Covid has exhausted itself – top Russian epidemiologist

Although new strains of the virus may yet appear, it no longer has significant pandemic potential, Gennady Onishchenko says Covid-19 has lost its pandemic potential in the years since it was flagged by the World Health Organization, Russia’s former chief health inspector Gennady Onishchenko has said.

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Ukraine committed ‘genocide’ in Donbass – Putin

Russia’s “geopolitical adversaries” had sought to “exterminate” anyone wanting good relations with Moscow, the president has said Kiev’s actions in Donbass between 2014 and 2022 were nothing short of “genocide,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. The post-Maidan coup authorities in Ukraine were determined to “physically” get rid of anyone who still supported the…

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Israel-linked boycotts hurting US brands in Middle East  – Bloomberg

Consumers in Muslim-majority countries have shunned Starbucks, McDonald’s, and Coca-Cola over the Gaza conflict Numerous major Western brands have shed customers and seen profits dented due to boycott campaigns in the Middle East targeting companies seen as supporting Israel in the war in Gaza, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

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