Russian agricultural exports will continue to grow and are expected to reach $45 billion within the next five years, according to Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev. He told reporters at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF): “I think we will achieve all of our goals.” Boosting sales of agricultural products abroad is currently one of…

Greek Education Minister Kostas Gavroglou said on Friday that Athens would open its first state-sponsored official mosque probably by September, when the €850,000 ($967,000) construction project is completed. “Soon the first prayers will be made by the imam,” Reuters quoted Gavroglou as saying. There are mosques in other parts of the country, which has a…

Click:geomembrana hdpe 0.5mm Outlawing abortions won’t increase the population, but will cause a spike in maternal deaths, Russia’s deputy health minister has warned. The Orthodox Church has recently been pushing for a ban. “We won’t solve the problem with restrictive measures, but only make it worse,” Deputy Health Minister Tatyana Yakovleva said, adding that she…

Mastercard has suspended an advertising campaign featuring Brazilian star Neymar amid allegations of sexual assault against the forward, according to reports in the player’s homeland. The international payments and technology company had planned to use the star Paris Saint-Germain forward for the campaign during the Copa America, which kicks off in Brazil on June 15….

After the US put the blame squarely on Iran for sabotaging four oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a preliminary probe concluded that a ‘state actor’ was likely behind the raid, but made no mention of Iran. According to reports by Reuters and Bloomberg, preliminary findings from the investigation jointly conducted…

Beijing says it has “serious concerns” about the proposed sale of missiles and of more than 100 tanks to Taiwan. On Thursday, Taiwan confirmed it is hoping to buy state-of-the-art tanks and portable missiles from the US, in a proposed deal that drew an angry rebuke from China, AFP reports. Taipei’s Defense Ministry has formally…

The New York Times has corrected a report that UK officials had shared photos with the CIA depicting children and animals who’d been exposed to the so-called Novichok nerve agent after coming into contact with the Skripals. The Times reported on April 16 that the British government had supplied images of “young children hospitalized” and…

A senior British official who had been charged with Brexit border preparations has abruptly left the role, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) confirmed on Thursday. Karen Wheeler had said earlier this year that there was “no magic solution” that would make the post-Brexit Irish border problems go away and allow the island to avoid…

The Transportation Security Administration has been allowing illegal immigrants to fly without legal ID papers for months, bringing a new meaning to the term “undocumented,” according to a report citing Homeland Security sources. The TSA has permitted illegals to board domestic flights at airports near the border without any of the 15 forms of identification…

Civil rights activists who risked their lives to racially integrate American schools must be turning in their graves as Virginia Tech proudly offers 10 segregated graduation ceremonies based on race, sexuality, and… sobriety? Virginia Tech may be the most extreme example, but it’s hardly alone. The school exemplifies a relatively recent trend in US higher…