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Moldova’s new premier  warns incumbent against new Venezuela

Bloomberg Moldova’s newly declared Prime Minister Maia Sandu said her decision to form a parallel government in the former Soviet Republic is perilous and urged the former ruling party still claiming power not to turn the country into a second Venezuela. Speaking from Chisinau, the 47-year-old former World Bank adviser insisted that her administration will be wholly pro-European even though ...

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Bandits take over valley that was Haiti’s breadbasket

Bloomberg In Haiti’s historic breadbasket, a dozen farmers worked in ankle-deep water, stooped under a piercing blue sky in a lush region dominated for generations by rice fields, and more recently by roving bands of armed men. The gunmen, linked to an infamous gang leader named Arnel Joseph, have been waylaying travellers in the Artibonite Valley, driving out police and ...

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The United States is at war, in cyberspace

One of the least-discussed but perhaps most consequential comments by special counsel Robert Mueller in his appearance before reporters was his blunt counterintelligence assessment: “Russian intelligence officers, who are part of the Russian military, launched a concerted attack on our political system.” The US military, backed by Mueller’s findings and those of the intelligence community, has responded by developing a ...

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