The Chinese aviation department will ask Boeing and US authorities to take measures to ensure flight safety on 737 Max 8 liners. After the crash of Ethiopian Airlines, which operated the ET 302/10 Addis Ababa-Nairobi flight, the Beijing aviation department imposed a temporary ban on Chinese airlines using the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. At the same time, the agency referred to another disaster...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB, the central bank of the country) presented a new bill of 1,000 francs. The banknote will become the most expensive one in Europe and the second most valuable in the world (after a 10 thousand Brunei dollar bill). The bill, which will go into circulation on March 13, is made in purple color scheme using polymer fibers, like other banknotes of the new, ninth series....

Mrs. Clinton has been expected to compete for the presidency since in the 2016 elections. She herself gave a lot of reasons to think so. Hillary Clinton actively criticized Trump and held events that could be interpreted as preparation for the election campaign. Finally, her rating remained high enough. For 17 consecutive years, she has been a woman whom the Americans admired, according to the...

On Tuesday, the Ministry of Finance of Greece issued 10-year bonds, which happened for the first time in the last 9 years. According to the Athens Stock Exchange, the demand for bonds exceeded 11.3 billion euros, although it was expected to receive at least 2 billion euros. At the end of last month, Greece entered the market with 5-year bonds. For several years, the country hasn’t had any...

Among the proposals of the French President to reform the European Union were reorganization of trade policy and creation of a body aimed at protecting EU elections from hacker attacks and manipulations. Less than three months before the European Parliament elections, French President Emmanuel Macron presented an action plan for reforming the European Union. In particular, he expressed support...

Nicolas Maduro and Juan Guaidó have been fighting for power in Venezuela for already a month. However, despite influential support from abroad, helplessness of Guaidó is growing. Is the revolution really going according to plan? The Venezuelan opposition and foreign assistants do not want to give up. They are planning new actions in order to deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela surrounded by the...

After the Indian air force raided a camp of Islamist terrorists in Pakistan on Tuesday, Islamabad promised to respond to this “act of aggression” from India. Moreover, high-ranking Pakistani officials, who commented on the situation, said that Pakistan’s reaction would surprise everyone. It seems that Islamabad is no less determined than India, which accuses the Pakistani authorities of...

Australian companies are having difficulties supplying coal to China. Beijing is delaying the customs clearance of goods. If it usually took from 5 to 20 days, but now it is as much as 45 days, Reuters writes, citing traders. A manager of a Shanghai trading company, which usually bought about 400,000 tons of Australian coal per month, said that the company stopped ordering coal from Australia,...

Brussels is calling on EU countries to revise the system of granting residence permits in exchange for investments. How this will be implemented in practice? At the beginning of the year, the European Commission submitted a report to the European Parliament. The paper proposes to toughen the procedure for issuing “golden visas” that allow obtaining a residence permit or a European passport in...