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The British Prime Minister Theresa May has arrived in Canada on Monday, September 18, with the row between Boeing and Bombardier on her agenda. Sputnik spoke to an expert who said the dispute could "escalate."

According to China's ambassador to Russia, bilateral trade between China and Russia over the course of the first seven months of this year has increased by almost 25 percent.

According to a Rosneft press release, the company plans to team up with Iraqi Kurdistan to launch a pipeline in 2019 to export gas to Turkey and Europe.

Sanctions against Pyongyang have barely stopped the nation from going on with the development of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the sale of its own military hardware to other countries. In a detailed report, the South China Morning Post summarized several means by which Pyongyang avoids the international obstacles to trade and commerce.

Beijing is angry with Washington for preventing its purchase of a US chip-making company, and has directed its media to express displeasure with the move.

The use of solar power doubled globally in 2016 and is on track to double again over the next two years.

Assisting Tehran with sidestepping an ongoing Washington sanctions regime against the country, China has opened a $10 billion line of credit intended to finance energy, transportation, water and other key Iranian infrastructure projects.

Extreme conditions, including natural and man-made disasters, might cause disruptions to the work of ATMs and bank branches, as well as bank card terminals at retail locations, rendering consumers in the affected areas unable to acquire the cash they need to survive.

Vladimir Putin stated that Gazprom is planning to invest up to 100 billion rubles in the small former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan in central Asia.

Financial services company Standard & Poor’s confirmed Russia's lackluster credit rating, but this hasn't hindered foreign investment influx in the country. Russia's Finance Minister believes that investors are attracted to Russia’s economic flexibility and the maturity of its macroeconomic policies.

The US decision to stop using Kaspersky software is an attempt to squeeze a successful Russian company out of the cybersecurity market, meaning that free competition makes sense to Americans only when it serves their interests, political analysts told Radio Sputnik.

As North Korea conducted a new missile launch earlier today, Sputnik spoke to experts about the economic impact of potential military escalation on the Korean Peninsula.

Japan has been persuading India to buy its ShinMaywa US-2i amphibious aircraft since the last four years but cost factor and India’s insistence on the transfer of technology has held Japan back from making its first arms export after lifting of its self-imposed ban.

The chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, lashing out at bitcoin hints that banks are afraid of losing their dominance and want to retain it, while ordinary people may turn to cryptocurrencies for their trustworthiness, experts told Sputnik.

Despite Washington’s persistent anti-Iranian policy, foreign investors will not turn away from the Iranian market, Iranian economic expert and journalist Ahmad Hadem Al-Melle told Sputnik. According to him, if there are new American sanctions against Iran they are unlikely to be supported by US allies.

The new gas supply security rules adopted by the EU will not contribute to the bloc’s energy security, according to MEP Jean-Luc Schaffhauser. He pointed out that such decisions are politically motivated and will be negatively affect energy cooperation with Russia.

As US-Venezuelan tensions have further escalated as Washington had imposed new sanctions on Caracas, Venezuela reportedly has stopped using US dollars in oil trade.

Hydrocarbon discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean in recent years have sparked something of a "gold rush" in the region. Sputnik looks into why it has taken so long for gas and oil companies to drill in the waters off Cyprus.

Russia and US-based energy giant ExxonMobil have settled a dispute over taxes in a pre-trial order after the Russian president announced that the parties had reached an agreement.

The first shipment with thermal coal from the United States has arrived in Ukraine. Buying coal from the US at almost twice the price of what could be obtained from nearby Donbass or Russia will put Kiev at the mercy of Western loan sharks, an energy expert told Sputnik.