The US ambassador to the EU has said that President Donald Trump directed him and other envoys to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on Ukraine policy – and that he disagreed with the directive.
A surge in US tourists has helped Eurostar notch up its busiest ever peak summer season with more than a million customers travelling on the high speed cross-Channel rail service in August.
Mining giant BHP was stung by a shareholder rebellion as almost a quarter of investors called on the company to stop lobbying against climate change reform.
The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan spiked to a quarterly high of 4,313 from July to September of this year, the UN's Assistance Mission UNAMA said in a report published on Thursday. “From 1 July to 30 September 2019, UNAMA documented 4,313 civilian casualties (1,174 deaths and 3,139 injured). This is the highest number...
Kerry County Council has apologised to a landowner on the proposed South Kerry Greenway for “a genuine” mistake writing to his dead father ‘RIP' and then inviting the deceased man to a consultation meeting.
Russia wants to issue sovereign debt denominated in Chinese currency and sell it on the Moscow Stock Exchange starting next year, Russia's Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev has announced. “There are plans to list yuan-denominated bonds in Moscow in 2020,” the official said as cited by TASS. The idea has been considered since 2016, but...
Borscht has been a popular soup across Europe for centuries, but now it's also a political weapon, and, if nationalism make sense in the context of what we eat, it's ironic that a blood coloured soup is making people's blood boil. But how can beetroot soup cause so much outrage? Perhaps when history and politics...
