Why the Senate might cut impeachment trial short
French unions and demonstrators have taken to the streets on Thursday in widespread industrial action against the government’s projected pension reforms. President Emmanuel Macron’s administration seeks to raise France’s official retirement age from 62 — lower than much of Europe and the U.S. — to 64. This is the head of state’s second attempt to…
MOSCOW, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual end-of-year press conference on Friday. Below are some of his comments. He spoke in Russian and his words were translated by Reuters. “So far, we don’t really see such readiness (from Ukraine) … But still we see … certain signals, including from the…
Greetings from Tyler, We can follow it too closely. We can’t live or die based on the outcome of some pick for high office or other. Here comes the chess game we can’t always understand. But now it begins. The media is hunting down his picks one by one. And there’s scandal to be found,…
Ghana has become the latest country to accept people deported from the US as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration. President John Mahama said nationals from various West African countries would now be taken in following a bilateral agreement with the US. He said 14 had already arrived. He cited the regional…
Eight years after facing a refugee crisis in 2015, the European Union is still struggling with how to reform its asylum system — just as migrant entries are once again rising. Reaching consensus among the bloc’s 27 nations has become more complicated with the growing influence of the far-right in the politics of several member…
Greetings from Tyler, They must have thought it was the end of the world when buildings collapsed by the hundreds. The death toll is somewhere north of 20,000 and rising. Every time they find someone alive in the rubble it’s a great victory. Many are still buried, some may be alive. The fear is that…