ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates welcomed a US initiative to establish a fund to meet the needs of the Afghan people and contribute to strengthening economic stability in the country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) stated that the UAE welcomes the announcement by the United States and a number of international partners ...

So far, economic sanctions on Russia have done nothing to halt Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. The ruble is still strong. Oil prices are high. Before Ukraine’s latest advances on the battlefield, polls showed that 75% of Russians still supported the war (in public at any rate). So why continue with sanctions? Economic boycotts, of course, are one way for ...

The idea of a blockchain is that you want to do bank transfers without a bank. You want people to be able to do transactions, and have them confirmed, and have there be some canonical agreed list of the transactions, but you don’t want to trust some central party to do it. At a high level, the blockchain solution is ...