Eurasia

Migration Routes Of One Of Britain’s Largest Ducks Revealed For First Time

New research, just published in the journal Ringing & Migration, has used state of the art tracking technology to investigate how one of Britain’s largest ducks, the Shelduck, interacts with offshore wind turbines during their migration across the North Sea. Their findings reveal – for the first time – the …

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Modern Monetary Theory Is Fake Economics – OpEd

A country with monetary sovereignty cannot issue all the debt it needs without default risk In this era of monetary fiction, one tends to read all types of undocumented and misguided views on monetary policy. However, if there is one that really is infuriating is the MMT (modern monetary theory) …

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Iraq’s Military Intelligence arrested a terrorist in Kirkuk

The Military Intelligence arrested on Tuesday a “terrorist” in Kirkuk governorate.The Agency said in a statement, “Clashes between the Military Intelligence and terrorists took place yesterday in their hostels where one of the terrorists was injured in his face and hands, then fled to Wadi Al-Kour in Kirkuk.” After that, …

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US, UK, France, Germany, and Italy Release Joint Statement on Syria

The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising: Today marks …

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Masoud Barzani: chauvinist ideology is still prevalent in Iraq

Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said that “chauvinist ideology” is still prevalent in Iraq. “It is indeed shameful that even after the bombardment of Halabja with chemical weapons and the genocide against the people of Kurdistan, chauvinistic thinking remains dominant in Iraq, and that the rights of the people of Kurdistan …

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SOHR: 12 Syrian regime fighters killed in an ambush in Daraa

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that rebels had killed twelve members of Syrian government forces in Daraa, Southwestern the country. SOHR founder and director, Rami Abdul Rahman, said, “a group of militants attacked two military trucks and two mini-vans of the regime forces in the vicinity of …

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A commander of IRGC killed in Syria , SOHR reported

A commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and his bodyguard were reportedly killed by a landmine blast in Al-Mayadeen to the east of the city of Deir Ezzor, a stronghold of ISIS terrorist organization, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). SOHR said it has monitored …

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From Lebanon to Syria, then to Iraq, security gaps facilitate drug trafficking

782 suspects of terrorism and drug trafficking have been arrested in the governorates of Basra, Nineveh, Al-Anbar and Saladin in 2020. A security source in the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate on Tuesday revealed to Shafaq News Agency that 48 wholesalers of illegal drugs was arrested, and thousands of narcotic pills …

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