The draft deal between the Solomon Islands and China could formalize Beijing’s military presence in the Pacific nation Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has condemned China’s efforts to “intimidate” Australia with its recently announced draft security agreement with the Solomon Islands, which was leaked last week.

The results of a survey published in The Lancet show the Russian vaccine to be 79% effective against coronavirus in this cohort Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, has been shown to have an efficacy of 79% in people who are HIV positive, a study published in prestigious British medical journal The Lancet has revealed.

The Group of Seven major economies have collectively agreed to reject Moscow’s demand to pay for gas imports from Russia in rubles, according to German Energy Minister Robert Habeck. “All G7 ministers agreed completely that this [would be] a one-sided and clear breach of the existing contracts,” Habeck told journalists on Monday.