US President Joe Biden’s administration is becoming less cautious about its arms supplies to Ukraine, The Hill reported over the weekend, adding that Washington now believes it could get away with sending more powerful arms to Kiev without triggering an escalation. The US has been hesitant to meet Kiev’s demands …
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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been chosen to lead the Conservative Party and become the new prime minister. The winner of the two-month race between Truss and former finance minister Rishi Sunak was announced on Monday by Sir Graham Brady, chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs. …
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Europe has become the main importer of US oil amid EU restrictions on Russian crude, Bloomberg reported on Friday citing data from the US Census Bureau. According to the report, from January to May this year, Europe imported roughly 213.1 million barrels of crude. This allowed the region to surpass …
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President Joe Biden’s age is increasingly becoming an issue for the White House, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Saturday, citing a host of unnamed officials, who admitted that the US leader’s “energy level” is not what it once was and they “quietly watch out” for him. The president’s …
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Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics has said his country approves of Finland and Sweden joining NATO, noting that their addition to the alliance turns the Baltic Sea into “a NATO sea” in a Friday interview with the Financial Times. Along with his counterparts in Estonia and Lithuania, Rinkevics expressed his …
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday signed the ‘Stop WOKE’ act into law. The law, which allows parents to sue educators if their kids are being taught ‘Critical Race Theory’ in school, and employees to sue if they receive such training in the workplace, comes amid a high-profile showdown between …
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Mark Brzezinski, son of former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been sworn in as US ambassador to Poland. Vice President Kamala Harris conducted the ceremony on Wednesday, which was attended by Brzezinski’s sister Mika and brother-in-law Joe Scarborough, both hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Brzezinski, who previously served …
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Figures for the week ending on December 18, which the CDC released on Monday, showed that Omicron has become the dominant Covid-19 variant in the US less than one month after it was first identified in South Africa. The Delta variant accounts for almost all other new Covid-19 infections, or …
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Sears prevailed over Democratic challenger Hala Ayala in the race on Tuesday night, taking just over 51.2% of the vote to Ayala’s 48.8%, according to a tally by a local NBC affiliate. While a woman of color was slated to take the lieutenant governor position regardless of who won – …
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In the headline bout of an action-packed UFC 267 card in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, 42-year-old Teixeira started as a heavy underdog as he challenged Jan Blachowicz, the feared Pole and winner of his previous five fights. Nine years after his UFC debut and seven since his previous shot at the title, …
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