The emergency vehicle that transported the president had markings on it that indicated it was a mobile ICU, eyewitnesses noted. In September, Zeman spent eight days in hospital, recovering from what he described as dehydration and mild exhaustion. The 77-year-old, who has been the head of state since 2013, started …
Read More »4 reported dead after plane CRASHES into industrial building in central Connecticut, setting it ablaze (VIDEOS)
Farmington Police Department confirmed that a plane had crashed into a building on Hyde Road shortly after taking off from a nearby air field, and said in a tweet that emergency services were on the ground working to “evacuate the immediate area.” Four people were onboard the plane, reportedly a …
Read More »Passenger bus explodes in central Russian city of Voronezh (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)
The incident took place by a large shopping mall in the city’s center late on Thursday. The powerful blast occurred when the passengers were boarding the vehicle at a bus stop. Some 30 people were on board at the time of the explosion, the driver of the bus, who survived …
Read More »Global central banks to boost share of Chinese yuan while reducing US dollar holdings – survey
According to the Global Public Investor survey, published by the London-based Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), 30% of central banks plan to increase their yuan holdings over the next 12-24 months, up from only a 10% increase last year. OMFIF claims the yuan’s rise is likely to be …
Read More »Foreign travelers to China can now use digital yuan – central bank
“Foreign residents temporarily traveling in China can open an e-CNY wallet to meet daily payment needs without opening a domestic bank account,” the bank said in its so-called white paper on e-CNY, China’s government-developed digital currency. Despite e-payments being a major form of transactions in China, the country’s two leading …
Read More »Don’t buy crypto! Russian central bank warns against investing in volatile digital currencies, citing risk of ‘enormous’ losses
As part of an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda published on Monday, Elvira Nabiullina, chair of the country’s Central Bank, argued that investments in any kind of currency were always risky. “Losing in the foreign exchange market is much easier than it is to make money,” she said. “The most dangerous …
Read More »Too little too late: Central banks are about 10 years behind the times with their crypto plans, economist tells RT’s Boom Bust
“What’s interesting about this whole question of efficiency of cryptocurrency is its energy consumption or inefficiency that actually minimizes the amount of units that can be created in the cryptocurrency world,” Tucker told Boom Bust. “And we know that central banks have specialized, especially in the last 15 months, in …
Read More »Huge blaze & multiple EXPLOSIONS in central Moscow as warehouse catches fire (VIDEOS)
Clips taken by eyewitnesses on Saturday afternoon show a large plume of gray smoke over the city center. The building ablaze is across the river from Gorky Park, close to the Luzhniki Stadium, which hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics. Footage shows a barrage of small explosions occurring both in the …
Read More »‘Battle for the Soul’ provides some interesting tidbits but completely misses the mark on its central point…why Joe Biden won
In ‘The Art of War’, the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu’s classic treatise on military strategy, the matter of insight is raised thus: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every …
Read More »RT reports from the thick of war in Central African Republic as Russian instructors aim to help local troops bring lasting peace
A bloody civil war has been raging in the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2012. The country, which gained independence from France in 1960, has had a tumultuous history of various factions seeking to usurp power, and the violence in the resource-rich nation has dragged on well into the 21st …
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