published Jun 14th 2016, 5:43 pm, by Alison Vekshin (Bloomberg) — California has overtaken France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, fueled by strong growth and the U.S. dollar’s gains against foreign currencies, state data released Tuesday show. The most-populous U.S. state, with a gross domestic product of $2.5 trillion, has

published May 14th 2016, 2:57 pm, by Elisha Bala-Gbogbo (Bloomberg) — French President Francois Hollande and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari agreed to strengthen military cooperation and work with the West African country’s neighbors in an stepped-up effort to crush Boko Haram. Buhari said the EU and others had pledged 916