Israel will not miss a “historic opportunity” to extend its sovereignty over parts of the West Bank, PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. At a meeting of legislators of his right-wing Likud party on Monday, Netanyahu set land moves in the West Bank as “perhaps the first in importance in many respects” of the tasks...
Polls are open in Suriname where voters in the Dutch-speaking South American nation will see if it's possible to hold an election without spiking a resurgence in the novel coronavirus. … Click to Continue »
Gold output in Russia continues to grow, increasing by 9.26 percent in 2019 year-on-year, the country's Ministry of Finance said on Monday. The volume of bullion production reached 343,54 tons compared with 314,42 tons in 2018. Production for the period included over 286 tons of mined gold, the ministry reported. Accompanying mining surged 23.8 percent...
The Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that he has been discharged from the hospital where he had been undergoing treatment for the coronavirus over the past couple of weeks. The Kremlin spokesperson said on 12 May that his Covid-19 had returned positive and said that he had been taken to hospital. His...
Top Boris Johnson adviser Dominic Cummings' apparent violation of lockdown rules has the UK media obsessed. But the way they have rushed for a piece of him is a showcase of a pack mentality with misplaced priorities. Today in the UK, we ‘celebrate' nine weeks of lockdown – a series of measures that has robbed...
Public pools will look very different this summer if they open at all with the coronavirus threat still looming, as teenage lifeguards will be tasked with maintaining social distancing and … Click to Continue »
Never let a good crisis go to waste, the old saying goes, and we can see that clearly with ‘Covid-19 health concerns' being used as an excuse to stop people exercising their right to pay in cash. The drive towards a cashless society was well under way even before we'd ever heard the words ‘Covid-19'...
