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Tanks, weapon arsenals, ballistic missiles and now, nuclear material have been seized by ISIS Militants in Iraq. Experts claim its not enriched enough to make a nuclear bomb. Former security policy analyst Michael Maloof explains what ISIS can possibly do with its weapons booty.

The National Security Agency isn't the only American organization upsetting some Germans. The US Federal Reserve holds 45 percent of Germany's gold assets, and a plan to bring much of that back to its homeland is in jeopardy. Efforts to transport or even audit the billions of dollars worth of precious metal held by the US are being impeded by politics and the Fed itself, creating frustration for many of the plans supporters. RT's Peter Oliver reports from Berlin on what is holding up the process.

The World Gold Council is meeting today to try and come up with a new way of pricing the commodity. It comes as the London Bullion Market Association prepares to announce their plans to change the way silver is priced. Here's how the price of gold is currently fixed.

In an exclusive interview, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin discusses how he wants to bolster the use of the Euro in international transactions to counteract the dominance of the dollar.

Here's a look at the gold swap between Goldman Sachs and Ecuador, and why gold is once again moving back into the hands of Western control.

Toronto Mayor sat down with the CBC's Dwight Drummond in his first interview since leaving rehab. Here's Rob Ford's CBC interview.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is meeting Russian diplomats to outline the future of Moscow's foreign policy. He has blamed turmoil in Ukraine on the country's newly-elected leader Petro Poroshenko and also criticized the West for its intention to turn the planet into "global barracks.

What is the biggest business in your home state? GM drives Michigan, the Keurig Green Mountain Coffee company brews best in Vermont, and Sands is luckiest in Nevada. Bloomberg's Yang Yang looks at the United Companies of America.

The bloodshed is fracturing Iraqi society, with the Kurd minority reportedly planing to hold an independence referendum in the coming months. As RT's Polly Boiko reports, some western energy companies are ready to cash in on the divisions and violence.

Despite President Obama's January speech limiting the scope of National Security Agency surveillance, a new Washington Post article outlines a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court could turn that notion on its head. The ruling allows the NSA to conduct surveillance on 193 countries around the world. Only four countries in the world are excluded from the ruling: Canada, Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand. RT Correspondent Meghan Lopez walks us through the latest revelations.

A look at why this Bank was seized, the outlook for gold and silver, and why stocks on the TSX and the TSX Venture are set to climb.

It may be legal to buy marijuana in 22 states, but growing pot is still against federal law. And yet, the US government grows some of the purest pot in the country, spending almost a million dollars a year on a contract with the University of Mississippi to grow cannabis and manufacture marijuana cigarettes. The UMiss farm is currently the only source in the US for legal marijuana for researchers, and the government currently gives it away to researchers who get all the right approvals.