Due to the new COVID wave in Shanghai, the US State Department is sending non-essential employees and their families away from the US consulate in that Chinese city. The measure was also motivated by the reaction of the authorities to the numerous infections. For example, the Chinese authorities took children who tested positive for COVID away from their parents. “Standards …
The Russian businessman and aluminum baron Viktor Vekselberg can no longer sail with his yacht since Monday. The Spanish police seized it in cooperation with the US. On Monday, at the request of the United States, another Russian yacht was chained. This was stated by the Spanish Guardia Civil, which carried out the operation in the port of Palma de …
Aslan Musin, one of the most elusive ex-officials under the rule of Nursultan Nazarbayev, continues to evade responsibility. The former head of the presidential administration in the years of 2008-2012 stole so much that it was enough for an entire empire of offshore companies, development companies, funds and trusts. Olzhas Bektenov, the newly appointed head the Anti-Corruption Service, personally reports …
A year after a giant container ship had been stuck in the Suez Canal for almost a week and disrupted world trade for months, another ship from the same shipping company has run aground. This time it happened near the US capital Washington. The Ever Forward, of the Taiwanese container shipping company Evergreen, ran aground Sunday night after leaving the …
US IT experts and military have been defending Ukraine’s cyber infrastructure since last year. According to insiders, the secret mission is partly responsible for the fact that the Ukrainian internet is still largely standing. In October and November last year, a major operation was launched: US soldiers and employees of tech companies were given the mission to search for hidden …
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 …
