Biden’s first decision in office is set to kill at least 10,000 American union jobs
VALEC, Czech Republic, Aug 9 (Reuters) – As instructors shout commands, dozens of students taking part in a pilot Czech army programme aimed at boosting flagging enlistment numbers crawl through forest scrub carrying combat rifles and learning proper shooting positions. Like most former Soviet-satellite states now in NATO, the Czech Republic has missed recruitment targets…
Since before Iran’s 1979 revolution, Western policy toward that country has been shaped less by realities on the ground than by what foreign policymakers found convenient to believe about them. The myths have changed over the decades. The cost of believing them has not. In late 1977, Jimmy Carter famously toasted the Shah’s Iran as…
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters this morning that “the more quiet” surrounding yesterday’s US-Putin peace talks, “the more productive” they are. Without official comment from the US, and no detail about what – if any – proposals have been accepted, things certainly are quiet. But they don’t appear to have been very productive. Peskov…
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has ordered the U.S. Commerce Department to create a new U.S. census that excludes people who are in the country illegally. The “new and highly accurate CENSUS” will be “based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election…
President Donald Trump has expanded a US travel ban, barring nationals of five additional countries and people travelling on Palestinian Authority-issued documents from entering the US. The White House said the restrictions were intended “to protect the security of the United States” and will come into force on 1 January. Full-entry restrictions will be imposed…
April 13 (UPI) — Norway said Thursday it has ordered 15 Russian intelligence officers to leave the country for espionage. “The 15 intelligence officers have been engaging in activities that are not compatible with their diplomatic status,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt said in a statement. According to Norway’s Foreign Affairs ministry, the government…