US banks and individuals will be barred from accepting bond payments from Russia’s government after 12:01am NY time (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday. By Sydney Maki and Daniel FlatleyBloomberg Published On 24 May 202224 May 2022 Russia will get pushed closer to a potential default after the US Treasury Department said it will let a key sanctions […]

The United Nations Security Council expressed ‘deep concern’ over the Taliban order forcing women to cover their faces in public, including on television broadcasts. The United Nations Security Council called on the Taliban to “swiftly reverse” policies restricting human rights and freedoms for Afghan women, in a unanimously adopted statement amid fears the Taliban was […]

Psaki is the latest in a line of former White House and administration spokespeople to join the media. Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who left her position in President Joe Biden’s administration earlier this month, will join MSNBC cable network, the network has said. Psaki who served as White House spokesperson for the […]

Powell has portrayed the Fed’s drive to raise interest rates as consistent with a so-called ‘soft landing’ for the United States economy. US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, fresh off winning Senate confirmation for a second term earlier in the day, acknowledged for the first time Thursday that high inflation and economic weakness overseas could […]

Video Duration 25 minutes 40 seconds 25:40 From: Inside Story It’s three months since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the ‘special military operation’ to invade Ukraine. Three months into Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, the invasion appears to be turning into a drawn-out war. Thousands have been killed, millions are homeless and many […]

Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the war in Ukraine represents ‘a constant threat to Hungary’. Hungary’s government will assume emergency powers in order to be able to respond more quickly to challenges created by the war in neighbouring Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. Orban, who won a fourth consecutive term in an election […]

A leak of thousands of photographs reveals more details about the internment of Uighurs, but China calls it ‘lies’. A leak of thousands of photos and official documents from China’s Xinjiang province has shed new light on the extent of abuses, including mass internment, targeting the Uighur and other Muslim minorities, according to media reports. […]

Police say early-morning raid in Rio de Janeiro favela community aimed to capture leaders of drug-trafficking group. At least 11 people have been fatally shot in a Brazilian police raid in an impoverished favela community on the north side of Rio de Janeiro, authorities have said. Police said Tuesday’s early-morning raid in the Vila Cruzeiro […]

Japan scrambled jets after the warplanes approached its airspace while Quad leaders were meeting in Tokyo. Russian and Chinese military planes carried out joint exercises near Japan on Tuesday while leaders of the Quad group of countries were meeting in Tokyo, the Japanese defence minister has said, calling it “provocation”. “Two Chinese bombers joined two […]

Hungary is not in a position to agree to the proposed EU sanctions until all outstanding issues resolved, Prime Minister Viktor Orban says in a letter to Charles Michel. The European Union’s proposed new sanctions against Russia, including an oil embargo, should not be discussed at next week’s summit of the bloc’s leaders, Prime Minister […]