Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has settled with the US authorities. In exchange for 4.9 billion dollars, the judiciary stopped the investigation into the ‘junk mortgages’ that the bank sold in 2007 and 2008, reports Hope News. The American judiciary had previously made similar settlements with other large international […]
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Dozens of Dead and Missing After the Kenya Dam Breakthrough. In Kenya, the breakthrough of a dam has cost the lives of dozens of people. There is at least 47 dead. Dozens of people are missing. The Patel dam in the town of Solai broke through after weeks of […]
Trump Welcomes 3 Released Americans from North Korea. In the US, three Americans released by North Korea have been welcomed by President Trump. Accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs Pompeo, the trio arrived in the middle of the night (3 am local time) under excellent media coverage at Andrews air […]
Ex-CEO Anbang gets 18 years in prison for corruption and fraud. Chinese Anbang is the parent company of, among others, Dutch insurers Reaal and Zwitserleven. The now convicted Wu Xiaohui admitted a billion-euro fraud in March. He put some of the billions into his pocket. According to Chinese state […]
Tension at the Syrian-Israeli Border. Tanks and anti-missile installations have been put in place, and even the vast shelters have been opened. In northern Israel, on the border with Syria, the tension is running high, reports the Right News. Israel fears that Iran will take revenge for air strikes. […]
Trump Failed to Inaugurate US Embassy in Jerusalem. Donald Trump does not go to the inauguration of the American embassy in Jerusalem, which is on the agenda for next Monday. He will be represented by John Sullivan, the number two of American diplomacy, and by his daughter and counsellor Ivanka […]
The daughter of the former Cuban president Raúl Castro wants to legalise gay marriage in Cuba. She will propose to allow the right to a marriage between same-sex partners to be included in the planned reform in the constitution of the socialist state, Mariela Castro said Friday. As a […]
Parliament Armenia Still Chooses Opposition Leader as Prime Minister. The parliament of Armenia has elected opposition leader Nikol Pasjinian as prime minister. 59 of the 105 MPs voted for him, enough for the necessary majority, writes the Vital News. Interim premier Karen Karapetjan resigns. The Parliament hopes that with […]
The Colombian army has killed more than 10,000 innocent civilians “cold-blooded and systematic” in the period 2002-2010, according to new research. The dead were in the statistics as disabled left-wing rebels of the movements FARC and ELN. In the years of bloody struggle against the communist resistance, Colombia was […]
A former member of the Chinese politics bureau has been sentenced to life imprisonment for fraud. Sun Zhengcai is accused of having taken bribes for more than 20 million dollars, reports the EYE News. Because of his relatively youthful age – with his 54 years as the youngest member […]
