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Russia probe: Mueller heaps new charges on Manafort

Bloomberg US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s latest indictment is significant beyond the new charges, in that it links senior officials on President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to Russian intelligence in a criminal matter. Mueller’s indictment released against Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, adds charges to allegations that Manafort did illegal lobbying work for Ukraine and laundered millions of dollars ...

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UK’s May plans ‘lock-in’ to end cabinet war over Brexit

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May will seek to quash Cabinet squabbling over her Brexit strategy by hosting another away-day at her countryside retreat early next month, as a potentially explosive new proposal emerged. May is facing a torrid time trying to reconcile Brexit backers and pro-Europeans in her top team, with the fight laid bare spectacularly. First there was widespread ...

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China is not feeling the yuan market love

The relationship between the value of the yuan and the US dollar has broken down in the first few months of 2018, raising questions over the actions and objectives of China’s central bank. Since unveiling a basket of reference currencies used to set the yuan’s exchange rate in 2015, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has largely left it alone. ...

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