Tue 15 July 2025: US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose 100% secondary tariffs on Russia if a deal on ending the war in Ukraine is not reached within 50 days. Speaking during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Oval Office, Trump said he was “very unhappy” with Russia […]
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Mon 14 July 2025: US president makes announcement amid growing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin. United States President Donald Trump has said he will send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine as his administration signals growing disillusionment with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to negotiate an end to Moscow’s invasion. “We will send them […]
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Mon 14 July 2025: Protectionist trade policies are weakening the US dollar’s position as the world’s dominant reserve currency, while de-dollarization efforts gather momentum amid growing calls for an alternative global monetary system. The US Dollar Index fell more than 11% in the first six months of the year to 97, marking its worst first-half […]
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Sun 13 July 2025: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may now deport migrants to countries other than their own with as little as a six-hour notice, even without guarantees of safety from the receiving nations, media reports said Saturday. ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons informed the media that a recent Supreme Court decision cleared […]
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Sun 13 July 2025: Billionaire Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, developed by his firm xAI, has drawn global attention for using profanity, insults, hate, and spreading disinformation on X, sparking renewed debate over the reliability of AI systems and the dangers of placing blind trust in them. Sebnem Ozdemir, a board member of the […]
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Sat 12 July 2025: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced Friday that the US resumed military aid shipments to Ukraine. “We have received political signals at the highest level – good signals – including from the United States and from our European friends. According to all reports, aid shipments have been restored,” he said on Telegram. Ukrainian […]
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Thu 10 July 2025: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that BRICS was not an anti-American group and that it will not listen to “language of threats and manipulation”. On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened BRICS countries with additional 10% tariffs after calling the bloc “anti-American.” “BRICS is not an anti-American association. Nothing on the BRICS agenda contains an anti-American component,” Ryabkov […]
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Thu 10 July 2025: Four First Nations Indigenous tribes were in a state of grief Wednesday after ancestral remains were uncovered at a site being excavated by workers for a proposed parking lot at a nuclear plant near the Canadian city of Toronto. “This burial site has been desecrated, and our communities are grieving ” the four tribes’ chiefs said in a […]
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Thu 10 July 2025: Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday again took aim at his onetime close ally US President Donald Trump over the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying his new America Party will focus on releasing files from the case. “How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he […]
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Wed 09 July 2025: The severe heat wave sweeping across Europe since last week is estimated to have caused around 2,300 deaths, according to a study released on Wednesday. Approximately 1,500 (65%) of the estimated 2,300 heat-related deaths are linked to climate change, which brought about a more severe heat wave across the continent, according to the study done […]
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