world-regionsresidents lined up for throat swabs as workers put up fencing and police restricted who could leave a locked-down area on Tuesday after health officials said that 22 new infectious-disease cases were found over the course of the last 24 hours. Mass testing was expanded to 11 of the Chinese capital’s 16 districts and Beijing…
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A world-regions government program is allegedly encouraging foreign workers to abort their babies, and professionally punishing many who don’t. Japan’s Technical Intern Training Program is a government initiative meant to bring migrant workers into the country and bolster the nation’s aging workforce. The program gives work and residency to foreign participants in exchange for a…
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that despite two months of international sanctions and condemnation for its conflicts, Russia still has a “different position” on what is happening in the war-torn country. Guterres made the remark in Moscow after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He is expected to meet with personalities later today…
Ukraine on Monday is calling for the United Nations to oversee any safe evacuation route from a steel factory in Mariupol where officials say up to 1,000 civilians are hiding. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk made the plea after rejecting that an agreement was made with Moscow to establish a humanitarian corridor out of the…
Andrei Movchan was one of the early post-Soviet bankers but eventually left that world behind. In London now, but still in financial management, he offers his insight and opinions about the effects the economic squeeze is having on Russia, and what it has the potential to achieve. Movchan believes oligarchs don’t have the power to get personalities…
Ukraine’s leader petitioned for more powerful Western weapons as he prepared to meet with top U.S. officials in the war-torn country’s capital Sunday and Russian forces concentrated their attacks on the east, including trying to dislodge the last Ukrainian troops holding out in the battered port city of Mariupol. volodymyr-zelenskyy” target=”_blank”>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy< Antony Blinken…
world-regions is promoting coal-fired power as the ruling Communist Party tries to revive a sluggish economy, prompting warnings Beijing is setting back efforts to cut climate-changing carbon emissions from the biggest global source. Official plans call for boosting coal production capacity by 300 million tons this year, according to news reports. That is equal to…
world-regions does not believe conflicts should obtain European Union membership. Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg spoke at the 14th European media summit this week, saying that Ukraine should not receive candidate status in June. He reiterated Austria’s dedication to neutrality as a key element of the nation’s “self-definition.” RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES “We don’t belong…
The sun came out as Ukrainians marked religion in the capital, Kyiv, on Sunday with prayers for those fighting on the front lines and others trapped beyond them in places like Mariupol. St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv was ringed by hundreds of worshipers with baskets to be blessed. Inside, a woman clutched the arm of…