Speaking to the UK media on Monday, Truss warned that the British government is prepared to take legal action against France if it failed to stop making “completely unreasonable threats,” using mechanisms laid out within the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. “Stop threatening UK fishing vessels, stop threatening the Channel ports and …
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Speaking to the Dom TV network, Alexey Arestovich warned the Kremlin that his country would soon have the ability to hit the Russian capital with its missiles. Arestovich serves as an adviser to the office of Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky. “Putin will get to the point, in the foreseeable future, …
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On Monday morning, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was detained by security forces and taken to an unknown location, according to a Facebook post by the country’s Information Ministry. The update came just hours after Dubai-based Al-Hadath TV reported that troops had besieged the home of the prime minister and …
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“Risks are tilted to the downside, mainly because of uncertain pandemic dynamics, vaccine efficacy against virus variants, supply chain disruptions, and potential global financial spillovers from the US monetary normalization,” the IMF said, adding that “The global Covid-19 pandemic is still ravaging the region.” Nevertheless, Asia-Pacific will remain the fastest-growing …
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“Hyperinflation is going to change everything,” Dorsey said on Friday night. “It’s happening.” When Nigerian businessman Tayo Oviosu – who like Dorsey is a cryptocurrency enthusiast — noted that inflation is already soaring at a 16% annual rate in his country, the Twitter co-founder replied, “It will happen in the …
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Speaking at a summit of EU leaders in Strasbourg on Thursday, Germany’s soon-to-be former Chancellor, Angela Merkel, championed unity and compromise as other European leaders demanded Poland be punished for its moves to prioritize national law over that of the EU. The veteran leader warned that a drawn-out political and …
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The price of November futures on the TTF hub in the Netherlands increased to $1,155 per 1,000 cubic meters on Wednesday, or €96 per megawatt hour in household terms. On Tuesday, gas prices saw a surge of more than 20%, with Europe continuing to struggle to meet increasing demand ahead …
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Ukraine is free to decide its future and foreign policy, with no foreign entity having a say in its aspiration to join the NATO alliance, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday. “Ukraine… has a right to decide its own future foreign policy and we expect that they will be …
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Speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said there were three options available to the EU after Poland challenged the primacy of the bloc’s laws over its national law. “This ruling calls into question the foundations of the European Union. It …
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Wally Adeyemo, the Biden administration’s second-highest official in the Treasury Department, appeared to publicly blackmail the still-sizable portion of Americans who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 during a Thursday ABC interview, seemingly blaming them for the ongoing shortages of consumer goods that have led many to mock the president …
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