Section: Business Insider (USA)
Russian foreign minister denies bombing civilians in Syria
Thomson ReutersForeign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia’s military was hitting the right targets in Syria and pushing back “terrorists” during an annual foreign policy speech and q&a in Moscow on Tuesday. The United States has accused Russia of missing Islamic State targets in Syria with one senior US official two weeks...
Putin has achieved one of his biggest goals in Syria
Thomson ReutersWhile Russia’s military intervention in Syria has not yielded substantial progress on the ground for the Assad government, Moscow has succeeded in propping up the embattled regime, according to a new analysis. An IHS Conflict Monitor estimate released last week shows that between Sept. 29, when the Kremlin launched its...
US Treasury official: Putin is corrupt and the US has known for ‘many, many years’
Thomson ReutersA U.S. Treasury official said the United States considers Russian President Vladimir Putin to be corrupt and that it has known this for “many, many years,” the BBC reported on Monday. Adam Szubin, acting Treasury secretary for terrorism and financial crimes, said in an interview with BBC Panorama that the Russian...
The luxury condo boom in New York and Miami could finally be ending
Flickr / Justin BrownLook up at the New York City skyline — way up, 100 stories or so — and you can’t help but notice that the changes over the past few years have been remarkable. But they may be coming to a halt. Over the past five years, a luxury housing boom in the city saw private developers scrambling to erect skyscrapers as tall as...
Putin is calling for Jews to emigrate to Russia
Thomson ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin has invited Jews to emigrate to Russia amid an increase in anti-Semitic violence in Europe. At a meeting between Putin and members of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) in the Kremlin, Putin was told that discrimination suffered by Jews in Europe was worse than at any time since World War II....
Beijing could turn the South China Sea into a ‘Chinese lake’ by 2030
REUTERSBy 2030, China will be such an unquestioned superpower that the South China Sea will be nothing more than a “Chinese lake,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies writes in a new report. China’s dominance in the region is due to Beijing’s projected continual development of aircraft carrier groups and the...
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister just gave an utterly unconvincing reason for the plunge in global oil prices
REUTERS/ Mohamed Al HwaityOil is down to $28 a barrel, a drop in price that’s going to have an untold and possibly disruptive impact on countries around the world and across the development spectrum. An emerging conventional wisdom holds that Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest oil producer — and largest that isn’t under US...
Iran’s hardline military force is destined to become richer now that sanctions have been lifted
Reuters ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards did well under international sanctions, and the elite military force is destined to become still richer now they’ve been lifted. Iran’s clerical rulers have supported economic growth of the Guards, rewarding the group for sanctions-busting as well as suppressing...
Russia’s Google could be poised for a huge 2016
The Motley FoolAs far as headlines go, it hasn’t been a good run lately for investors who’ve bet on the Russian economy. Between record-low oil prices, civil and military unrest in neighboring Ukraine, and constant threats from Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the average Joe sitting at home in America has more than enough reason to shy...
The uncertainty surrounding ‘Brexit’ is a problem for UK stocks
Reuters/Reuters StaffThe largest uncertainty for domestic and foreign investors in UK equities is probably the impending referendum on UK membership of the EU; that’s according to Barclays’ UK Equity Strategy research team. The British government has promised that an “in” / “out” referendum on the country’s membership of the...
