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A number of European Parliament members have taken aim at Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his harsh crackdown on the country’s Freedom Convoy truckers. Justin Trudeau received an extremely hostile welcome to Brussels from a number of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Wednesday, who slammed the Liberal…

Several of India’s state-owned banks will execute the swaps under the supervision of the Reserve Bank of India, starting as early as next week. Although the volumes of prospective trade to be financed under this swap arrangement are small, the India-Russia agreement, if executed, would be the first open departure…

One of the top prosecutors who resigned from the office said in his resignation letter but disagreed with the decision. Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, who had been leading the investigation under former DA Cyrus Vance, submitted their resignations last month, after Bragg began raising doubts about pursuing a case…

Rates could get even more aggressive than last week’s increase, which was the first in more than three years. He noted those rate rises could go from the traditional 25 basis point moves to more aggressive 50 basis point increases if necessary. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Monday vowed tough action…

The United States will take in up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, the White House has announced. In a statement on Thursday, the White House said the Biden administration also would provide more than $1bn in humanitarian assistance, as well as $320m to bolster democracy and human rights in Ukraine and neighboring nations.…

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff detected the firing of an “unidentified projectile” toward South Korea’s East Sea on Thursday, according to the Yonhap News Agency. “North Korea launched a ballistic missile that appears to be the new ICBM and fell into the EEZ near Japan’s territorial waters. It is an…

The last time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001, they banned female education and most employment. Teachers and students from three high schools around the capital Kabul said girls had returned in excitement to campuses on Wednesday morning, but were ordered to go home. They said many students…

Former porn star Stormy Daniels was ordered by a federal court to pay Donald Trump $300,000 in attorney fees after it rejected her appeal. Former porn star Stormy Daniels was ordered by a federal court to pay Donald Trump $300,000 in attorney fees after it rejected her appeal to another’s court ruling in her…

As a result, the Emerson poll is the latest to show Trump ahead of Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup. The shift is notable and worrisome for Democrats and Biden’s reelection campaign. After the 2020 election, the liberal Brookings Institution declared that suburbs won it for Biden and predicted that they would…

The government has issued scathing public criticism of any attempt to remove the terrorism designation of the Security Guard Corps. Islamic revolution. Senior US officials say a failure to quickly reach a compromise with Iran on the issue could lead to a breakdown in negotiations which, in nearly a year,…