Section: Business Insider (USA)
Russia’s Putin to attend G20 leaders summit: Australia
Sydney (AFP) – Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey confirmed Sunday Vladimir Putin will attend the G20 leaders’ summit in November, despite concerns about Russia’s actions in Ukraine in recent months.Australia’s confirmation that the Russian leader would attend the high-powered summit came after Ukraine’s President Petro...
IMF/World Bank: build infrastructure to fight malaise
Washington (AFP) – The terms are hardly riveting: “new mediocre,” “secular stagnation,” “structural reform”, “lowflation.”But underpinning the economic geek-speak at the IMF-World Bank annual meetings were deep worries that the global economy is slipping backward.The meetings this week were...
AFP, BBC, Times win top war correspondents prizes
Bayeux (France) (AFP) – AFP photographer Mohammed Al-Shaikh and the BBC’s Lyse Doucet were among the winners at the annual Bayeux-Calvados awards for war correspondents announced on Saturday in Bayeux, northwestern France.Three of the seven prizes went to coverage of the conflict in Syria, where a devastating civil war has raged for...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko says will meet Putin in Italy next week
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Saturday that he will meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin next week to discuss the six-month conflict between Kiev and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.”I will have a meeting with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Milan,” where a Europe-Asia...
Five killed in eastern Ukraine clashes: authorities
Kiev (AFP) – Shelling in eastern Ukraine’s rebel-held eastern regions killed five people over the past 24 hours, local authorities said Saturday, in the latest deadly violations of a ceasefire.”As a result of military actions in Donetsk on October 10, three civilians died and four more were injured and hospitalised,” said...
Rebel commander wages fight to the death for east Ukraine airport
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – From an empty flat overlooking the shattered remains of eastern Ukraine’s biggest airport, Givi is leading an all-out assault against the last government outpost in the main pro-Russian stronghold.The camouflage-clad guerrilla, a Russian tricolour on his arm, heads one of two units tasked with flushing out...
Eurozone pressed over growth at IMF/World Bank meet
Washington (AFP) – The world’s economic policy elite kept up pressure on the eurozone Friday to fight off stagnation, with Germany under the gun to support more spending to spark growth.But Berlin continued to fend off pressure to allow a loosening of budget constraints across the struggling euro area, saying it would be...
Ukraine president replaces Donetsk governor with hardline general
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s president on Friday fired a millionaire businessman who failed to stop the advance of pro-Russian rebels while governor of war-torn Donetsk and replaced him with a hardline nationalist general.Sergiy Taruta was one of several pro-Western tycoons put in charge of restless Russian-speaking provinces after the...
The Ruble Is Getting Crushed Again
The Russian ruble is down another 0.8% against the dollar Friday, following the almost continual decline since the summer. The Russian currency is down nearly 17% against the dollar since the end of June. The collapse follows uncertainty about the Russia’s plans in Ukraine, international sanctions, and the falling price of oil. The Wall...
Russia and Tunisia on long Nobel Peace Prize candidate list
Oslo (AFP) – There was no clear frontrunner ahead of Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize announcement, with a Russian opposition newspaper, Tunisia’s democratic leadership, Pakistan schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai and Pope Francis among a record number of candidates.As in previous years, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,...
