US lawmakers are ramping up threats against the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will carry natural gas from Russia to Germany. Boom Bust talks to Bill Hederman, of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy about the role of the Unites States in the Russia-EU energy project. According to Hederman, “US senators want...
Floodwater reached the toes of a famous Buddhist statue for the first time in decades as China suffered flooding and landslides from unusually heavy seasonal rains and a typhoon that came ashore on its southern coast.
When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces … Click to Continue »
The government was "caught off guard" by the fast spread of Covid-19, Transport Minister Eamon Ryan has said.
FIFA forecast the pandemic will cause a $120 million drop in its revenue plan through the 2022 World Cup in a revised four-year budget published Wednesday. Cost-cutting is also predicted … Click to Continue »
Authorities in Belarus on Wednesday resumed detentions of protesters who keep taking to the streets to demand the resignation of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, as opposition leaders ratchet up pressure … Click to Continue »
A British design duo have created an eco-friendly hand sanitiser dispenser after noting that sustainability had “gone out the window” during the Covid-19 pandemic.
