Beijing would gain a strategic beachhead under a draft security agreement with the Solomon Islands, the New York Times reports China has reportedly negotiated a secret security pact with the Solomon Islands,Read More…
Saudi oil depot attacked ahead of F1 race (VIDEOS)
Houthi rebels bomb Saudi Aramco fuel storage site and other facilities The Houthi rebels in Yemen have launched another attack on Saudi oil production in Jeddah, hitting a Saudi Aramco fuel depotRead More…
Biden appears to suggest US troops going to Ukraine
“You’re going to see when you’re there,” the president told members of the 82nd Airborne Division in Poland US President Joe Biden told American soldiers on Friday that “you’re going to see”Read More…
Whistleblower exposes Microsoft’s massive foreign bribery network
Employee claims half the tech giant’s salespeople & managers were involved in $200mn annual kickback scheme Tech behemoth Microsoft is bribing clients in the Middle East and Africa on a massive scale,Read More…
Ukraine crisis marks the end of globalization – BlackRock
Top money manager says the West’s economic war against Russia will cause governments and businesses to rethink overseas dependencies BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, whose firm oversees investments equivalent to about half ofRead More…
Moscow offers update on casualties from Ukraine conflict
More than 1,300 servicemen have been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in the offensive in Ukraine, the Russian military says The Russian Defense Ministry provided a rare update on the casualties theRead More…
UK Home Secretary calls Russians 'barbarians' in prank call (VIDEO)
Priti Patel told Russian pranksters that she supports interrogating Russian students in the UK Two Russian phone pranksters released the full video of their call to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel onRead More…
China grounds Boeing 737s after deadly crash
The same type of aircraft was involved in this week’s accident that killed 132 people China Eastern Airlines and its subsidiaries have temporarily grounded 223 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, the company’s spokesperson LiuRead More…
Britain sanctions Russia’s gold
The measure follows a similar move by the US The UK has added a ban on transactions with Russian gold to their list of restrictions placed on the country’s central bank earlierRead More…
Russia blasts Italian newspaper over Putin article
La Stampa denied calling for the assassination of the Russian president, urging the diplomat to get a “better translator” Russia’s ambassador to Italy, Sergey Razov, said on Friday that he has lodgedRead More…