US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with her counterparts from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom in London on Saturday, where she made her administration’s case for a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%. The ministers agreed to back her proposal, with UK finance minister Rishi …
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Switzerland today is celebrating its breakaway status from the European Union, having finally tired of the bullying and rhetoric from Brussels and walked away from a proposed framework arrangement after seven years of negotiations, preferring to go it alone in Swissexit. Never a full member of the EU, that decision …
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First they came for the children, the adults, the schools, and the hospitals After slaughtering 248 people, including 66 children, and wounding 1,900, the Zionist regime finally agreed to a ceasefire on May 21. Until then, it had displaced 72,000 civilians and damaged 16,800 housing units (of which 1,800 had …
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The legislation, which is currently in the New York Senate Finance Committee, will allow all adults over 21 to purchase marijuana for recreational use. Any adult New Yorker will also be allowed to grow up to three mature and three immature plants for personal use. The state will ditch all …
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Democrats, who have supermajorities in both the New York Assembly and the state Senate, reached an “informal agreement” on a bill that would strip Cuomo of the powers he was granted last year to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday citing Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy of Albany. Any …
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Iran announced last week that as of Tuesday it would forbid the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from performing short-notice inspections at locations linked to its nuclear program. After a speedy round of negotiations, the agency announced on Sunday that it had reached an agreement with Iran whereby “necessary verification …
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“I want to put notice, if there is an American agent here, if you want VFA [Visiting Forces Agreement], you have to pay. You have to pay because it is a shared responsibility,” President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday night. “Your share of responsibility does not come free because, after …
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Friday evening’s move comes just two days after the Russian parliament unanimously agreed to prolong the pact that was about to expire on February 5. Earlier this week, Putin and Biden agreed to trigger the five-year extension clause following a lengthy phone call. This launched the paperwork needed to save …
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“There is data that shows that the vaccine is safe. We had a meeting with Russian officials [in Argentina]…and reached a preliminary agreement that would potentially give the Mexican government the capacity to receive the vaccines made by the Gamaleya Research Institute,” Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell …
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After nearly a year of contentious negotiations, the two parties produced a 2,000 page document which, at least for the time being, has garnered positive reviews on both sides of the Channel. While British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has perhaps been most vocal about his endorsement of the agreement, EU …
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