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Turkey Seeks Economic Stability – OpEd

Turkey’s economy is in a bad way. In June the budget deficit, seven times higher than a year earlier, reached 219.6 billion lira ($8.37 billion). The forecast for July shows it widening still further. On July 16 Turkey raised the tax on gasoline, adding to the recent two percent increase …

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The Looming Risk In The US Banking Sector – Analysis

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank triggered a banking crisis in Europe and America, which stabilized for a period after the acquisition of Credit Suisse. However, following another interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve in July, the situation has shown further signs of deterioration. First, a U.S. regional bank, …

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Wagner Group Licks Its Wounds In Belarus – Analysis

Most analysts have labeled Yevgeny Prigozhin’s attempted rebellion and the Wagner Group mutiny a failure. And in many ways, that’s true. Indeed, Prigozhin and the contingent of Wagner fighters that eschewed signing contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence have reportedly been exiled to Belarus where Wagner appeared in recent …

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Switzerland’s Noah’s Cirher Zeitung: Ambitions for greater Serbia threaten peace in the Western Balkans, is the key in Serbia’s “Achilles Heel”

“Ambitions for the formation of a Greater Serbia threaten peace in the Western Balkans. The key to peace is in Brcko District, Serbia’s Achilles Heel,” Writes Alexander Rottert in an article for the Swiss Noah Cirherze Zeitung. “Since November 21, 1995, the term ‘Dayton’ has been denoting a special kind …

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