More than 200 demonstrators broke into the courtyard of Bahrain’s Embassy in Baghdad and took down the kingdom’s flag on Thursday night to protest the US-led meeting in Bahrain on Israeli-Palestinian so-called peace. Police used live rounds to disperse the crowd, police sources told Reuters, with no injuries reported. “We ...
Russia and China signed an intergovernmental agreement to switch to national currencies in mutual payments earlier this month, the Izvestiya newspaper reported on Friday, citing a letter from the Russian Finance Ministry. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and Chinese People’s Bank Governor Yi Gang signed the agreement on 5 June, ...
