Month: June 2019

There was joy for European champions Portugal as they won the inaugural UEFA Nations League title thanks to a 1-0 victory against the Netherlands in Porto. A second-half strike from the edge of the box by Goncalo Guedes was enough to separate the two sides, as the Dutch failed to cap their impressive recent resurgence…

Kazakhstan is undergoing a change of leadership after the resignation of its head Nursultan Nazarbayev. The election came to an end with more than 70% of votes cast for his successor Tokayev, according to the preliminary results. Kazakhstan, a large Central Asian country located between Russia and China, which is a major energy player in…

The Russian currency will replace the dollar in transactions between the two countries, Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela’s vice president of the economy, said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. “Unilateral American sanctions are preventing us from using US dollars to settle,” the official told Sputnik on Saturday, the last day of the annual business…

Microwave cuisine can spoil one’s day, but seldom at the scale of what happened at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. An entire terminal was flooded with water after smoke from an oven triggered the airport’s fire-suppression system. The unnatural disaster hit the airport’s Terminal B on Sunday, when the fire alarm went off and the firefighting system…

American Airlines has extended the grounding of its entire fleet of Boeing 737 Max jets until September 3, the company said on Sunday. The planes were previously banned from serving passengers through mid-August. Click Here: Sports Water Bottles The airline “remains confident” that the jets will be cleared for flight once Boeing rolls out software…

A slew of Tories competing to take over the top job from Theresa May have admitted to taking drugs ranging from cannabis to cocaine, prompting a torrent of jibes and criticism on Twitter. The recent admissions include Michael Gove saying he took cocaine at several social events before he entered politics and Andrea Leadsom confessing…

A collision between a tourist bus and a car in the German state of Thuringia has injured 25 people, most of whom are children. Police say the accident occurred on Friday at around 3:50pm local time, according to local paper Thueringer Allgemeine. The tourist bus was carrying 49 schoolchildren between 16 and 18 years old,…

There’s no career opportunity for Elon Musk with Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, its head Dmitry Rogozin said, adding however, that he would gladly meet the SpaceX boss if he ever comes to visit. Roscosmos would not hire Musk to get help with reusable rocketry, Rogozin said on Saturday, while answering questions from reporters. The…

As Donald Trump cozies up to the hardline Israeli right-wingers, it seems that support for a sensible Middle East policy is in decline. But a number of the US’ European allies seem to be beginning to break ranks with Washington. On May 30, the Israeli Housing Ministry announced plans to build several hundred new residential…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Ankara is determined to protect Turkish Cypriots’ rights to gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean, AP reported. He was speaking on Friday, days after Cyprus had renegotiated a contract with a consortium made up of Shell, Texas-Based Noble Energy and Israel’s Delek, which paves the way for the…