KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine received a new 1.5-billion-euro ($1.6 billion) tranche of financial support from the European Union on Wednesday and hopes to get another 10 billion euros later this year, officials said. Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said the EU, which has provided Ukraine with 31 billion euros, had become the biggest donor of budget
Earlier this year, with Ukraine’s counteroffensive falling flat, Russia asserting dominance in artillery fire and U.S. aid to Kyiv mired in Washington politics, the Czech government set up a platform to gather donations from allied countries to co-finance the purchase of ammunition from producers around the world. In doing so, the aim was to side-step
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days once Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That’s because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe that already hold the ammunition and air defense components that Kyiv desperately needs. Moving fast is critical, CIA Director Bill Burns
MUMBAI: Dalal Street investors are bracing for heightened volatility and a negative opening on Monday as the Iran-Israel conflict will compound turmoil in global markets. Traders would remain cautious and wait for cues to take a view about the market’s trend, they said. For one, any escalation of the conflict could have a direct impact
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Cash Loans in London (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Getty Images Since the early days of ICOs, one of the main narratives of cryptocurrencies was the ability to “bank the unbanked”. According to the World Bank Global Findex Database 2021, 76% of adults worldwide have some form of account ownership. But, banks operate at their
The U.N.’s humanitarian work with partners is more important and complex than ever — not just in terms of saving lives, but also stabilizing communities and countries. And what we do in Chad does matter to those in Chicago, Copenhagen or Canberra, even if it’s far. Within days of the Sudan conflict starting, for example,
“At first I did not know how to talk to them. But then I just decided to act normal and not focus unnecessary attention on their lost limbs. I just came, we took pictures, and they asked me to make tiktoks with them,” Senyuk said. The soldiers were thrilled. “I am in no way a
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is committed to putting a vote for Ukraine funding on the House floor some time after Easter. “His commitment is to put it on the floor after Easter and we are working on this bill,” McCaul told CBS’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” When pressed further on
Americans seem to have, for the most part, signed a pact to forget about the Covid-19 era. A prominent exception: the hardworking prosecutors at the Department of Justice, who are still busily hunting down the enterprising citizens who were perhaps not entirely honest in their applications for economic relief, particularly Paycheck Protection Program cash. The