Russian Air Force puts out 84 wildfires in two days
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Venezuela hyperinflation hits 10 million percent. ‘Shock therapy’ may be only chance to undo the economic damage
Venezuela’s state-run economic model wasted the world’s largest oil reserves. The country owes $100 billion to foreign creditors. Its educated, professional class has fled. Economic shock therapy, implemented in regions like the former Soviet bloc, could be its only chance. View of damages in a supermarket in Valencia, Carabobo State, on May 5, 2017, the…
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U.S. preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in initial deal with Taliban
Soldiers carry the casket of Spec. Michael Nance at Dover Air Force Base on July 31 in Delaware. Nance and Pfc. Brandon Kreischer were killed on July 29 in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province. (Steve Ruark/AP) The Trump administration is preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in exchange for concessions from the Taliban, including a…
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Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – 2 August 2019
Greetings from Tyler, Are these the best of times, or the worst? It seems that for now at least, the foreign policy of the United States is solid. Iran is still holding the British owned tanker taken hostage in the Straits of Hormuz, though it was engaged in no unlawful activity. Apparently, that is in…
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US pulls out of Reagan-era arms treaty
A historic arms-control treaty signed three decades ago by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was scrapped after President Trump decided to withdraw Friday. The move to scrap the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty comes amid the administration’s assessment that Russia was in “material breach of the treaty” and made no effort to “come back into compliance” with the…
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Russia has declared a state of emergency over Siberian wildfires
A view of a wildfire seen from an amphibious aircraft – TASS via Getty Russia has declared a state of emergency in five regions in Siberia after a million people signed petitions demanding that the government does something about the unprecedented wildfires. Three million hectares of forest are burning and 12 million have already been…
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Deal or no-deal Brexit? Boris playing with fire
Boris Johnson undertook a reshuffle of his Cabinet, more vicious and spiteful than any seen before. Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a statement in the House of Commons in London on Thursday. (Photo: AFP) On Tuesday last week, Boris Johnson won the second round of the Conservative Party leadership election against Jeremy Hunt….
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Attacks on Germany’s Mosques Were Preceded by Spike in Migrant Crimes – AfD MEP
Germany’s Muslims have called upon the government to protect mosques amid increasing bomb threats and Islamophobia. But according to the Deputy Leader of the AfD in Rhineland-Palatinate Joachim Paul, the rise in crimes could have been fuelled by the refugee crisis that started in mid-2015. Germany’s Coordination Council of Muslims, an umbrella entity for the…
