The authorities of Argentina imposed temporary restrictions on foreign exchange operations in order to stop weakening of the national currency and maintain reserves. In addition, last week the government announced plans to restructure part of the public debt. This caused a temporary decrease in the country's credit ratings to the level of “selective default”, as the owners of bonds issued under...

Last week, Conte said that he would step down as Prime Minister after the far-right Lega Nord party left the coalition with the 5 Star Movement, triggering a political crisis. On Wednesday, the Five Star Movement and the opposition Democratic Party told President that they were ready to try to form a government led by Conte. The parties have yet to agree on a common political platform and the...

By the mid-September presidential election in the United States, Facebook will tighten the authorization of US customers who want to place political ads on social networks, as well as show users more information about each advertiser and start listing social issues in the United States. The company announced regular measures to protect elections in the United States on August 28. The company will...

French President Emmanuel Macron summed up the G7 summit that ended in Biarritz. He spoke about a breakthrough in relations with Iran, a possible settlement of trade wars between the USA and China and the USA and Europe, and about refusal to sign an agreement with MERCOSUR. Two days of negotiations at the G7 culminated in a joint declaration and final press conference which Emmanuel Macron...

A decrease in growth rates in the second quarter of 2018 was recorded in all large developed countries, follows from OECD data. Thus, in quarterly terms (seasonally adjusted), the total growth of the OECD countries in April-June slowed down to 0.5% against 0.6% in the first quarter (from 1.7% to 1.6% in annual terms). The strongest decline occurred in the UK, where a 0.5% increase gave way to a...

Oxfam NGOs found that the poorest part of the population (20%) accounts for only 5% of the paid remuneration on average in the seven most developed countries in the world. At that, 20% of the richest people account for 45%. The organization believes that such a distribution resulted from policies of these countries. Inequality continues to grow among the population of the G7 countries (USA,...

European officials have prepared a 173-page “aggressive” plan, which is directed against the trade policy of US President Donald Trump, as well as against American technology giants Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and others, reported Politico, referring to the document. According to the plan, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, is to establish the European...

Turkish authorities set to solve one of the most sensitive problems for the country, the excess of refugees from Syria. Considering that most of the Syrians found refuge in Istanbul, the Ministry of Internal Affairs intends to evict all refugees registered in other provinces from the city by October 30. Meanwhile, newspapers report cases of forced expulsion of Syrians to their homeland. Several...

Facebook and Twitter reported that the Chinese authorities launched a full-fledged propaganda machine on the Internet, aimed at misinforming Hong Kong protesters. Based on such findings, social networks announced blocking of accounts, blogs and groups, which, in their opinion, contained false information about events. Twitter’s corporate blog reported discovery of 936 accounts "originating from...