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MoF rejects aggressive demand At the auction on Nov. 22, the Ministry of Finance rejected 80% of demand by refusing to raise interest rates on most bonds. As a result, they attracted only UAH1.2bn (US$32m). Most of all, auction participants wanted to receive higher rates for military bills. For the four-month military paper, the largest […]

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The World Cup kicks off with host nation Qatar facing Ecuador on Sunday, Nov. 20, as the month-long football showpiece finally gets under way after a tortuous 12-year build-up dogged by off-field controversies. Foreign government officials, VIPs and celebrities will be in the crowd as the first World Cup staged in the Arab world opens […]

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According to official Russian reports, imprisoned American basketball player Brittney Griner has been transferred from a Russian prison to a penal colony. Speaking on Wednesday, Nov. 9, her attorneys, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, said “We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination”. Griner was detained in February […]

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Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk defended Sunday, Nov. 6, his much-criticised launch of a paid subscription service to verify user accounts. “Widespread verification will democratize journalism & empower the voice of the people,” he tweeted, responding to concerns from associations, advertisers, and even the United Nations, who fear a surge of hate speech and misinformation […]

The road ahead for Twitter remained as murky as ever after new owner Elon Musk said Wednesday, Oct. 2, that it could take weeks to reinstate banned accounts — such as that of former US president Donald Trump. Twitter users have been watching closely to see whether Musk will reinstate Trump, banned for inciting last […]