Source link The chief of staff for the agency overseeing schools on US military bases has been charged with solicitation of prostitution A Pentagon education official has been snared in a human-trafficking crackdown in suburban Atlanta, leading to his arrest on allegations that he solicited an act of prostitution. Stephen Hovanic, 64, was among 26 […]
Source link Russia’s trade turnover with neutral and ‘friendly’ countries, defined as those that have not sanctioned Moscow over the Ukraine conflict, has surged over the past year, Foreign Ministry official Dmitry Birichevsky said on Tuesday. According to the diplomat, who heads the ministry’s department for economic cooperation, while imports from the EU and other […]
Source link The co-owner of Kyivstar, Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, has been sanctioned by Kiev Kiev is still planning to seize the country’s largest mobile service provider, Kyivstar, a senior Ukrainian government official has said. Former CIA director and US secretary of state Mike Pompeo is on the company’s board of directors. The mobile carrier […]
Source link Polish hauliers are stopping deliveries of fuel and other goods across the border, a deputy minister has said Polish truckers demanding tougher rules for their Ukrainian competitors have blocked more than 1,000 cargo vehicles at the border, including those carrying humanitarian aid for the embattled nation, Kiev’s deputy minister for infrastructure says. Writing […]
Source link The Japanese economy slipped into a contraction in the period from July to September, ending two straight quarters of growth, according to government data released on Wednesday. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the world’s third-largest economy contracted 2.1% in the third quarter in a much sharper decline than a median market projection for […]
Source link The bloc’s foreign policy chief wrongly claimed there was agreement on the need for a “humanitarian pause” in Gaza Senior EU diplomat Stefan Sannino, secretary-general of the European External Action Service, has apologized to the bloc’s member states for foreign affairs chief Josep Borell’s erroneous claim that Brussels had reached an agreement on the need for […]