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India, xenophobic? US President Joe Biden says India and Japan’s economy are bad because of xenophobia, compares to China and Russia
In a recent campaign fundraising event, US President Joe Biden sparked controversy by labelling US …
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McConnell says Republicans will 'make sure Joe Biden is a moderate' if the party regains control of Congress in 2022
"Obviously, we will have to work with the administration to see what we can agree on," McConnell sa…
John L. Dorman
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Hoarding, smuggling and drug trade by mafias bleeding Pakistan's economy: Report
A detailed report by Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau (IB) on smuggling, tax evasion, drug trade, hoa…
ANI
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Kabul faces blackouts because the Taliban stopped paying foreign companies that generate most of Afghanistan's electricity
Afghanistan is dependent on neighboring countries for much of its power supply, and risks defaultin…
Mia Jankowicz
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The Taliban are begging for Afghanistan's frozen money to be released as the country's economy spirals into crisis
The Taliban have been unable to get their hands on the Afghan central bank's nearly $10 billion in …
Jake Epstein
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The US froze nearly $9.5 billion of Afghanistan's reserves, reports say - leaving the Taliban facing a cash crunch and currency woes
Afghanistan's acting central-bank chief said the population could soon be facing strong inflation t…
Harry Robertson
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The US has blown over $21 trillion on the War on Terror instead of ideas like forgiving student debt or improved healthcare. Now t's time to invest in making American lives better.
Now that the war in Afghanistan is over, the government should reinvest military spending on our co…
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Afghan businesses face a tough future under the Taliban as cash dries up and an economic crisis looms, says the country's ex-central bank chief
Afghanistan's former Central Bank governor Ajmal Ahmady said the country's economy faces an "extrem…
Zahra Tayeb,Kevin Shalvey
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US stock futures edge lower as investors fret about the Delta variant's spread ahead of Fed minutes
The S&P 500 and the Dow broke a 5-day run of record highs on Tuesday, with COVID-sensitive assets s…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Global stocks pull back as wary investors monitor the spread of COVID-19 and unrest in Afghanistan
Fed official Eric Rosengren said another strong jobs report could support a September taper announc…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Afghanistan's Taliban needs money so badly they are selling tickets to monuments their own fighters smashed to pieces: report
The Taliban reduced Afghanistan's vast, ancient Bamiyan Buddhas to rubble in 2001. Now they're sell…
Mia Jankowicz
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Afghanistan's economy may be only weeks from collapse, according to a former UN official
The Afghan economy was being "brought to its knees" as the Taliban took control of the country's fi…
Kevin Shalvey
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Pandemic stimulus, cyber threats, pulling out of Afghanistan, and more: Biden's budget for the next fiscal year might break all the records
GOP senators released a $928 billion counteroffer to Biden's infrastructure package, more than half…
Alex Hickey, Morning Brew
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House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy has spent more than 3 hours delivering a rambling, erratic speech referencing Elon Musk, Abraham Lincoln, China, and Afghanistan in bid to delay passage of Biden spending bill
"I can't even afford to test drive a Tesla, and Elon is one of my best friends," McCarthy said duri…
Jake Lahut,Joseph Zeballos-Ro…
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Taliban officials praise Afghanistan's first sports car. It has an engine from a 2000 Toyota Corolla.
The Taliban's spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, shared a video on Sunday of the Mada 9 car doing do…
Lloyd Lee
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India to work with G20 members over debt, food and energy security issues: Jaishankar
India to work with G20 members over debt, food and energy security issues: Jaishankar
PTI
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'A daily burden of survival': Deadly Afghanistan earthquake piles more agony onto the country's widespread humanitarian woes
A Kabul-based aid worker told Insider that "it's all hands on deck" as organizations manage bad wea…
Jake Epstein
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Taliban captures Afghanistan's fourth-largest city, sets sights on Kabul
The Taliban took over the government's last northern stronghold of Mazar-e-Sharif in "barely an hou…
John L. Dorman
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Afghans are self-medicating with antidepressants bought on the black market as despair at life under Taliban rule grows
Many Afghans are traumatized and depressed having to live under Taliban control. The mental health …
Joshua Zitser,Alia Shoaib
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Russia's isolation from global markets is withering its economy and will wreck its status as an energy superpower, experts say
"What they propose to do is a recipe for long-term stagnation," an economist said. Russia's trade w…