Bolivia’s state-owned company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) Thursday signed two separate agreements whereby Chinese and Russian companies will invest over US$1.4 billion to build two industrial complexes for the production of lithium carbonate, it was reported in La Paz. … Read More
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed that Russian President Vladimir Putin extend the Black Sea grain deal in return for adding a Russian agricultural bank’s unit to the SWIFT payment network, Reuters reported citing sources. The deal, which allows Ukraine … Read More
On Monday, Russia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) issued a statement calling for a “a peaceful solution” to the dispute over the Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunbs islands “in accordance with international law.” Iran on Wednesday summoned … Read More
‘The suspect conducted surveillance of military facilities and seaports,’ Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński says. Poland’s intelligence services have detained a man accused of spying for Russia, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński said Monday. “The suspect conducted surveillance of military facilities … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, Finding out anything about the news is, well, disgusting. The Church of England is trying to figure out how to handle so-called gay marriage. All kinds of contortions are necessary to accommodate weird holy men, some of … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, Nobody knows quite what to make of the situation in Russia. You know the stories, but it appears that Putin has had to negotiate with Prigozhin through Lukashenko of Belarus to get the column to turn aroun … Read More
ISLAMABAD, June 12 (Reuters) – Pakistan paid for its first government-to-government import of discounted Russian crude in Chinese currency, the South Asian country’s petroleum minister said on Monday, a significant shift in its U.S. dollar-dominated export payments policy. Discounted crude … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, The biggest news this week is the indictment of Donald Trump. Maybe the fifth or sixth time (I’ve lost count) will be the one that does it! Can you even remember the players or the details of … Read More
Seismic stations in Ukraine and Romania detected what appears to be an explosion at the Kakhovka Dam on the morning that it failed, Norwegian seismologists tell NPR. The analysis was done by NORSAR, a Norwegian group that monitors seismic networks throughout … Read More
Russia says Ukraine has launched “a terrorist drone attack” on Moscow, with several buildings damaged. It is the first time Moscow has been so heavily targeted in a single operation, but Ukraine denies carrying out the strikes. What was hit … Read More