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The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has become obsolete and cannot address modern challenges, professor of finance Michael Pettis told Sputnik, commenting on a row surrounding the Trump administration’s snubbing of the organisation. According to the professor, the WTO and other…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US State Secretary Mike Pompeo’s recent call to the “the main schismatic of the Ukrainian Orthodox church” is an unprecedented incident which can be characterized as meddling in the church affairs in Ukraine, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry…
MADRID (Sputnik) – Quim Torra, the head of the Catalan regional government, told Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that 80 percent of the residents of Catalonia supported the region’s right for self-determination and its existence in the form of a…
RAMALLAH (Sputnik) – A West Bank resident has been shot down by the Israeli military personnel, the local Healthcare Ministry said. The Israeli soldiers opened fire on a civilian car in the city of Al-Bireh near the Israeli border, according to the ministry.The ministry has…
President Donald Trump and Congress, with strong support from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, just legalized hemp. Hemp is derived from the cannabis plant, but it doesn’t get you high. Instead, it’s typically used for its fiber to make all…
President Donald Trump has officially said he won’t sign a funding bill approved by the Senate, ratcheting up the possibility that the government could go into a partial shutdown later this week. The December 21 deadline for funding a portion…
