The US has sanctioned another 500 people and entities connected with Russia, including financial executives and prison officials. US President Joe Biden said that the restrictions will ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin “pays an even steeper price for his aggression,” but the Kremlin has dismissed them as “fruitless.” The …
Read More »Ukraine threatens to destroy Europe’s longest bridge
Ukraine should target the bridge across the Kerch Strait connecting Crimea to the Russian mainland as soon as it gets the weapons it needs to do so from the West, Major-General Dmitry Marchenko said on Wednesday, in an interview with a US government-funded outlet. “The Kerch Bridge is absolutely our …
Read More »World’s longest high-speed railway network gets longer
China put 581km (361 miles) of new railway lines into service in the first four months of the year, Xinhua reported on Tuesday, citing data from China State Railway Group. This includes 358km of high-speed railway, data shows. The country saw 157.46 billion yuan (over $23.21 billion) in fixed asset …
Read More »US stocks suffer longest losing streak since the Great Depression
US stocks were hammered again on Friday, pushing Wall Street into bear market status amid inflation and recession fears and leaving investors on their longest losing streak since the Great Depression by at least one key measure. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell as much as 2.3%, leaving it …
Read More »Bitcoin racks up longest losing streak in nearly half a decade
The world’s biggest digital asset, bitcoin, fell for a seventh straight day, marking its longest losing streak since 2018, as the crypto market contends with new strains of Covid-19, inflation and a hawkish turn of the US Fed. The steep sell-off, attributed to these factors, sent bitcoin plummeting to $40,800 …
Read More »Putin reviews 2021 in longest-ever New Year address
Russians encountered “colossal challenges” in 2021 but managed to cope with them through staying united, President Vladimir Putin said in his traditional New Year address to the nation. Here are the key points from his speech. New Year’s Eve is the main family-gathering event in Russia during the winter holiday …
Read More »Longest lunar eclipse in centuries coming
The peak of the partial eclipse will take place in the predawn hours on Friday when 97% of the moon will be eclipsed by the Earth’s shadow. The previous longest partial eclipse took place in 2018 and lasted less than two hours, while this will last for several hours. The …
Read More »Afghanistan after the US: Human stories behind America’s longest lost war
The US invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, accusing the Taliban government of sheltering Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, blamed for the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. Except Bin Laden got away, and the mission changed to building a …
Read More »China’s longest-serving ambassador to the US leaving post, notes ‘critical crossroads’ as tensions grow
The US is facing a “choice between cooperation and confrontation” as it goes through a “new round of restructuring in its government policy towards China,” Cui warned in his letter on Tuesday, according to the South China Morning Post. He added that “overseas Chinese in the US have to shoulder …
Read More »‘Time to end America’s longest war’: Biden announces US pullout from Afghanistan by 9/11 anniversary
“We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan, hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result,” Biden said on Wednesday afternoon. “I am now the fourth US president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans. …
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