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Russian precious metal exports to China nearly doubled in the first six months of this year as record prices for the yellow metal boosted sales, Bloomberg reported, according to Agerpres.

Natural gas plays a key role in the global energy mix, being widely used for electricity generation, heating and as an industrial raw material.

US President Donald Trump sees no need to extend tariff truce beyond July 9, preferring to send a letter directly to trading partners setting out the tariffs they will have to pay, according to international media.

The conflict between Israel and Iran shows no sign of de-escalation, even though, according to the Israeli press, the Tel Aviv authorities declared yesterday that they are not seeking to overthrow the political regime in Tehran, but only to...

The Council of the European Union announced last Friday its unanimous support for extending until March 4, 2027 the temporary protection granted to the more than 4 million Ukrainian refugees who have fled the war of aggression launched by Russia,...

The violence taking place these days in the suburbs of the American metropolis of Los Angeles between federal forces and citizens protesting against the expulsion of immigrants illegally in the US seems to be an open, political fight between...

The European Union and Ukraine are negotiating a new agreement that will set quotas for agricultural imports from Ukraine, quotas that will be "somewhere between" current levels and temporary exemptions granted to Ukraine in 2022, after...

Ukraine's 2025 grain harvest could fall by 10% to about 51 million tonnes, compared with 56.7 million tonnes in 2024, according to the most pessimistic estimates, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval said yesterday, Reuters reports,...

The European Union will propose this week to finance ministers from the group of highly industrialized countries (G7) to reduce the current price cap of $60/barrel, which applies to Russian oil delivered by sea, as part of a new package of...

The representatives of the European Union and Great Britain are to sign a defense and security pact today in London, a gesture with a strong symbolic and strategic charge, at a time marked by global geopolitical turbulence, according to an...

Both George Simion and Nicuşor Dan are perceived as two anti-system candidates, both criticizing the current political class and the corruption existing at the government level and in other state institutions.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is considering imposing serious sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 consortium if Russia does not accept a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, Commission spokeswoman Paula Pinho said yesterday at a...

Member States' contributions to the European Union budget could increase moderately between 2028 and 2034 given the need for more joint investments at European level for defense and security, said MEP Siegfried Mureşan, rapporteur on the...

US trade policy changes almost weekly, if not daily, according to an analysis by visualcapitalist.com, which notes that while Trump imposed heavy reciprocal tariffs on about 100 countries last week, on April 9 he announced a 90-day break for...

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has launched an official appeal to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the organiser of the Eurovision Song Contest, to initiate a debate on the participation of Israeli public broadcaster KAN in this year's...

The recent decision of the Trump Administration to indefinitely suspend the Visa Waiver program for Romania and a series of articles published by American media close to the Republican camp have raised fears among some leaders of political...

The Russian Finance Ministry considers it appropriate to discuss the possibility of large-scale privatizations again, the relevant minister, Anton Siluanov, said yesterday at a meeting of the Board of Directors of Rosimushchestvo, the federal...

The US has become the main supplier of weapons to Europe, according to the report published yesterday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The cited source shows that, if in the period 2015-2019 the United States...

The United States of America provided Ukraine, in 2024, with support of 6.1 billion dollars through the Agency for International Development (USAID), this being the highest financial aid granted by the US last year, according to an analysis by...

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Americans' views on support for the war-torn country have shifted significantly.

Donald Trump began the first part of his speech to Congress by committing a sacrilege: he demoted the first American president in history, George Washington, to second place. Who is in first place? Of course, Donald Trump, who brought back to the...

President Trump's speech was marked by strong statements, but fact-checking reveals significant discrepancies between his statements and the economic and social reality of the US. According to journalists from National Public Radio (NPR) and...

Donald Trump's statements to US congressmen have sparked numerous international reactions, with the first official responses being from Ukraine, Denmark, Canada and China.

The anticipated agreement between the Ukrainian government and the US administration on the exploitation of the European country's mineral resources at odds with Russia was not signed as expected on February 28, as a White House meeting...

Latin American literature is experiencing a second youth through successful film adaptations and series on streaming platforms, several decades after it conquered readers around the world. Films based on classic novels such as One Century of...

At first glance, the US-Russian negotiations that took place yesterday in Riyadh seem to resemble those of the Wild West. Donald Trump, posing as the new sheriff of the world, wants to reach an agreement with the international criminal (if we...

The economic and technological gap currently registered by the European Union compared to the US and China is obvious, but not impossible to overcome, according to a comprehensive analysis published by Politico, which states that, based on a...

A record 3.7 million people became residents for the first time in the EU in 2023, this is the highest level since data collection began in 2013, according to an analysis by visualcapitalist.com.

The Polish government will extend the electricity price cap for household consumers for the first nine months of 2025, Reuters reports.

Ukraine's economy grew by 4.2% in the first ten months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, thanks to the construction, transport and manufacturing sectors, the country's Economy Ministry announced, according to...

The "Russian agent" case has seriously stirred up the waters in the local electoral campaign. George Simion, a candidate in the presidential elections, fell into the middle. The AUR leader rejected last night the accusations according to...

"It's about the economy, stupid," the slogan coined by political strategist James Carville during Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign, still rings true more than 30 years later, according to a statista.com...

Despite the undeniable success of American liquefied natural gas (LNG) in global markets, the recent policy of the Biden-Harris administration risks jeopardizing this hard-won position, says an article published on the website Zerohedge. While...

Russia has proposed the establishment of a grain exchange between the member states of the BRICS group, which could later be expanded to trade other important raw materials, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday in the inaugural speech at the...

The BRICS summit that is taking place these days in Kazan, Russia, also has on its agenda the request made by Turkey to acquire the status of a full member of that economic organization, after until now it had observer status. Turkish President...

Russia has decided to rebuild the bridges that connect it to the world of international sports. The first step was from the highest level. The Russian Minister of Sports, Mikhail Degtyarev, who would fill the vacant post of head of the Russian...

More than 30 months after the aggression illegally launched by the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Government and the Parliament in Bucharest still do not have the necessary legislation - with a small exception regarding the powers of the...

The Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, which recorded losses of almost seven billion dollars in 2023, announced yesterday that it intends to sell some tourist complexes, according to Reuters.

The Middle East has been in a fever of war for a year after Hamas terrorists decided to illegally enter Israel, kill the young, old and children and take several hundred people hostage, mostly civilians, to achieve their political goals ....

Oil futures quotes rose by around 3% yesterday, on the international stock exchanges, against the backdrop of escalating tensions in the Middle East, as concerns are fueled that Iran's military attack against Israel could lead to new...