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Wednesday, 28 June 2023 17:23 WIB

The United States on Tuesday accused companies in the United Arab Emirates, the Central African Republic and Russia of engaging in illicit gold deals to help fund the mercenary fighters of Russia's Wagner Group. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement it has sanctioned four companies linked to Wagner and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, that it alleged were used to help pay the paramilitary's forces fighting in Ukraine and undertaking operations to support Russian interests in Africa. "The Wagner Group funds its brutal operations in part by exploiting natural resources in countries...

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Blinken, Saudi Leaders Discuss Terrorism, Yemen, Sudan Conflict
Thursday, 8 June 2023 17:19 WIB | Global

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Wednesday with Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the Saudi foreign minister, and foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council as part of his visit to Saudi Arabia. Blinken met earlier with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah where the State Department said he expressed thanks for Saudi Arabia's help evacuating Americans from Sudan earlier this year. "The two affirmed their shared commitment to advance stability, security and prosperity across the Middle East and beyond, including through a comprehensive political agreement to achieve...

Ukraine Rejects Calls to 'Freeze' Conflict, Foreign Minister Says
Thursday, 8 June 2023 10:41 WIB | Global

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday that talks about resolving the conflict with Russia could not start with a mere cessation of hostilities. "If anyone thinks they should freeze the conflict and then see how to solve it, they don't understand it," he said in an online briefing aimed at African journalists, following a tour of African countries. More than 100 rounds of consultation and attempts at a cease-fire since Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 only led to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he said. A delegation of African...

Britain Says China Has Closed Unofficial Police Stations in UK
Wednesday, 7 June 2023 11:03 WIB | Global

British Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said on Tuesday China had closed reported "police service stations" at sites across the United Kingdom and that an investigation had not revealed any illegal activity by the Chinese state at these sites. Britain has previously said reports of undeclared police stations in the country were "extremely concerning" and that any intimidation on British soil of foreign nationals by China or other states was unacceptable. China has denied operating any such stations and issued a statement contesting Tugendhat's remarks via its embassy in London, saying the...

Biden Signs Debt Ceiling Legislation
Monday, 5 June 2023 15:56 WIB | Ekonomi AS

U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law on Saturday legislation that suspends the U.S. government's debt limit through January 2025 and avoids a potentially disastrous default just days before the government runs out of cash to pay its bills. His signature came with two days to spare: the Treasury Department had said the government wouldn't have enough money to pay all of its bills by Monday. The White House said the signing was done in private and announced it in an emailed statement. In the statement, Biden thanked congressional leaders. The Fiscal Responsibility Act is the result of...

Biden: US Debt Ceiling Talks Going Well, but No Deal Reached Yet
Friday, 26 May 2023 08:44 WIB | Global

President Joe Biden said Thursday that negotiations with Republican lawmakers to raise the U.S. government's borrowing limit and set future spending levels are going well, while assuring Americans the country will not default on its obligation to pay its bills. White House budget negotiators continued to talk with representatives of Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to sort out the last details of a deal, but no agreement was announced as lawmakers began to leave Washington ahead of the country's annual Memorial Day weekend. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is not...

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