Top US government official on Covid: ‘You can’t make a cogent, convincing argument that it came naturally from an animal’
Noting that public health agencies such as the NIH and the CDC were not involved in trying to figure out the origins of Covid-19, Kadlec said, “It really has little to do with NIH and CDC. … There was this idea that, between the intelligence community and the scientific community, there had to be someone who would take the responsibility for leading efforts to conduct attribution.”
Key bioweapons official publicly accuses ex-White House advisor on Covid of ‘denial and deception’
Kadlec noted that as early as February 2020, Fauci and key virologists were privately acknowledging, in emails between them, “that this could have been a laboratory incident.”
With every strike and counterstrike, Israel, US and Iran’s allies inch closer to all-out war
Hamas says the October 7 attack that triggered the war in Gaza was an act of purely Palestinian resistance to Israel’s decades-long domination of the Palestinians. There is no evidence that Iran, Hezbollah or other allied groups played a direct role or even knew about it beforehand.
Church and state: Polluting religion with politics is fomenting revulsion and rebellion in Uganda
Since 1992, the most polarising personality in religio-politics has been Pastor Aloysius Bugingo, who has increasingly not hidden his support for the ruling party in his summons and recently, for President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, to rule Uganda beyond Museveni.
US defence secretary’s secret hospitalisation raises questions of trust in Biden administration
Deputy Defence Secretary Kathleen Hicks assumed some of his operational duties on January 2, while she was on vacation in Puerto Rico, a US official said. But, Hicks was only told why Austin was unavailable on January 4, three officials revealed.
US Secretary of State Blinken to visit UAE, Saudi, Israel, seeking to avert wider Middle East war
Jordan’s King Abdullah urged Blinken to use Washington’s influence over Israel to press it for an immediate ceasefire and warned of the “catastrophic repercussions” of Israel’s continued military campaign.
Republicans cast as flip-floppers on Trump sedition as they back him to be president
Trump’s persistent false claims that the election of 2020 was stolen — which has been rejected in at least 60 court cases, every state election certification and by the former president’s one-time attorney general — continue to animate the presidential race as he eyes a rematch with Biden.
Sudan’s military leader Burhan vows ‘no reconciliation’ with paramilitary RSF rivals
Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Friday vowed to continue a nine-month war between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), rejecting the latest peace efforts. RSF head Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo agreed earlier this week to a ceasefire proposed by civilian groups, contingent on the military agreeing...
Somalia, Al Shabaab in rare unity in condemning Ethiopia over Berbera seaport deal with Somaliland
Somalia fears that Ethiopia may have quietly recognised Somaliland as a sovereign state, which has also been a source of diplomatic tensions between Kenya and Somalia after Nairobi opened a consul office in Somaliland a few years.
SADC mission deploys to Congo and unlike UN and EAC forces, it has an offensive mandate
SAMIDRC’s deployment is in line with a decision taken last May at an extraordinary SADC Heads of State Summit in Windhoek, Namibia.
