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The mystery is over: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a major stake in the insurance company Chubb, finally revealing the investment he has kept under wraps since last year.
Joe Biden is the worst US president since Jimmy Carter. He specialises in betraying America’s friends and rewarding its enemies, in humiliating the West and empowering the Global South’s autocracies.
Malaysia's communications minister expressed outrage at Meta Platforms on Tuesday, demanding it explain why it had taken down Facebook posts by local media covering the prime minister's meeting this week with a Hamas leader. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim met Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Qatar on Monday and later stressed that though he had good relations with the group's political leaders, he had no involvement in its military apparatus. Muslim-majority Malaysia, a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, has sent a letter asking Meta to explain the takedown of posts by two media organisations about Anwar's meeting, and closed the Facebook account of a third outlet covering Palestinian issues.
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Their no-show at Donald Trump's hush money trial is down to two things, said the former president's niece.
The Prime Minister, in his “state of the nation” speech this week, accurately stated that the world is a very dangerous place, and we must ensure that our defence capabilities are up to the task. He is right on the threat but has yet to grasp that one way to meet it is by investing heavily in our physical and psychological military conventional deterrence.
China's measured response to the U.S. move to hike tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese goods from syringes to batteries suggests relations between the world's two largest economies face more frost rather than a fresh firefight over trade. China denounced the Biden administration's action and vowed "resolute measures" to protect its interests. But Beijing's response also suggests a new dynamic - and confidence - compared with 2018 when Trump-era tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods touched off an escalating trade war, analysts said.
The Israeli military is calling on the United Nations to investigate the presence of armed militants at a UN facility in southern Gaza after releasing video that shows armed men at the facility.
STORY: :: Graphic WarningSlovak Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered life-threatening injuries when he was shot in an attempted assassination on Wednesday. Fico was in the central town of Handlova for a government meeting and was shaking hands with a crowd of people... when a man near a barricade pulled out a gun and fired. :: RTV PRIEVIDZASlovak media said the shooter was a 71-year-old man, though the motive was initially unclear.The country’s interior minister said it was “politically motivated.”The 59-year-old Fico was rushed to a local hospital and then transported by helicopter to a regional capital for urgent treatment.Fico is no longer in life-threatening condition, according to a government minister.Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova said she was “shocked” by the shooting, saying it was (quote) “an attack on democracy.”The leftist prime minister returned to his role last October for the fourth time.He has drawn criticism for taking a more pro-Russian stance in the Ukraine war, as well as initiating reforms of criminal law and the media, which have raised concerns over weakening the rule of law.The shooting has drawn international condemnation from U.S. President Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other European leaders.
Americans are taught at a young age to not only love their country but to marvel at its power. Whether it’s on the stump, during speeches or at a press event, politicians and policymakers on both ends of the political spectrum are quick to marvel at just how impactful the United States is around the world. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s contention that the US is “the indispensable nation” is still a central part of the American vocabulary. As President Biden told the nation last
About 100 Filipino activists on wooden boats have decided not to sail closer to a fiercely disputed shoal in the South China Sea on Thursday to avoid a confrontation with dozens of Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships guarding the area. Accompanied by journalists on four boats, the activists will distribute food packs and fuel to Filipino fishermen about 58 nautical miles (107 kilometers) southeast of Scarborough Shoal and then sail back home, Emman Hizon and other organizers said. Chinese and Philippine coast guard and accompanying ships have had a series of increasingly hostile territorial faceoffs at Scarborough, which is surrounded by the Chinese coast guard, and at Philippine-occupied Second Thomas Shoal since last year.
The former president had suggested that his successor was reluctant to debate him. But on Wednesday, that claim was thrown out the window.
Critics aren’t buying this big claim by the son of the former president.
Despite Republican leaders’ best efforts, Americans don’t believe Mr Trump’s trial is a ‘sham’
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for the start of a two-day state visit underlining close alignment with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Todd Blanche repeatedly painted the former ‘fixer’ as a serial liar in dramatic courtroom testimony
Stocks edged higher on Wednesday as investors digested fresh readings on inflation and consumer spending.
France deployed troops to New Caledonia's ports and international airport, banned TikTok and imposed a state of emergency on Thursday after three nights of clashes that have left five dead and hundreds wounded.- TikTok ban - Attal told a ministerial crisis meeting that troops had been deployed to secure ports and the international airport in New Caledonia, which has been closed to commercial flights.
Lawrence Wong was sworn in as the fourth prime minister of Singapore on Wednesday evening, leading a trade-dependent nation he warned would face turbulence from worsening geopolitical tensions.
Security footage has captured the moment gunmen ambushed a prison van and freed a convicted drug trafficker dubbed “France’s most wanted man”.
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