Ukraine, Russia reach deal to release ‘pilot’

  MOSCOW / AP Ukraine and Russia have reached a deal to release a jailed Ukrainian pilot, President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday, without elaborating if it would entail a swap for two Russian servicemen convicted by Kiev. Nadezhda Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years in prison in Russia last month for her alleged role in the deaths of two ...

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EU to provide humanitarian funding for refugees in Greece

  ATHENS / AP The European Commission says it will be providing 700 million euros in emergency humanitarian funding for Greece until 2018 to help it deal with the massive refugee crisis that has seen tens of thousands of people stranded in the country — the first time such funding has been used to help a European Union member. The ...

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US puts immigrant kids with ‘illegals’

  LOS ANGELES / AP The vast majority of immigrant children who arrive alone at the US border are placed by the government with adults who are in the country illegally, federal data reviewed by The Associated Press show. The government has long said that it places the children with family and friends regardless of immigration status. But since more ...

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China’s future may be sleepier than you think

  The debate over how China’s economy might evolve over the next decade generally breaks down into two opposing cases. Bulls are confident that Chinese leaders will make the hard reforms needed to clean up local government debt, reform state companies, open more markets to private-sector competition and liberalize the financial sector. This should enable China to achieve another 10-15 ...

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Brazil’s economy needs a saviour

  Brazilian business leaders and the opposition count on looming impeachment of embattling President Dilma Rousseff, with hope to bail out the country from a deep recession to revive the sagging economy. The economic woes Brazil is experiencing and charges against Rousseff to have illegally manipulated public accounts in order to conceal a budget deficit during an election year, have ...

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Watch the budget deficit, not the debt

  Narayana Kocherlakota I’m often asked: What level of government debt can the U.S. sustain? The answer is that it can handle a lot more. What’s much more important is its longer-term ability to reduce the federal budget deficit — and eventually run a surplus. Before I explain, let’s define some terms. Debt refers to the value of all securities ...

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The real accomplishments of G7 foreign ministers meeting

  The G7 meeting held in Hiroshima last weekend marks a major diplomatic accomplishment for Japan. In addition to their Joint Communique, appropriate to the location of the meeting, the G7 foreign ministers adopted the Hiroshima Declaration on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament following the meeting. Two additional statements–one on maritime security and the other on general non-proliferation and disarmament—were also ...

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Seoul’s economic diplomacy in Mexico

  After attending the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit on April 1 in Washington D.C., South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto headed down to Mexico City to hold their second bilateral summit, albeit the first one hosted by one of the two countries. Before that, Park and Peña Nieto had met at the sidelines of the ...

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What causes housing in USA to be too expensive

  The U.S. has two big housing affordability problems. They’re related — and solving the first would go some way toward solving the second. But they’re not the same, and it’s important to understand that. The first problem is that some coastal metropolitan areas in the U.S. are generating lots of good jobs but aren’t building enough housing to keep ...

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Global stocks rally on crude as emerging markets jump

  BLOOMBERG Global stocks climbed to a four-month high and emerging markets rallied as oil rose above $40 a barrel and corporate results beat analyst estimates. European equities were poised for their highest close since January as financial reports boosted companies including Danone and L’Oreal SA. South Korea’s won gained as the central bank refrained from loosening monetary policy and ...

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