Author: Steven Sahiounie

Time lags in re-valuing assets to reflect higher interest rates and difficulties in selling the assets quickly have increased the risks from private credit used by companies for funding, a Bank of England official said on Monday.

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The Russian President’s special envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, has affirmed that the United States is escalating terrorist activity in al-Tanf region in Syria. “There is a surge in terrorist activity in some Syrian territories, but I would like to stress that the main source of terrorist activity is currently located in al-Tanf, controlled by the United States, where the Rukban camp for temporarily displaced persons is located, which the US stubbornly refuses to dismantle,” Lavrentiev said in an interview with TASS. “Active training of Daesh “ISIS” terrorists and other armed groups continues there. They are then sent on certain…

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Germany has condemned a conference of far-right groups in Israel attended by some cabinet ministers that has called for settlement to be reintroduced in the Gaza Strip and more to be built in the West Bank. The participation of more than a dozen ministers and speeches made at the gathering in occupied East Jerusalem were unacceptable, German Federal Foreign Office spokesman Sebastian Fischer said. “Such considerations for the expulsion of the Palestinian population from Gaza and rebuilding Israeli settlements there are totally unacceptable. They contribute to a worsening of the situation in the current conflict and clearly violate international law,”…

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