Trump holds a news conference, signs executive orders on coronavirus relief
The European Union plan to use as much as $3.25 billion in profits from Russian sovereign assets — frozen by sanctions due to Russia’s war on Ukraine — to fund Ukraine and its military. “Russia must pay for its war damages,” Czech Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Lipavský said as he shared the monetary…
BEIJING, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Another round of bad Chinese economic figures is raising pressure on Beijing to loosen the fiscal spigot further and even dole out shopping vouchers to get growth back towards this year’s target of roughly 5%. After a dismal second quarter, the world’s second-largest economy lost momentum further in July: new…
The U.S.–Israeli airstrikes against Iran that began on February 28 shocked Moscow. Russian experts argued that the narrow agenda of U.S.–Iranian talks in Geneva, focused on Iran’s nuclear enrichment, indicated U.S. preparations for a limited strike centered on Iranian nuclear assets as in June 2025 (Rossiiskaya Gazeta, February 26). Some state-affiliated media speculated about low…
Tehran’s police chief says the death of a woman in custody was an “unfortunate” incident he does not want repeated. Mahsa Amini, 22, fell into a coma last week, hours after morality police held her for allegedly breaking hijab rules. Witnesses accused officers of beating her, but Police Brig-Gen Hossein Rahimi denied such “cowardly accusations”….
An armed man has been shot dead by German police near the Nazi documentation centre and Israeli consulate in the southern city of Munich. The man, identified by police as an 18-year-old Austrian national, was hit during an exchange of fire with officers. Police said a man had been spotted in the area carrying a…
The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI)for theU.S. decreased by 1.0 percent in November 2022 to 113.5 (2016=100), following a decline of 0.9 percent in October. The LEI is now down 3.7 percent over the six-month period between May and November 2022—a much steeper rate of decline than its 0.8 percent contraction over the previous…