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Oct 2025
12m 29s

Trump’s sanctions gambit with Putin

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President Trump is imposing sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies to pressure President Putin to end the war in Ukraine. In a fresh show of force, Russia runs nuclear arms drills. North Korea runs some tests of its own. And Elon Musk uses Tesla’s earnings call to lobby for a $1 trillion pay package. Sign up for the Reuters Econ World newsletter h ... Show More
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