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The son of US President Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to failing to pay taxes on $1.4 million, NBC reports.
Biden Jr. personally appeared at the court hearing in Los Angeles.
Hunter Biden was charged with nine counts of failing to pay taxes early last December, the 53-year-old man could face up to 17 prison sentences.
The world is preparing for a new pandemic of “disease X”, which, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), may cause 20 times more deaths than COVID-19. This is stated on the website of the World Economic Forum (WEF, World Economic Forum).
Discussion of the new mysterious disease is on the agenda of the Davos forum, which will be held in the Swiss city from 15 to 19 January 2024. The meeting will look at the efforts needed to prepare public health for the many challenges ahead.
Preparing the world community for the deadly “disease X” will allow to better fight future pandemics, according to Nikolai Kryuchkov, PhD in medical sciences, immunologist. In a conversation with Lenta.ru, he explained the essence of the discussion of this topic at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which will be held on 17 January.
“There is a list of pathogens that in the long term can cause a pandemic. This does not mean that they will necessarily cause it, but they have pandemic potential, and they have not caused a pandemic before. There are quite a few of these infections, several dozen. They are on the radar of specialists, and their behaviour is monitored. These are, for example, coronaviruses, haemorrhagic fevers, Zika virus, Nipah virus and a number of others. But there are also infections that have not attracted the attention of specialists (…). There are infections that actually have pandemic potential, but we don’t know anything about them, either they don’t exist yet or they are evolving,” the immunologist explained.
It is important to realise that not only what we pay attention to can be the source of a pandemic
Nikolay Kryuchkov
immunologist
The authorities of New York introduce curfew in four migrant accommodation centres from Tuesday, January 16, due to complaints of local residents about begging. This is reported by RIA Novosti.
It is specified that now the newcomers will have to stay in the accommodation centres from 23:00 to 6:00. While the curfew will affect only two centres of stay in the borough of Queens, one in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan.
Prosecutor César Suárez, who was investigating the seizure of a TV studio during the riots in Ecuador, was shot dead by unknown persons, the country’s Attorney General Diana Salazar said. The appeal was published on the page of the Attorney General’s Office of Ecuador in the social network X.
Salazar said that Suarez was shot dead by unknown persons in his car in the evening of 17 January. The prosecutor was part of the National Unit for the Investigation of Transnational Organised Crime. He was investigating the circumstances surrounding the attack on the TC Televisión television studio on 9 January.
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