Thousands of Russian women are now fleeing to Argentina to give birth in order to get Argentinean passport.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64610954
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/10/argentina-pregnant-russians-birth-tourism-crackdown

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/everyone-is-looking-for-options-russian-women-fly-to-argentina-to-give-birth

More than 5,000 pregnant Russian women have entered Argentina in recent months, including 33 on a single flight on Thursday, officials say.

The latest arrivals were all in the final weeks of pregnancy, according to the national migration agency.

It is believed the women want to make sure their babies are born in Argentina to obtain Argentinian citizenship.

The number of arrivals has increased recently, which local media suggests is a result of the war in Ukraine.

Of the 33 women who arrived in the Argentinian capital on one flight on Thursday, three were detained because of "problems with their documentation", joining three more who arrived the previous day, migration agency head Florencia Carignano told La Nacion.

The Russian women had initially claimed they were visiting Argentina as tourists, she said.

"In these cases it was detected that they did not come here to engage in tourism activities. They acknowledged it themselves."

She said the Russian women wanted their children to have Argentinian citizenship because it gave more freedom than a Russian passport.

"The problem is that they come to Argentina, sign up their children as Argentinean and leave. Our passport is very secure across the world. It allows [passport-holders] to enter 171 countries visa-free," Ms Carignano said.

Having an Argentine child also speeds up the citizenship process for parents. As it stands, Russians can travel visa-free to only 87 countries.

A lawyer for the three women who were detained on Thursday said that they are being "falsely imprisoned", as they are being held on suspicion of being "false tourists". This is a term "which does not exist in our legislation," Christian Rubilar said.

"These women who didn't commit a crime, who didn't break any migratory law, are being illegally deprived of their freedom," he added.

The women have since been released.

La Nacion attributed the dramatic uptick in arrivals of Russian citizens to the war in Ukraine, saying that "besides fleeing war and their country's health service, [Russian women] are attracted by their [right of] visa-free entry to Argentina, as well as by the high-quality medicine and variety of hospitals".

"Birth tourism" by Russian citizens to Argentina appears to be a lucrative and well-established practice.

A Russian-language website seen by the BBC offers various packages for expecting mothers who wish to give birth in Argentina. The website advertises services such as personalised birth plans, airport pick-ups, Spanish lessons and discounts on the cost of stays in "the best hospitals in the Argentinian capital".

The packages range from "economy class", starting at $5,000 (£4,144), to "first class", starting at $15,000 (£12,433).

The website says its founder has been facilitating birth tourism and offering migration support since 2015, and the company says it is "100% Argentinian".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64610954

Nearly 70 drugs and experimental compounds may be effective in treating the coronavirus, a team of researchers reported on Sunday night.

Some of the medications are already used to treat other diseases, and repurposing them to treat Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, may be faster than trying to invent a new antiviral from scratch, the scientists said.

The list of drug candidates appeared in a study published on the web site bioRxiv. The researchers have submitted the paper to a journal for publication.

To come up with the list, hundreds of researchers embarked on an unusual study of the genes of the coronavirus, also called SARS-CoV-2.
To infect a lung cell, the coronavirus must insert its genes, co-opting the cell’s own genetic machinery. The cell begins to produce viral proteins, which are used to produce millions of new viruses.

Each of those viral proteins must be able to latch onto the necessary human proteins for the process to work.

In the new study, the scientists investigated 26 of the coronavirus’s 29 genes, which direct production of the viral proteins. The researchers found 332 human proteins targeted by the coronavirus.

Some viral proteins seemed to target just one human protein; other viral proteins are capable of targeting a dozen human cellular proteins.

The researchers sought drugs that also latch onto the human proteins that the coronavirus seems to need to enter and replicate in human cells. The team eventually identified 24 drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat such seemingly unrelated diseases as cancer, Parkinson’s disease and hypertension.
On the list were such unexpected candidates as haloperidol, used to treat schizophrenia, and metformin, taken by people with Type 2 diabetes.

The investigators also found candidates among compounds that are now in clinical trials or that are the subject of early research. Intriguingly, some of the possible treatments are drugs used to attack parasites.

And the list includes antibiotics that kill bacteria by gumming up the cellular machinery they use to build proteins. But some of those drugs also attach to human proteins. The new study raises the possibility that this side effect might turn out to be an antiviral treatment.
One drug on the list, chloroquine, kills the single-celled parasite that causes malaria. Scientists have long known that it can also attach to a human cellular protein called the sigma-1 receptor. And that receptor is also the target of the virus.

Chloroquine has been much in the news this past week, thanks to speculation about its use against the coronavirus — some of which was repeated by President Trump at a news briefing at the White House on Friday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, followed the president’s remarks with a warning that there was only “anecdotal evidence” that chloroquine might work.
Only well-run trials could establish whether chloroquine was safe and effective against the coronavirus, Dr. Fauci said.

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced it would begin a trial on chloroquine, among other drugs.

And on Sunday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced that the state had obtained large amount of chloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin to start its own drug trial.

Nevan Krogan, a biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the new study, warned that chloroquine might have many toxic side effects, because the drug appears to target many human cellular proteins.

“You need to be careful,” he said. “We need more data at every level.”

Dr. Krogan’s collaborators at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and the Pasteur Institute in Paris have started testing 22 of the other compounds on the list against live coronavirus grown in their laboratories.

On Sunday night, they were still awaiting the first results.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/science/coronavirus-drugs-chloroquine.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR3i0MHZWE73E-zwoJkdX2S0pDIK9TDWorVOeTIveq1vKwQUi5BvbUYnlYQ

mightyhaze:
hundreds of his cronies u mean. why not make rivers education sector ok for all and sundry

A friend of mine studied abroad through Amaechi's scholarship. Neither she nor the family had any link to Amaechi's Government. She just applied and got it.

Only him knows why he did it. President Salva Kiir Mayardit is a Catholic.

emmyxtacy:
it's true. The husband of my colleague at the office works with the DSS, he told her that the VP was denied entry,this situation angered osinbanjo to the extent that he tendered his resignation but the cabal pleaded with him not to do it.

fake news alert

Nairaland is fast becoming a platform where fake news are aided and abetted. It now encourages the spread of malicious and baseless news

Hmmm

Happy birthday Pope Francis

MJBOLT:

unlike Nigeria they are not dependent on oil money

their economy is highly diversified

nrexzy:
After years of storing oil they now claim production?

actually, they produce

By Matt Egan September 12, 2018: 3:02 PM ET

Move over Russia and Saudi Arabia. America has reclaimed its throne atop the oil world.

For the first time since 1973, the United States is the world's largest producer of crude oil, according to preliminary estimates published on Wednesday by the Energy Department.

The feat demonstrates how the US shale oil boom has reshaped the global energy landscape. American oil output has more than doubled over the past decade.


"It's an historic milestone and a reminder: Never bet against the US oil industry," said Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, a consulting firm.

Texas is the epicenter of the shale boom. Production in the Permian Basin of West Texas has grown so much that in February the United States vaulted above Saudi Arabia for the first time in more than two decades, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

US output kept climbing in June and August, reaching nearly 11 million barrels per day. That nudged the United States ahead of Russia for the first time since February 1999, the EIA estimates.


The United States isn't expected to cede its crown any time soon. The EIA expects US oil production to stay ahead of Russia and Saudi Arabia through 2019.


'Changed the game'

The achievement underscores the profound impact of rapid technological advances in drilling. Fracking unlocked vast sums of oil and natural gas that had been trapped underground. Drilling costs declined dramatically.

"That changed the game for the US. It meant we could be resilient and competitive," said Ben Cook, portfolio manager at BP Capital Fund Advisors, an energy investment management firm.

That resilience was required after oil prices crashed beginning in late 2014. OPEC launched a price war to regain market share lost to the United States and other oil producers. Falling prices knocked dozens of US oil companies out of business and caused widespread job losses.

US oil production declined -- but not as dramatically as feared. And when prices began to rebound in 2016, US shale companies were able to quickly ramp up output. Their expenses were lower -- and technology had improved.

Another important change: America now has oil customers around the world. In late 2015, Congress lifted the 40-year ban on exporting crude oil. The United States now ships oil to South America, Europe and China.

Texas is an oil superpower

Major oil producers including BP (BP) and ExxonMobil (XOM) have shelled out billions of dollars in recent years to get a piece of the action in the Permian Basin.

The Lone Star state is on track to produce more oil than either Iran or Iraq. That would make Texas No. 3 in the world if it were a country. And the state's biggest port district recently exported more crude oil than it imported.

"It's all about technological improvements, supported by ample capital to invest, and the ingenuity of American oil drillers," said McNally, a former energy official under President George W. Bush.


Still reliant on foreign oil
Now, Texas is trying to manage the boom. There's been such a gold rush mentality in the Permian Basin that the region is quickly running out of pipelines, workers and supplies.

If anything, the Permian has been a victim of its own success. Production is expected to keep rising -- but not by as much as previously thought.

Concerns about the Permian led the EIA to downgrade its growth forecast for 2019 US oil production to 11.5 million barrels per day. For context, that still represents strong growth -- and would still top expected output from Russia and Saudi Arabia. The United States produced 9.4 million barrels per day in 2017.

The shale boom has important security implications. Today, the United States is less reliant on foreign oil, including from the turbulent Middle East.

However, it's still a global oil market and strategy shifts by OPEC and Saudi Arabia continue to have significant influence over prices.

And the United States can't meet its voracious appetite for oil by looking inward only. US oil refineries, which were mostly built decades ago, still require heavy doses of foreign oil.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/12/investing/us-oil-production-russia-saudi-arabia/index.html

Zoharariel:


Olodo ni e! Empty barrel, they say makes the loudest noise.

In 2018, your almighty Amerika is still queueing to buy rocket engines from Russia, in spite of her technological prowess.

All Russia needs to do is cut her supply to Amerika and she will only be watching SPACE & ORBITS on CNN.

https://www.google.com.tr/amp/s/themoscowtimes.com/news/us-space-contractor-signs-deal-continue-buying-russian-rockext-engines-62409%3Famp

It's mostly United Launch Alliance that buys Russia made rocket engines, Space X doesn't.

mrvitalis:
People who think America is the most advanced technologicaly are still sleeping

Until America can build a space station ( yes they can't only Russians can) they are still 100 years behind Russia

The United States has built a space station - The Sky Lab.

dermmy:


Russia has the best space Technology. Do you know US astronauts use Russian built Soyuz space craft. Infact Russia is about to stop redering such services to US because of US sanctions. We know US is the best but Russia is good too

Russia doesn't have the best space teachnology, the United States has. The U.S uses Soyuz cuz they retired their space shuttles in 2011. All that will soon stop, as Space X and Boeing will soon start ferrying American Astronauts to space early next year.

DoTheNeedful:


I used to think this way many years ago but my thinking as changed. Infact my friends then used to call me Mr Russia.

US is by far the most developed country in every aspect. This Russia you are hyping does not have the sophistication and economy of California.

Tell me one aspect Russia can compete with the US. Tell me the innovations that has come out of Russia in recent years.

The US is evolving everyday and spending hundreds of billions into research while Russia will go to the media to brag about a missile that can reach thousands of miles away.

The fact that Russia is still largely dependent on oil and gas just like Nigeria, Angola, Saudi, Venezuela says a lot about the country. In recent year US has dominated the technology space. Even China can't stand them. China can only steal their intellectual property to make gadgets and sell to poor countries.

If US wants to crumble that Russia's economy today, they have what it takes. The problem is that countries like Nigeria will also be affected. All the US need to do is to flood the world market with oil. Yes, the US has lots and lots of untapped oil wells.

Most of you hating the US are just jealous. Some of you do it for religious and political reasons while some just do it as a way of sympathizing with the underdog.

US is by far the most powerful in the world.

On a lighter mood, will you select a Russia visa ahead of a US visa? . If no, you are a big hypocrite

you have said it all. The United States has the most diversified economy in the world.

Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata has not made Spain's 23-man World Cup squad.

The 25-year-old scored 11 goals in his debut season at Stamford Bridge and was a last-minute substitute in Saturday's FA Cup final win.

Julen Lopetegui has named four Premier League players in his squad, with David De Gea, David Silva, Cesar Azpilicueta and Nacho Monreal all included.

"Including four players up front was not something we wanted to do," said manager Lopetegui.

"We have opted for three other players who had different assets."

Spain begin their campaign against Portugal on 15 June in Sochi.

Former Real Madrid striker Morata last played for the 2010 world champions in November 2017 when he scored once in a 5-0 win over Costa Rica.

Despite his omission from the squad, the striker has taken to Twitter to wish his countrymen "lots of luck" in the tournament.

Morata's Blues team-mates Marcos Alonso and Cesc Fabregas join Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin in also missing out on selection.

There is room, however, for Morata's predecessor at Chelsea, with Diego Costa named among the strikers travelling to Russia.

Real Madrid and Barcelona supply 10 players between them, with veteran Barca midfielder Andres Iniesta included following his final appearance for the Catalan giants on Sunday.

Spain squad:

Goalkeepers: David de Gea (Manchester United), Pepe Reina (Napoli), Kepa Arrizabalaga (Athletic Bilbao).

Defenders: Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Nacho Monreal (Arsenal), Alvaro Odriozola (Real Sociedad), Nacho Fernandez (Real Madrid), Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea).

Midfielders: Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Isco (Real Madrid), Thiago Alcantara (Bayern Munich), David Silva (Manchester City), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Saul Niguez (Atletico Madrid), Koke (Atletico Madrid).

Forwards: Marco Asensio (Real Madrid), Iago Aspas (Celta Vigo), Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid), Rodrigo Moreno (Valencia), Lucas Vazquez (Real Madrid).

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44197670

njelrapheal:
bad Sharp guy. No time even for announcement. lol. Which congregation is that and where is it located?

SMMM Umuahia

EsotericMonk:

Shut up! This is a thread for Christians and church goers. You can open a thread for Muslims and offer your advice thoughts to your imams and alfas

Christians and church goers made me lol

Zane2point4:
First offring, second offerring, third for the diocese, project sunday...... infact catholic don tire me.

Winners own na indecent dressing, i once sat at the back of a curvy girl, mehn i no hear anything pastor talk,i bn think say na club house i dey sef.

Yet members will always argue that those that dress that way aren't members and will have to change once they're fully welcomed and that i should remove my mind there and focus on preaching.

Mehn are you Kidding me? Which means my eyes no dey function naa, what are the security people doing outside the gate.

Give the indecent dressers the same treatment you'll give to bokoharam members outside the gate, blc as far as am concerned both of them came to church for the same "killing" purpose.

Where i attend mass, it is only once they do collection. Maybe because it's not a parish.

HeyCorleone:
I'm Catholic.

I don't really fancy the stress of believing in Mary as an intercessor. I get the reason why and I totally understand the role she played but I don't think it's a compulsion to say prayers such as hail Mary or even view her as an intercessor.

I've tried to believe but my faith can't carry it. Should that make me less Catholic? No.

It doesn't make you less catholic neither does it u more Catholic. Do the ones your faith can carry and move on. No one is taking records of that.

swiz123:
Mehn... I'm catholic and their mode of offerring Is something else.

First collection, second collection, third, sometimes fourth.

Meanwhile, some of us don't have lower currency denominations; I can't give 1k four times na.

I once attended winners' chapel back in ogun state, and up till today, I still can't fathom why they allow girls wear nose rings to church; not to mention short skirts

Haha haha. I'm Catholic too. There's this congregation i go to their chapel every Sunday for mass. They don't have all those groups you would see in a conventional parish. Collection is once. We just come for mass and go. No long announcent.

According to QS, the highest ranked university which is Catholic is the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven) Belgium , which is ranked at #71. Notre Dame is top notch too. It has produced so many global icons.

The power of American workforce

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's economy has surpassed that of the United Kingdom to become the world's fifth largest, according to new federal data made public Friday.

California's gross domestic product rose by $127 billion from 2016 to 2017, surpassing $2.7 trillion, the data said. Meanwhile, the UK's economic output slightly shrunk over that time when measured in U.S. dollars, due in part to exchange rate fluctuations.

The data demonstrate the sheer immensity of California's economy, home to nearly 40 million people, a thriving technology sector in Silicon Valley, the world's entertainment capital in Hollywood and the nation's salad bowl in the Central Valley agricultural heartland. It also reflects a substantial turnaround since the Great Recession.

"We have the entrepreneurial spirit in the state, and that attracts a lot of talent and money," said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University Channel Islands. "And that's why, despite high taxes and cumbersome government regulations, more people are coming into the state to join the parade."

All economic sectors except agriculture contributed to California's higher GDP, said Irena Asmundson, chief economist at the California Department of Finance. Financial services and real estate led the pack at $26 billion in growth, followed by the information sector, which includes many technology companies, at $20 billion. Manufacturing was up $10 billion.

California last had the world's fifth largest economy in 2002 but fell as low as 10th in 2012 following the Great Recession. Since then, the largest U.S. state has added 2 million jobs and grown its GDP by $700 billionCalifornia's economic output is now surpassed only by the total GDP of the United States, China, Japan and Germany. The state has 12 percent of the U.S. population but contributed 16 percent of the country's job growth between 2012 and 2017. Its share of the national economy also grew from 12.8 percent to 14.2 percent over that five-year period, according to state economists.

California's strong economic performance relative to other industrialized economies is driven by worker productivity, said Lee Ohanian, an economics professor at University of California, Los Angeles and director of UCLA's Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research. The United Kingdom has 25 million more people than California but now has a smaller GDP, he said.California's economic juggernaut is concentrated in coastal metropolises around San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.

"The non-coastal areas of CA have not generated nearly as much economic growth as the coastal areas," Ohanian said in an email.

The state calculates California's economic ranking as if it were a country by comparing state-level GDP from the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Commerce with global data from the International Monetary Fund.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/05/04/us/ap-us-california-economy.html
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Mynd44

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Obinoscopy

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Abjay97:
Who else discovered that Trump didn't go to meet Buhari at the airport when he landed; as US presidents often do?

US Presidents rarely welcome visiting heads of state at the airport, not even their closest allies. It's twice US Presidents welcomed visiting heads of State at the airport. In 2008, President George Bush welcomed Pope Benedict XVI at the Ronald Reagan International airport in Maryland. In 2015, President Barack Obama welcomed Pope Francis at the same airport.

ifyan:
We African we tend to know more and act as the righteous in most thing we do. That is why we are very religious outside but different inside.

I could remember a day when a lady wore trouser to mass on Sunday, if see the way she was rebuked in short condemned ehh especially the women.
Hmm people you will feel pity for her.

But the funny thing is that one the women that condemned her they tempting cloth to work.

Please l want to ask,is trouser prohibited in Roman Catholic Church?.

Prove it.

ifyan:
@Empredboy

Of course na,if not most especially men will be distracted from single ladies that are looking for husband.

Abi l lie?.

It's a non issue outside the shores of Nigeria

fSociety:



Elon Musk was born in south Africa, you esoteric monkey

A black man calling a fellow black monkey . Bravo!! . In the eyes of a racist white man, you two are monkeys. Nincompoop

For some folks who are bashing one fellow that said Catholics do ask for communion card. Yes, some parishes do ask for communion card, like mine. It's for them to know the number of people that will receive communion. Not all Catholic churches do that. Among the Catholic churches in the city where i reside, only the one close to my house do that, others don't. As for the OP., bringing ur church issues on a forum like this isn't advisable.

Lol

Hmmm

Innoson?