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AFP/Stringer/Getty Images August 31, 2015: A ceremony to name a park in Damascus after Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s founding father in the Syrian city’s Kafar Susseh neighborhood Increased North Korean involvement in a nation hit by violent civil war, which includes Islamic State brutality, doesn’t bode well a U.S. government …

Aurore Belot | AFP | Getty Images German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a press conference at the end of EU Eastern Partnership summit at the European Council in Brussels on Nov. 24, 2017. Political uncertainty looks set to remain a recurrent theme in the markets going forward. In Germany, Chancellor …

Marco Longari | Getty Images A woman waves the South African flag during a demonstration in Pretoria, calling for president Jacob Zuma to resign, in April 2017 South Africa will use its annual budget next year to outline “decisive” policy to strengthen its fiscal framework, the finance ministry said on …

Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images German Chancellor and head of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel attends preliminary coalition talks that later collapsed with the withdrawl of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) at the Baden-Wuerttemberg state representation on November 19, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Members …

Daniel Leal-Olivas | AFP | Getty Images An armed policeman runs down Oxford Street in central London on November 24, 2017, as police responded to an incident. British police said they were responding to an ‘incident’ at Oxford Circus in central London on Friday and have evacuated the Underground station, …

Anthony Kwan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mobile payment platforms Apple Pay and Alipay are displayed for a photograph in Hong Kong, China, on November 1, 2016. Alibaba Group affiliate Ant Financial has banned consumer loans with annual interest rates above 24 percent from its Alipay platform, a move which …

MARCO LONGARI | AFP | Getty Images President elect Emmerson Mnangagwa (C,L) gestures as he arrives with his wife Auxilia (C,R) at the National Sport Stadium in Harare, on November 24, 2017 during the Inauguration ceremony. Even though most Zimbabweans celebrated the exit of 93-year-old Mugabe, who presided over the …

SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. and South Korean soldiers at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Paju, South Korea The North Korean defector was shot and wounded by his fellow soldiers as he dashed into the South Korean side of the Joint Security Area (JSA) last week. The …

“One Belt, One Road gives entrepreneurs a lot of opportunity,” said Aiju’s Liu, citing cheaper costs and lower transaction fees. “We also hope there will be opportunity to cooperate with U.S. companies [as a] food and oil dealer.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service is also monitoring Kazakhstan’s …

Artur Widak | NurPhoto | Getty Images An Taoiseach and Leader of Fine Gael, Leo Varadkar, arrives at Fine Gael HQ on 5 Oct. 2017, in Dublin, Ireland. The Irish government was on the verge of collapse on Thursday after the party whose votes Prime Minister Leo Varadkar depends on …