Experts Outline Key Ways to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Modernity is both cause and cure of global pandemics, write four physician-scientist experts in pandemic prevention in the latest issue of the journal Foreign Affairs.
Putin says Russia could adopt US preemptive strike concept
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow could adopt what he described as a U.S. concept of using preemptive military strikes, noting it has the weapons to do the job, in a blunt statement amid rising Russia-NATO tensions over Ukraine.
Putin says Ukraine fight is taking longer than expected
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Wednesday that his “special military operation” in Ukraine is taking longer than expected but said it has succeeded in seizing new territory and added that his country’s nuclear weapons are deterring escalation of the conflict.
EXPLAINER: What’s the effect of Russian oil price cap, ban?
Western governments have agreed to cap the price of Russia’s oil exports in an attempt to limit the fossil fuel earnings that support Moscow’s budget, its military and the invasion of Ukraine.
Official says over 10,000 Ukrainian troops killed in war
A top adviser to Ukraine’s president has cited military chiefs as saying 10,000 to 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the country’s nine-month struggle against Russia’s invasion, a rare comment on such figures and far below estimates of Ukrainian casualties from Western leaders.
