Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an executive order allowing Russia to halt exports and cancel existing contracts for people and entities on an upcoming sanctions list.The broad directive aims “to protect the national interests of the Russian Federation in response to unfriendly actions, which contradict international law, undertaken by the US, and joined by…
© Reuters. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican in the U.S. Senate said on Tuesday he would keep the chamber’s filibuster rules in place “at all…
The former head of Saudi intelligence publicly slammed President Joe Biden’s administration on Sunday, saying the US let his country down by failing to respond to terror attacks on the Arabian Peninsula last year.Relations between Saudi Arabia and the US have plummeted since Biden took power: Biden has publicly admonished Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman…
The subject of nuclear weapons is being pushed into the foreground by Russian media and officials.Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said that the risk of a global nuclear war is very real. This ominous warning came not from some deranged psychopath – like the ones who regularly demand Kyiv to be nuked on Russian state…
© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden announces additional military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine as well as fresh sanctions against Russia, during a speech in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein By Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday…
© Bloomberg. A house under construction in the Cielo at Sand Creek by Century Communities housing development in Antioch, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 31, 2022. U.S. home prices shows signs of becoming “unhinged from fundamentals” like they did in the housing bubble that preceded the 2008 crash, according to a blog post by the…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to be vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Ph By David Morgan (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard won confirmation in the U.S. Senate on…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to be vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz By David Morgan and Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Lael Brainard, one of President Joe Biden’s four nominees to…
WASHINGTON – French President Emmanuel Macron cruised to a second term Sunday, beating back a stronger-than-expected challenge from a far-right populist who has attacked the European Union and NATO and expressed support for Russia.“I am no longer the candidate of one side, but instead the president for all,” Macron told cheering supporters who gathered near…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO – Demonstrators sit near the National Congress as the senate debates the government’s agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 17, 2022. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine economy minister Martin Guzman said late on Friday that a $45 billion debt deal with the International…





