Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has proposed that the country enshrines the use of cash in its constitution, to ease fears that a citizen’s right to use paper money and coins will disappear. According to a three-point plan issued on Thursday, the right to cash would be protected in the constitution, while the national bank would…

Russia’s economy is expected to grow by more than 2%, Minister of Economic Development Maksim Reshetnikov has said. Reshetnikov told TASS news agency that the forecast is preliminary, noting that work on the final figures would be completed by the ministry later this month.

At least 4 servicemen were killed and 4 others injured in a new attack in Damascus suburbs, according to SANA Syrian air defenses have been activated to intercept a volley of “hostile” projectiles in the vicinity of the country’s capital Damascus, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported early Monday morning.