For Trump, Greenland and Panama are really about one thing: China
Greenland and Panama are both part of the intensifying global rivalry between Washington and Beijing for 21st-century geo-strategic dominance. So like the Panama Canal, which Trump talks about taking ...
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Trump's Greenland Problem
As the president-elect's call to buy—or take—a sovereign country moves from punchline to possibility, a look at the real ...
Factbox-Top cases now before the US Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court's current term includes cases involving TikTok, guns, gender-affirming medical care for transgender ...
Can Trump Stop TikTok Ban? Here’s What He Can—And Can’t—Do As He Reportedly Mulls Executive Order
The law—which prohibits U.S. app stores from hosting TikTok unless Chinese parent company ByteDance divests from it—is ...
World Bank says the global is economy is growing steadily, but not fast enough to help ease poverty
The world economy is growing steadily in the face of global conflict, protectionist trade policies and high interest rates ...
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Real effective ruble exchange rate rises by 1% in December
The real effective exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar in December fell by 0.7%, and since the beginning of the year - by 5.7% ...
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Russia to deliver promised 30,000 tons of diesel fuel to Central African Republic
"This is the volume requested by our colleagues in the Central African Republic to supply their fuel and energy market with diesel," Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said ...
Why acquiring Greenland is more than just a whim of Trump
A wellwisher takes a picture with US businessman Donald Trump Jr. after arriving in Nuuk, Greenland on January 7, 2025. Donald Trump Jr made a private visit to Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory ...
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On the way out, Biden officials ask: How to fix America’s war machine?
Sullivan said he’s urging his successors, led by U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., to take early briefings on the state of ...
Biden warns the US risks becoming an 'oligarchy.' What does the term mean?
President Joe Biden in his Wednesday farewell speech to the nation warned that American democracy was sliding into an ...
Bessent: China Will Cut Prices In Response To Tariffs So They Can Continue To "Export Their Way Out Of Economic Malaise"
Scott Bessent told Sen. Ron Wyden, during his confirmation hearing to serve as Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, he believes ...
Trump Treasury Pick Says China’s Economy Is in Recession
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, described the world’s No. 2 economy as being in a recession, if not a depression.