The United States is expected to announce "substantial" financial aid to Ukraine on Tuesday to help it deal with the damage caused by Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure, senior US officials said.. The United States will call on the other member countries to strengthen their aid in this area, according to the US official.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has told his cabinet to increase defence spending to two percent of GDP by 2027, up from a longstanding level of around one percent.. "We'll take budgetary measures to increase spending on defence and other outlays to two percent of current GDP by 2027," Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada told reporters after talks with Kishida.
Canada's foreign minister on Monday ordered her officials to summon Russia's ambassador in Ottawa, Oleg Stepanov, over a series of "hateful" anti-LGBTQ tweets including one aimed at an openly lesbian federal minister.. Minister Joly has directed Global Affairs Canada to summon the Russian ambassador to tell him as much," she said.
Normally, it would be horrible news to football fans anywhere that their team's star player was injured.. He's a great player.
Belgium's worst peacetime massacre left 32 dead and hundreds marked for life.. The case will not be the first for 33-year-old Salah Abdeslam, who was convicted in France as a ringleader in the November 13, 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 dead.
Despite decades of effort, plastic pollution is only getting worse -- a gloomy fact that representatives of almost 200 nations meeting in Uruguay Monday are determined to change.. The meeting in Uruguay will last for five days, and is only a first step in the negotiations process.
Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, who was co-awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, faces up to 12 years in prison on smuggling charges, the Viasna rights centre said Monday.. "They face between seven and 12 years of imprisonment," Viasna said.
Belgium's worst peacetime massacre left 32 dead and hundreds marked for life.. The case will not be the first for 33-year-old Salah Abdeslam, who was convicted in France as a ringleader in the November 13, 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 dead.
Argentinian soy farmers will be able to sell their product at a preferential exchange rate, as the country seeks to shore up its central bank reserves, according to a decree published Monday.. A similar preferential soy rate was applied in September, when soybean sales earned the country almost $8 billion.
A self-declared white supremacist pleaded guilty Monday to shooting dead 10 Black people during a racist, live-streamed, rampage at a supermarket in the US state of New York earlier this year.. He had initially pleaded not guilty to a single count of first-degree murder before state authorities later added the other charges. pdh/mlm
