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Argentina: interest rates are going down thanks to the subside of inflation

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Argentina’s main state-run bank said it lowered its headline interest rates for loans to businesses on Monday amid expectations that inflation will begin to slow in Latin America’s third-largest economy, a move that will help put credit back within firms’ reach. Banco Nacion, the country’s largest financial institution and which also acts as a development bank, set its annual nominal reference rate for business loans at 27%, down from 32%.

Argentina: interest rates are going down thanks to the subside of inflation

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Argentina’s main state-run bank said it lowered its headline interest rates for loans to businesses on Monday amid expectations that inflation will begin to slow in Latin America’s third-largest economy, a move that will help put credit back within firms’ reach. Banco Nacion, the country’s largest financial institution and which also acts as a development bank, set its annual nominal reference rate for business loans at 27%, down from 32%.

EU security expert: Europe must prepare for jihadist fleeing Mosul

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Europe must be prepared for an influx of Islamic State militants if Iraqi forces retake control of Mosul, the EU’s security commissioner has warned. Thousands of Europeans have gone to Iraq and Syria over the past two years to fight with Isis, but the Islamist extremists have suffered a string of defeats in recent months in both countries. Those defeats have prompted some of its fighters to begin returning to the continent, but about 2,500 European fighters remain in the conflict zones, King told the German newspaper Die Welt.

Russia: all participants of the Lausanne talk must decide their own future

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Russia said all participants in talks in Lausanne had agreed Syrians should decide their own future through inclusive dialogue and that the country should remain whole and secular, after the meeting ended without a breakthrough.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that in order for a U.S.-Russian ceasefire agreement to succeed and to facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries, Syria’s moderate opposition must separate from Jabhat Fatah al Sham, previously known as the Nusra Front, and other “terrorist groups” affiliated with it. “At the same time, it should be understood that operations against terrorists of Islamic State and the Nusra Front will be continued,” the Ministry said. Saturday’s talks, convened by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the Swiss city, failed to agree on a common strategy with Russia to end the conflict in Syria, now in its sixth year.

Russian Defense Minister: aircraft stop airstrikes in Aleppo area

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Sergey Shoigu, Russian Defense Minister, said that Russian and Syrian aircraft stopped airstrikes in Aleppo area from 10 a.m. on Tuesday to introduce a humanitarian pause on 20th of October. According to Shoigu, this will allow guaranteeing security of exit via six corridors for civilians and preparing for evacuation of those ill and wounded from the eastern part of Aleppo. Two other corridors will open for militants to leave the city. He alsoadded that military experts from a number of countries will start work in Geneva on separating opposition from terrorists in Syria’s Aleppo, tomorrow.

UN: Saudi Arabia supports cease-fire in Yemen

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The warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire which is to take effect shortly before midnight Wednesday, the UN special envoy to Yemen announced Monday.

Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said, before the Ahmed’s ceasefire announcement, that Saudi Arabia is prepared to agree to a cease-fire in Yemen if the Iran-allied Houthis agree, adding that he was sceptical about efforts for peace after previous cease-fire attempts had failed. “Everybody wants a cease-fire in Yemen, nobody more so than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the coalition members,” he told reporters in London.

Normandy Four: Putin plans to take part and talk for the first time in a year

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Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin’s Spokesman, announced that Russian President, Vladimir Putin, will visit Berlin on 19th of October to take part in the meeting of the Normandy Four group. The official stressed that Putin’s decision to take part in the meeting was unrelated to the escalation of the situation in Ukraine.

The Kremlin believes that Kiev’s calls for forcing Moscow into compliance with the Minsk Accords indicate how complex the situation is. The press secretary stressed that Vladimir Putin is ready to do everything to push forward the Minsk process on the Ukrainian conflict settlement within the Normandy Four format.

Mission to retake Mosul begins. Gen. Townsend: "All troops are Iraqis"

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Following months of preparation, the Allies’ operation to retake Mosul from the grip of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) was finally launched on the very early hours of last monday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi released an official announcement to government-dependent television station Al Iraqiya immediately after the last troops of the international coalition had been deployed to the outskirts of the second largest city in Iraq.
Whilst the Kurdish Peshmerga forces are stationed to the north and east of Mosul, with the goal of obstructing possible escape routes for IS’ militants, the Iraqi and international ground troops will advance from all sides besides the northern, also helped by local tribal fighters on the western front. The coalition headquarters is just south of the city: it will provide intel on the conflict and very precise indications on which targets the US-led airstrikes should hit inside Mosul.
The commander of the Joint Task Force Operation “Inherent Resolve”, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commented on the prospects of the battle and the role of the international coalition in support to the Iraqi forces, in a statement released by the U.S. Department of Defense. Townsend affirmed that the operation to regain control of Mosul will likely continue for weeks and possibly longer. But it comes after more than two years of ISIL oppression in Mosul, “during which they committed horrible atrocities [and] brutalized the people” after declaring the city to be one of their twin capitals, the general said in the statement. The coalition can’t predict how long it will take for the ISF to retake the city, “but we know they will succeed — just as they did in Beiji, in Ramadi, in Fallujah and, more recently in Qayyarah and Sharqat.” The OIR coalition will provide “air support, artillery, intelligence, advisors and forward air controllers,” Townsend said in the statement, adding that the supporting forces “will continue to use precision to accurately attack the enemy and to minimize any impact on innocent civilians.”
 
Townsend also addressed the very controvertial topic of the nationalities amongst the ground troops: “To be clear, the thousands of ground combat forces who will liberate Mosul are all Iraqis,” Townsend said in the statement”. Meanwhile, the start of the conflict has raised serious humanitarian concerns among many international organisations, such as the UN and UNICEF, and NGOs.
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Syria: Turkish-Backed Rebels Take Dabiq

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Turkish-backed rebels have captured the Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic State, rebel commanders and monitors said Oct. 16, BBC reported. A rebel group also claimed it had recaptured the neighboring village of Soran. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 1,200 Islamic State fighters had been brought in to defend Dabiq, while 2,000 rebel fighters were involved in the offensive, supported by Turkish tanks, artillery and airstrikes from international coalition warplanes. Resistance from Islamic State fighters was reportedly “minimal” before they eventually withdrew south toward al-Bab. Dabiq features heavily in Islamic State propaganda because of a prophecy of a climactic battle between Muslims and non-Muslims before the end of the world. In August, Turkey launched an offensive to clear the border region of the Islamic State and Kurdish rebels that had been making gains in northern Syria.

 

Source: STRATFOR

Lo Stato Maggiore della Difesa smentisce le accuse delle Iene

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In merito al servizio “Droga e militari italiani in Afghanistan”, andato in onda nella puntata dell’11 ottobre delle “Iene”, lo Stato Maggiore della Difesa smentisce categoricamente quanto riportato, poiché frutto di illazioni e notizie false che gettano discredito sulle Forze Armate.

In particolare, quanto dichiarato dal presunto militare è smentito dal fatto che tutto il personale militare, di ogni categoria e grado, in missione e in Patria, viene obbligatoriamente sottoposto a controlli periodici volti ad individuare l’eventuale uso, anche occasionale, di sostanze stupefacenti. Laddove vi siano stati riscontri positivi, le Forze Armate, ribadendo la propria politica di “tolleranza zero”, hanno perseguito i singoli, avviando con immediatezza tutte le previste procedure giudiziarie, disciplinari e sanitarie. L’affermazione di supposte connivenze tra commilitoni e comandanti, inoltre, è totalmente infondata: in operazioni ad alto rischio, la sicurezza e l’incolumità di ciascun militare, infatti, dipendono dalla lucidità e dalla pronta reattività di ogni collega e, quindi, nessuno tollererebbe la vicinanza di chi abbia capacità psicofisiche alterate dall’uso di sostanze stupefacenti.

Le affermazioni del sedicente Ufficiale dell’Aeronautica, invece, sono sconfessate dai controlli obbligatori presso gli aeroporti di partenza e di arrivo, effettuati dall’Arma dei Carabinieri. Tali controlli sono finalizzati a verificare l’osservanza dei vincoli di sicurezza imposti dall’autorità internazionale per il trasporto aereo e il rispetto delle norme doganali. La validità di tale sistema è dimostrata anche dal rinvenimento di modesti quantitativi di marijuana nelle canne di una decina di fucili. Il fatto è stato scoperto grazie a questi controlli e denunciato proprio dalle autorità militari, ma l’autore del servizio, nel riferire l’evento, ha strumentalmente omesso questa informazione.

Per quanto riguarda il personale civile che lavora all’interno delle basi nazionali all’estero, anch’esso viene quotidianamente sottoposto a stringenti controlli di sicurezza, tanto all’ingresso quanto all’uscita, da parte del personale militare di vigilanza e dei Carabinieri, nonché monitorato da un punto di vista sanitario: è pertanto fortemente improbabile che sostanze stupefacenti possano essere introdotte con facilità – come invece si afferma nel servizio – all’interno delle nostre basi.

Lo Stato Maggiore della Difesa si riserva pertanto di adire le vie legali nei confronti dell’autore del servizio, al fine di salvaguardare il buon nome e l’immagine di tutti quei militari che, pur tra innumerevoli difficoltà e sacrifici personali, adempiono quotidianamente il loro dovere con onore e disciplina, lontano dalle luci della ribalta.

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