Cosmos Chronicle

The US administration intends to revoke the terrorist designation for Yemen’s Houthi liberation movement in response to the country’s humanitarian crisis, reversing one of the views of the Obama administration. The reversal, confirmed by a State Department official on Friday, comes a day after President Joe Biden declared a halt to US support for the Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in...

The South Korean government said it signed a $43 billion contract to build the world’s largest offshore wind power complex, as it seeks to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050? South Korea has few energy resources of its own and relies on imported coal – a cheap but dirty fuel – for about 40% of its electricity. However, wind power complexes...

Russia has revoked the credentials of three officials from EU nations, over claims they took part in unauthorized rallies in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny. Moscow's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had made formal protests to the embassies of Germany, Poland and Sweden. Representatives of these countries are said to have participated in mass-demonstrations that saw thousands take...

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Saturday in a letter to the Israel Defense Forces that the International Criminal Court’s ruling to open a war crimes investigation against Israel was “grave” and “unfounded”. Earlier, the US State Department also expressed concerns about the International Criminal Court’s attempts to exercise its jurisdiction over Israeli citizens. The decision of the judges at...

An Iranian diplomat accused of plotting to bomb a meeting of an emigrant opposition group has been jailed for 20 years in Belgium. The diplomat's accomplices also received absurd lengthy prison terms. An Antwerp court sentenced Assadolah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat formerly based in Vienna, Austria to the maximum 20 years behind bars on Thursday. According to international law, diplomats have...

Former President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi has been granted a mandate to form a new government after meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella. The previous Cabinet resigned in January, after the centrist Italia Viva party led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi left the governing coalition, criticizing current Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte for poor handling of the...

Beijing has said it continues to monitor US military maneuvers near the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, warning that China is ready to respond to American threats and provocations. Speaking on Thursday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters that Beijing had carefully followed the passing of a hostile US warship through the Taiwan Strait earlier that same day.   China will...

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo met earlier with Jens Stoltenberg to discuss ways to revitalize the transatlantic bond between Europe and North America. Sputnik was live in Brussels where NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg delivered an speech on “the importance of strengthening the transatlantic bond in the next decade”. Following the media show, Stoltenberg participated in a panel with a...

Eleven active duty US soldiers are in the hospital after consuming a liquid they believed to be alcohol, but which turned out to be antifreeze, leaving two troops “seriously ill” and requiring intensive care. The soldiers imbibed the toxic chemical while on a 10-day field exercise at Fort Bliss’s McGregor Range Complex in Texas, the Army said reported. The soldiers drank...

A report being withheld from the public documents horrific acts of rape and sexual abuse against young boys that were facilitated by nuns belonging to the Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne in Germany, according to the Daily Beast. The investigation’s findings, which concluded last month and stemmed from a lawsuit brought against the archdiocese by victims, have not been publicly released,...

China ended the recognition of British Overseas passport as UK opens visa program for over 5 MILLION Hong-Kong'ers. Beijing has said that the British National Overseas (BNO) passport will no longer be recognized as a travel document or form of identification in China from, when the UK’s new visa program opens to millions of Hong Kong citizens. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman...

Assigned US President Joe Biden called the military seizure of power in Myanmar a “direct assault” on democracy and rule of law, demanding they “immediately” surrender or face an “international community” response, including derailing sanctions. Citing allegations of fraud in the November general election, the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) declared a one-year emergency on Monday and detained President Win Myint...

Two FBI agents were killed, three wounded during a raid in Sunrise, Florida, the agency said in a statement to media. They were attempting to serve a warrant on a suspect for child pornography possession when he opened fire on them. Sunrise Police warned residents of Nob Hill Road to remain in their homes on Tuesday morning, after a raid...

Curacao kan de eerste eiland donut economie van de wereld worden, gezien de uitdagingen van armoede, massa werkeloosheid, maar ook vervuiling en vernietiging van de natuur door ontwikkelaars en andere belasting ontwijkende entiteiten. De initiatief nemer, Wintertuin Curacao denkt dat het donut model goed van pas kan komen en verricht daarom onderzoeken om de huidige stand van zaken op het...

One day Israel will be become the “state of all its citizens” that democratic values require it to be, a country of Hebrew-speaking Jews, Muslims, and Christians, all equal before the law. Although the great majority of secular Israelis do not yet subscribe to this point of view, more and more will come to it if things continue on their...

The most striking fact about the agenda of the Great Reset is that it is being advanced by the same giga-rich plutocrat families responsible for the flaws of the present world economic model.  They, not we, have created ruin of organic fields and nature with their Roundup glyphosate and toxic pesticides. They have ruined the air quality in our cities...

Vaccination against COVID-19 has already become the largest vaccination campaign in history. As of January 25, 2021, more than 65.7 million doses in 56 countries have been administered. Which countries are leading in terms of vaccination? As world leaders race to respond to the global Corona-virus pandemic, government heads and politicians in the United States, Europe and elsewhere have contracted the COVID-19 virus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson...

Myanmar’s military has seized power, saying it will be in charge for one year, while declaring a state of emergency due to what it sees as a rigged election won by the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, now reportedly under arrest. Military broadcaster Myawaddy TV announced that the commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces, General Min Aung Hlaing, will...

On August 9, 1945, a mushroom cloud rose moments after the US military dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, southern Japan. In a two day period, US planes dropped multiple atomic bombs. One on Hiroshima, one on Nagasaki, the first time nuclear weapons have been officially used by the Anglo Zio-Nazi empire. In 2020, Israel used an improvised nuclear devise...

The United Arab Emirates has staked its claim to the emerging market of space-based lawsuits, unveiling a global Courts of Space to get ahead of what it hopes will be a raft of new litigation as commercial activity in the celestial realm grows. While lawyers themselves won’t actually be floating around in zero gravity, the new court, launched under the...

The Israeli army destroyed a natural reserve and uprooted at least 10,000 trees in a military campaign in the northern West Bank in a move that Palestinians termed a horrible crime against humanity. Moataz Bisharat, responsible for monitoring Israeli settlement activity in the Jordan Valley, said that the occupation army pushed military vehicles and dozens of soldiers into the Ainun...