France’s protesters are part of a global backlash against climate-change taxes
The single most effective weapon in the fight against climate change is the tax code — imposing costs on those who emit greenhouse gases, economists say. But as French President Emmanuel Macron learned over the past three weeks, implementing such … Read More
Tsunami warning for Vanuatu and New Caledonia after 7.6 magnitude earthquake
Authorities order the ‘immediate evacuation’ of people to refuge areas, saying tsunami waves could reach up to three metres The quake struck at a shallow 10km deep Photograph: Theo Rouby/AP A tsunami warning has been issued for the Pacific island … Read More
Refugees’ Integration Into European Society Priority Issue In Crisis Overcoming – OpEd
Leaders of some Central and Eastern European countries refused to support the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which should be signed in Moroccan Marrakesh in December. For example, Czech President Milos Zeman noted that the adoption … Read More
Girl Scouts Sue Boy Scouts for Causing Confusion With Gender Neutral Rebranding
Girl Scouts practice placing orders using Digital Cookie, a new addition to the Girl Scout Cookie Program. in this undated handout picture. | (PHOTO: REUTERS/GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA) The Girl Scouts of the United States of America has slapped the Boy Scouts of … Read More
Russia has ‘60 days to fix compliance with INF’ or US will quit – Pompeo
(L) Pershing II battlefield support missile © Wikipedia (R) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo © Reuters / Yves Herman US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Washington will suspend its obligations under the 1987 INF nuclear treaty … Read More
Pelosi Promises To ‘Reverse’ Trump Efforts To Secure Border, Enforce Immigration Laws
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Kim Jong-un’s dilemma in nuclear talks
North Korea needs signs of economic benefits from US to move forward in denuclearization. he momentum for a second US-North Korea summit early next year and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s visit to Seoul has been kept alive through a … Read More
Migrants Going Home Because They Cant Enter California To Get On Section-8 And Food Stamps
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Putin trip to Washington to meet with President Trump is now ‘out of question,’ Kremlin says
(Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP) WASHINGTON – Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t be coming to Washington for a second summit with President Donald Trump anytime soon, a Putin spokesman said Monday. “Now it is out of (the) question,” Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, told … Read More
US calls for EU sanctions on Iranian ballistic program
In this Oct. 23, 2018 photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters at a news conference at the State Department in Washington. The Trump administration is calling for a halt to the civil war in Yemen, including airstrikes … Read More
Migrants From US-Bound Caravan Get UN Help Returning Home
UNITED NATIONS: The U.N. migration agency last month repatriated more than 450 Central American citizens, mostly men, who were in a caravan of U.S.-bound migrants, its spokesman has said. International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesman Joel Millman said at least … Read More
Qatar will pull out of OPEC amid tension with Saudi Arabia
The tiny, energy-rich Arab nation of Qatar announced Monday it will withdraw from OPEC in January, a rebuke of the Saudi-dominated cartel as the kingdom’s boycott of Doha continues unabated and a crucial meeting of the group looms this week. … Read More
Iran’s multiple-warhead Khorramshahr test and Israel’s reported Syria assault – new stage in Mid East missile war
It was a Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last Saturday condemned Iran for testing, DEBKAfile reveals. Our military sources have discovered that this multi-headed missile, which he said could strike “anywhere in the Middle … Read More
Yemen sterilizes Sanaa water supplies as cholera outbreak picks up again
A nurse checks a boy at a cholera treatment centre at the al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen October 3, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah SANAA (Reuters) – Authorities in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa are sterilizing water supplies at wells, distribution networks … Read More
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer wants to be chancellor, but is no ‘mini-Merkel’
No matter who is elected as the German chancellor’s successor on Friday, her eventual departure will leave a void on the world stage. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, with Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer during a meeting in Berlin earlier this month.John MacDougall … Read More