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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...