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Washington agreed to sell $46.9 billion worth of weapons and military equipment in the first half of 2018, $5 billion more than what was sold in all of the previous year. The uptick in arms exports to countries around the world comes in spite…
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that Russia’s aluminum giant Rusal has provided the Treasury Department with a plan that details how to take the company off the US list of sanctioned entities. Mnuchin told…
Scientists from South Ural State University have developed and patented a unique mechatronic device for people with locomotor problems. It will help rehabilitate patients after serious injuries, and it will teach them how to walk, according to the university press…
Iran has laid the groundwork for a massive cyberattack on the United States and its allies around the globe, media reported Friday citing US officials. The senior officials, who spoke with NBC on condition of anonymity, said the attack was not imminent. The…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said in a statement on Friday that it has affirmed Russia’s foreign currency long- and short-term sovereign credit rating up to ‘BBB-/A-3’ from ‘BB+’ with a stable outlook. “On July 20, 2018, S&P…
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Two politicians from the young Morena party founded by Mexico’s leftist president-elect were killed on Friday, local media reported. Eliseo Delgado Sanchez, the newly-elected mayor of Buenavista in Michoacan state, was shot dead on the steps of the town hall,…
