The ‘leader of the free world’ is ‘cognitively delinquent’
Print 🖨 PDF 📄July 8 (Reuters) – The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the Chinese-backed military junta in the hills of northern Myanmar. The Kachin Independence Army since December has been battling the junta over the town of Bhamo,…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄 A teenager who killed eight fellow students and a security guard in a Serbian school planned the attack for weeks and had a “kill list”, according to police. The 13-year-old was arrested following Wednesday morning’s attack at the Vladislav Ribnikar primary school in central Belgrade. Another six pupils and a teacher…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Five years after Saudi Arabia expelled Canada’s ambassador from Riyadh over Ottawa’s remarks on women’s rights activists, both countries agreed Wednesday to restore full diplomatic relations, Global Affairs Canada (Canada’s foreign ministry – GAC) announced in a statement. According to press reports, the meeting in November between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄McCarthy directed three House committees to launch a ramped-up investigation. Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced he was ordering House Republicans to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, alleging a “culture of corruption” involving him and his family. McCarthy had signaled the impeachment inquiry for weeks, but his announcement Tuesday comes…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄CHANCAY, Peru (AP) — On the edge of Peru’s coastal desert, a remote fishing town where a third of all residents have no running water is being transformed into a huge deep-water port to cash in on the inexorable rise of Chinese interest in resource-rich South America. The megaport of Chancay, a…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄BEIJING/MOSCOW, May 16 (Reuters) – China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged a “new era” of partnership between the two most powerful rivals of the United States which they cast as an aggressive Cold War hegemon that was sowing chaos across the world. Xi greeted Putin on a red…