Tag: Russia

• Monday, September 21st 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  China claims coronavirus was found on packaging of imported squid from Russia

  

  Authorities in China's northeastern Jilin province have found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of imported squid, health authorities in the city of Fuyu said on Sunday, urging anyone who may have bought it to get themselves tested.

• Saturday, September 12th 2020 - 10:24 UTC

  The Brazilian state of Bahia signs deal for Russia's vaccine against Covid-19

  

  The Brazilian state of Bahia has signed an agreement to conduct Phase III clinical trials of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and plans to buy 50 million doses to market in Brazil, officials have said.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  Snowden' vindication: NSA mass surveillance program of US phones unlawful, and US intelligence leaders lied

  

  Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of US’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful - and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Nuclear generated electricity increases for seventh year running

  

  Electricity generated from the world’s nuclear reactors increased for the seventh consecutive year in 2019, with electricity output reaching 2657 TWh. This was an increase of 95 TWh on the previous year, and the second-highest ever output, according to Agneta Rising, Director General of World Nuclear Association.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Brazilian state in talks to begin producing the Russian Covid-19 vaccine

  

  Brazil’s Parana state is in talks to produce a COVID-19 vaccine approved by Russia despite not having completed mass clinical trials, but it was unclear if the state’s research institute would get regulatory approval in Brazil.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Two Beluga whales returned to the ocean after ten years in Russia and China

  

  Two beluga whales taken from the sea nearly ten years ago are being returned to the ocean. Little Grey and Little White are now being looked after at the world's first open water sanctuary for belugas in Iceland.

• Monday, July 27th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Germany rejects Trump's proposal to invite Putin back to the Group of Seven

  

  Germany has rejected a proposal by US President Donald Trump to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin back into the Group of Seven (G-7) most advanced economies, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a newspaper interview published on Monday.

• Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 - 08:06 UTC

  Putin approves a US$ 4bn loan to Venezuela

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying the protocol to the intergovernmental agreement on providing a loan to Venezuela by Moscow, which guarantees timely debt repayment to Russia.

• Monday, July 20th 2020 - 09:28 UTC

  Foreign Office claims Russian hackers trying to steal information on Covid-19 vaccine

  

  British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday he was “absolutely confident” in allegations by the UK and its allies that Russia targeted labs conducting COVID-19 research, branding the behavior “outrageous and reprehensible”.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Russia replaces Venezuela as supplier of heavy fuel to US refineries

  

  Russia kept fuel oil exports to the United States close to its record-highs in the first six months of this year, as Washington looks to replace the heavy Venezuelan barrels it stopped buying a year ago, traders said and data showed.