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China is working on the largest infrastructure endeavor in human history

China is working on the largest infrastructure endeavor in human history

No great power is complete without troops, warships and missiles sprinkled around the planet. Now China is squeaking into an exclusive club — joining America, Russia, France, and few others in operating at least one military base thousands of miles from its home turf. Behold China’s very first overseas outpost. It’s in Djibouti, a tiny African…

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Thanks To ‘Swiss Leaks’ We Know How Much Money Rich People Are Hiding From The World

Thanks to ‘Swiss Leaks’ we know how much money rich people are hiding from the world

Everybody knows what a “Swiss bank account” is. Hollywood tells us they’re top-secret safety deposit boxes for the world’s elite — places where drug kingpins and bankers and politicians and heirs hide their fortunes from government investigations and taxation. They’re how the super rich do banking. Now, thanks to one whistleblower and a team of 140…

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Italy

Italy’s Birth Rate Drops To Its Lowest In More Than 150 Years

Italy’s birth rate drops to its lowest in more than 150 years

Fewer babies were born in Italy in 2014 than in any other year since the modern Italian state was formed in 1861, new data show, highlighting the demographic challenge faced by the country’s chronically sluggish economy. National statistics office ISTAT said on Thursday the number of live births last year was 509,000, or 5,000 fewer than…

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Vietnam Is Sentencing Corrupt Bankers To Death, By Firing Squad

Vietnam is sentencing corrupt bankers to death, by firing squad

BANGKOK — For the most part, American bankers whose rash pursuit of profit brought on the 2008 global financial collapse didn’t get indicted. They got bonuses. Odds are that scandal would have played out differently in Vietnam, another nation struggling with misbehaving bankers. The authoritarian Southeast Asian state doesn’t just send unscrupulous financiers to jail. Sometimes,…

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Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim Becomes Top New York Times Shareholder

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim becomes top New York Times shareholder

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has become the largest shareholder of the New York Times Company after exercising warrants to double his stake in the publisher to 16.8 percent. Entities affiliated with Slim exercised the warrants he bought in 2009 when he loaned the company $250 million during the height of the financial crisis. New York Times,…

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