country

Millionaire and one of UK’s richest men, Sir Richard Sutton, stabbed to death at country mansion

Sir Richard Sutton, an 83-year-old hotelier worth hundreds of millions of pounds, was attacked at his home in the Higher…

3 years ago

Over 100 whales to be killed in Japan as country starts controversial commercial whaling season

On Saturday, four ships – two in Miyagi Prefecture on the east coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu and…

3 years ago

France shuts schools for three weeks and whole country heads for lockdown amid Covid-19 spike as Macron defends measures

All face-to-face teaching in schools will be suspended from Monday for a week ahead of the two-week spring break, with…

3 years ago

Latvia begins blocking RT news site aimed at country’s Russian-speaking minority as outlet accuses Riga of attack on free press

RT confirmed on Wednesday morning that authorities had started to implement restrictions on access to its Russian website, in line…

3 years ago

Venezuelan President Maduro offers ‘oil for vaccines’ as country sees spike in Covid-19 cases

“Venezuela has the oil vessels and has the customers who will buy our oil,” Maduro said, as cited by the…

3 years ago

Has the West lost Russia? ‘European’ identity is collapsing in the continent’s largest country, with the youth leading the charge

It has been common to predict that Russia’s post-Soviet generation would feel a closer affinity to the West and embrace…

3 years ago

Tesla will ‘get shut down’ if used for spying in any country, Musk says after reports of restrictions on vehicles in China

“If a commercial company did engage in spying, the negative effects to that company would be extremely bad,” Musk said…

3 years ago

Former Ukrainian president Kravchuk says country will be invaded by Russia as Moscow seeks to solve Crimea’s water-supply problem

Speaking on Wednesday to US state-run media outlet RFE/RL, Kravchuk noted that the disastrous water situation on the Black Sea…

3 years ago

In 13 years, number of Russians who consider their country to be European has dropped by almost half, survey reveals

That’s according to a new poll from the Levada Center, a Moscow-based pollster and registered foreign agent. The survey revealed…

3 years ago

Myanmar is a strategic headache for Beijing, but anti-China feeling in the country is not as strong as Western media claims

As unrest rages in Myanmar, over the weekend a number of Chinese-owned factories and businesses were torched by demonstrators in…

3 years ago