PIF’s investments are expected to grow from $40 billion to $70 billion by 2025. Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is set to increase its annual spending to $70 billion (Dh257 billion) by 2025, a year ahead of its earlier schedule, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). PIF’s governor Yasir Al Rumayyan announced […]
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The US presidential elections will take place on 5 November. And despite their protestations of indifference, warmongers in the Kremlin seem keenly interested in the results. This became quite clear, when on 4 September the US exposed a Kremlin-backed foreign influence campaign(opens in a new tab), which relied on influencers, AI-generated content, paid advertisements and other
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Trade between China and Africa has seen consistent growth for the past two decades, even though it lost a bit of steam a few years ago due to a weakening Chinese economy and rising African concerns over debt-related problems. Nevertheless, African exports and imports from China have recorded steady growth since 2021. Beijing likes to highlight this trend. Trade and loans on the
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi expressed strong opposition to Russia’s support for the opening of the Zangezur Corridor in the South Caucasus, calling any redrawing of borders a “red line” for Iran. Araghchi posted on X, stating, “Any threat from the North, South, East, or West to the territorial integrity of our neighbors or redrawing
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Indonesia on Friday after celebrating Mass before an overflow crowd of 100,000, a final celebration before heading to Papua New Guinea for the second leg of his 11-day journey through Southeast Asia and Oceania. The 87-year-old pope had no official events Friday beyond a farewell ceremony and
A 14-year-old boy has faced court for the first time charged with murdering two classmates and two teachers in a gun attack at a Georgia high school. Colt Gray, a pupil at the school, was arrested shortly after the shooting on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, near Atlanta. He was charged with four
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A Ukrainian Special Operations Forces unit destroyed the detected invader’s float bridge unit in the Kursk region. The Ukrainian SOF press service released footage of the destruction. Operators of the 8th Regiment of the Special Operations Forces discovered and destroyed seven units of enemy equipment: five PPS-84 pontoon bridges on KrAZ-255 truck chassis and two other trucks.
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One objective of the Kursk incursion is to draw Russian troops into its territory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with NBC News that, as of today, Russia has mobilized nearly 60,000 soldiers for defense operations in the region. Zelenskyy also mentioned that the shortage of long-range missiles and shells forced Ukraine to
Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi has revealed the strategic objectives behind the country’s surprise cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast in an interview with CNN aired on 5 September. The top general said he believes the operation has been a success. The Kursk incursion, which started early last month, caught both Russians and Ukraine’s allies by surprise
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Paul Goble Staunton, Sept. 4 – The Kremlin has continued to lie about the Ukrainian advance in Kursk Oblast and Western analysts have dismissed it as a tactical move to draw off Russian forces from Ukraine or to create a more favorable negotiation position for Kyiv in talks with Moscow, Vladislav Inozemtsev says. But in
