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Argentina asks USA Judge to drop block on its debt payments

Bloomberg Argentina’s new administration wasted little time trying to end US court orders barring the country from paying holders of its restructured debt, as it seeks to set aside its status as a credit-market pariah after 15 years. Representatives of newly seated President Mauricio Macri, after reaching a settlement with some holdout creditors, is urging US District Judge Thomas Griesa ...

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What would be the Sanders doctrine?

Is Bernie Sanders a closet foreign policy “realist”? Reading his few pronouncements on foreign policy, you sense that he embraces the realists’ deep skepticism about American military intervention. But he has said so little about foreign policy that it’s hard to be sure. Foreign policy is the hole in Sanders’ political donut. We know what he doesn’t like — the ...

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What a new Vietnam-Russia deal says

It is potentially an unusual business transaction. While the prospect of a Vietnamese company taking over a Russian group in of itself is unusual, the buyout of a strategic stake in a major fish distributor is also a reflection of changing attitudes to the management of the Mekong River. Food security is the priority issue dominating the political agenda surrounding ...

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