https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202010171080798409-moscow-sanctions-navalny-eu-measures-envoy/ Earlier this week, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pledged that Moscow will respond in kind to the EU’s sanctions against Moscow over the case of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. Russia’s Envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said on Saturday that Moscow sees the bloc’s anti-Russian sanctions over the Navalny case as unilateral and unlawful measures, just like the EU’s previous retributions againts Moscow. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
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Seychelles-based crypto exchange Huobi has integrated fiat-to-crypto payment service Banxa to its trading platform with zero fees, the firm announced Wednesday. Source link
European ministers have fired warning shots at London ahead of crunch Brexit talks in Brussels this week. Germany sees this period as ‘critical’, while France has called for unity among the 27 member states. As the European Council prepares to meet on Thursday, and with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s October 15 deadline looming large, European ministers took the opportunity to remind London of their demands. Their comments came as ministers arrived in Luxembourg on Tuesday for talks and an update on trade negotiations by EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier. Germany’s EU affairs minister, Michael Roth, shared his reservations, “we are at a […]
A new report published by the Centre for Brexit Policy has suggested that Boris Johnson will fail to get a deal as good as the one Canada has with the EU if he comes to an agreement with Brussels. The report comes just 3 days before the British prime minister’s deadline for a deal with the EU, with the UK expected to leave on WTO rules, if both sides fail to agree terms. With more on this story, Sputnik spoke to analyst Bob Lister. Sputnik: How significant is this report and is this the deal that Brexiteers want? Bob Lister: I hardly think […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010011080629297-eus-von-der-leyen-will-reportedly-announce-legal-action-against-uk-over-brexit/ Last month, London refused to withdraw the Internal Market Deal, which is changing Brexit rules. The legislation has been widely criticised by European politicians for potentially violating international law. Previously, reports suggested that Brussels plans to start legal action against London amid the Brexit stall. “A second source has confirmed that President Ursula von der Leyen will announce legal action against the UK at 11am CET”, RTE Europe Editor Tony Connelly stated on Twitter. “The decision needed to be approved unanimously by the College of Commissioners”. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
The OCC published guidance clarifying that federally-regulated banks can work with stablecoin issuers, the ECB thinks stablecoin is a “misleading” term and a group of banking veterans has spun up a new crypto fund. Top shelf Bitcoin fundsBanking veterans who have steered divisions at HSBC, Barclays, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch in the Asia-Pacific region are ditching traditional finance to invest in cryptocurrencies. Their new crypto fund, Liquibit Capital, will manage assets worth $50 million and will arbitrage a portfolio of bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, litecoin and eos, custodied with Fireblocks, with an eye to expand into derivatives trading. Elsewhere, tech legend and part-owner […]
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Already fraught relations between Greece and Turkey worsened this month after Ankara dispatched its Oruc Reis oil and gas seismic survey vessel to a disputed area of Mediterranean Sea also claimed by Athens. Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has attacked as “hypocritical” a threat by the EU to impose sanctions on Ankara over its soaring tensions in the eastern Mediterranean with neighbour Greece. In a Tweet, Oktay issued a scathing rebuke of the EU’s position, saying that, “It is hypocritical for the European Union to call for dialogue and, simultaneously, make other plans regarding Turkey’s activities within our continental shelf in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007121079862628-baghdad-asks-berlin-to-help-with-removal-from-eus-money-laundering-blacklist/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has requested his German counterpart to help remove the Middle eastern nation from the European Union’s list of countries with suspected loopholes in anti-money laundering and counter-terror financing regulations. “Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein called on his German counterpart to provide support in removing Iraq from the list of countries with a high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing,” the Iraqi ministry said in a press release. Hussein and Heiko Maas held a phone call to discuss, among other things, bilateral relations. Iraq has been on […]
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the EU for including the country in its travel ban amid the Covid-19 pandemic, saying that the decision is actually a political move. Addressing members of Turkey’s ruling party AK on Wednesday, Erdogan expressed his concerns over the bloc’s decision to exclude Turkey from its non-essential travel “safe list” and continue a travel ban on Turkish nationals. The restriction, he said, was a political stance. His comments came after the EU excluded Turkey, along with the US and other countries, from its recent list of 15 states allowed to travel to EU members from […]
Graduation of the first class of the Palestine Flying Service at Lydda Airport in April 1939. Aircraft include VQ-PAH, a Taylorcraft BC used as a trainer by the school; SU-ABQ, a de Havilland Dragon Rapide of Egypt’s Misrair; G-ABTJ ‘Artemis’, an Imperial Airways Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta class, serving the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East; a Handley Page H.P.42 Hannibal class (G-AAUE ‘Hadrian’) of Imperial Airways, flown on routes as far as India; and VQ-PAF, a tri-motor Fokker F.XVIII tri-motor of Hevra Avirit Miskharit. The two aircraft in front of VQ-PAH with graduating pilots are Taylorcrafts VQ-PAI and VQ-PAJ. In […]
The UK and EU have exchanged jibes after the third round of Brexit trade talks ended with “little progress.” London accused Brussels of taking an “ideological approach,” but Michel Barnier claimed the UK was stuck in the 1970s. The UK’s chief negotiator, David Frost, released a statement after the two sides had conducted a video conference on Friday. He insisted that the “main obstacle” and reason “little progress” had been made was due to the EU’s insistence on “a set of novel and unbalanced proposals on the so-called ‘level playing field.’” Frost suggested such plans were hampering London’s goal of achieving […]