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By Rhod Mackenzie

Europe may have found a previously an unforeseen solution to the challenge facing it of providing the continent with liquefied natural gas (LNG) and it has appeared in the form of Qatar. It has been reported that Doha still requires customers for two-thirds of its LNG supply, wh...

By Alexey Poroshin

The choice of six new countries to join the BRICS five is not accidental. Egypt is an old ally of Russia, which has the largest army in Africa. Russia has a long history of cooperation with Ethiopia. It is the largest state on the continent in terms of population: 123 million pe...