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Ukraine is ready to start process of joining European Union, Commission says
Ukraine’s ambitions of joining the European Union received an important boost on Wednesday when the bloc’s executive body said detailed negotiations should begin next year. The European Commission said in a report that so-called accession talks should finally start, nearly 18 months since the bloc accepted Ukraine as a candidate state. The same report recommended that the process should also…
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Developing countries owe China at least $1.1 trillion – and the debts are due
Developing countries owe Chinese lenders at least $1.1 trillion, according to a new data analysis published Monday, which says more than half of the thousands of loans China has doled out over two decades are due as many borrowers struggle financially. Overdue loan repayments to Chinese lenders are soaring, according to AidData, a university research lab at William & Mary…
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Tensions boil over as Democrats’ Israel divide deepens
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida set off an uproar in the House Democratic Caucus when she bluntly described her view of members who wouldn’t back a resolution affirming support for Israel in its war against Hamas. “Someone who votes against this, I would think, doesn’t have a soul,” Wasserman Schultz, a prominent Jewish member, told CNN ahead of the…
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Zelensky invites Trump to Ukraine and says former president ‘can’t bring peace’ because of Putin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invited Donald Trump to visit Ukraine, after the former US president claimed he could end Russia’s war against Ukraine war within 24 hours if he wins reelection next year. Zelensky questioned Trump’s claim in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, and invited him to visit Ukraine to see the scale of Russia’s…
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Guinea former coup leader Camara taken from prison
Gunmen stormed the main prison in the Conakry capital of Guinea on Saturday, freeing 2008 coup leader Moussa “Dadis” Camara, the justice minister said. The center of Guinea’s capital city of Conakry was sealed off on Saturday, witnesses said, as gunfire rang out near the administrative heart of the city. Justice Minister Charles Alphonse Wright told Radio Fim FM several…
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You don’t need to share your views on Gaza, By James Marriot
One of the bleakest discoveries of the pandemic was quite how many people imagined themselves to be amateur epidemiologists brimming with compelling insights on lockdowns and vaccine science. The war in Ukraine turned the epidemiologists into experts on military hardware. The war in Gaza has bestowed an unexpected new round of degrees in Middle Eastern historyMost people are happy to…
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Hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman, in rare public rebuke of a Republican candidate, says Trump ‘belongs in jail’
Leon Cooperman, the hedge fund billionaire who has famously clashed with Sen. Elizabeth Warren over her proposed wealth tax, is cautioning voters against returning Donald Trump to the White House. “It would be terrible for the country if Donald Trump were reelected,” Cooperman told CNN in a phone interview late last week. “He’s a divisive human being who belongs in jail.” It’s rare for…
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China touts global security vision at a defense forum in Beijing – with Russia by its sid
China is hosting defense officials from across the world for its flagship military diplomacy conference this week – a key opportunity for Beijing to promote its alternative vision for global security that has also underscored its increasing alignment with Moscow against the United States. More than 30 defense ministers and military chiefs, as well as lower-level representatives from dozens more countries…
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A list of mass killings in the United States since January
The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Wednesday night in Lewiston, Maine, when a man opened fire at a bowling alley and a bar, killing at least 16 people, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. Dozens of people were also wounded. The alert for Lewiston was made shortly after 8 p.m. as the sheriff’s office reported that law enforcement…
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At least 22 killed and 60 injured in Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting
A gunman has killed at least 22 people and injured 60 in the town of Lewiston, Maine, after bursting into a bowling alley and a bar and opening fire with an AR 15-style rifle last night. The town is on lockdown as police hunt for suspect Robert Card, a 40-year-old US Army reserve firearms instructor who was hospitalized this summer for two weeks…
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