The hostages—Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40—have been transferred to Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Center near Tel Aviv.
Argentina's Economy Minister Sergio Massa is an unlikely hero for the embattled ruling Peronist party. Under his watch, inflation surged to 116%, the poverty rate hit 40%, dollar reserves ran dry, debt rose, and the peso sunk to record lows.
Japan's central bank has opted to keep its benchmark interest rate at minus 0.1% but has fine-tuned its bond purchases to allow greater flexibility in its policies.
Although Russia’s “pivot to Asia” has been on the government’s agenda for more than a decade, the country has made little progress in building up infrastructure to handle the practical implications of boosting trade. Analysts say the problem stems from Russia’s political system.