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The six days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve are the Sunday afternoon of the year—a grace note on the calendar, a dreamlike week where everything feels half celebratory and half asleep. The relentless holiday hysteria has peaked and fizzled,…
Money managers and investors are ramping up gold purchases in wake of recent sell-offs in stocks across advanced economies, as heightened political risks and trade tensions have boosted the demand for safe-haven assets. Kristian Rouz — Global gold prices are on the…
Banking operations were paralysed for a day in India as over one million employees of public, private and foreign banks went on strike to protest against the merger of two public-sector banks. New Delhi (Sputnik) — In the second bank strike…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – In 2018, the number of space launches carried out throughout the world surpassed 100 for the first time since 1990, a source in the Russian rocket and space industry told Sputnik on Wednesday, adding that the space…
The IDF destroyed an arms depot in Damascus stashed with Iranian weapons, the Jerusalem Post reported citing Israeli news agency Nziv.net. According to the report, the weapons depot stored Fajr-5 missiles. Earlier, it was reported that the Israeli Air Force conducted…
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said last month that the alliance had no plans to deploy new nuclear missiles in Europe. However, the US’ looming pull-out of the INF Treaty with Russia has raised concerns that Washington might seek a nuclear…
