Here is how how China Energy Fund Committee guided a Chinese oil and gas company to secure lucrative contracts in Chad. In a development that underscores the methods used to gain contracts, the U.S. has charged a man from Hong Kong as well as the former foreign minister from Senegalese for bribing high-level officials in…
French Prime Minister made it amply clear that France will not tolerate any takeover which is deemed as hostile for its national industries. On Monday, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe made it clear that the French government will put its weight behind national companies and will not allow any takeover that are deemed as hostile.…
Britain’s departure from the European Union will be celebrated by two European cities soon even though it is still over a year for Brexit to take place. Brexit Because Britain is leaving the EU, moving to a new city in the block is eminent for the European Banking Authority and the European Medicines Agency, two…
Territory where most bond investors fear to tread are traversed by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s new Silk Road to Europe. The top three international rating firms rate the sovereign debt of 27 are rated as junk, or below investment grade of the 68 nations China lists as partners in its Belt and Road Initiative. Either they are…
Cementing China’s ruling Communist Party President Xi Jinping’s power ahead of a new top leadership line-up and placing him in the same company as the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, the Communist Party enshrined his political thought into its constitution on Tuesday. Identifying them as one of its guiding principles at the end of its…
In a ballot which could strengthen the anti-migrant Northern League ahead of national elections early next year, voters in two regions of Italy’s wealthy north take part in referendums Sunday to demand more autonomy from the state. They have little in common with the recent Catalan independence vote in Spain which was marked by violent…
The latest bid by European regions too wrestle more power away from the establishment was marked as two of Italy’s wealthiest regions are poised to hold a referendum on greater autonomy Sunday. More control over their finances and administrations is being demanded and pushed for by Lombardy and Veneto, two northern regions home to about…
Human rights groups have severely denounced the appointment of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador of the World Health Organisation (WHO). At a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Uruguay on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the appointment of Mugabe. during his 37 years leading the country as either president…
The question – Why is a technology threatening to decentralize money so attractive to highly centralized, authoritarian regimes? is ripe to be asked with Russia and China both embracing the idea of sovereign cryptocurrencies. President Vladimir Putin had ordered the swift launching of a “crypto-ruble”, Argumenti i Fakti, a pro-government newspaper, quoted Russian Communication Minister Nikolai Nikiforov as saying last weekend. The…
U.S. investigators are gradually piecing together how the Kremlin orchestrated its disinformation campaign using U.S. platforms to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign. As per a person briefed on Google’s probe on Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. elections, Google has discovered that Russian agents had spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads on…
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