats were prepared to include just over $15 billion in a broad government-spending bill earlier this year, but it was removed amid disputes wit...
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The Biden administration is paying $10.6 billion in taxpayer money for Pfizerโs unoriginal and ineffective Covid-19 drug, Paxlovid.
Dr. David GORTLER
Back in November 2021, the White House paid drugmaker Pfizer nearly $5.3 billion for 10 million treatment courses of its experimental Covid-19 treatment, Paxlovid, an antiviral combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir.
Ritonavir was developed in 1989 and nirmatrelvir was developed in 2020. In other words, Paxlovid wasnโt developed from scratch to treat Covid-19; the compounds already existed.
In December 2021, Pfizer claimed initial study findings showed that Paxlovid cut the risk of hospitalization and death by nearly 90 percent in people with mild to moderate coronavirus infections. Without context this statement is grossly misleading. Just about everyone who gets the existing Covid-19 mutation will have mild or moderate disease, yet the drugmaker limited its study to people who were unvaccinated and faced the greatest risk from the virus due to age or health problems, such as obesity. An updated, more recent analysis from 1,153 patients (out of a possible 2,246 patients) showed a lackluster, non-significant 51 percent relative risk reduction. A sub-group analysis of 721 vaccinated adults with at least one risk factor for progression to severe Covid-19 showed a non-significant relative risk reduction in hospitalization or death (treatment arm: 3/361; placebo: 7/360).
According to Pfizerโs official June 14 press release, results from the Phase 2/3 of the amended Paxlovid EPIC-SR (Evaluation of Protease Inhibition for COVID-19 in Standard-Risk Patients) study showed, with my emphasis:
The novel primary endpoint of self-reported, sustained alleviation of all symptoms for four consecutive days was not met.
Pfizer will cease enrollment into the EPIC-SR trial due to low rate of hospitalization or death in the standard-risk population.
Tucked within Pfizerโs press release was the following financial nugget for investors: โThe results from these additional analyses are not expected to impact Pfizerโs full-year 2022 revenue guidance.โ The reason for that is: Pfizer already has $5.3 billion in hand from taxpayers, and has locked in โblockbuster statusโ (defined as one billion dollars in sales of a single drug).
In addition to the $5.3 billion already committed, in January the U.S. announced a confidential additional โcommitmentโ to order an additional 10 million doses (at the price of 5.3 billion dollars more, for a total of $10.6 billion), giving Pfizer highly sought-after โsuper blockbuster statusโ (defined as 10 billion dollars in sales of a single drug). The administration remained โfirmly committed to proceeding with the [additional] purchase,โ according to an April 2022 Bloomberg report.
According to Bloomberg, the White House initially sought $22.5 billion in new pandemic funding. Democrats were prepared to include just over $15 billion in a broad government-spending bill earlier this year, but it was removed amid disputes wit...
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Pfizer inks $5.3B Paxlovid supply deal with US, adding to its huge pandemic revenue haul
Pfizer, already flush with revenue from its BioNTech-partnered COVID-19 vaccine, has officially locked up a deal to sell its coronavirus antiviral hopeful to the U.S. | Pfizer officially struck a deal to sell its investigational COVID-19 antiviral to theโฆ
Imperial Narrative Control Has Five Distinct Elements
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
All of our worldโs worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people donโt use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating peopleโs understanding of whatโs going on.
Humans are storytelling creatures. If you can control the stories humans are telling themselves about the world, you control the humans, and you control the world.
Mental narrative plays a hugely prominent role in human experience; if youโve ever tried to still your...
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
All of our worldโs worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people donโt use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating peopleโs understanding of whatโs going on.
Humans are storytelling creatures. If you can control the stories humans are telling themselves about the world, you control the humans, and you control the world.
Mental narrative plays a hugely prominent role in human experience; if youโve ever tried to still your...
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Dr. Robert Malone - Gov't Knew Mandatory Vaccines Were Useless
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Before Dr. Birx had a chance to speak, Representative Jim Jordan (R, OH) asked, "Dr. Birx, why should Americans believe anything the government says about COVID? I mean, last summer, President Biden said this quote, 'You're not going to get COVID. If you have these vaccinations. If you're vaccinated, you're not going to be hospitalized, you're not going to be in the ICU.
"Doctor Birx, can vaccinated people get COVID? Have vaccinated people been hospitalized with COVID?*" Birx answered yes to both questions. Vaccinated people can get COVID, and vaccinated people have been hospitalized with COVID. ...
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Before Dr. Birx had a chance to speak, Representative Jim Jordan (R, OH) asked, "Dr. Birx, why should Americans believe anything the government says about COVID? I mean, last summer, President Biden said this quote, 'You're not going to get COVID. If you have these vaccinations. If you're vaccinated, you're not going to be hospitalized, you're not going to be in the ICU.
"Doctor Birx, can vaccinated people get COVID? Have vaccinated people been hospitalized with COVID?*" Birx answered yes to both questions. Vaccinated people can get COVID, and vaccinated people have been hospitalized with COVID. ...
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UN chief says ailing oceans in state of 'emergency'
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A long-delayed conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon on Monday, with the head of the UN saying th
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A long-delayed conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon on Monday, with the head of the UN saying th
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Qatar steps in to hold informal nuclear talks between Iran and US: Reports
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As per a Reuters report quoting Iranian media, in a bid to break the months-long impasse in negotiations to reinstate the 2015 nuclear pact, Qatar
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As per a Reuters report quoting Iranian media, in a bid to break the months-long impasse in negotiations to reinstate the 2015 nuclear pact, Qatar
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G7 leaders strategise to 'force down the price of Russian oil' and target Moscow's 'main source of cash'
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In what would be a significant uptick in the campaign to punish the Kremlin for its invasion of Ukraine, the United States as per an AFP report cla
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In what would be a significant uptick in the campaign to punish the Kremlin for its invasion of Ukraine, the United States as per an AFP report cla
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Top 10 world news: Not the time to negotiate with Russia, Zelensky tells G7, and more
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Now is not the time for negotiations with Russia, Zelensky has told G7 leaders.ร With legalisation of cannabis, psychological problems, suicides hav
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Now is not the time for negotiations with Russia, Zelensky has told G7 leaders.ร With legalisation of cannabis, psychological problems, suicides hav
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US to send advanced weapons system to Ukraine: Report
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As Russia continues its offensive in Ukraine, reports claim the US is set to provide advanced surface-to-air missile systems and more artillery to
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As Russia continues its offensive in Ukraine, reports claim the US is set to provide advanced surface-to-air missile systems and more artillery to
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Oslo names radical Islamist as suspect in gay bar shooting, say they were keeping an eye on him since 2015
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A Norwegian court on Monday named Zaniar Matapour, a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin as the suspect in the deadly rampage at a gay bar in Oslo.
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A Norwegian court on Monday named Zaniar Matapour, a Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin as the suspect in the deadly rampage at a gay bar in Oslo.
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PM Modi meets world leaders at G7 summit
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met world leaders including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday on the sidelines of the G7 su
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met world leaders including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday on the sidelines of the G7 su
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Toxic gas leak in Jordan claims lives of ten people, 251 injured: State media
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A toxic gas leak from a storage tank at Jordanรขยยs Aqaba port claimed the lives of ten people and another 251 were injured, according to the state te
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A toxic gas leak from a storage tank at Jordanรขยยs Aqaba port claimed the lives of ten people and another 251 were injured, according to the state te
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UAE offers assistance to make prisoner exchange possible between Russia, Ukraine
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In order to make a prisoner exchange possible, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has offered its assistance to Russia and Ukraine, reported Russian ne
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In order to make a prisoner exchange possible, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has offered its assistance to Russia and Ukraine, reported Russian ne
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UAE offers assistance to make prisoner exchange possible between Russia, Ukraine
Earlier this month, the Ukrainian government also said that 11 rounds of prisoner swaps have been held since the war has started. In these rounds, several prisoners have been swapped. Each nation has accused each otherโs forces of committing war crimes andโฆ