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Downshifting US Inflation Will Help Reassure the Fed
(Bloomberg) — The runway toward a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut will come more into focus in the coming week amid fresh signs inflation is abating and economic activity is simmering down.…
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Canada already in talks to avoid Trump tariffs
Canada has already begun talks with members of Donald Trump’s circle about avoiding new trade tariffs if he’s elected U.S. president this fall.
If it happens, the Canadians have warned of retaliation.…
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China braces for slow growth as Communist Party conference hints at tax expansion & more spending
The Third Plenum of the Communist Party of China (CPC) did not announce any big-bang reforms but instead sought to focus on qualitative growth read more
Beijing is solidifying the China-Hamas-Fatah triad via peace talks between the latter two.…
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3-time Rwanda President Kagame storms to power with 99% votes & other global news you may have missed
Rwanda, straight out of the gruesome genocide of 1994, elected Kagame as president by voting for his Tutsi-dominated party Rwanda Patriotic Front in 2000. Kagame previously served as defense minister and vice-president in 1994, soon after his RPF decla…
Why India can neither shun Russia nor ignore West
It is imperative that, while giving great importance to maintaining relations with Russia, India doesn’t in any way downgrade the enormous importance that the West holds for India read more
The meltdown in Western media, official circles, and think tan…
U.S. vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance is a study in contradiction
Open this photo in gallery: From the left: Former U.S. President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, U.S. Senator and 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance and his wife Usha Vance stand onstage during the last day of the 2024 Republican Natio…
How the OPEC oil crisis caused mass migration
Open this photo in gallery: People line up for petrol in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 14, 1973.Bridgeman Images/Reuters
Randall Hansen is the Canada Research Chair in Global Migration and the director of the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School of Globa…
Nepal has a new prime minister and it may be good news for China
KP Oli, the head of the second largest party in Parliament, has become the prime minister of Nepal a fourth time. File Photo
On July 15, KP Sharma Oli was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Nepal, marking his fourth term in office.…
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There’s a price to pay for being unready for war. Will Canada have to pay it again?
A little more than 18 years ago, amid the dust and hard heat of Kandahar Airfield, the weary look on Col. Ian Hope’s face spoke more loudly than his words.
It was the spring of 2006 and the Canadian contingent in Afghanistan had just been through…
Bridge collapses in China at least 11 people dead and dozens missing
At least 11 people have been killed and dozens more are missing after a highway bridge collapsed in northwest China, authorities have said.
China’s President Xi Jinping has ordered an all-out rescue effort following the disaster in Shaanxi provin…