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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al Falih on Thursday denied media reports that claimed the monarchy had cancelled the initial public offering of its largest oil company Aramco. “The Government remains committed to the IPO of Saudi Aramco at a time…
BEIJING (Sputnik) – Beijing will lodge a protest with the World Trade Organization against the implementation of US tariffs on $16 billion worth of goods, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said Thursday. The latest round of sanctions came into effect on Thursday. China had…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US central bank is having difficulty determining an appropriate monetary policy response to the escalating global trade war, Federal Reserve members said in meeting notes. “A major escalation in trade disputes, the complex nature of trade issues… presented…
Established in 1963, in the wake of the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Moscow–Washington hotline is a system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and Russia. The Washington-Moscow hotline uses Russian-made communications gear set…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Australian Consulate-General in the Indonesian second-largest city of Surabaya has tightened security measures amid claims that terror attacks are being planned there, the Australian government said in a statement. “We continue to receive information indicating terrorists may…
Russia carefully analyzes all of Washington’s statements regarding sanctions, they are unjustified, and the United States does not have a chance of achieving its goal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated. Moscow plans to give a mirror response to US sanctions…
