Woman with ‘toy gun’ gets thousands from bank

A client took hostages in a Beirut bank claiming that she needed her frozen funds back A Lebanese woman, with a gun she claimed was a toy, took hostages at a branch of Blom bank in central Beirut on Wednesday, demanding to withdraw her own money from a frozen account. It is the second hostage…

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Fyodor Lukyanov: Putin is back for another six years, this is what his foreign policy will look like

When he first took office, the Russian president was trying to integrate with the West, now the whole ball game has changed The question of how Russia’s foreign policy will be managed during President Vladimir Putin’s new term seems redundant, if not irrelevant. The head of state is a man who has led the country…

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Chinese competitor to Boeing and Airbus makes international debut

China’s homegrown passenger jet, the C919, made its inaugural flight outside China on Sunday at the Singapore Airshow. The airliner, which took to the skies for its first commercial flight in May, has so far only been authorized to fly in its home country.

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