California’s plan to pay 1.8 million black descendants of slaves living in the state could cost $640 billion A California task force studying reparations for black Americans descended from slaves wants the state’s taxpayers to shell out $360,000 for every affected individual, it revealed on Friday ahead of the group’s two-day meeting in Sacramento. Along…

Washington is concerned that recently resumed air traffic between the two countries could be used by Moscow to evade sanctions The US needs to know what is being loaded onto planes flying from the Caucasus nation of Georgia to Russia, according to Jim O’Brien, the sanctions policy coordinator at the state department.

Indonesia claims that the leaders of Russia and China have confirmed that they’ll attend the event in person Indonesian President Joko Widodo has said that Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have confirmed that they’ll be personally attending the G20 summit in Bali this November.