Russia offers Ukraine gas discount, sets conditions
Russia links the issue of discount for gas prices for Ukraine with guarantees for the purchase of Russian gas in the first quarter of next year, Russian information agency RIA Novosti has reported, with reference to the statement by Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak. "Of course, when we provide a discount, we want to...
Chinese yuan weakens to 6.4814 against dollar Friday
The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened by 57 basis points to 6.4814 against the U.S. dollar on Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System, Chinese leading financial and business information provider Xinhua Finance Agency reported. In China's spot foreign exchange...
Militants prevent OSCE movement, require permission from DPR leaders
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) has said that the armed militants of the so-called "DPR" prevent the movement of the mission. "Many interlocutors in public institutions controlled by the so-called DPR have been insisting that we received permission of the so-called DPR prior to allowing us to...
Turkey wants to enlist Ukraine’s support in anti-Russian propaganda – media
Turkey has asked the Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine for assistance in the fight against Russian propaganda, Deputy Minister of Information Policy Tetiana Popova said in Lviv during the conference "The anniversary of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union: results and further...
Belgium to send F-16 fighter jets to protect airspace over Baltics
Baltic airspace will be guarded by Belgian fighter jets in 2016, according to Estonian daily newspaper Postimees. At the ceremony, which will be held at Estonian Amari Air Base on January 7, German pilots will be replaced by the the Belgian Air Force pilots to protect the airspace of the Baltic states. Belgian Air Force will be...
And then I forgot … 35 situations that may occur short-term amnesia (+ PHOTOS)
Implications of the situation demonstrated in this post may be both short-term memory loss and epileptic seizure. Caution! Post charged...
‘The force is strong with this one’: Star Wars fan Mark Zuckerberg posts adorable photo of daughter Max in a Jedi cloak
Mark Zuckerberg is one very proud first-time father. He's also a major Star Wars fan. These two came together on Thursday in one adorable Facebook post, with the CEO putting up a picture of his three-week-old daughter, Max, dressed up in a Jedi cloak. 'The force is strong with this one,' Zuckerberg captioned the...
1st super high-res images of one of Pluto’s possible ice volcanoes (PHOTO)
New Horizons could have just caught its first ice volcano on film. So say NASA scientists who’ve been looking at the latest high-res images of Pluto’s much rougher eastern side. The terrain in the new image mosaic is very different to last week’s photos. This is the closest we are likely to see Pluto. New...
Russia open to Assad’s ouster after Syria transition: diplomats
Russia has made clear to Western nations that it has no objection to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stepping down as part of a peace process, in a softening of its publicly stated staunch backing of Assad ahead of talks in New York, diplomats said, according to Reuters. "What you've got is a move that will end up...
Two Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donbas conflict zone in last day
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but two were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday. "Over the last day, we haven't lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but two were...
The face of prostitution past: Smothered in lipstick and rouge, the working girls who were cashing in on Canada’s ‘Sin City’ in WWII
Montreal was the center for sex during Prohibition in the U.S., when Americans would travel north to fulfil their illicit needs in Canada The end of Prohibition as well as a rise in sexually transmitted disease saw police enforcing a crackdown on the prostitution industry, during which time these women were put behind bars In...