Poland will no longer provide arms to the Ukrainian forces, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said, adding that Warsaw would instead shift focus to its own security. The decision follows a diplomatic row over Ukrainian grain imports, which were banned in Poland after flooding local markets. Morawiecki told reporters on …
Read More »Wall Street stops servicing Russian debt – Bloomberg
JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are withdrawing from handling trades of Russian debt, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The pullout follows Washington’s announcement last week that it was banning US investors from holding such assets. According to the report, which cited market professionals, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs were still matching …
Read More »Massive fire stops arrivals at Swiss airport (VIDEO)
Thick black smoke from a nearby burning building temporarily stopped all arrivals at the airport in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday afternoon. Departures from the country’s second-busiest airport were left to the pilots’ discretion. The fire broke out at a reception facility for asylum-seekers that was under construction. “Due to a …
Read More »EU stops weapons sales to Russia
Following the calls from Poland and the Baltic states, the European Union has quietly deleted a sanctions exemption that had allowed EU weapons manufacturers to do business with Russia, Reuters reported on Thursday citing anonymous officials. Brussels blocked the export of arms and ammunition to Russia in July 2014, citing …
Read More »First EU country stops buying Russian gas
Lithuania’s government said on Saturday that it has halted all purchases of Russian natural gas, making irrelevant President Vladimir Putin’s demand that all “unfriendly states” pay for the fuel in rubles amid heavy sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine conflict. “In these circumstances, Russia’s demand to pay for gas …
Read More »Apple stops sales in Russia, censors RT
The makers of iPhone and iMac computers rolled out a series of measures on Tuesday in reaction to the “Russian invasion of Ukraine,” including disabling some software features, censoring apps, and halting sales and certain services inside Russia. In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, Apple said it had already stopped …
Read More »Johnson & Johnson stops Covid-19 vaccine production – NYT
US multinational Johnson & Johnson suspended production of its Covid-19 vaccine late last year amid a massive push by the federal government and health officials to promote getting inoculated, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the situation. The pause in production is reportedly temporary, but …
Read More »La Palma volcano stops erupting after 85 days of destruction
The eruption of the La Palma volcano that plunged Spain’s Canary Islands into chaos has stopped “after 85 days and 8 hours,” the local government announced. “The eruption is over,” the regional security minister, Julio Perez, said at a press conference on Saturday. Clarifying that the volcano stopped showing vital …
Read More »Spy agency stops tracking Omicron carriers
“It has been decided not to continue using it [surveillance] at this time,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said in a joint statement on Thursday. The move was made in line with government policy which calls for tracking to be “used sparingly and examined on a …
Read More »Student stops world’s largest coal port in one click
In a video posted to the Blockade Australia Facebook page last week, 23-year-old Kirsten Hoffman proudly told the camera that she had just disabled a machine at Newcastle’s coal port – the world’s largest – by hitting the stop button. While Hoffman walks around with her Blockade Australia stickers, her …
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