One of Russia’s largest private lenders, Tinkoff, has launched transfers in Thai baht via the SWIFT messaging system, the business daily RBK reported on Tuesday, citing a representative of the bank.
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The stopgap funding to avoid a government shutdown was approved by the House in a bipartisan vote The US House of Representatives approved a bill on Tuesday which Speaker Mike Johnson proposed last week to avoid a government shutdown. The Republican caucus was split over the vote, while all but two Democrats supported it.
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Moscow continues to engage with the Global South despite attempts to isolate it, the foreign minister has said Western attempts to turn Russia into an international pariah over its military campaign in Ukraine were always doomed to fail, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RT in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.
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