MERKEL IN US FOR TALKS ON UKRAINEGerman chancellor Angela Merkel is in Washington today to share a plan to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, devised by Germany and France, with Barack Obama. Under pressure to get tough, the US is considering sending arms to the Ukraine government but Merkel is known to oppose this.
FILES SHOW HSBC HELPED TAX DODGERSA cache of computer files obtained by French newspaper Le Monde and shared with the BBC and Guardian reveal how the Swiss wing of Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, helped wealthy clients cheat the …read more
Source: The Week