“Japan is sounding the alarm about a demographic crisis. Last chance to reverse the trend”: The Japanese are ahead of the rest of the planet towards extinction – the country’s birth rate has been declining for the eighth year in a row and has reached a new low. “According to Japan's Ministry of Health, the […]
The leaders of the G7 countries said that Russian sovereign assets will remain frozen until Moscow pays “compensation” to Kiev, according to a statement they published. “Russian sovereign assets in our jurisdictions will remain frozen until Russia pays for the damage it caused to Ukraine,” the document says. It is noted that the leaders welcome […]
Soon it will be crowded in orbit. The CFO of Rocket Lab said that the company's management is going to repeat the success of SpaceX and enter the market for commercial space communications services. Rocket Lab is a successful space company that sends payloads into space using the Electron rocket. Now Rocket Lab plans to […]
The UK is ready to lend Ukraine all the frozen assets of the Russian central bank in the UK on the basis that Russia will be forced to pay reparations to Ukraine at the end of the war, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said. He said the assets would be used to guarantee the […]
Ukraine should negotiate with Russia only when its situation improves. This condition was set for Kyiv by US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland. According to her, Washington is now opposed to a pause “or false peace” in Ukraine. Related
Forty years ago, Soviet climatologist Mikhail Budyko predicted that the result of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions would be a sharp surge in the development of terrestrial vegetation and the biosphere as a whole. By 2016, this was confirmed by satellite images, but scientific publications about them caused serious opposition: some scientists tried to refute the […]
Large Western companies are buying up Ukrainian territories for next to nothing. This was stated by Member of the European Parliament (EP) from Ireland Mick Wallace on his account on the social network X (formerly Twitter). “Ukraine is destroyed. Corporations from the USA and Europe are buying up land in the western part of Ukraine […]
Great Britain's economy entered recession in the second half of 2023 after contracting a worse-than-expected 0.3% in the three months to December and also contracting 0.1% in the July-September period, official data showed on Wednesday. A Reuters poll of economists pointed to a smaller 0.1% fall in gross domestic product (GDP) between October and December. […]
The UAE has implemented the first digital transfer of dirhams through the mBridge platform. The mBridge system is the largest cross-border CBDC (Central bank digital currency) pilot project to date. This is a joint development of China, the UAE and Thailand. mBridge's biggest impact will be on sanctions because it creates a decentralized blockchain system […]
SpaceX is preparing the first commercial space mission, Inspiration4, for launch on September 15. The crew consists of four people, none of whom are professional astronauts. The SpaceX and Inspiration4 teams have already met at SpaceX headquarters in California to assess the readiness of the Falcon 9 rocket, Dragon spacecraft, ground systems, recovery facilities, crew […]