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17/04/2021

The leader of Cuba’s Communist Party said he is stepping down, leaving behind a demoralized country as it struggles with growing food shortages and rising discontent.

09/06/2020

The coronavirus pandemic and containment measures have plunged the global economy into deep contraction. World Bank Global Economic Prospects forecasts say global economy will shrink 5.2% this year, using market exchange rate weights; deepest recession since WW II.

27/05/2020

China to launch digital yuan next year to replace cash

24/05/2020

Iran has sent five ocean-going tankers loaded with an estimated 1.53 million barrels of gasoline to Venezuela, a move that has reportedly received threats from...

23/05/2020

“There has been notable progress and a comprehensive deal is certainly possible in a matter of days, not months,” the person said, asking not to be named as the talks were private.

The crisis-prone country missed payments on about $500 million in already delayed bond coupons on Friday, creditors and a ratings agency said, marking Argentina’s ninth sovereign default.

The South American grains producer is at a critical point in bondholder talks that are key to avoiding a messy default like the one in 2001 that locked the country out of the international bond market for 15 years and tossed millions of middle-class Argentines into poverty.

Argentina's talks with creditors over restructuring around $65 billion in foreign debt could reach a breakthrough "in a matter of days," a source close to the negotiations and familiar with the government's thinking told Reuters on Friday.

21/05/2020

Caracas will send ships and aircraft to ensure five Iranian tankers, said to be loaded with some 1.5 million barrels of oil, make it safely to Venezuelan shores amid reports the US is seeking to hinder the delivery.

20/05/2020

Venezuela sues Bank of England for refusal to return country’s gold amid coronavirus crisis

15/05/2020

Mexican and European countries are allegedly involved in Venezuelan oil in defiance of U.S. sanctions.

06/05/2020

The world’s democracies need to defend and sustain their Enlightenment values. A global retreat from balancing power with legitimacy will cause the social contract to disintegrate both domestically and internationally. Yet this millennial issue of legitimacy and power cannot be settled simultaneously with the effort to overcome the Covid-19 plague. Restraint is necessary on all sides—in both domestic politics and international diplomacy. Priorities must be established.

We went on from the Battle of the Bulge into a world of growing prosperity and enhanced human dignity. Now, we live an epochal period. The historic challenge for leaders is to manage the crisis while building the future. Failure could set the world on fire.

The U.S. must protect its citizens from disease while starting the urgent work of planning for a new epoch.

05/05/2020

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed that two US citizens were captured along with a group of “mercenaries” Caracas accused of trying to infiltrate the Latin American nation in order to assassinate him.