American Farm Debt Reaches 1980s Crisis Levels: Agriculture Secretary

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Debt among American farmers has increased to $409 billion, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue warned Wednesday. That is up from $385 billion last year and is currently at levels not seen since the agricultural recession (farm crisis) of the 1980s, reported … Read More

May Makes Last-Ditch Plea to EU to Help Break Brexit Impasse

–EU makes new offer that doesn’t deliver what U.K. demanded –May needs new concessions to convince Parliament by Tuesday U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday will tell the European Union that the outcome of a historic vote on her … Read More

Theresa May tells EU it ‘has to make a choice’ in few days before MPs’ Brexit vote

The PM will insist she remains determined to secure legally-binding changes to her deal – despite few signs of progress. Theresa May will tell the EU it ‘has to make a choice too’ Theresa May will tell the EU it … Read More

Former Greenpeace Canada President Rips AOC’s Green New Deal as ‘Suicide Pact’

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Patrick Moore, former president of Greenpeace Canada, ripped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her “crazy” Green New Deal proposal. In a series of tweets, Moore slammed Ocasio-Cortez, who has called for drastically reducing fossil fuel production, and said the freshman congresswoman … Read More

Record number of families, cold reality at border

In a dusty lot along the U.S.-Mexico border fence, a single Border Patrol agent was stuck with few options and falling temperatures. A group of 64 parents and children had waded through a shallow bend in the Rio Grande to … Read More

Anti-immigration activists disrupt information meeting in Waterford town

There were confrontational scenes at a public information meeting in a Waterford town as anti-immigration activists were among people criticizing plans to resettle Syrian refugees there. The meeting at Lismore Heritage Centre – at which gardaí were present – followed … Read More

Moon hopeful over DPRK-US nuclear deal

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South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed hope yesterday that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States will continue their talks to strike a deal on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Moon made the remarks during a plenary … Read More

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