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Spanish King meets with Cuban president in Havana Spanish King Felipe VI and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met on Tuesday at the start of the first modern state visit to Cuba by a member of the royal family that once ruled the Caribbean island. The King and Queen Letizia began their official activities by laying a wreath at a monument to Jose Marti, a hero of Cuba’s 19th century fight for independence from Spain. The King and president signed an agreement, the details of which were not immediately disclosed, AP reported. The trip has sparked criticism from right-wing politicians in Spain and inspired critical opinion pieces in conservative-leaning newspapers over a trip seen as a step forward for normal relations between Spain and its former colony. Spanish Ki...

China’s gold-backed crypto looming as ‘Pearl Harbor type event’ for US dollar in 2020 – Keiser Report There are two economies in the United States, says RT’s Keiser Report, the real economy, where the 99 percent live, and the one-percent economy, where bankers and the corporate elite live. “Consumers are spending and life is going on,” whereas on Wall Street one can see “non-stop interventions, quantitative easing is needed, interest rates were cut again this week for the top one percent,” Stacy Herbert says. “There’s never enough money,” as those from the one percent “want more and more...” According to Max Keiser, there could be “a catastrophic trapdoor opening underneath the US economy.” When China announces as a surprise its 20...

EU demands rapid de-escalation in Gaza to safeguard lives of Palestinian & Israeli civilians The European Union issued a statement Tuesday on the security situation in Israel and Gaza after Israel conducted an operation targeting a senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In response, rockets were fired from Gaza on southern and central Israel, the statement said. “The firing of rockets on civilian populations is totally unacceptable and must immediately stop,” Maja Kocijancic, the spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said in Brussels. “A rapid and complete de-escalation is now necessary to safeguard the lives and security of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.” The EU fully supports the efforts of Egypt in this regard, according to the official. “As t...