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Serbia has no plans to join NATO as majority of citizens oppose the idea – FM Serbia has no plans to become a NATO member state since the overwhelming majority of citizens oppose this idea, Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic told TASS. The statement comes ahead of the Serbian president’s visit to Russia. “We don’t want to become a member of the alliance and the overwhelming majority of our citizens does not want this either,” the minister said. “Both Serbia and NATO are satisfied by the current level of cooperation, which is very good and is constantly developing. But we don’t have any ambitions of turning it into a permanent membership,” Dacic added. President Aleksandar Vucic earlier put forward the idea of adopting a declaration on the coun...

UN warns half of Zimbabwe’s people face severe hunger due to drought, economic collapse About half of Zimbabwe’s population faces severe hunger amid a devastating drought and economic collapse, the UN said on Tuesday. The World Food Program plans to more than double the number of people it helps to more than 4 million. More than 7 million people overall are in need, AP reported. With poor rains expected before the harvest in April, the scale of hunger will worsen, the World Food Program’s executive director David Beasley said in a statement. Zimbabwe’s economic crisis, the worst in a decade, and a drought across southern Africa will complicate aid delivery as prices for basic items soar and food supplies are lower than normal, according to the UN. UN warns half of...

Hundreds of Syrian refugees return home from Lebanon – UN Hundreds of Syrian refugees have headed home in the first batch to leave Lebanon since protests broke out in the small Arab country more than a month ago. Since the early hours of Tuesday, scores of Syrians boarded buses in several locations in Lebanon before heading back to their hometowns in Syria. Vanessa Moya of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said some 225 Syrian refugees were scheduled to head back to Syria, raising the number to about 27,000 refugees who have returned to Syria over the past two years, AP reports. Thousands of Syrians have returned home from Lebanon since June 2018 as calm returns to parts of Syria. Lebanon is hosting some 1 million Syrian refugees who fled their country after the war broke out eigh...

Fed QE is like Pringles: 'Once you pop, you can't stop' - RT's Keiser Report The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been bailing out the repo market with multi-billion dollar programs every week, says the Keiser Report, which asks if it’s the fourth round of quantitative easing (QE). Max Keiser talks to award winning filmmaker, broadcaster, and strategist Ross Ashcroft, who says it’s not QE but more like QE infinity. “It’s like Pringles, once you pop, you can’t stop,” says Ashcroft. According to Ashcroft, who is the host of the weekly program Renegade, it is the classic liquidity trap. He says the money is stagnating while really bad ideas are being funded. //www.youtube.com/embed/nrfnNAaD3Pw “This is...