On April 27, Gazprom announced it has fully suspended gas supplies to the Bulgarian company Bulgargaz and the Polish PGNiG due to their failure to pay in rubles in due time MOSCOW, July 1. /TASS/. In June 2022, the countries of the European Union for the first time in history imported more liquefied natural gas...
NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. stock market is reeling from its worst first half of any year since 1970, with investors girding for a series of potential flashpoints in July that may set Wall Street’s course for the coming months. Second-quarter corporate earnings, hotly anticipated U.S. inflation data and the Federal Reserve’s...
PARAISO, Mexico, July 1 (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador formally opened a major new oil refinery on Friday, a signature project for the leftist leader who argues it will help the country cut a longstanding dependence on foreign gasoline and diesel supplies. The Olmeca refinery owned and operated by state-run oil company...
Airport workers went on strike at Paris’ main international airport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle on Friday, forcing the cancellation of about 10% of flights and bringing more disruption to early summer travel. Scores of ground staff protested in front of one terminal to demand a big pay rise to cushion the pain of high inflation, emboldened...
TOKYO/LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has raised the stakes in an economic war with the West and its allies with a decree that seizes full control of the Sakhalin-2 gas and oil project in Russia’s far east, a move that could force out Shell and Japanese investors. The order, signed on Thursday,...
LONDON/ISTANBUL, July 1 (Reuters) – Ukraine has requested that Turkey detain and arrest the Russian-flagged cargo ship Zhibek Zholy carrying a cargo of Ukrainian grain taken from the Russian-occupied port of Berdyansk, according to a Ukrainian official and document seen by Reuters. The Ukrainian foreign ministry official, citing information received from the country’s maritime administration,...
Reuters) – Britain is considering approving limited government attendance at the Beijing Olympics that would stop short of a full diplomatic boycott, The Telegraph reported on Wednesday. An outright ban on ministerial and diplomatic representation at the Winter Games remains a possibility, the report said A spokesperson for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday...
BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday delivered a video address at the opening ceremony of the 139th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), saying that China will do its best to deliver to the world a streamlined, safe and splendid Olympic Winter Games. Xi extended a warm welcome to...
By Dr Shahid Qureshi: – On 11 January 2020, Hamid Karzai former president of Afghanistan supposedly a messenger of NDS – RAW visited Nawaz Sharif a convicted criminal currently on strange medical bail abroad at his residence Avon field Apartments in Park Lane, central London. The very apartments which Sharifs denying the ownership. So why...
By Dr Shahid Qureshi: – US – Iran ‘Tom & Jerry’ drama benefited many parties in the region and main beneficiaries are off course US and Iranian regimes lead by President Trump and President Hassan Rouhani. For example, according to reports over 1500 Iranian protesters were killed by the Iranian regime. “US- Iran crisis: Value...