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Zurich CEO warns Apollo and KKR face hurdles in European insurance push
LONDON (Realist English). U.S. private equity giants such as Apollo Global Management and KKR will face serious obstacles in their...
Swatch apologises for culturally offensive ad after backlash in China
ZURICH (Realist English). Swiss watchmaker Swatch has apologised for a promotional image featuring a model making a “slant eye” gesture,...
Swiss MP calls for sanctions against Baku regime for aggression against Armenia
BERN (Realist English). The recent aggression of the Baku regime must be publicized and condemned, and justice must be restored....
Switzerland imported Russian gold for the first time since the beginning of the special operation
BERN (Realist English). In the four months of Russia's special operation on the territory of the former Ukraine, the European...
How gold from Russia gets in Switzerland bypassing sanctions
BERN (Realist English). Switzerland recorded an abnormal increase in the volume of gold imports from the United Arab Emirates and...
Switzerland has joined the anti-Russian sanctions
TOKYO (Realist English). Switzerland has expressed support for European and American sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. This...
Trump plunges into 2026 midterms early as GOP scrambles over economy and slipping polls
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump is moving aggressively to shape next year’s midterm elections, taking an unusually hands-on role...
China and U.S. hold 2025 maritime safety talks in Hawaii amid efforts to manage military risks
HONOLULU (Realist English). China and the United States convened the second working-group meeting and the 2025 annual session under the...
CBO cuts $1 trillion from Trump’s projected tariff revenues
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Congressional Budget Office has sharply reduced its forecast for tariff revenues, cutting an estimated $1 trillion...
Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress after rift with Trump
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most polarizing figures in US politics, announced on Friday that...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
Putin, Trump and Zelensky: is a trilateral meeting necessary?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Although more than a week has passed since the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S....
Russia’s elite: from Soviet nomenklatura to state corporations
MOSCOW (Realist English). The specificity of the Russian elite is defined by the nature of its origins: it grew out...
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