President Joe Biden has selected the daughter of a German-American Holocaust survivor to serve as the next ambassador to Germany. Amy Gutmann, who currently serves as the president of the University of Pennsylvania, was announced as the president’s nominee on Friday in a statement from the White House.If confirmed, she will be the first woman to represent the US to Germany, a top NATO ally.“ I am grateful beyond what any words can adequately express to President Biden for the faith he has placed

The low monetisation ofthe economy essentially “kills” deferred demand within the country, and subsidising interest rates will require significantly larger cash injections than the announced 1trillion rubles, which will actually settle inthe banking system instead ofbeing effectively used for projec

There are top-tier international forums which, by default, elicit high expectations from everyone; if there are no results, everybody is disappointed. On the other hand, some forums are met with scepticism from the very beginning.

WASHINGTON — Tom Perriello saw it coming but could do nothing to stop it.... Perriello, a top U.S. diplomat in Africa at the time, sounded alarms in the State Department.... Richard Nixon intervened, as did the State Department under Hillary Clinton, to sustain the relationship....