Oil prices are rising fast on Friday as the US government is considering banning imports of Russian oil and oil products. The latter is probably relatively easy for the United States to do because it produces a lot of oil itself and uses relatively little oil from Russia. In the course of Friday evening, a barrel of American oil was …
Despite Russia’s nuclear threats in the war with Ukraine, the United States is not taking any steps. The US government currently sees no reason to change nuclear alert levels, the White House said. According to President Joe Biden, the Americans do not have to worry about a nuclear war. Russian president Vladimir Putin had announced that he would put Russia’s …
The United States has asked Honduras for the arrest and extradition of former president Hernández. The Americans suspect him of involvement in drug trafficking. Dozens of Honduran police officers and military personnel have surrounded the home of Hernández. Hernández walked out of his office, as suspected, to have been the person is becoming more and more persistent were the same. …
The United States has signed a $ 100 million arms deal with Taiwan. It involves the sale of equipment and services to improve the missile defense system. China, which believes Taiwan belongs to China and considers the island a renegade province, calls it a serious undermining of national security. According to a government spokesman, the country will ‘take strong measures …
The Russian security service FSB has said it has dismantled hacker group REvil. Members of the group were arrested and assets were seized, including twenty cars and 426 million rubles (almost 5 million euros). The arrests were made at the request of the United States. The hacker group is suspected of thousands of ransomware attacks, in which files of companies …
Two members of the activist Russian punk band Pussy Riot have gone on a hunger strike in a Russian prison near Moscow. They want to be accommodated in one cell and permission to communicate with each other, report an independent news portal and the Civil Rights website OVD-Info. The women are stuck for about two weeks. The band members often …
The United Nations Security Council has approved a motion to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, even though that country is largely controlled by the Islamist Taliban militia. The United States supported the motion and will not impose sanctions on anyone sending aid to Afghanistan. The motion received the support of the United States and was unanimously approved in the Security …
A secret unit within the US military during bombing of targets of terrorist group Islamist State (is) has ignored rules to prevent civilian casualties. As a result, innocent people, including children, were killed in the bomb attacks. The bombings were carried out by Talon Anvil, a special forces unit in the U.S. Army that consists of less than 20 people. …
With the installation of the new German government, Angela Merkel’s 16-year chancellorship came to an end. NU.nl together with the biographer of Merkel, Ralph Bollmann, and German expert Marja Verburg looks back on sixteen years of Merkel. “There is a well-known story about Merkel. About how she stood on a diving board as a girl during swimming lessons at school. …
Two recent outbreaks of wart disease in potato batches in the Prince Edward Islands have led the United States (USA) to temporarily suspend the transport of seed potatoes from this Canadian province. The infections on two Canadian potato companies on 1 and 14 October have been confirmed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). Since the year 2000, 35 infections …
