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Washington D.C., New York and other East Coast cities readied fleets of snow plows, thousands of flights were canceled or delayed and residents stocked up on groceries ahead of a winter storm expected to dump up to 30 inches (76 ...

Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade published addendum to the decree on additional restrictions of imports from the aggressor country, which will come into force in ten days after publication and will be valid till August 5, 2016 or ...

In 2015 the global average surface temperature was 0.75 °C higher than the 1960 to 1990 average according to the UK’s Met Office, smashing the record of 0.57 °C higher set in 2014, the New Scientist reports. That is a ...

On January 20, power supply company State Enterprise NEC Ukrenergo announced that cyber criminals were sending fake e-mails on its behalf to enterprises of the energy sector, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to the statement on the company’s site. The company ...

Deputy head of the Kerch city administration Roman Kirichenko says that the Kerch sea port plans to dismiss 710 employees on April 20, 2015, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to 15minut.org. The dismissal is caused by the slump of cargo turnover ...

On January 20, on the Moscow Stock Exchange Russian currency hit new low – 90 rubles per dollar and 82 rubles per euro. The euro was more expensive only in mid-December 2014, and the dollar – only before the denomination ...

On January 20, quotations of Ukrainian hryvnia against the US dollar on the interbank currency market at the closing of trading session strengthened by 65 kopiykas to UAH 24.45/24.60 per dollar, as the source in a commercial bank said to ...

On Tuesday, 19 January, Ukraine’s Naftogaz received a bill from Gazprom for $2.5 bln for gas, which Naftogaz refused to buy in the third quarter of 2015, on the condition of “take or pay” under the contract as of 2009, ...

African American Cheryl Boone Isaacs finally spoke up after film director Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith said on Monday they will boycott next month’s Academy Awards ceremony because black actors were shut out of nominations, IB Times reports. ...

During the weekend, around 70 people were transported from various facilities in North Norway to Finnmark Arrival Center in Sor-Varanger for transporting back to Russia, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to nrk.no. Migrants said that they were woken up early in ...

On January 19, Orthodox Christians celebrate the holiday of the Epiphany, popularly called Vodokhryshchi (Blessing of Water) or Yordan (Jordan River), which completes the winter (Christmas–New Year) festivities cycle, Joinfo.ua reports. The ceremony of Epiphany traditionally consisted of the solemn ...

After heavy snowfalls, 280 villages were cut from power supply because of downed wires, said Deputy Energy Minister Alexander Svetelyk at a meeting of the interdepartmental operative headquarters of the State commission on technogenic and ecological safety (TES) and emergency ...

Bitcoin slid by 10 per cent on Friday after one of its lead developers, Mike Hearn, said in a blogpost that he was ending his involvement with the cryptocurrency and selling all of his remaining holdings because it had “failed”, ...

On Monday, the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine said 46 deaths of the flu have been confirmed. This was announced by Deputy Minister Roman Vasylyshyn, Joinfo.ua reported with reference to Korrespondent. “You could say that today nothing terrible has happened, ...

The Russian ruble exchange rate against US dollar on the Moscow Stock Exchange during Monday’s session lost 1.58 rubles compared to the previous closing. Thus, dollar amounted to 79.18 rubles per dollar, surpassing the mark of 79 rubles for the ...