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SEOUL, Jan 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Defense has asked its forces stationed in South Korea to provide equipment to help Ukraine in the war against Russia, the U.S. military said on Thursday, adding the move has “zero impact” on its operations in the Asian country. U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), which has some…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to Rome with a firm handshake on Tuesday, a meeting that many interpreted as a sign of diplomatic rapprochement. Macron wanted to ensure that Meloni and he could move forward together, the Élysée Palace said. There are some points that need to be clarified, particularly…
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa didn’t take office through an election. He took it after a dominant military victory. His forces swept into Damascus last winter, ending Bashar al-Assad‘s decades-long rule and installing a transitional government with himself at the top. But for all the baggage he brings with him, as a former rebel commander, a…
The Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) made an exciting announcement during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings 2023: the launch of the Universal Monetary Unit (UMU), a global legal tender settlement CBDC that is symbolized by the ANSI Character Ü and affectionately known as Unicoin. This groundbreaking currency transacts in any legal tender settlement…
Moscow statement is first admission that Ukraine is successfully recapturing ground around eastern city Russia’s defence ministry has said some of its troops have fallen back “to more advantageous defensive positions” near a reservoir north-west of the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. The statement on Friday was the first admission by Moscow that Ukraine…
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s “economic miracle,” a boom in the 2000s and 2010s that saw years of state spending lift millions of people into the middle class, is creaking, a warning sign to the wider region battling high inflation, shrinking government coffers and tepid growth. For years the Andean country enjoyed one of South…