The German government stated on Sunday that it would grant €12M to one of the Russian hospitals for WWII veterans in honor of the 75th anniversary of the breakthrough of the siege of Leningrad.
According to the Interfax news agency, the Kremlin Spokesman Sergey Peskov said on Sunday that a deal concluded between Russia and Turkey on actions in the province of Idlib in Syria has not been fully implemented yet.
The self-proclaimed leader of Venezuela Juan Guaido stated on Saturday that he had met the country's officials to persuade them to conduct snap elections.
In result of talks between the White House and Cabinet department financial officers, the US state agencies are preparing to resume operations on Monday.
On Sunday, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau decided to fire the country's Ambassador to China John McCallum for his comments regarding detained Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou.
The European Affairs Minister of Ireland Helen McEntee stated on Saturday that the United Kingdom had an obligation to defend "invisible border" between two Irelands.
The leader of the opposition in Venezuela and the self-proclaimed President of Venezuela has announced that he has met with government officials to organize new presidential elections.
On Sunday, Deutsche Bank revealed to Bloomberg that the German bank is set to get additional investment from Qatar.
The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau fired on Saturday the Canadian ambassador to China. The reason for the firing were comments made by the envoy in regards to the Huawei case.
On Saturday, the US government shutdown ended. The end of the shutdown was announced by the US President Donald Trump.
On Saturday, the Tourism Ministry of Egypt opened the Sphinx International Airport near Giza whose goal is to ease the load on the airport of Cairo.
On Saturday, the European Parliament criticized the Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega for political crisis in the coutry and urged him to free political detainees and renew talks with opposition.
On Saturday, a judge of Brazilian court ruled to freeze Vale SA's assets worth $1.33B to ensure that the company would pay compensation for dam burst.
The Energy Minister of Saudi Arabia Khalid al-Falih stated on Saturday that the government planned to attract $427B private investments in the upcoming decade.
The Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for closer ties between Italy and China at a joint meeting of the China-Italy Government Committee in Rome.
South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region targets 7% growth in 2019 after a 6.8% growth in 2018, the Chairman of the autonomous regional government Chen Wu says.
Iran supports the legitimate government of Venezuela, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says at a call with his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza.
The retail sales of consumer goods in China's Tibet Autonomous Region reached $7.46B in 2018, an increase of 14% compared to the same period the previous year, the regional Bureau of Commerce reports.
Chinese companies have built 43.2% of all new ships in the world in 2018, up from 41.9% a year ago, the National Shipbuilding Industry reports.
China's catering industry reached $628B in 2018, an increase of 9.5% from the previous year, the National Bureau of Statistics reports.
Vietnam's foreign reserves reached $63.5B at the State Bank of Vietnam purchases US dollars from commercial banks to expand the nation's foreign currency reserves.
The US tech giant Apple has fired more than 200 employees from its self-driving program Project Titan as the company shifts focus to developing software for autonomous cars.
Russia plans to examine ways of simplifying the visa regime with Algeria, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says during a visit to the country.
The Chinese leading home appliances manufacturer Gree Electric Appliances began a $736M construction of a manufacturing base for smart home appliances in the southwest Sichuan Province.