Newt Gingrich: Dems will ‘rue the day’ they started impeachment dance
‘Referendum’ announcements in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson may indicate move to annex territories Four Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine have said they are planning to hold “referendums” on joining the Russian Federation in a series of coordinated announcements that could indicate the Kremlin has made a decision to formally annex the territories. Moscow may be…
China logged an unprecedented foreign direct investment deficit last quarter in the latest sign that Beijing is facing an almighty battle to revive the world’s second-largest economy after years of harsh zero-COVID lockdowns. Balance-of-payments data published by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange Friday showed that direct investment liabilities, which tracks the flow of money…
Pope Francis has cancelled his trip to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai due to influenza and lung inflammation, the Vatican said. The Pope, 86, was due to begin a three-day visit on Friday. Earlier on Tuesday, the Vatican had said he planned to go ahead with the trip despite having been ill over the…
President Emmanuel Macron will meet political party leaders on Thursday and address the nation on TV to call for unity and try to prevent any spillover of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in France, where there has been a rise in antisemitic acts. France has Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish populations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has in…
On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron named Michel Barnier as the country’s new Prime minister. But will “Monsieur Brexit” be able to resolve France’s political deadlock? After a seven-week wait, Michel Barnier, the European Union’s Brexit negotiator and a veteran of the traditional right-wing party The Republicans (LR), was appointed as France’s new premier. Barnier…
Unless he is banned, ultranationalist Călin Georgescu seems very much in the race to win the presidential election rerun in May. Romania has set a date to rerun its presidential election after concerns of Russia’s “aggressive hybrid action” first time round, but there’s still a risk the result may be similar at the second attempt…