‘Kim’s sister hovers like the lady of the house’: RT reporter visits N.Korea's inner sanctum

Few foreign journalists have had the chance to cover Kim Jong-un firsthand, but RT’s Ilya Petrenko became one of them, when he accompanied Russian FM Sergey Lavrov for a visit to the North Korean leader’s private palace. Hours before the Russian foreign minister was due to meet Kim on Thursday, the traveling journalists, who had […]

Pound to euro exchange rate: Sterling hovers at weekly low ahead of Eurozone update

The exchange rate is currently (9:43am) at €1.117 after it reached €1.124 at midday on Thursday.  The GBP/EUR rate jumped to its highest rate seen all week on this day but gains were short-lived.  Sterling was boosted by an optimistic UK retail sales report from the Confederation of British industry.  But yesterday morning it fell […]