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The dollar-based international financial system is becoming “risky,” the head of Russia’s central bank says More and more countries are looking for alternatives to the Belgium-based SWIFT financial messaging system, the head of the Russian central bank, Elvira Nabiullina, told RIA Novosti in an interview on Tuesday.

The logic applied by Washington towards Pyongyang is “gangster-like,” Kim Jong-un’s sister says The US is in no position to condemn North Korea for trying to launch a satellite, having sent thousands into orbit itself, the influential sister of leader Kim Jong-un said on Thursday. Pyongyang will soon launch its first-ever reconnaissance spacecraft, Kim Yo-jong…