Yesterday, May 8, 2023 marked 78 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe - VE Day. While the conflict which claimed millions of lives on European soil is firmly committed to the annals of history, Statista's Martin Armstrong notes that war in the East of the continent is still a harsh ...

Whether US, EU or India, decoupling from the world’s second biggest economy is near impossible. De-risking is the new buzzword. But even that’s not easy Is it divorce or just separation, or an affair gone wrong? The United States is sending mixed signals on its relations with China. On April 20, Jan...

The saying often goes that happiness is a choice people make in their lives, but did you know that this trait or emotion can be measured and indexed all around the globe? In the 11th iteration of their study, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network just released their 2023 list of the World Ha...

German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, who once claimed that COVID-19 vaccination was free of side effects, admitted last week that he was wrong, saying adverse reactions occur at a rate of one in 10,000 doses and can cause “severe disabilities.” On Aug. 14, 2021, Lauterbach said on Twitter that...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - About 100,000 citizens of the North Korean capital Pyongyang have attended the meeting, held in support of the implementation of the decisions of the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), a state-run news agency reported on Fr...

When did the coronavirus first appear and begin spreading? Did it emerge in December in the Huanan wet market, or did it leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in November, or was it intentionally released at the World Military Games in October? Was it spreading internationally during autumn 2019...

BEIJING (Sputnik) - Beijing hopes that other countries will focus on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic rather than its politicization, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Wednesday.   "We sincerely hope that all parties will focus on the fight itself, avoid any words or acti...

Relations between the Sussexes and the rest of the Royal Family have remained tense since the bombshell interview Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle had with Oprah Winfrey in 2021. In their first appearance since they quit their royal duties, the couple, in particular, accused a royal of makin...

Alarm bells are ringing around the world as health authorities fear that China’s decision to allow its people free exit after a controversial zero covid restriction could open the floodgate for the spread of the virus by Chinese travelers seeking a get away from home. The fallout from Beijing’s deci...

I cannot figure out why the NY Times, 60 Minutes, and the CDC aren’t all over this story. Don’t they care about saving lives? If they are, then why am I the guy writing about this, and not them? Dr. Sara Cody, Public Health director of Santa Clara County, has achieved the impossible: a COVID vaccine...

I was visiting with a friend recently and she was recounting her early panic over COVID. She has kids and loves them. As a mom, she believed her first duty was to protect them from the bad virus that was floating around. She went into full freak-out mode, keeping the kids indoors and spacing them ou...

TOKYO (Sputnik) - About 310,000 chickens will be culled in central Aichi Prefecture in Japan due to an outbreak of bird flu, a Japanese news agency reported on Monday.   Local authorities say this is the first such outbreak in the past 11 years.   On Sunday, workers at a farm in Aichi discovered an...