Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Moscow “sometime in the coming months” for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Wall Street Journal reports this. The meeting between the two leaders is said to be part of an effort to initiate peace talks over Ukraine. However, preparations for the summit […]
In Poland, on the border with Belarus, hundreds of trucks are stuck in a traffic jam of more than 40 kilometres. This is due to the closure of another important border post by Warsaw and retaliatory measures by Minsk. It concerns the border crossing in Koroszczyn, currently the only one […]
An Australian man is said to have fathered more than 60 children through sperm donation. The children’s parents found this out when they noticed at a meeting that all their children were very similar. That writes Daily Mail. The parents noticed at a meeting of the Australian LGBTQI community that […]
After the first European data centre, TikTok will use two other data centres on European soil—in an attempt to address the EU’s data concerns. The Chinese TikTok is extremely popular in Europe, with more than 150 million monthly users. But it concerns a Chinese company where it is not always […]
The Swiss food group Nestle, known for Nescafe coffee, Maggi sauces and KitKat chocolate bars, sold fewer products in the fourth quarter. Consumers more often opted for alternatives to the more expensive branded products of Unilever’s counterpart due to the price increases. The drop in sales indicates that the largest […]
An Israeli firm manipulated elections worldwide for a fee. A team of investigative journalists has discovered this. The so-called Team Jorge served clients from both business and politics. International research involving journalists from the German magazine Der Spiegel, Knack and Le Soir shows that the company employs ex-soldiers and ex-agents, […]
Turkey plans to resume trading in the capital Istanbul on Wednesday. This is reported by the Bloomberg news agency based on insiders. On Monday, it was still considered to extend the trade break, but that has not been done. Trading was halted last Wednesday after a sustained price fall following […]
PayPal is working on its own virtual currency but is currently on hold as a partner of the company is under investigation by the authorities. PayPal supports (only in the US) a number of cryptocurrencies for payments, but the company is also working on its own stablecoin. This is a […]
The impact of this week’s earthquake in southeastern Turkey on that country’s economy will be significant. Yet Turkey’s economy is now stronger than during the previous major earthquake in 1999 near Izmit. That’s what IMF directors said during a financial summit on the Arab world. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva noted […]
Ukraine’s financial health has deteriorated further due to the ongoing war with Russia. Due to the invasion of the Russians and the great loss of life, the refugee flows and the enormous damage to infrastructure, the country’s economy shrank 30 percent last year, analysts at Moody’s estimate. This means that […]
