The reserve currency position of the Russian ruble is strengthening as countries turn away from the dollar due to US financial restrictions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday during his annual Q&A session. The role of Russia’s national currency will continue to grow, especially in payments between members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU),…
OTTAWA — “Canadians deserve to feel safe where they live. A Conservative government will deal swiftly and firmly with gang crime as part of our overall plan for a safer Canada.” — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, news release, Nov. 8, 2018. Dozens of handguns, bags of deadly drugs and confiscated cash were on display at…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Upper Iowa University (NCAA DII) posted the top college GPA with a 3.813, while Byron Nelson (Texas) High School (4.740), for the fourth consecutive year, and Trenton (Mich.) High School (3.858) led the high school weighted and unweighted categories, respectively, as the Easton/NFCA Top 10 Academic Team rankings for the 2016-17 school…
WHITEHORSE — Tests will be performed on the body of a grizzly bear to try to find out why it killed a woman and her 10-month-old daughter in Yukon earlier this week. Environment Yukon spokeswoman Roxanne Stasyszyn says it’s hoped the examination will offer some clues about what motivated the grizzly to attack Valerie Theoret…
Russia is designing the largest-ever radio telescope, seeking to put it into space beyond the orbit of the moon. The probe, expected to be completed by mid-2020s, will be able to provide the most detailed pictures of the universe. The telescope will be put into the so-called halo orbit – the complex three-dimensional orbit beyond…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Katy kept up its winning ways and benefitted from Los Alamitos’ first loss of the season to take over the No. 1 spot in the latest USA Today Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll. The (23-1) Tigers routed Seven Lakes, 12-1, on Friday to run its win streak to 13 straight. They…
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is overhauling how Canada assesses big energy projects in a bid to ensure new projects can get built without the government having to buy them to make that happen. “We’re going to work to make sure that we’re creating a system where you don’t have to pass…
A pair of Russian MiG-31 fighter jets engaged in a very high-speed chase – supersonic, actually – to intercept an “intruder” violating airspace, a newly released video of stratosphere drills shows. The exercise took place in the central Russian region of Perm, the Central Military District’s press service said Thursday. The fighter unit is equipped…
MONTREAL — Quebec’s human rights commission has launched an investigation into the treatment of Inuit children in the youth protection system, citing reports that Indigenous youth were prevented from speaking their own languages and not offered adequate services while in care. “It has been reported that youth living in shelters were not allowed to communicate…
German firms continue investing in the Russian economy despite facing barriers from economic sanctions, according to the chairman of the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce Matthias Schepp. “German business extremely rarely invested in such volumes into Russia since the collapse of the USSR,” Schepp said in a statement seen by Interfax. Citing Bundesbank statistics Schepp said…