Knowledge Nugget: Why are BRICS and New Development Bank important for UPSC exam?
Ahead of his scheduled meeting with PM Modi, Trump declared that BRICS is dead and announced plans to impose a 100 percent tariff on the bloc. What is BRICS? What is its New Development Bank?
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Pakistan moves to scale back reliance on Bretton Woods system
Pakistan on Friday formally approved buying 1.1% shares of non-Western New Development Bank (NDB) for $582 million in a move ...
“Frenzy of Warmongering”: Critics of Munich Security Summit Warn of Musk, Rising Fascism in Europe
As the annual high-level Munich Security Conference gets underway, the Russia-Ukraine war is dominating the agenda, and we speak to two guests protesting the conference. Economist, progressive leader ...
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Ukraine opens resource reserves to EU and US, eyes global supply shift
Ukraine is opening its resource reserves to the West, proposing joint extraction of titanium, uranium, and lithium with the ...
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Critics Warn of Rising European Fascism as Security Conference Begins in Germany
More than 40 protest rallies are planned against the security conference in Munich this weekend. Honest, paywall-free news is ...
Colombia sets 1% temporary tax on fossil fuel output
Colombia will impose a 1% tax on the production of fossil fuels, including oil and coal, its two biggest earners, until the ...
Russia's Nabiullina on interest rates, rouble, inflation and Ukraine
Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina addressed a news conference on Friday after the central bank kept its key ...
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Who is Russian sovereign wealth fund boss Kirill Dmitriev, whose Middle East connections helped broker the release of US prisoner Marc Fogel?
By Ben Aris in Berlin When I first met Kirill Dmitriev he was one of the bright young things of the Russian business ...