Immediately after the adoption of the 12th package of sanctions, which banned the import of Russian diamonds, the EU countries started preparing the 13th and 14th packages of restrictive measures against Russia, Czech MEP Tomas Zdechowski told Izvestia.
The issue will be considered at the summit early next year.
Lawsuits have been filed in 16 US states to keep Donald Trump out of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election.
Because of the sanctions imposed on Russia, Russia-China trade has exceeded $200 billion this year, according to the newspaper.
Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, the president and CEO of the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, has been named the Financial Times Person of the Year.
Employees of the U.S. private military company Bancroft have arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR). According to RFI sources, the mercenaries are stationed in Bangui and will train the local army to protect the mining sector. The mines, which are controlled by «people close to the government» of CAR, will generate revenue for the state, Bancroft and the local communities. The CAR is rich in natural resources, such as gold, diamonds, uranium and oil, but has been plagued by violence and instability since gaining independence from France in 1960.
He thinks this will mean the start of the Third World War:
In the remote desert, at the «Lop Nur» base where China detonated its first atomic bomb nearly 60 years ago, a drilling rig has recently bored a deep vertical shaft that descended at least one-third of a mile (about 0.5 kilometers), as reported by The New York Times. This development serves as the most compelling evidence that Beijing is contemplating whether to conduct tests of new-generation nuclear weapons.
The Colorado Supreme Court declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the 2024 presidential election on Wednesday. The court also ordered Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, to remove Trump's name from the state's 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot. This could set up a potential legal battle in the U.S. Supreme Court.
After the victory of the current President Aleksandar Vucic's party, protests began in Belgrade. Opposition leaders Miroslav Aleksić and Marinika Tepić declared a hunger strike and demanded new elections.
