Busloads of migrants were left outside the home of US Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington on Saturday evening (local time). The refugees in the first two buses were taken to local shelters, a government official told CNN. Later more migrants arrived, some of whom were only wearing T-shirts as the temperature was well below … Read more
Vilnius/Warsaw (Reuters) – A giant transformer built in Ukraine in the 1980s and now disused is being dusted off and ready to go here in Lithuania. He will probably go to Romania in the next few weeks and from there go home to Ukraine. On December 21, a gigantic transformer, built in Ukraine in 1980 … Read more
The extreme winter storm that hit large parts of the United States on Saturday caused many traffic accidents. At least sixteen people were killed. At least 700,000 households and businesses are still without electricity, the news agency said Reuters. It’s one of the coldest Christmas Eves ever in the US due to the extreme winter … Read more
Published on : 12/24/2022 – 07:50 As millions of Americans flood streets and airports for the holiday season, the country awoke on Saturday to a historic snowstorm that caused massive damage: 1.5 million American homes without power, thousands of flights cancelled, highways closed and sometimes fatal accidents. It is a phenomenon as rare as it … Read more
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) New York crude futures closed higher on Friday (Dec. 23) on reports that Russia would cut exports of Baltic crude. The news overshadowed any negative factors that cold weather in the US could have on fuel demand this holiday season. The WTI Crude Oil contract is delivered in February. It rose … Read more
After eighteen months, interviews of more than a thousand witnesses, and the study of over a million pages of documents, there is a final report on the storming of the Capitol. Trump is the “greatest cause” is the conclusion. A 154-page abstract was published earlier this week. The US parliamentary committee was investigating the events … Read more
AFP extension ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 03:36 President Biden has warned Americans that it will get even colder in the coming days. “It’s not like when you were a kid and it snowed for a day,” he said in a briefing with White House officials. “This is serious.” Extremely cold temperatures are expected across the United States this … Read more
Published on : 12/22/2022 – 12:13 Sam Bankman-Fried, the fallen founder of FTX, the cryptocurrency trading platform, arrived in New York on Wednesday, December 21st. The day before he had given his consent to be extradited from the Bahamas where he was being held. Accused of massive fraud, among other charges, he is to appear … Read more
US President Joe Biden assures that Ukraine can count on continued military and financial support. Biden said this in Washington after an interview with his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president was visiting abroad for the first time since the Russian invasion ten months ago. “We stand with you,” Biden said, lauding the “steel backbone” … Read more
He tried to prevent it with a long legal battle, but now former President Donald Trump’s tax returns are being made public. This is what a commission of the US parliament decided yesterday evening. As a result, the minutes with the tax returns will probably be forwarded to the House of Representatives in the next … Read more