Belarus is planning to include chemical castration in the program for treating pedophiles as part of an action plan to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation, the General Prosecutor’s Office said. The agency announced the steps on Telegram on Monday following approval from the Belarusian government. Amendments to the country’s criminal code were prepared by the interior ministry envisaging “compulsory treatment of persons suffering from pedophilia,” in addition to their court sentence, the statement read. As part of the action plan, the Health Ministry developed and approved “a clinical protocol containing an algorithm for the treatment of pedophilia, including the use of chemical…
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Water has been found in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt for the first time, giving scientists an insight into where Earth’s oceans may have come from, NASA says. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) NIRSpec (near-infrared spectrograph) confirmed water vapour around Comet 238P/Read, circulating between Jupiter and Mars. In a statement, NASA said the discovery confirmed longstanding speculation that water ice could be preserved in the warmer asteroid belt inside Jupiter’s orbit, and could have been delivered to a young Earth. “Our water-soaked world, teeming with life and unique in the universe as far as we know, is something…
A group of teachers from the American midwest admitted to flouting the law in a bid to help their students change their gender, the Daily Mail reported on Monday. Their efforts are reportedly funded by the administration of President Joe Biden, which recently moved to quash state-level bans on underage sex changes. Daily Mail reporters gained access to a recent online conference organized by the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP). Attended by 30 teachers from 13 states – including Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin, the conference was called to address a slew of Republican-authored bills enforcing single-sex bathrooms,…
An explosion earlier this month at a major ammonia pipeline running through Ukraine may have been part of Kiev’s sabotage tactics, German tabloid Bild reported on Sunday, citing an internal Defense Ministry paper. The blast on June 5 damaged a section of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline in Ukraine’s Kharkov Region, which borders Russia. The pipeline had transported Russian fertilizer to the Ukrainian port city of Odessa to be further shipped around the world, but had been inactive since the start of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022. Russia had repeatedly demanded that the pipeline be unblocked by…
In an unprecedented move, twenty armed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents carried out a raid on a gun store in Great Falls, Montana, seizing all Form 4473 – documents that record buyer’s information during firearms transactions. Tom Van Hoose, owner of Highwood Creek Outfitters, alleges that he has been under constant surveillance by state and federal agencies for over two years, KRTV reported. On Wednesday, the gun shop owner reported an unexpected visit from 20 heavily armed IRS and ATF agents at his store. The agents reportedly arrived at the shop early in…
How did Apeel, a bizarre World Economic Forum (WEF) and Bill Gates-funded food coating that makes spoiling fruits and vegetables appear fresh, become approved for use on USDA Organic produce under the name Organipeel? According to the Organic Consumers Association (OGA), the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) gave Apeel’s Organipeel the green light, “presumably based on citric acid being the active ingredient.” OGA explains that citric acid is a non-organic ingredient allowed in organic foods as long as it isn’t synthetic. Yet, OGA notes that citric acid is only 0.66 percent of the Organipeel formulation. So, what makes up the other 99.44 percent of Organipeel? According to Apeel…
The UK has introduced legislation that would allow for the retention and liquidation of confiscated frozen Russian assets, setting a precedent among Western countries, British media reported on Monday. The new law will allow the British government to keep its sanctions in place until compensation is paid to Ukraine, thus introducing a way for seized Russian money to be handed over to Kiev. According to media reports, the law will ensure that frozen assets belonging to the Russian state and individuals can be seized, making the UK the first European government to take such a step. “Through our new measures…
Temel Alsancak, one of the suspected organizers of the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Türkiye Andrey Karlov in 2016, is reportedly enjoying a lavish lifestyle in the US, the Sabah newspaper has claimed, citing sources within the Turkish intelligence community. Alsancak, who is believed to be a member of what Türkiye calls the Fethullah Gulen Terrorist Organization (FETO), reportedly fled to Germany shortly after the assassination. However, the Daily Sabah claims that he was recently spotted in Dallas, Texas, where he allegedly lives in an “extremely luxurious villa” worth around $1.2 million. It is also claimed that Alsancak has registered a number…
Pfizer will run out of several doses of penicillin, which treat syphilis, strep throat, and other infections, later this year as shortages ripple across the US supply chain. The company anticipates running out of the children’s dose of the syphilis drug Bicillin L-A by the end of June, according to a letter Pfizer posted Tuesday on the Food and Drug Administration’s website. The company says it’s prioritizing production of larger doses of Bicillin L-A, which is recommended for pregnant people with syphilis because it is the only drug that can pass through the placenta and also treat the fetus. A…
The global infoscape is currently abuzz with alarmist predictions over the dangers posed by artificial intelligence (AI). Billionaire entrepreneurs and their hirelings, who had once gushed over the emerging AI “technopia”, have suddenly turned apocalyptic. As the narrative du jour goes, a sentient AI may ultimately turn against its creators. But are there any merits to this claim, apart from fictional cues from the Terminator franchise? One way to answer that question would be to compare AI to an analogue that is already available and sentient, namely – the human brain. AI was designed not only to mimic the human mind but also to out-compute it in certain aspects.…
The Grand Canyon is known for its breathtaking vistas and being one of the seven natural wonders of the world. A New York Post investigation recently found it is also the deadliest national park in the country, with the most number of missing persons in the nation. According to the reporting, there have been at least six people found dead and 56 missing persons at Grand Canyon National Park from 2018 through February 2023. Visitors filed about 1,100 missing persons reports in that time as well. Most of those people were found. A retired chief of emergency services at the Arizona park told the Post that…
Cinemas in Nepal’s two biggest cities – capital Kathmandu and Pokhara on the shores of Lake Phewa – have imposed a ban on Bollywood films over an “objectionable” line in a new Indian action movie, ‘Adipurush’, which was released on June 16. The film is shot in the Telugu language, which is widely spoken in the southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and India’s national language, Hindi. The movie is based on the Hindu epic ‘Ramayana’, and is written and directed by Om Raut and produced by Indian companies T-Series and Retrophiles. It stars Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan, Kriti Sanon, Sunny…
It was March 11, 2021—one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic—and in those twelve months, emerging data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that historic rates of mental illness, overdose deaths and deaths by suicide were soaring. Amid the horrific trends, the government decided to take action. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline was getting a makeover. As part of the refresh, the 10-digit phone number was simplified to a succinct 9-8-8. The lifeline also added texting services, in addition to comprehensive mental health services beyond suicide prevention. The program was supported with $200 million in…
Human embryos made without eggs or sperm have been created in a scientific breakthrough which is bound to raise serious ethical and legal questions. They were produced in a joint project between Cambridge University and the California Institute of Technology and resemble embryos in the earliest stages of human development. They do not have the beginnings of a brain or a beating heart, but do include cells which would go on to form the placenta and yolk sac. Scientists believe that their finding could provide significant insight and aid research into rare genetic disorders and the biological causes of miscarriage. But the synthetic embryos…
FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate stonewalled Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during Tuesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing about if the bureau possesses the alleged 17 recordings between a Burisma Holdings executive and President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. On Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed the Burisma executive who allegedly paid Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden $5 million each kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations of them as an “insurance policy.” “Do you have the 17 recordings? Yes or no?” Cruz drilled Abbate. “I’m not going to get further into that,” he replied after admitting the FBI possesses…
Octopuses have found an incredible way to protect the most delicate features of their nervous system against radical changes in temperature. When conditions fluctuate, they can rapidly recode key proteins in their nerve cells, ensuring critical neurological activities keep working when temperatures drop dramatically. How do they do that? Displaying a rare superpower: they edit their RNA on the fly, an ability found in some species of octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. It’s an unusual strategy, but it appears to be effective, and scientists believe it can be widely adopted across the cephalopod world. “We generally think of our genetic information as…
The embattled First Republic Bank has been taken over by regulators and will be sold to JPMorgan Chase, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) announced on Monday. Earlier this week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a principal federal regulator of US financial institutions, asked a number of banks to submit bids for the struggling lender in an effort to secure a buyer before it entered receivership. A deadline for bids was set for Sunday. JPMorgan, America’s biggest bank, will “assume all deposits, including all uninsured deposits, and substantially all assets” of First Republic, according to a statement issued…
US President Joe Biden has formally announced his 2024 re-election bid, a move that had been widely expected for months. The announcement comes despite opinion polls showing that most voters, including a majority of fellow Democrats, did not want the 80-year-old to seek a second term. In a video statement released on Tuesday, Biden touted his new campaign as a fight for democracy in the US. He said his pledge to fight “for the soul of America,” which was the core message of his 2020 run, remains valid. “The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have…