MOSCOW, Feb. 17(NsNewsWire) — The Russian and U.S. intelligence services should join efforts to fight international terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. “Restoration of dialogue with special services of the United States and other members from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is in the common interest,” Putin said in an address to a meeting […]

BONN, Germany, Feb. 17 (NsNewsWire) — China and Britain agreed to safeguard global free trade mechanism and promote free trade as foreign ministers of the two nations met on Thursday. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his British counterpart Boris Johnson on the sidelines of the Group of Twenty (G20) foreign ministerial meeting held in […]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a bill to repeal a regulation requiring energy companies to disclose payments to the U.S. or foreign governments for commercial development. “This is a big signing.Very important signing,” said Trump at the signing ceremony accompanied by two leading Republican figures, House Speaker Paul […]

MOSCOW, Feb. 15 (NsNewsWire) — Russia has the sovereign right to name islets of the disputed Pacific island group Southern Kurils, the Kremlin said Tuesday, defying Japan’s diplomatic protest. Last week, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a decision to name five unnamed islets after prominent Russian figures, reports Xinhua. Japan and Russia are involved […]

GENEVA, Feb. 15 (NsNewsWire) — The UN’s Children Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday that thanks to recent repairs to the municipal system, water is slowing returning to the northern Syrian town of Aleppo. “For almost a month, 1.8 million people in and around the city were deliberately cut off from the public water network,” UNICEF said […]

MOSCOW, Feb. 15 (NsNewsWire) — A Russian company will conduct the first test flight for its tourist spacecraft in 2019-2020 with much cheaper tickets than previous services, an executive said Tuesday. The production of the reusable suborbital capsule will start in 2018, Pavel Pushkin, CEO of CosmoCourse company, was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency […]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that the Fed will consider whether to raise interest rates at upcoming meetings. “At our upcoming meetings, the (Federal Open Market) Committee will evaluate whether employment and inflation are continuing to evolve in line with these expectations, in which case a […]