US citizen sentenced to 15 years for espionage in Russia
A Moscow court has sentenced US citizen Eugene ‘Gene’ Spector to 15 years in prison after finding him guilty of espionage. He will serve his sentence at a maximum security penal colony, the judge ruled at a hearing on Monday. Spector, who is the former chair of the board of Russia’s Medpolymerprom Group, which supplies […]
US could quit WHO on Trump’s first day – FT
The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump hopes to pull the country out of the World Health Organization (WHO) the first day of the new administration, thus cutting one of the agency’s major cash flows, the Financial Times (FT) has reported, citing health experts. Members of Trump’s team told the experts that they intend […]