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What do we know about the $450m superyacht linked to a Russian ... (ABC News)

Fiji and the United States are embroiled in a court case over a superyacht allegedly belonging to a sanctioned Russian oligarch. The fate of the luxury ...

According to the Fiji Sun, the prosecution has argued ownership of the Amadea is not an issue for the Fiji court, and the ownership question could be handled by the US jurisdiction. The defence argued that there was no evidence the Amadea was a proceed of crime and that the Fiji court must be satisfied the yacht was "tainted property", not simply because the US said it was. "But the actual technical aspects that the United States is relying on to enforce aspects of the sanctions, in this instance, are really relying upon the UN Convention. If that is the case, he said, then "Fiji, as a party to the convention, has an obligation to assist the United States in those processes". Professor Rothwell said the United States could be seeking to seize the yacht under the United Nations Convention against transnational organised crime, which both Fiji and the US are a party to. Defence lawyers have claimed Millemarin is the legal owner of the vessel and that the company is linked to the real, or beneficial, owner, Mr Khudainatov.

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Do 2 'Studies' Suggest Hepatitis Linked To Covid-19 Vaccines ... (Forbes)

As you can see, this tweet stated that “Madrid's Deputy of Minister for Healthcare and Public Health claim that cases of hepatitis reported on young children ...

The Covid-19 vaccines use different types of adenoviruses with the Astra-Zeneca one using a chimpanzee adenovirus and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine using a Type 26 adenovirus. This so-called study is actually not a formal study but instead a case report published in the Journal of Hepatology on April 21, 2022. Of course, unless you happen to be a giant test tube, this doesn’t necessarily mean that when you get the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, all of the vaccine components will immediately go to your liver. All this study showed is that when human liver cells in a test tube are exposed to the components of the Pfizer Covid-19 mRNA vaccine, the liver cells do take up the vaccine components fairly rapidly. It’s not clear who the “Deputy of Minister” is and whether it would be similar to the “Vice of President” of an organization or the “Assistant of Secretary” of a government body. And some of these accounts along with a website called The Exposé have been citing two “studies,” claiming that they serve as evidence.

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Covid vaccine not linked to spike in child hepatitis cases: Report (5 Dariya News)

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If you look at the number of patients, only 16 per cent tested positive for Covid, and this [hepatitis] is not the feature of Covid," Prof Anil Dhawan, a liver specialist at King's College Hospital London, was quoted as saying.Hepatitis is a very rare known reaction to adenoviruses, he added. Social media platforms have falsely linked the Covid vaccine with the recent spike in unexplained hepatitis in children across several countries, including the UK, the US and many others.According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the affected children were mostly under the age of five and therefore not eligible for the jab.But social media posts on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and Telegram reported false claims that these hepatitis cases were caused by the Covid vaccine, BBC reported.The World Health Organisation had, till April 21, recorded at least 169 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin in about 12 countries.Data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) showed nearly 200 cases of hepatitis in children around the world.

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More deaths linked to triple-zero crisis as long delays continue (The Age)

Leaked documents reveal 15 deaths have now occurred in Victoria after waits to reach an ambulance call taker.

Even that part of it is being significantly delayed.” ESTA said it had increased the number of ambulance call takers and dispatch workers by 46 full-time employees since the start of the pandemic and was training more staff every day. In early March, an 84-year-old man who had been found unconscious by his partner in the middle of the night was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics after a delay in reaching a call taker of two minutes and 46 seconds. A $115.6 million package for 120 new call takers and other staff was announced in March, while money for another 43 staff was allocated in last year’s budget. According to a formal report, it took more than four minutes for the triple-zero call to connect to an ambulance operator and the woman died several days later in hospital. The deaths include a 42-year-old woman who was on a video call with a relative in January when she had a seizure at home.

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