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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Nearly 8 percent of Russian sovereign debt is held by US-based individuals and organizations, a study by the first national rating agency ACRA has revealed. The agency estimates the share of Russian debt held by Americans at 719 billion rubles…
The price of soybean futures fell from above $10 per bushel in May to almost $8.50 in August, following Chinese retaliatory tariffs against the US. The response was triggered by tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, announced by US President…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Google has revised its description of Location History settings, admitting that it continued to track users’ movement even if the feature was turned off. On Monday, Associated Press published an investigation saying that some Google apps on Android…
Two Chinese biotech companies produced nearly 500,000 substandard vaccines for babies, roughly double an earlier estimate by authorities investigating a safety scandal, the state-run Xinhua News agency reported. On Thursday, China’s powerful 25-member Politburo led by President Xi Jinping ordered an…
As the number of migrants seeking asylum in Germany has been going down, a German city is looking for buyers of refugee shelters it no longer needs. The northern German city of Hamburg is selling 50 former refugee houses on eBay for…
The recently appointed foreign secretary is the latest politician to warn against a hard Brexit, while others, particularly hardline Brexiteers, have insisted that it shouldn’t be ruled out if Brussels doesn’t offer Britain an acceptable trade deal. UK Foreign…
