BEIJING — The shockwave from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reverberated in the world’s financial markets Thursday. London’s benchmark FTSE index was down 3.3% in midday trading, while both the CAC-40 index in Paris and Frankfurt’s DAX index were 5.5% lower. Markets in Asia and Australia all closed in negative territory in the aftermath of Russia’s attacks […]
“It will cause, if it doesn’t stop, a level of suffering Europe has not known since, at least, the Balkan crisis,” warned the head of the United Nations. Russia launched a far-reaching military attack on Ukraine on Thursday, invading the country through multiple border sites and bombing more than a dozen cities as civilians attempted to […]
The White House said Monday it will slap sanctions on the Russian-occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized them as independent states. “We have anticipated a move like this from Russia and are ready to respond immediately,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. […]
A new analysis shows that a “large portion” of Pentagon contracts in recent years have gone to just five companies: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. Up to half of the estimated $14 trillion that the Pentagon has spent in the two decades since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan has gone to private […]