MOSCOW, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Russia’s security service has detained Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev on suspicion of taking a two-million-dollar bribe over a massive deal involving state-controlled oil giant Rosneft, investigators said Tuesday. Ulyukayev is the highest ranking official to be detained over suspected corruption since President Vladimir Putin took power in 2000 and vowed to clamp […]
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Russian economy minister detained over alleged $2 mln bribe
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Chinese media praise Trump’s ‘experience and ideology’
BEIJING, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Chinese state-run media lauded Donald Trump Tuesday after a phone call between him and President Xi Jinping, saying that the president-elect’s emergence could mark a “reshaping” of Sino-American relations. The pair spoke Monday, when Xi said that the two powers needed to co-operate and Trump’s office said the leaders “established a clear […]
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Britain has no Brexit plan, leaked memo claims
LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The British government has no overarching plan for Brexit and may take another six months to agree a negotiating strategy, according to a leaked memo published by The Times on Tuesday. Civil servants are struggling to cope with more than 500 Brexit-related projects and an extra 30,000 extra staff may be needed […]
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Obama lands in Athens on final European trip as president
ATHENS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – US President Barack Obama arrived in Athens on Tuesday, the first stop on a final foreign trip that will aim to reassure worried Europeans following Donald Trump’s surprise presidential election victory. Opening a farewell visit to Europe, Obama is to visit the Parthenon, deliver a speech on the challenges of globalisation and […]
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Asia-Pacific leaders to talk trade in a Trump world
LIMA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Top world leaders will meet this week to chart a future for free trade — almost a dirty word in a world upended by Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election. US President Barack Obama, China’s Xi Jinping, Japan’s Shinzo Abe and Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be among the leaders in […]
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Gitmo: Obama laments he wasn’t able to close ‘the darn thing’
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – US President Barack Obama expressed regret Monday that he hadn’t been able to shut down the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay during his eight years in office. In his first news conference since Republican tycoon Donald Trump was elected to succeed him, Obama blamed the GOP-controlled Congress for his failure to […]