California Governor Jerry Brown has announced that his state will gather leaders from around the world for a global environmental summit next year, the media reported. Brown made the remarks while addressing the Global Citizens Festival in Hamburg, Germany, via videoconference, on Thursday ahead of the G20 economic summit which will be attended by world […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed the German public directly ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg, writing an exclusive op-ed for the German newspaper Handelsblatt. Putin stressed his belief in common ground shared by Moscow and Berlin in the areas such as climate change, and praised the G20 as a necessary and effective forum […]
Russian spies are ramping up their intelligence-gathering efforts in the US, according to current and former US intelligence officials, who say they have noticed an increase since the presidential election. The officials say they believe one of the biggest US adversaries feels emboldened by the lack of a significant retaliatory response from both the Trump […]
Walter Shaub Jr., Director of the US Office of Government Ethics, announced his resignation following a rocky relationship with President Trump and repeated confrontations with the administration. Shaub did not specify a reason for his resignation in a letter to President Trump, which he released on Twitter on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported. He, […]
France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, the media reported. On Thursday, Ecology Minister Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel vehicles as part of a renewed commitment to the Paris climate deal, reports the BBC. Hulot, a veteran environmental campaigner, said […]
When it comes to tackling growing cyber security attacks including ransomware threats, the world needs public-private partnerships more than ever to nab those behind such attacks, Russian cyber security giant Kaspersky Lab has stressed. “Private and public cybersecurity experts should work together to collect malware artefacts, map and analyse cyber attacks and find the trail […]
US President Donald Trump said that he thinks Russia was behind 2016 election meddling, but added he feels “it could have been other people in other countries” and that “nobody really knows for sure”. “I think it very well could be Russia but I think it could very well have been other countries,” Trump said […]
At least 76 people were injured in clashes with police on Thursday during the protest against the G20 summit, to be held here in Germany, the media reported. The anti-globalisation “Welcome to Hell” rally peacefully but turned violent in the evening. The police had to use water cannon, pepper sprays and batons to disperse demonstrators, […]
Scientists have discovered fossils belonging to an ancient, extinct crocodile relative that has deep and massive jaw bones armed with enormous serrated teeth like those of a T-rex. According to a new study published in the journal PeerJ on Tuesday, the animal found in Madagascar in Africa was a top land predator of the Middle […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a joint statement on further deepening the two countries’ comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination. Under new conditions, the two countries will devote to further consolidating their relations based on equality, trust, mutual support, common prosperity and enduring friendship, and promoting deeper political […]