The UK Ministry of Defence has released a comprehensive list of “fruitless payments” – money in excess of £30,000 spent unnecessarily, and/or which provided no benefit to the MoD whatsoever – 2016 – 2019, totalling £8.93 million. The 64 payments, released in response to a Freedom of Information request, are ...
Russia, the country with the world’s third-largest coronavirus outbreak, passed the symbolic milestone of 500,000 confirmed cases on Thursday, after the capital lifted tight lockdown restrictions this week. The latest figures took the country’s total to 502,436 cases, after 8,779 new cases were recorded in the last day, a government ...
