Politics

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Brexit Redefined: Sunak’s New Deal Sparks Controversy and Hope

Boris Johnson has voiced concerns over Rishi Sunak’s revised Brexit agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), suggesting it may limit the UK’s ability to diverge from European Union (EU) trade rules in the future. The new deal aims to ease checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, an effort to re-establish […]

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A New Era for Britain: Inaugurating Trade Deals with Australia and New Zealand Post-Brexit

The United Kingdom, in its quest to reshape its trade policies following Brexit, has ushered in a fresh chapter by implementing its maiden trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand. This development, the government anticipates, will open the gates to more affordable Australian wine and New Zealand kiwi fruits for Britons. These inaugural agreements signify

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Trump Confident Chris Ruddy: White House Considering Ousting Dan Coats

Chris Ruddy, the founder of the conservative outlet Newsmax and a confidant of President Donald #Trump’s, told CNN today that — based on what he’s been told by White House sources — he believes Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats could be fired for attacking the administration’s stance on North Korea. “Dan Coats just went

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Trump eyes Northern Virginia for 2020 reelection campaign headquarters

President Trump famously housed his 2016 campaign staff on a floor of his gleaming Manhattan skyscraper that felt more like a storage warehouse than a corporate office, with plastic tables and folding chairs befitting the shoestring operation. But as he gears up for reelection, the president’s campaign is relocating to a new Trump tower, one

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Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers

But federal investigations “continue to reveal corrupt politicians, drug traffickers and other criminals using shell companies to purchase luxury real estate with cash,” Treasury’s former financial-crimes chief Jennifer Shasky Calvery said at a Capitol Hill hearing in 2016. All-cash purchases by shell companies do not by themselves indicate illegal or improper activity, and they have

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How the oldest Senate ever is taking a toll on the business of Washington

In November, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, who is 83, was at the helm when the Senate’s massive tax bill came through the Finance Committee. But Hatch also deputized four younger Republicans on the panel to serve as de facto co-chairmen over various parts of the legislation. This week, with a compromise bill marching toward final

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Security clampdown at The Hague amid fears of further suicides

Investigators at the UN’s war crimes court in The Hague are scrambling to seal security breaches amid fears other inmates will “do a Praljak”, copying the Bosnian Croat warlord who dramatically killed himself with cyanide last week. Slobodan Praljak’s suicide, carried out in the dock and televised around the world, threatens to make a mockery

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Russian nuclear facility denies it is source of high radioactivity levels

LA secretive Russian nuclear facility has denied it was behind high atmospheric concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106, after Russia’s meteorological service confirmed levels several hundred times the norm were found in several locations in the country during tests in late September. Greenpeace has called for an investigation into a potential cover-up of a nuclear

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