Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to support Sweden’s bid to join Nato, the military alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg has said. At a briefing, he said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would forward Sweden’s bid to the Turkish parliament and “ensure ratification”. Earlier, he had appeared to suggest Turkey would only back Sweden if…
‘The suspect conducted surveillance of military facilities and seaports,’ Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński says. Poland’s intelligence services have detained a man accused of spying for Russia, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński said Monday. “The suspect conducted surveillance of military facilities and seaports,” Kamiński said. “He was systematically paid by the Russians.” European intelligence services have…
Switzerland and Austria have signed a declaration of intent to join the European air defence system Sky Shield. The system was initiated by Germany following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and is designed to allow European countries to buy defence systems together, and train together. It’s being viewed as a historic moment for neutral Switzerland. But…
Canada’s federal government has said it will pull all its advertising from Facebook and Instagram. It follows parent company Meta’s move to restrict news content for Canadians after parliament passed a law that will force tech firms to pay media for news. Canadian officials said on Wednesday that they stand by the law and will…
Days of protests across France saw escalations to violence including an apparent assassination attempt of the mayor of a Paris suburb, Vincent Jeanbrun, and the burning of public buildings and transport. The seventh day of protests are expected to continue today over the shooting of a 17-year old boy named Nahel Merzouk by police on…
A new study released Wednesday by the think tank Atlantic Councilfound that 130 countries, representing 98% of the global GDP, are considering central bank digital currencies, with 49% currently in advanced development. A central bank digital currency is a digital form of a country’s current fiat currency. Instead of printing cash, central banks would issue…
June 29 (Reuters) – Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, has asked to join the BRICS bloc of emerging markets, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The term BRIC was coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill in 2001 to describe the rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The BRIC powers had their first…
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s “economic miracle,” a boom in the 2000s and 2010s that saw years of state spending lift millions of people into the middle class, is creaking, a warning sign to the wider region battling high inflation, shrinking government coffers and tepid growth. For years the Andean country enjoyed one of South…
This ‘extinct’ earless dragon lizard has been spotted after 50 years missing. But researchers won’t say where. A tiny earless dragon which experts thought was extinct has been spotted for the first time in over 50 years. The Victorian grassland earless dragon – native to east Australian grasslands – was last spotted in the wild…
US dollar-yuan divergence trade could spin out of control without intervention from China soon The US dollar-China yuan currency divergence trade is in full flow. Unless Beijing gets a grip on the exchange rate soon, the yuan could hit 15-year lows very soon. It’s a dilemma for the government as a weaker yuan might be…