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Restoring the destroyed gas pipelines could require Russian expertise and Chinese materials, according to a technical report Repairing the Nord Stream gas pipelines would take 36 months provided funding could be secured and no delays were encountered, according to a technical report submitted to the High Court in London.The report was commissioned by the court, which is currently weighing an insurance dispute between the pipeline’s operator, Nord Stream AG, and Lloyd’s Insurance Company and Arch Insurance. The two insurers are refusing to pay a €580 million ($684 million) claim to the operator, arguing that the pipelines were damaged as a…
Olivier le Polain, an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), said on Friday that there are still “many blind spots in some areas that are high risk,” so the full extent of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains unclear. “Surveillance really needs to be strengthened in those areas,” he advised. “The full scale of the outbreak is not yet clear, and we’ll get more clarity as surveillance improves.” Le Polain, who spoke from the North Kivu provincial capital of Beni in the DRC, delivered the alarming revelation that new Ebola cases are still…
The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly approved the Paramount Skydance $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to insiders. The approval is a major hurdle for the massive media deal, but Paramount may still face legal challenges from several state attorneys general, including California’s Democrat AG, Rob Bonita, CNBC reported. Official announcement by the DOJ’s Antitrust Division has not yet been made, but Paramount’s stock rose four percent after the news of the claims by DOJ insiders broke on Friday. According to Politico, the deal has been approved without requiring “any divestitures, behavioral remedies or concessions.” The report…
Thursday on CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump of “telling falsehood after falsehood.” Host Kaitlan Collins said, “You know, as a senator, I mean, and to one who’s been in Washington a long time as a congressman before this, how do you read into it when the president does post something like he does this morning, saying that strikes are happening tonight, that the United States is going to seize Kharg Island, we’re going to take over Iran’s oil and gas. I mean, do you take it seriously when he says it in the moment? Because obviously,…
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama accused Iran of using disinformation and political manipulation to promote the “Flamingo Revolution,” the protest movement calling for Rama’s government to scuttle a $1.6 billion luxury resort project spearheaded by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump. Rama told reporters on June 5 that protests against the planned resort have mutated from environmentalism into a political assault on himself and President Trump at the urging of Iran, which he accused of waging a “hybrid war” of disinformation against the project. “Behind the protest are the Iranians, who have been involved in attacks…
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) discussed DNI nominee Jay Clayton and said that the release of Trump’s tax returns that Clayton criticized “embarrassed the president because the president is trying to hide tax fraud from the American people. It wouldn’t be embarrassing to release his tax returns if they were legal.” Moulton said, “I’ve seen bipartisan comments about Jay Clark Clayton having bipartisan respect, but that was a few years ago. And, most recently, he has spread this propaganda from MAGA Republicans that the California elections are rigged, as the president has said, with…
The bloc’s foreign service is reportedly seen as “dysfunctional” under its current chief EU member states could seek to curtail the powers of the bloc’s diplomatic service, headed by Kaja Kallas, amid concerns among officials that the body is “dysfunctional,” the Financial Times has reported.The European External Action Service (EEAS) was launched in 2010 as a kind of collective foreign ministry for the EU, overseeing international relations, aid programs, and intelligence gathering and analysis.France has outlined possible reforms of the EEAS for consideration by member states, the FT reported on Thursday.One option would return some of the service’s functions to…
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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) called conservative activist Scott Presler a “grifter” on Thursday after Presler said he approached the senator at an airport. Presler initially wrote on X that he had a brief interaction with Cornyn at an airport, where he encouraged the Texas Republican to pass the SAVE America Act. “Just had a conversation with Senator John Cornyn at the airport,” Presler posted. “I was very gracious & asked him to pass the SAVE America Act.” Cornyn later reposted Presler’s post and responded with a single word: “Grifter.” Presler fired back in a lengthy response, saying the encounter was cordial…
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday criticized top officials in the Republican Party of Florida after the party announced it was not holding a gubernatorial debate at its “Sunshine State Showdown” party gathering being held later this month in South Florida. The party said it made that decision because Rep. Byron Donalds — who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump but not DeSantis — was the only candidate to meet internal qualification criteria based on polls and fundraising. Other GOP candidates include Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and former state House Speaker Paul Renner. But DeSantis contended the…