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Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power has approved its most sweeping package of market reforms in more than half a century, legalizing private commercial banks, opening an official foreign exchange market, and phasing out the system of universal state subsidies.

The scandalously famous billionaire Alexander Mamut, who flits between Britain, Israel, and France, still manages to skim billions from Russia.

Professor Vladimir Khavinson, who was the director of the St Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology, has died suddenly aged 77 in a massive blow to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin

Russian Mikhail Marov, 90, described as a key consultant to the mission, was rushed to hospital after he demanded that there was no cover-up for the reasons the Moon mission ended in disaster

A former spy chief has insisted Vladimir Putin is not unwell or dead, but that he does often use body doubles when on visits, over assassination fears