El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 14, 2025.
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AAP MP Sanjay Singh moves Suspension of Business notice in Rajya Sabha, seeks discussion on US tariffs
New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh moved a Suspension of Business notice in the Upper House on Friday and demanded a discussion on the 25 per cent tariffs imposed by the United States.
He gave the notice to the…
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Britain is about to start fighting over fracking again – POLITICO
“The way through [local opposition] is to have a couple of test wells for a couple [of] years,” Tice said, “using different extraction techniques, under independent supervision and monitoring, so that one can show to people it can be…
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Rachel Reeves’ bid to get Brits investing risks belly flopping
LONDON — Rachel Reeves needs Britain’s savers to feel richer. But she’s got a job on her hands convincing them to actually back U.K. companies.
In the next year, an advertising blitz launched by the U.K.’s top finance minister will hit…
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Giorgia Meloni’s government makes a bet on unproven nuclear technology – POLITICO
Monti said the government may ultimately revert to traditional power plant designs, even though these have incurred huge cost overruns in Europe in recent years. It may also be the case, he added, that the energy source will need to be…
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Trump administration scolds allies over Palestinian statehood
The Trump administration is chastising Western allies who are preparing to recognize Palestinian statehood in response to the heightening humanitarian crisis in the region, cranking up criticism after President Donald Trump initially brushed off…
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Meet Stéphanie Riso, the EU’s budget brain and ‘toughest cookie’ – POLITICO
A French Commission veteran with scars from the eurozone crisis, Brexit and the EU’s pandemic recovery, Riso has quietly become one of the bloc’s most influential — and polarizing — civil servants. At 49 she’s heading up the mother…
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Zelensky calls for 'regime change' in Russia
The Ukrainian leader also urged Western sponsors to “confiscate Russian assets” to fund militarization against Moscow
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, whose presidential term expired last year, has…
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Zelensky calls for regime change in Russia
The Ukrainian leader also urged Western sponsors to confiscate Russian assets to fund militarization against Moscow
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, whose presidential term expired last year, has called on Kiev’s Western backers to push for regime…
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Surprising Study Finds Potatoes Evolved From Tomato Ancestor : ScienceAlert
You say potato, I say tomato?
Turns out one helped create the other: Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern day spud around nine million years ago, according to a new study…