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Donald Trump thanks Vladimir Putin for kicking out US Embassy staff

Originally published on RussiaFeed
Russia has recently kicked out 755 US diplomats and staff from the US Embassy facilities in Moscow after the United States failed to settle the crisis caused by Barack Obama’s seizure of legally owned property of the Russian Federation in the United States. The move came as the US passed new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Today, Trump thanked Putin for the measure in the following way,

Israel’s designs on Gaza may indicate plans to invade Egypt

Reports from the religion indicate that Israel is hastening building works on an underground wall which aims to cut of Gaza’s last lifeline with the outside world. The crude tunnels, most of them dug by hand which transverse the border between occupied Palestine and Egypt are often the only way that the people of Gaza can receive vital supplies from the outside world as all other land routes as well as the Mediterranean sea on Gaza’s coast are controlled by Tel Aviv.
Sputnik reports,

Angry China warns US on North Korea: back off and talk or risk disaster

If the Chinese or anyone else imagined that the sanctions resolution recently passed by the UN Security Council would calm tensions in the Korean Peninsula, they must by now be disabused of that illusion.
Though there have been no tests by North Korea since the UN Security Council vote – whether of ballistic missiles or nuclear weapons – the rhetoric instead of calming down has become heated.  Moreover for once it is Washington rather than Pyongyang that has taken the initiative in the war of words.

Capital outflow this year from Russia has been a good thing. Here’s why

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No subject in my experience causes more misunderstanding in discussions of economies – and of the Russian economy in particular – than capital outflow.
There seems to be a well-nigh universal belief that capital inflow is a “good” and that capital outflow is “bad”, and when the subject is Russia this is taken to an extreme.

BREAKING: Ukraine halts deal with Russia on military exports to third countries

Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
KIEV (Sputnik) – The Ukrainian government made a decision on Wednesday on suspension of the intergovernmental agreement with Russia on cooperation in exports of military products to third countries, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

“The decision has been made,”

Here’s what Rodrigo Duterte can do to avoid a CIA coup against his Presidency

Philippines road towards independence has been long and fraught.
Since 1591, what is now the Republic of The Philippines was a Spanish colony. Spain’s long decline as a maritime empire was deeply shaken during the Spanish-American War of 1898. The war was short and decisive in America’s favour and was America’s first taste at global rather than continental colonialism. In addition to receiving Cuba from Spain, America also took possession of the Philippines.