The ruble firmed sharply on the Moscow Exchange on Monday, recouping most of last week’s losses as it retained support from capital controls and Russia’s strong trade account. At 11:16 GMT, the ruble gained nearly 9% on the US currency at 61 rubles per dollar, and was up around 10% …
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“There are six neighboring countries to Guinea, and we conducted an assessment of readiness. Two of the countries are not ready and one is borderline and there are three countries more or less ready,” WHO Regional Emergency Director Abdou Salam Gueye said on Friday, by videoconference from Guinea. Guinea, which …
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Once again, and despite major victories at the polls, the Democrats just can’t stop hyperventilating over Russia. Indeed, the Russian people must feel as if they’re trapped for all eternity in a remake of Groundhog Day, where one dominant theme continually repeats itself: Russia is to blame for absolutely everything …
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A pair of prominent American experts on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have authored separate opinion pieces lamenting the continued survival of the Islamist terrorist organization. In a piece published in USA Today, Ilan Berman, the senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, cites a recently published …
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