Three United Nations employees have been arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine across the Jordanian border into Israel by liquefying the drug and disguising it as a perfume-making component. The suspects, who work for the UN in Syria, were apprehended on Sunday near Beit She’an as they tried to enter Israel at the Jordan River Border Crossing, according to a joint statement by police and the Israel Tax Authority. Inspectors detected what they believed to be liquid cocaine in perfume-making kits that the UN workers were allegedly trying to bring into the country. Smugglers often dissolve cocaine into…
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Russia was the only European country last month to record a drop in food prices, sometimes referred to as deflation, RIA Novosti reported on Sunday. The news agency cited calculations based on figures from the national statistics offices of 40 European countries that disclosed data for May in early June. According to the data, prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages in Russia fell by a record 1.12% in annual terms. This was the second consecutive month when prices on these groups of products displayed deflation – in April they’d fallen 0.22%. Prior to this, annual price drops for food and…
The number of students in New Jersey public schools who openly identify as “non-binary” has gone up by a staggering 4,000% in the past four years, according to enrollment data published by the state’s Department of Education. The report, which sets out the number of pre-kindergarten to kindergarten and 12th grade students, indicates that there were a total of 675 students who identified as gender-non-conforming in the 2022-2023 school year. In the year of 2019-2020, by comparison, that number was just 16. It’s also noted that of all the ‘non-binary’ students in New Jersey this year, 41 were still in elementary school.…
Foreign intelligence services likely played a role in the failed Wagner PMC coup attempt on Saturday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has claimed. In his address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin described the mutineers as traitors whose actions could play into the hands of Moscow’s adversaries. In an interview with Serbia’s Pink TV channel on Sunday, Vucic stressed that Belgrade does not support coups in other countries as a matter of principle. “We didn’t support it in Turkey or Russia, we wouldn’t support it in America, either,” the official explained, adding that governments should only be “changed in elections…
US intelligence agencies strongly suspected that Evgeny Prigozhin was planning a major move against the Russian government, days before the Wagner chief ordered his troops to march on Moscow, The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing sources. According to unnamed US officials interviewed by the paper, the administration of US President Joe Biden and military commanders were briefed on the Wagner preparations as early as Wednesday. As additional details came in, another briefing attended by a narrow group of congressional leaders was reportedly held on Thursday. The situation escalated only on Friday night, when Prigozhin accused the Russian Defense…
A proposed cage match between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg would be the most profitable fight in history, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s president told TMZ Sports this week. Dana White said the broadcast “would break all pay-per-view records,” referring to the standard television service used to broadcast UFC fights. “This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world, bigger than anything that’s ever been done,” White predicted. A standard UFC PPV costs $80, but White said he would charge $100 for the Musk-Zuckerberg face-off. So far, the biggest PPV in history was a boxing…
A train carrying potentially hazardous materials has derailed in the US State of Montana, with several cars ending up in the water, authorities said on Saturday. Montana Rail Link, the company operating the train, said there were no injuries. In a statement on Facebook, Stillwater County’s Disaster and Emergency Services Department (DES) said the incident occurred at about 6am local time on a bridge over the Yellowstone River, which collapsed. In total, three cars containing hot asphalt and four cars carrying molten sulfur crashed into the water, it added. The department said the cause of the incident remains unclear, and…
Donald Trump’s lead over his nearest Republican opponent for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination has nearly doubled since the former US president was indicted on federal charges earlier this month, a new poll has shown. The NBC News survey, released on Sunday, shows that Trump is the first choice for 51% of Republican primary voters, compared with 22% for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and 7% for former vice president Mike Pence. Trump’s 29-point lead over DeSantis compares with a 15-point margin when the same poll was done in April. Pollsters began the latest survey on June 16, a week after the…
Ukraine’s Embassy in Tel Aviv has lashed out at Israel, accusing the country of providing insufficient support to Kiev amid the conflict with Moscow, and bolstering ties with Russia instead. In a statement posted on Facebook on Sunday, the Ukrainian mission noted “with regret that the current Israeli government has chosen the path of close cooperation with Russia.” There has been “complete inaction in providing Ukraine with defensive assistance over the past one-and-a-half years” on the part of the Jewish state, the statement read. The embassy accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of making “entirely fictional and speculative assumptions” in order to justify inaction by…
Harvard University business administration professor Francesca Gino has been placed on leave after a science blog accused her of faking study results, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Data integrity blog DataColada published a detailed examination of Gino’s alleged fraud, including falsified study results found in at least four articles. The three behavioral scientists behind the blog had previously been involved in uncovering falsified data in one of Gino’s best-known studies. However, the findings had already been cited hundreds of times in other papers, with thousands of dollars spent by governments attempting to turn them into policy. In 2021,…
One of the co-authors of Russia’s Constitution, former lawmaker Viktor Sheinis, died on Sunday, his Yabloko party announced. The veteran politician was 92 years old, the party said on its website, adding that details on his funeral will be published later. Sheinis was born in 1931 in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He studied in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), graduating from Leningrad State University. He then pursued both academic and political careers, becoming a doctor of economics in 1982. In 1990, Sheinis was elected to the Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian Soviet Republic, which was…
Ukraine will not be able to organize elections so long as martial law is in effect, President Vladimir Zelensky told British state broadcaster BCC in an interview on Friday. His original five-year term is set to expire in May 2024. “In accordance with the law, elections need to happen in a time of peace, when there is no fighting,” Zelensky told the BBC when asked if there would be a presidential election next year. Ukrainian laws mandate a parliamentary election no later than October 29 this year. For that to actually happen, Kiev would need to end martial law so the…
British homeowners may have to pay 50% more on their mortgages by the end of the year as a result of the Bank of England’s (BoE) interest rate hikes, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) warned in a new report published on Thursday. According to the findings, higher mortgage repayments could wipe out the savings of some 1.2 million British families, bringing the total number of insolvent households to 7.8 million, or 28% of the total in the country. The analysts also calculated that the rising repayments in aggregate will erase 0.3% of the UK’s gross domestic product (GDP)…
Georgian wine exports to Russia saw a massive year-on-year growth in the first five months of the current year, Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Monday, citing customs data. Russian purchases of still wines from the South Caucasus nation surged by 63% from January to May, compared to the same period a year ago, helping Georgia overtake Italy as Russia’s top still wine supplier. Italian wine producers saw shipments rise by 31% year-on-year to 23.3 million liters during the period, while the former Soviet republic shipped over 24.15 million liters of still wine to Russia. The share of Georgian and Italian…
When it comes to elections, the U.S. Constitution is clear: Determining their time, place, and manner falls squarely upon the shoulders of the state legislatures with limited oversight from Congress. Nowhere is the president granted the power to regulate elections. Yet through Executive Order 14019, President Joe Biden has ordered federal agencies to engage in overtly political activities that will affect elections, while violating the Constitution and federal law in the process. The bad news is this executive order brings the threat of federal election interference to every state’s doorstep. And with the countdown to 2024 well underway, time is running out to…
The Russian Defense Ministry has accused PMC Wagner head Evgeny Prigozhin of spreading falsehoods, after a video made the rounds on social media on Friday purporting to show a rocket strike on one of the company’s bases from Russian territory. “All messages and video distributed on social networks on behalf of [Evgeny] Prigozhin about the alleged strike by the [Russian military] on the camps of PMC Wagner in the rear areas do not correspond to reality and are an informational provocation,” the ministry said in a statement. “Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to carry out combat missions on the…
Sweden has just dealt a severe blow to the globalist climate agenda by scraping its green energy targets. In a statement announcing the new policy in the Swedish Parliament, Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson warned that the Scandinavian nation needs “a stable energy system.” Svantesson asserted that wind and solar power are too “unstable” to meet the nation’s energy requirements. Instead, the Swedish Government is shifting back to nuclear power and has ditched its targets for a “100% renewable energy” supply. The move is a major blow to unreliable and inefficient technology. Countries are being pushed toward “renewable energy” to meet the goals…
The attempted insurrection by the chief of the Wagner private military company, Evgeny Prigozhin, amounts to a betrayal of Russia and its people, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an address to the nation on Saturday morning. He also vowed that the country’s law enforcement agencies will take decisive actions to restore order. In a televised speech, Putin appealed to Russian service members and those “who have been drawn into this criminal gamble by deceit or threats,” without naming Prigozhin in particular. He noted that Moscow is engaged in a historic struggle to safeguard its future while “repelling aggression from neo-Nazis and their…