Fri 12 January 2024: On Thursday, the value of the Turkish lira fell to an all-time low of more than 30 liras per US dollar, Xinhua reported. The exchange rate for one dollar at 10:25 a.m. local time (0725 GMT) was 30.01 lira. The value of the Turkish lira has dropped by more than 37% […]
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Thu 11 January 2024: The current US presidential administration is actively exerting pressure on other nations, urging them to seize Russian assets, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. Commenting on media reports claiming that the Joe Biden administration supported amendments to legislation drafted to make the seizure of the Russian frozen money legal, Peskov […]
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Thu 11 January 2024: Note: This article Published on November 19, 2020. The phrase “the gold standard” means, in common parlance, the best available benchmark – as in double-blind randomized trials are the gold standard for determining the efficacy of a vaccine. Its meaning likely comes from my world of economics and refers to what was once […]
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Thu 11 January 2024: How did UK Post Office workers end up wrongly imprisoned for fraud? Public fury over a scandal which has ruined the lives of hundreds of British postal workers has reignited after a TV drama based on the affair was broadcast in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the new year. […]
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Thu 11 January 2024: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Western hesitation on aid is emboldening Russia – comments he made during a visit to Lithuania as he embarked on a previously unannounced tour of three Baltic states. On Wednesday, Zelenskyy told his Lithuanian counterpart that Ukraine must strengthen its air defences and replenish […]
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Wed 10 January 2024: More than half of the reports of child sexual abuse in England and Wales in 2022 were made against people aged under 18, according to police figures. According to police, the increase in child-on-child abuse is due to children’s easy access to smartphones and violent pornography. According to data collected from […]
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Wed 10 January 2024: The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Tuesday that it had not yet granted approval of spot-Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), despite a post appearing on its official X account saying it had done so. “The @SECGov X account was compromised, and an unauthorized post was posted. The SEC has not […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: Police in New York have arrested at least ten Orthodox Jews after clashes broke out at a well-established synagogue in Brooklyn yesterday, after attempts by construction workers to fill an illegal tunnel with cement were disrupted by a group of young students. According to reports, the secret passageway was dug underneath […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: A third of UN member states have already opted for de-dollarization and decided to rely on national currencies to conduct payments, Sputnik’s analysis found. The analysis, which looked into statements made by officials from 193 UN countries in international and Russian media, showed that representatives of at least 68 UN nations […]
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Tue 09 January 2024: Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, seeking to woo partners for a coalition government after the Nov. 22 elections in the Netherlands, has withdrawn an anti-Islamic bill, local media reported on Monday. Wilders sent a letter to Martin Bosma, head of the lower house of the parliament, seeking to withdraw a 2018 […]
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