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The California Energy Commission voted this week to require that new homes be built with rooftop solar panels, a measure with an obvious environmental rationale that critics in the homebuilding industry argue will add nearly $10,000 to the cost of…
Russia has opened a criminal inquiry into confessions by Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national held in a Greek jail at a US request related to money-laundering charges, a source privy to the matter told Sputnik. “Vinnik wrote several confession letters…
US President Donald Trump said Thursday night he had not paid money to North Korea to secure the release of three Korean-Americans held in labor camps there. “Kim Jong-un did a great service to himself and to his country by doing this. But…
Two feuding villages in South China have officially put an end to a 200-year marriage ban between them – mostly because no one really remembers what started it. Representatives from Guolong and Beishan, two villages in Puning, Guangdong Province, held a reconciliation…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian Finance Ministry is planning to issue $6,968 billion worth of 30-year Eurobonds in Russian and international markets in 2018, according to the draft amendments to the budget published Thursday. In March, Head of the ministry’s state…
From ‘heritage’ to dogs – and worms – it’s been a season of superb quotes in the Premier League in 2017 The usual suspects have been up to their old tricks, with Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger and Antonio Conte always…
