Section: Business Insider (USA)
China, Russia mull high-speed Moscow-Beijing rail line: report
Beijing (AFP) – China and Russia are considering building a high-speed rail line thousands of kilometres from Moscow to Beijing that would cut the journey time from six days on the celebrated Trans-Siberian to two, Chinese media reported Friday.The project would cost more than $230 billion and be over 7,000 kilometres (4,350 miles) long,...
Putin meets Poroshenko, EU leaders in Milan
Milan (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in Milan on Friday in the latest attempt to ease tensions over the simmering conflict in eastern Ukraine.EU leaders also attended the breakfast meeting at the Milan prefecture building, held amid very sharp differences with Moscow over...
Joe Biden’s Son Hunter Was Kicked Out Of The Navy For Cocaine Use
Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was kicked out of the Navy Reserve this year after he tested positive for cocaine, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. A Yale-educated lawyer, the 44-year-old Hunter Biden was commissioned as a Navy ensign May 7, 2013 and assigned as a public affairs officer at a reserve unit in Norfolk, Va., the...
Venezuela, New Zealand win UN seats but Turkey rebuffed
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela won coveted seats on the UN Security Council Thursday, but Turkey suffered a humbling defeat in its bid to join the world’s “top table.”The five countries garnered the required two-thirds support from the 193-country UN General...
Here’s What Nations List As The Greatest Danger In The World
Amid rising conflicts engulfing the Middle East, the majority of the 44 nations surveyed in a new Pew Research Center study, listed the top threat in the world as “religious and ethnic hatred.” Nations were given the option of selecting between 5 dangers: nuclear weapons, pollution, AIDS and other diseases, inequality, and religious...
Europe gas supply faces ‘major transit risks’: Putin
Belgrade (AFP) – Europe faces “major transit risks” to gas supplies coming from Russia this winter unless Ukraine resolves a gas dispute with Moscow, President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday.”There will be no crises through a fault of Russian participants of energy cooperation in Europe,” Putin said on a visit to EU...
Putin accuses Obama of hostility, meddling
Moscow (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin accused US counterpart Barack Obama of a hostile attitude towards Russia, warning against “attempts to blackmail” Moscow.Speaking ahead of his visit to EU aspirant Serbia on Thursday and key talks with EU leaders on Friday, Putin minced no words, demanding that Washington take...
The State Of Monetary Policy In Every Major Economy In The World
The US Federal Reserve has been stimulating the US economy with extraordinarily easy monetary policy. But it is preparing to tighten. The European Central Bank and Bank of Japan, however, appear to be on the verge of easing further. Meanwhile, central bankers in Russia and Ukraine are all about tighter monetary policy. To help everyone keep...
Vlad the impaled: Femen militant fined for stabbing Putin waxwork
Paris (AFP) – A Ukrainian member of the Femen movement was slapped with over 6,000 euros ($7,300) in fines on Wednesday for impaling a wax statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin with a stake, while bare-breasted, in a Paris museum.Iana Jdanova, 26, is the first member of the women’s movement to be fined in France for their...
The Ukraine Crisis Means That Russia And China Will Likely Build Closer Military Ties
US-led economic sanctions against technology exports to Russia might have the unintended consequence of pushing Russian and Chinese technological industries into close cooperation, Russia-based security expert Vasily Kashin writes for The Moscow Times. Kashin, an analyst at the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow, notes...
