Putin congratulates Russian university graduates,wishes them to dream and never give up
https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1413764530178600965
Haiti assassination drama deepens as opposition admits hiring DC lobbyist days before Moise’s murder
Haitian opposition figure Reginald Boulos hired a senior Washington lobbyist to help build up his political party and ‘encourage’ President Biden and other US leaders to support the creation of an interim Haitian government two days before President Jovenel Moise’s assassination, Politico reports, citing the lobbyist and Boulos himself.
The lobbyist, Art Estopinan, is well-known in Washington circles, with his consulting group boasting its ability to reach “successful outcomes” for clients seeking advice or the right connections with federal officials. Estopinan’s resume includes former chief chief of staff to ex-Florida GOP congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a powerful ex-chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Other ‘accolades’ include pressure campaigns in favour of a harsher US stance on Cuba and Venezuela, and lobbying work for companies and non-profits ranging from Amnesty International and Orius Biotech to the Qatari government.
Estopinan told the newspaper that he was hired by Boulos on Monday, about 48 hours before President Moise’s death.
Boulos, one of Haiti’s wealthiest businessmen, has an estimated net worth of $620 million, and an empire of grocery stores, car dealerships and hotels. His opposition MTV Ayiti Party has spent months attacking Moise for staying on as president past 7 February, when his term formally expired, according to Haiti’s Superior Judicial Council.
Boulos confirmed hiring Estopinan, but stressed that the opposition was not behind Moise’s murder. “We condemn the killing strongly, very strongly. It’s a sad time for Haiti. It’s a dark day for Haiti.”
The businessman also frankly admitted that he hired Estopian specifically “to give me access to the US administration so I can promote my vision of the new Haiti.”
Estopinan’s lobbying group had worked with Boulos before. According to ProPublica, the mogul gave the lobbyist $160,000 to lobby the House of Representatives and the Senate between late 2019 and May 2021 on the topic of “human rights violations in Haiti under the Moise regemen.”
Under the new contract, Estopinan is reportedly expected to ‘encourage’ the Biden administration, including the president personally and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to support an agreement under which Joseph Lambert, the president of Haiti’s Senate, would serve as an interim president. The lobbying is also expected to include influencing House and Senate foreign relations and foreign affairs committee members, as well as the House Haiti Caucus.
https://sputniknews.com/world/202107101083355711-haiti-assassination-drama-deepens-as-opposition-admits-hiring-dc-lobbyist-days-before-moises-murder/
https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1413871883812999168
Cosmic method helps probe secret of Medieval Islamic tombs scattered like 'galaxies in the Universe'
A method designed for cosmology has been applied to the topography study of thousands of fascinating medieval Islamic tombs in eastern Sudan, according to a paper published on 7 July in the journal PLOS One.
In an effort to shed light on the mysteries of the funerary landscape dotted with some 10,000 monuments in the Kassala region of eastern Sudan, a team of experts from the University of Naples L'Orientale and the Sudanese National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums used satellite imagery.
The modeling technique revealed that unidentifiable "parent" burials hosted sub clusters of tombs, “seemingly driven by general sacredness of the location”.
Accordingly, the monuments were set out in a galaxy-like pattern, like suns and orbiting planets.
The Beja people, many of whom still live a seminomadic lifestyle, inhabit the Kassala region.
"The local clusters are most probably tribal/family cemeteries of the Beja people," the team wrote, adding that additional research would be needed to determine the precise locations of the "parent" tombs and who was buried in them.
https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1413799909585788928
We are literally, Starseeds.
Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party has been declared the winner of last month’s national election in a landslide, assuring a second term for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The National Election Board of Ethiopia said the ruling party won 410 seats out of 436.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1413924763282681860
The sister of one of the Colombians accused in the plot to assassinate President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti said he told her that he had not gone to Haiti to kill anyone — but that he'd received a job offer to protect a “very important person.”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1413944876396384259
Ex-Mossad chief becomes head of new Saudi-backed SoftBank office: Report
https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1413906037149736961
the detainees are probably not the ones who killed the Pres.
I think they were involved in order to have a plausible explanation for the disappearance of the Pres.