Russian Railways blocked from paying Western bondholders

Russian Railways (RZD) said on Thursday it was unable to make coupon payments on its dollar-denominated Eurobonds on time due to technical problems with Western banks. The company was hit with UK sanctions last month, so any bond payments are considered frozen assets and blocked on the account of the agent bank.

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Runaway ice cream truck crashes into crowd of kids (VIDEO)

An out-of-control ice cream truck rolled down a slope and crashed into a group of children during a cultural festival in a mountainous area of central Kyrgyzstan on Thursday. Local media have said at least 29 children and one adult were injured, including four who were hospitalized with bone fractures.

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US tacitly endorsing Ukraine’s anti-church crackdown – Moscow

Organizations that are supposed to protect religious freedoms are turning a blind eye to Kiev’s criminality, a new report has found International organizations have failed to properly react to Kiev’s persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), while the US, the self-proclaimed global champion of religious freedoms, is hushing up the crimes and even tacitly…

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