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By Rhod Mackenzie

The residents of the Baltic states are now paying hundreds of euros  each month to heat their modest apartments. Plus , even government buildings including their Paliaments are cold due the cutbacks in the use of the heating with officials complaining about being cold inside thei...

On 23 January, three days after his inarguaration as the US President Donald Trump called on OPEC countries, primarily Saudi Arabia, to lower oil prices. He expressed surprise that they had not done so prior to the US elections. Trump's strategy involves using lower oil prices to persuade Russia to...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The invitation to six countries to join BRICS should not be considered in the logic of the "Cold War of the last century". This is according to the Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauru Vieira who wrote in an article published in the Folha de São Paulo newspaper..

The head of the S...