Chinese Singles’ Day sales top 1 trillion yuan

The country’s annual shopping extravaganza dwarfs the US’ Black Friday and Cyber Monday put together The Singles’ Day shopping festival in China has beaten expectations this year, with sales surpassing 1.1 trillion yuan ($154 billion) for the first time ever, according to the consulting company Syntun.

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Key Russian ally calls for truce in Ukraine

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Bomb blast injures top police official in Russian city – authorities

A deputy police chief was hit in a presumed assassination attempt in Zaporozhye Region A bomb attack has injured a senior police official in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, the country’s law enforcement authorities reported on Tuesday.

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