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23 Nobel Prize-winning economists call Harris’ economic plan ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s
More than half of the living US recipients of the Nobel Prize for economics signed a letter that called Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic agenda “vastly superior” to the plans laid out by former President Donald Trump. Twenty-three Nobel Prize-winning economists signed onto the letter, including two of the three most recent recipients. “While each of us has different views…
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BRICS summit held in Russia’s city of Kazan
The Russian Foreign Ministry was targeted by a severe cyber attack on Wednesday, coinciding with the major BRICS summit taking place in the country, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Earlier Zakharova said that the ministry had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). “A massive cyberattack from abroad began this morning on the infrastructure of the official website, the…
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says North Korea has deployed troops to Russia
Video provided to CNN by the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security appears to show North Korean soldiers receiving Russian uniforms and equipment at the Sergeevka Training Ground in the Far East of Russia. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said North Korea has deployed troops to Russia, the first senior US official to confirm the development on the…
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Analysis: The West wants Putin isolated. A major summit he’s hosting shows he’s far from alone
Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw Moscow condemned by countries globally, leader Vladimir Putin is staging a summit with more than a dozen world leaders – in a pointed signal from the autocrat that far from being alone, an emerging coalition of countries stands behind him. The three-day BRICS summit, which started Tuesday in the southwestern Russian…
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Moldova backs joining EU by razor-thin margin as president condemns ‘assault’ on democracy
Moldovans have voted by the thinnest of margins in favor of joining the European Union, near-complete results showed Monday, as President Maia Sandu condemned an “unprecedented assault” by foreign actors on the country’s democracy. With more than 99% of votes counted, 50.4% had voted “yes” in the pivotal referendum on whether to enshrine in the country’s constitution a path towards…
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Putin gathers allies to show western pressure isn’t working
The Kremlin describes the summit as one of the “largest-scale foreign policy events ever” in Russia. Imagine you’re Vladimir Putin. The West has branded you a pariah for invading Ukraine, and sanctions aim to cut off your country’s economy from global markets. There’s even an arrest warrant for you from the International Criminal Court. So how do you show that…
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Cameroon’s President Paul Biya appears in public amid health speculation
Cameroon’s 91-year-old President, Paul Biya, has been seen in public for the first time in six weeks, following widespread speculation about his health. Biya’s prolonged absence from the public eye had fueled rumors of his death, but on Monday afternoon, state television aired footage of him arriving at the airport in Yaoundé, the capital, after a flight from Switzerland. The…
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Defense Secretary Austin arrives in Ukraine amid Russian gains, imminent US election
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Kyiv early Monday morning, as the future of US aid to Ukraine hangs in the balance ahead of the imminent US presidential election and as Russia continues to make small but steady gains on the battlefield. Austin will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov while in Kyiv to…
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Russia accuses U.S. of deception in nuclear talks
…warns of escalating hybrid war in Ukraine Recent statements by U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration that Washington is ready for nuclear talks without preconditions with Russia, China, and North Korea are a “deception,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “The call to talk about strategic stability, about control over nuclear weapons without preconditions, is a deception,” Lavrov told the news…
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NiDOA says Nigerians in diaspora play active role in nation building
The Diaspora Organisation Americas (NiDOA) has said its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Conference will be held from Nov. 22 to Nov. 24 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. Coordinating Chair, NiDOA, Victor Ubani, on Sunday, said that Nigerians in the diaspora play an active role in nation building. Ubani, who doubles as Coordinating Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation(NiDO) Worldwide,…
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