ST. PETERSBURG, October 21. /TASS/. Russian special presidential envoy and Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev and US special envoy Steve Witkoff have departed from St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport, a TASS correspondent reported. Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that Witkoff was going to visit St. Petersburg. Dmitriev welcom…
ST. PETERSBURG, October 21. /TASS/. Russian special presidential envoy and Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev and US special envoy Steve Witkoff have departed from St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport, a TASS correspondent reported.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that Witkoff was going to visit St. Petersburg. Dmitriev welcomed the US envoy at the airport.
A high-profile disciplinary hearing into a doctor accused of leaving a girl in a vegetative state six years ago has been adjourned pending a coroner’s inquest, a decision the girl’s father learned of just a week before proceedings were due to begin. The Medical Council informed Eddie Chau, father of Chau Tin-yu, on Tuesday night that the hearing, originally scheduled to start on October 27, would be postponed until after the inquest. The decision leaves both proceedings in limbo. Just last...
KURSK, October 21. /TASS/. Air defense crews of Russia’s Battlegroup North shot down 79 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Kharkov and Sumy Regions overnight that were heading toward Russia’s border areas, the battlegroup told TASS. "While on combat duty last night, radar station crews of the Battlegroup North detected 79 Ukrainian UAVs heading…
ST. PETERSBURG, October 21. /TASS/. Kirill Dmitriev, Special Presidential Representative for Investment and Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), and U.S. Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff have arrived at Constantine Palace for talks, a TASS correspondent reports. Earlier, Dmitriev met Witko…
Government paid £10.9bn in debt interest, the highest September figure since records began Business live – latest updates The Treasury ran a higher than expected budget deficit of £24.5bn last month as rising inflation pushed up the interest paid on government debt, increasing pressure on John Healey before his first budget next Wednesday. Official figures show the government paid £10.9bn in debt interest: the highest September figure since records began, and only the eighth time the monthly num
A monthly trip to Costco has become routine this year for Kim Eun-young. The 42-year-old mother of two living in Seoul’s Gwangjin district used to pick up what she needed at a nearby supermarket, but rising prices prompted her to change her shopping habits. She said buying groceries and household essentials in bulk seemed more economical, at least for her family of four. “The bill is bigger each time, but buying in bulk works out cheaper for the same amount. I mainly buy food we eat regularly...
WASHINGTON, October 21. /TASS/. Ukraine would not exist without Washington’s assistance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters. "If it were not for the assistance of the United States, including under the Trump administration, there would be no Ukraine right now. Ukraine as a sovereign state would not exist," Bloomberg quoted Rubio as saying durin…