Brazil’s president calls U.S. economic embargo on Cuba ‘illegal,’ condemns terrorist list label
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva review an honour guard at the Revolution Palace...
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Russian c.bank chief Nabiullina and her deputy on rates, inflation and the economy
MOSCOW, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Russian central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina and her deputy Alexei Zabotkin gave a news conference...
Biden meets Li Qiang, says China economic ‘crisis’ makes Taiwan invasion less likely
HANOI, Sept 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he held his highest level talks with Chinese...
EU commission chief asks G20 to join global carbon pricing
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gestures during a joint press statement with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr at...
Russian Agricultural Bank could have SWIFT access within 30 days, UN tells Moscow
Swift logo is seen in this illustration taken, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Acquire Licensing RightsSept 8...
Top EU court dismisses sanctions appeal by Russian tycoon Timchenko
FILE PHOTO-Russian businessman Gennady Timchenko attends the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 17, 2022....
Russia central bank head not ruling out rate hike, against tighter currency controls
National flag flies over the Russian Central Bank headquarters in Moscow, Russia May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov//File Photo Acquire Licensing...
What is a BRICS currency and is the U.S. dollar in trouble?
Delegates walk past the logos of the BRICS summit during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 23, 2023. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/Pool via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsJOHANNESBURG, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's President called on Wednesday for the BRICS nations to create a common currency for trade and investment between each other, as a means of reducing their vulnerability to dollar exchange rate fluctuations.Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made the proposal at a BRICS summit in Johannesburg.Officials and economists have pointed out the...
Russia prepares decree to unfreeze and swap assets with foreign investors
A Russian state flag flies over the Central Bank headquarters in Moscow, Russia, August 15, 2023. A sign reads: "Bank of Russia". REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 23 (Reuters) - Russian authorities are working on a draft presidential decree to give the country's retail investors a way to unblock their frozen assets held in overseas accounts and sell them to foreign parties, the central bank said on Wednesday.International sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine have blocked many Russian investors' access to securities held in jurisdictions outside the...
UK says a supersonic Russian bomber likely to have been destroyed in drone attack
FILE PHOTO: A Tu-22M3 bomber performs during the "Aviadarts" military aviation competition at the Dubrovichi range near Ryazan, Russia, August 2, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Acquire Licensing RightsAug 22 (Reuters) - British military intelligence said on Tuesday that a weekend drone attack on an airfield deep inside Russia which Moscow blamed on Ukraine is highly likely to have destroyed a nuclear-capable TU-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber.Kyiv, which on Monday claimed to have attacked another Russian military airfield, says Russia has used the TU-22M3 to bomb targets across Ukraine with conventional munitions. Western...