There are many things that can affect the stock market in the near term. This year, inflation, risinginterest rates, thewar in Ukraineand COVID-19 lockdowns in China have all been weighing on U.S. stocks. If some or all of these factors persist, the U.S. economy can slow and poten...
Baltic Sea nations are on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Leaders of the NATO member states around the Baltic Sea are set to meet in Helsinki on Tuesday to discuss the alliance'...
When the Saints Go Marching in: When the Saints Go Marching in: Evaluations of Election Monitoring Reports in Ukraine Post-Orange RevolutionElections are perhaps the most important tenet of democracy and those that meet international democratic standards are said to enhance citizens confidence in ...
Naturally Ukraine will have planned for this eventually at a military and political level. Many hours of serious though will have gone into any response – or more accurately numerous possible responses to choose from by the President and National Security Committee. This current incident may or ma...
Kazakhstanis a former Soviet republic and a country in Central Asia. It is home to over 18 million people and extends from the Caspian Sea to the AltaiMountains. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the country held its first presidential election as the Republic of Kazakhstan onDecember 1,...
There was already fresh uneasiness among British politicians about how safe we really are as tensions grow around the world from Ukraine to the Middle East to China. A recent House of Commons report was entitled "Ready For War?". The re-election of Donal...
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But there's a third level, too. Apparently, this was the first handshake between presidential candidates since the 2016 election, when Trump faced Hillary Clinton. Harris must have known the significance of this moment. Was she trying to throw Trump off his game?
Yes. The Rwandan genocide broke out in early April 1994. When it broke out, I and much of the rest of the world’s media, was hundreds of miles to the south in South Africa. Reporting on this great story of hope, which was the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela, ...
between April 19 and mid-June — when an Ohio special election is expected to bump up his margin, bringing him back to two votes to spare. While no other Republican has publicly endorsed Greene’s effort yet, she claims silent supporters and several Johnson critics a...