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Greenland’s Prime Minister ​Jens-Frederik Nielsen called on NATO allies to stand together to defend international law as he pushed ‌back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest comments about the Arctic island.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial ‌will resume on Sunday, the courts’ spokesperson said on Thursday, hours after Israel lifted a state of emergency imposed over its war with Iran.

DUBAI/BEIRUT/ISLAMABAD, April 9 (Reuters) - Israel bombed more targets in Lebanon on Thursday, putting the U.S.-Iran ceasefire ​into further jeopardy after the biggest Israeli attacks on its neighbour of the war killed more than 250 people and threatened to torpedo Donald Trump’s truce.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday he believes that some NATO ‌countries were tested and failed amid Washington’s criticism over European allies not getting involved in the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran.

Hungary’s foreign minister offered to send his Russian counterpart a document about Ukraine’s European Union accession, leaked recordings ​purported to show on Wednesday, in the latest indication of Budapest’s warm relations with Moscow.

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U.S. lawmakers will try again next week to pass a resolution to halt the Iran war and force President Donald Trump to obtain ​Congress’ approval for any further attacks, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said ‌on Wednesday, hours after Trump announced a two-week ceasefire.

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Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, citing rising anxiety, sleep problems and the addictive design of online platforms.

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Donald Trump ‌on Wednesday said ​any ​country supplying Iran ⁠with ​military weapons ​will face immediate 50% tariffs ​with ​no exemptions, announcing ‌the ⁠duty in a social media ​post ​one ⁠day after ​agreeing to ​a two-week ⁠ceasefire with Tehran.

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Farage makes another ridiculous announcement. Zia Yusuf, (a fellow brown man), argues that the calls for repation are “insulting” and that Britain made “huge sacrifices” in outlawing slavery. SLAVERY!

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Take away the medals, demote to private, then send over the bastard to Nauru or something worse.

The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 workers and just over $1.5 billion from the ​60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration that handles airport security operations, according to budget ‌documents.

April 3 (Reuters) - China’s DeepSeek’s new model called V4 will run on the latest chips designed by ​Huawei Technologies, U.S. digital news outlet The Information reported on ‌Friday.

Resident population held steady at around 59 million

U.S. forces located on Kuwait’s Bubiyan ​island were targeted by ‌Iran, the spokesperson of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said ​in a video ​statement shared by state media ⁠on Monday.

Recently, Donald Trump has been saying that they are going to stop attacks on Iran very soon saying that Tehran has the “Will” for ceasefire. But does USA really plan to leave Iran? Iran on the other hand has been saying that USA is negotiating with itself.

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This matters because the proxy-vote-recommendation firms basically control how a large fraction of institutional shareholders vote their shares.

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Anybody up there in space next year? Yeah, you’re screwed

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Philippines has received an assurance from Iran that it will allow ​the safe passage of Philippine-flagged vessels, fuel ‌and Filipino seafarers through the Strait of Hormuz, Manila’s foreign ministry said on Thursday.

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WHAT DOES U.S. LAW SAY? In 2023, Congress passed, and then-President Joe Biden, a ​Democrat, signed into law, legislation barring any U.S. president from suspending, terminating, denouncing or withdrawing the United States from the treaty that established NATO unless the withdrawal is backed by a two-thirds majority in the 100-member Senate.

The Swiss government will ​continue to withhold payments to the ‌United States for a Patriot missile system order until Washington provides binding delivery dates, adding that terminating the purchase ​is an option, it said on Wednesday.

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Three of China’s largest banks reported ​nearly flat annual profits on Friday as the world’s second largest economy reels from a deepening ‌property sector debt crisis amid a prolonged slowdown.

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China boasts an electric vehicle fleet about as large as the rest of the world’s combined, vast and growing oil stockpiles, diversified supplies of oil, and gas and an electricity grid that is almost insulated from imports thanks to domestic coal and renewables.

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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered ​President Donald Trump’s administration ‌to reverse the termination of the legal status of ​thousands of migrants ​who had been allowed to ⁠temporarily live in the ​United States by using ​an appointment app utilized by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration.

Tehran attacked and set ablaze a fully loaded crude oil tanker off Dubai on Tuesday, despite a threat by Donald Trump ​that the U.S. will obliterate Iran’s energy plants if it does not agree to a peace deal and open the Strait of Hormuz.

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He starts a war, tanks the global economy, and it’s willing to leave the global economy in taters like a little bitch.

TACO is Tuesday but Trump is always a little bitch.

Donald Trump is interested in calling on Arab countries to pay for the cost ‌of the Iran war, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday, adding talks with Tehran to end the conflict are progressing well.

“Now the military is building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed. But ​the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s ​under construction,” Trump said.

U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman expressed concerns at a hearing in Washington that the Defense Department’s revised restrictions for journalists covering the seat of U.S. military power went even further than earlier rules he had blocked.

China imposed sanctions on Monday on Japanese lawmaker Keiji Furuya, a close ​aide of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, due to his “collusion with ‌Taiwan independence” forces, in its latest move in a diplomatic row over Taiwan.

I wouldn’t give you a plug nickel for either or both. Their real combined value is that both would be about as exciting as wet rot and probably not too hard to defeat. Without Trump, both are syncophants lacking a master.