What country's web site was that item in

It was a Reuters dispatch (bylined Luke Baker and Rosalind Russell, who no doubt endures a lot of stale japery), which would put it in the Anglo-American quadrant of cyberspace.

As to email--my bad: it was languishing uncompleted among my drafts; just now fished out, hastily completed and its constituent packets flung across the briny sea.

cordially,