Corruption costs the global economy $2.6 trillion a year - Secretary John Kerry

US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a speech to Oxford Union about the higly negative impact of the world corruption.  Corruption costs the world economy around $2.6 trillion annually, Kerry said in a speech to Oxford Union in London on Wednesday.

"Corruption costs the global economy about 2.6 trillion per year," Kerry stated.

The secretary noted the money wasted by corrupt enterprises amounts to about ten times the total amount the international community spends every year on all development projects.

US, UK specialist team in Maiduguri, set to start search for missing Chibok girls

Among the many world powers that indicate interest and support to join Nigeria in the search and rescue operations to free the Boko Haram Abducted Chibok School Girls in Borno state are US, UK, Canada France and China. United States military officials are arriving Nigeria Friday to join local officials in the search for over 200 school girls taken captive by the Islamist Terrorists.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, and the defence department, Pentagon, confirmed the deployment of their special forces for the search operations in Nigeria. “Our interagency team is landing the ground in Nigeria now and they are going to be working … with President Goodluck Jonathan’s government to do everything that we possibly can to return these girls.” Kerry said.

Ukraine interim PM reports making first contacts with Russia

[AFP] - Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that his government had made the first "timid" contacts with Russian leaders aimed at resolving the crisis in his ex-Soviet state.

"So far, (the talk) have been rather timid. But the first steps have been made," Yatsenyuk said in a statement issued after he held talks with visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Crimea Invation: Putin, China's Xi discuss Ukraine in phone call; Kerry promises US support for Kiev government

[Reuters] Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in

Ukraine by telephone, and their positions on the issue are "close", the Kremlin said.

It said the presidents of the veto-wielding UN Security Council nation expressed hope that "the steps taken by the Russian leadership will allow for the reduction of ... tension and provide for the security of Russian-speaking citizens living in Crimea and the eastern regions of Ukraine." 

US Secretary of state John Kerry has promises US support for Kiev government.

US Secretary of State John Kerry lays roses atop the Shrine of the Fallen in Kiev. Over the course of the Ukraine protests, almost 100 protesters were killed [Reuters]