US declares public health emergency
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Despite the monkeypox virus almost exclusively affecting gay men, the White House said “every American” should take it seriously

The US administration on Thursday declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, two weeks after the World Health Organization upgraded its classification of the virus.

Health Secretary Xavier Becerra announced the declaration during a briefing, telling reporters that the White House is urging “every American to take monkeypox seriously.” By declaring an emergency, the Biden administration can access more funding to respond to the virus, by purchasing vaccine doses or treatments from pharmaceutical firms, for exam...

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Taiwan tensions impact US missile test
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The Pentagon postponed a scheduled Minuteman ICBM test, citing China’s drills around Taiwan

Chinese military drills off the coast of Taiwan have prompted the US Air Force to postpone a test of its nuclear deterrent on Thursday.

A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was scheduled for a test launch from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, but was put on hold, reportedly to avoid inflaming tensions with Beijing. 

The delay was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed...

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US job­less claims climb again, near high­est since No­vem­ber
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Un­em­ploy­ment claims have been on the rise the last few months, per­haps sig­nal­ing a slow­ing labour mar­ket.
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Flori­da’s De­San­tis sus­pends state pros­e­cu­tor over abor­tion law
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An­drew War­ren, an elect­ed De­mo­c­ra­t­ic state at­tor­ney, had pledged not to en­force the US state’s 15-week abor­tion ban.
Published On 4 Aug 2022

US: Mon­key­pox de­clared a pub­lic health emer­gency
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More than 6,600 cas­es have been de­tect­ed in the US as the Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion faces scruti­ny on vac­cine dis­tri­b­u­tion.
Published On 4 Aug 2022

Fam­i­lies de­mand jus­tice two years on from Beirut port blast
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Thou­sands gath­er in Lebanon’s cap­i­tal to com­mem­o­rate two years since a dead­ly port ex­plo­sion, de­mand­ing ac­count­abil­i­ty.
Published On 4 Aug 2022

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Sene­gal: Gov­ern­ing coali­tion los­es leg­isla­tive ma­jor­i­ty
The op­po­si­tion, which saw elec­tions as a chance to check Macky Sall’s third-term as­pi­ra­tions, is with­out a ma­jor­i­ty too.
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Lady Gaga appears to confirm casting in Joker sequel
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Lady Gaga appears to confirm casting in Joker sequel

Derek Lyng succeeds Brian Cody as Kilkenny boss
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A statement from the county board tonight has confirmed he takes over from Brian Cody as part of a three-year term.

St Pat's secure huge European win against CSKA Sofia; Sligo suffer heavy Viking loss
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Serge Atakayi scored the late winner in the 87th minute.

Man and woman die in drowning incident in Kerry
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Two people have died in a drowning accident in Ballybunion, Co Kerry this evening, Valentia Coastguard has confirmed.

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White House says Minuteman III missile test delayed to de-escalate China standoff
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Amid tensions over Taiwan, the United States has delayed postponed a routine test launch of an Air Force Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic m

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Iran nuclear deal: Indirect talks resume in Vienna as Tehran expands enrichment
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Seeking to salvage the agreement on Tehran's atomic ambitions, negotiations kicked off a fresh round of talks over Iran's nuclear programme in Vien

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Monkeypox outbreak: US cases top 6,600, Biden calls it public health emergency
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In order to free up new funds and assist in data gathering, US President Joe Biden declared monkeypox a public health emergency.

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NATO-backed network of Syria dirty war propagandists identified
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Defaming journalism on the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal, The Guardian and its NATO-funded sources out themselves as the real “network of conspiracy theorists.”

By Aaron MATÉ

On June 10th, The Guardian’s Mark Townsend published an article headlined “Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified.” (“Russia-backed” has since been removed).

The article is based on what Townsend calls a “new analysis” that “reveals” a “network more than two dozen conspiracy theorists, frequ...

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The First Cracks in the Biden-Zelensky Relationship Appear. But Why Now?
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Has Biden figured that the way to divert opprobrium from the US media is to get out of the war in Ukraine and look at a second phase later on?

You might have easily missed it. The reference, for the first time by the left-wing press in the US which supports Biden, that corruption exists and is a real problem in the administration of President Zelensky in Ukraine.

The article, penned by the Washington Post’s top foreign affairs correspondent and award-winning journalist Thomas L Friedman, was really about hinting that relations between the Biden camp and Zelensky’s was hardly one on firm ground. Perhaps it never was. But for the moment, this narrative is being fed into the system – via Friedman – is that relations are not quite what they are perceived to be by most western media.

The timing is interesting as I have long argued that the US is looking for a way to distance itself from Zelensky and may well be considering how to remove him (even by assassination which could be blamed on the Russians). Is the Biden camp preparing the ground for such a move with this article?

Friedman described Zelensky’s decision to fire Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova and the head of the State Security Service (SBU), Ivan Bakanov, in mid-July as “funny business going on in Kiev” adding that he hadn’t yet seen any reporting in the US media that “convincingly explains” the reasons behind the largest shakeup in the Kiev government since the beginning of the war. He then hits us with the kill shot.

“It is as if we don’t want to look too closely under the hood in Kiev for fear of what corruption or antics we might see, when we have invested so much there,” he wrote.

Is this a hint of some sort? Is Biden warning Zelensky to clean his backyard up and to keep the lid on re-selling of US arms to the black market of weapons, which often means selling to terrorist groups in Syria – or else. 

Or is he saying to the rest of the media, that this is the theme which we would like you to carry on? Certainly, to start with the Washington Post and using someone like Friedman would be a deft media move to create a momentum on the given theme of graft getting out of control. But equally, it would be an erudite move to send a message to Zelensky himself. We will soon know in the coming weeks.

It’s quite possible that Biden’s camp knew about the Ukraine military selling off huge amounts of the military sent to the Ukraine and were quite happy with it, as long as Zelensky played ball on a number of matters which revolved around the same theme: the White House calls the shots on the day-to-day events of the war. This feeds into the thousands of satirical memes on social media which portray Zelensky as some kind of sex slave, complete with PVC underwear.

But here are the five scenarios which explain the corruption and weapons being resold

Money laundering. Biden is sending the hardware and Zelensky is selling half of it to the arms market. The money is being kept by Zelensky on behalf of Biden. Zelensky is simply a bank manager for Biden whose family have many murky business deals in the country anyway.
Biden is aware of the arms being sold on and Zelensky keeping the profits in return for keeping a number of business deals which the Biden family have there.
The Ukrainian military is selling the equipment and keeping the profits themselves and Zelensky is not part of it, although he gives tacit approval to it.
The cash from the arms re-selling and also money from US taxpayers is being held in a ‘dirty bank’ account, controlled by Zelensky which the Biden family are keeping for t...

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