META DROPS COVID-19 BOOSTER REQUIREMENT FOR STAFF IN US OFFICES

Mon 04 April 2022: Facebook parent Meta Platforms will stop insisting that employees have Covid booster shots in order to come to its facilities in the U.S. a company spokesperson said on Friday.  The social media company previously said that all workers returning to the office would have to present proof of their booster jabs, […]

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PUTIN CONGRATULATES ORBAN ON ELECTION VICTORY – KREMLIN

Mon 04 April 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban after the ruling Fidesz-Hungarian Civic Alliance emerged victories at the parliamentary elections in Hungary, the Kremlin said on Monday. “Russian President Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on the occasion of the victory of the […]

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ISLAMOPHOBIA ON THE RISE AS FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NEARS

Mon 04 April 2022: Muslims have increasingly been portrayed as a threat to French society under Emmanuel Macron’s presidency, analysts say. Paris, France – The question of Islam has long been a thorn in the French establishment’s side. With France on the cusp of presidential elections, far-right views have permeated mainstream public discourse on the Muslim […]

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RUSSIA DENIES ALLEGATIONS, SEEKS UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEET ON BUCHA

Mon 04 April 2022: Moscow has called for a special UN Security Council meeting Monday to address claims that Russian forces committed atrocities against Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv. “In the light of heinous provocation of Ukrainian radicals in #Bucha Russia requested a meeting of UN #SecurityCouncil on Monday April 4,” Dmitry […]

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KREMLIN SAYS ROUBLE-FOR-GAS SCHEME IS THE ‘PROTOTYPE’

Sun 03 April 2022: The Kremlin has warned the West that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rouble payment scheme for natural gas is the prototype that Russia will extend to other major exports because the West has sealed the decline of the US dollar by freezing Russian assets. “It is the prototype of the system,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s […]

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RUSSIA DECLARES TOP JOURNALIST, VIDEO BLOGGER ‘FOREIGN AGENTS’

Sat 02 April 2022: Russia has declared a prominent journalist, a video blogger and six other media figures “foreign agents”, the latest in a series of such moves that critics say are designed to stifle dissent. The expanded list, published by the Justice Ministry late on Friday, included Elizaveta Osetinskaya, former editor-in-chief of several Russian […]

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