COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced a debt restructuring deal with countries including India, France, Japan and China in a televised address to the nation Wednesday. The agreement marks a key step in the country’s economic recovery after defaulting on debt repayment in 2022. Sri Lanka is under an International […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Chinese “overconcentrated supply chains” pose a threat to U.S. jobs and recent investments meant to build up the U.S. green energy sector, and the Asian superpower’s pursuit of its trade policies “may interfere significantly with our efforts to build a healthy economic relationship.” In a prepared speech […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping was greeted with military honours in Budapest on Thursday ahead of talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Hungary is the last stop on Xi’s trip to Europe, which took him to France and Serbia earlier in the week. Xi and Orbán are due to sign more than a dozen bilateral […]
A video of Indonesia and China’s foreign ministers signing a bilateral cooperation agreement in October 2023 has resurfaced in false social media posts praising Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo for purportedly paying off all the country’s debts to China in the final months of his presidency. According to debt statistics released by Indonesian financial authorities […]
[Source] Doctors in Delhi, India, successfully performed the city’s first bilateral hand transplant on a 45-year-old painter who lost both hands in a horrific train accident a few years ago. How they did it: A team of 11 doctors performed the procedure on Raj Kumar at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi on Jan. 19. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Leaders of Australia and Laos signed an agreement that deepens bilateral ties on Wednesday on the final day of a Southeast Asian summit. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Laos counterpart Sonexay Siphandone are co-chairing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ special summit being held in Melbourne to mark 50 […]
The German ambassador to Russia, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, held talks on bilateral issues at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Monday. “There was an invitation to discuss various bilateral issues,” Lambsdorff told dpa in Moscow. He emphasized that he was not summoned to the embassy, but he did not comment on the specific content of […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held a meeting during Zelensky’s visit to Saudi Arabia where they discussed the implementation of Ukraine’s peace formula, among other topics, the Presidential Office reported on Feb. 27. Saudi Arabia hosted an international summit on the peace formula in August 2023. The country has also […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has scheduled a “debate and vote” in parliament on France’s bilateral security agreement with Ukraine. Source: Élysée Palace announced this on 27 February, writes BFMTV, as reported by European Pravda Details: Macron instructed the government to “make a statement to parliament” on the bilateral security agreement signed with Ukraine on 16 […]
(Reuters) -Several NATO and European Union members are considering sending soldiers to Ukraine on a bilateral basis, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Monday. Fico, who has long opposed military supplies to Ukraine and has taken a position seen by some critics as pro-Russian, offered no details and other European leaders did not immediately […]
The German government has defended its stance in the negotiations over EU funds to supply of weapons and equipment to Ukraine, in the face of criticism from fellow EU member states. The German government wants to ensure that it is not paying more than its fair share into the EU pot for arms for Ukraine, […]
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will join finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies for meetings in Sao Paolo, Brazil next week, and then travel on to Santiago, Chile for bilateral engagements, the Treasury said on Wednesday. The G20 meetings come days after the second anniversary of […]