SYDNEY – Asian stocks got off to an uninspired start on Monday, while the US dollar held firm at one-month highs after an influential Federal Reserve official suggested September could be the beginning of the end of easy money from the central bank.

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It comes almost two decades after Croatia's brutal war of independence. … Concerns about Croatian corruption and organised crime remain among some EU leaders, and Croatia will not yet join the single currency nor the visa-free Schengen zone.

Earlier this month, the Syrian currency plunged to a new record low following a U.S. decision to arm rebel groups fighting to topple Assad. The Syrian pound currently trades at an average of around 200 to the dollar, compared with 47 before the crisis.

When the conflict began, the government had some $17 billion in foreign currency reserves. Those have dropped from blows to two main pillars of the economy: oil exports, which used to bring in up to $8 million per day, and tourism, which in 2010 earned …

And engineers at Boeing conducted a four-hour test on a 737, setting up about 20 mobiles throughout the jet and monitoring the radios, navigational equipment and other controls. A variety of flight conditions were simulated. Again, nothing was affected …