Growing global trade is no longer going hand in hand with GDP growth in emerging markets, reports Dan Bogler for Financial Times. Investors have anticipated growth in developing economies, but instead, the pace is in decline since 2010 due to lower commodity prices, the rise in the US dollar value...
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Russia and the United States have been on opposite sides on who should lead Venezuela, a nation that should be prosperous with the world’s largest oil reserves. Russia has supported the Nicolás Maduro regime, in office since 2013, despite mismanagement and corruption, and the United States supports...
OilPrice.com: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting on Tuesday to discuss various issues, including the fate of Venezuela and Nicolas Maduro—a hot topic for the oil market as geopolitical tensions have...
Attempts to protect home markets signal a lack of confidence in the business community. A decision by the Modi administration in India “to oblige ministries to procure only locally-built electronic products not only marks a protectionist turn but also undermines the government’s avowed goal of...
In a bid to boost domestic manufacturing through its “Make in India” program, the Narendra Modi government may have taken an inadvertent, backward step. Its decision to oblige ministries to procure only locally-built electronic products not only...
The United States, in efforts to slow legal immigration, is planning changes for the H-1B visa process that allows skilled workers from around the world to work in the United States. One regulation would “mandate employers to register without paying the H-1B visa fees of those employees they intend...
Most countries would swiftly intervene if a small town on the border was under attack by a vicious group that threatens to topple governments throughout the region. But Turkey, a NATO member, balks as Islamic State terrorists attack the small Syrian town of Kobane, suggesting it will help only “if...
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William Taylor reported to work at the US embassy in Ukraine on June 17, appointed chargé d'affaires by the Secretary of State and the president. He soon realized that the president’s private attorney Rudy Giuliani was promoting shadow US policies and priorities counter to US security...
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Excerpts from the Deposition of William B. Taylor by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence joint with the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House of...
China has proposed a short-term solution of “dialogue” for the territorial fight between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the Falkland Islands, or the Malvinas as they are known in Spanish. Britain refuses to discuss the matter with Argentina. “In a referendum held in March 2012, 99.8 per cent...
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Case managers for the House of Representatives and the US president’s legal team present evidence on whether or not Donald Trump abused power and obstructed a congressional investigation into blocking military aid for Ukraine in exchange for an announcement into an investigation of a political...