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Americans warned of financial 'catastrophe'
Sott 30 Jan 2023
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Saturday warned of dire consequences the country may be facing if it doesn't hike its statutory debt ceiling in the coming months.
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Nuclear Lab in China Procured US Chips Despite Ban
The Epoch Times 30 Jan 2023
China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), a state-run institution that focuses on the testing, development, and research of nuclear ...
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Should we be concerned about a nuclear war?
Journal Review 30 Jan 2023
After the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, my father, Jack Howey, who was city editor of the News-Dispatch, didn’t betray his emotions to the family, but later described several sleepless nights during that 13-day crisis ... “It never occurs to any of the lowlifes to draw an elementary conclusion from this.
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Blinken due in Jerusalem as violence rages in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
RTE 30 Jan 2023
Israel was preparing to demolish the east Jerusalem family home of a Palestinian man who killed seven people near a synagogue, as part of measures to punish the relatives of attackers. The step comes as violence rages in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which also saw dozens of Palestinians killed this month, sparking global alarm.
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Driver of Tesla that went over cliff on Highway 1 is moved from hospital to jail
The Los Angeles Times 30 Jan 2023
The driver of a car that plunged 250 feet off a cliff along Highway 1 in Northern California, injuring his two young children and his wife, has been released from the hospital and jailed on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse ... Now, the father is accused of driving a Tesla off a cliff to kill them.
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Brazil's Lula cold-shoulders Germany's Scholz on Ukraine support
Reuters 31 Jan 2023
BRASILIA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday said Moscow made a mistake invading Ukraine, but speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz he kept clear of condemning the Russian attack ... In contrast to Lula, the presidents of Argentina and Chile both at least clearly condemned the Russian invasion.
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Boris Johnson's Claim About Putin Missile Threat A "Lie": Kremlin
NDTV 30 Jan 2023
More precisely it's a lie," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters."Moreover, this is either a conscious lie -- then you need to ask ...
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Trump says he's proud to have trusted Putin over 'slime' US intelligence agencies
Raw Story 30 Jan 2023
Former President Donald Trump in 2018 had an infamous press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Finnish capital of Helsinki in which he signaled that believed Putin's denials about having interfered in the 2016 election despite assessments to the contrary from American intelligence agencies.
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NATO secretary general urges South Korea to allow direct arms exports to Ukraine
CNN 30 Jan 2023
“I urge the Republic of Korea to continue and to step up the specific issue of military support,” he said in a question and answer session after a speech to the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies in Seoul ... Some experts say the South Korean K2 Panther is also in that group of top tanks and could be useful for Ukraine.
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Bombshell memos: Nissan coup plotters sought Renault divorce
Asiatimes 30 Jan 2023
A new version of the Nissan-Renault alliance, expected to be announced as early as this week, almost certainly will be billed as a new beginning ... Today, the two are mere shadows of what they were as recently as 2017 and 2018, ahead of Carlos Ghosn’s ouster ... Taking down Ghosn was just the first step to taking back control of Nissan from Renault.
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Will Putin Announce Another Round of Mobilization?
Moscow Times 30 Jan 2023
Talk of a second mobilization wave in Russia has been on everyone’s lips in recent weeks. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov claimed it would begin at the start of January ... 18 when the Russian president — known to be a fan of landmark dates — visited St ... So far, none of this has happened.
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Russia and Iran are combining their banking systems to get around being banned from SWIFT
Business Insider 30 Jan 2023
"Iranian banks no longer need to use SWIFT with Russian banks," Mohsen Karimini, the deputy governor of Iran's central bank said to a local news outlet ... According to Iran's Statistics Center, inflation has skyrocketed past 50%, and over half of the population lives below the poverty line.Read the original article on Business Insider ....
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Mike Pompeo says Xi Jinping 'most unpleasant' leader he met as US Secretary
Hindustan Times 30 Jan 2023
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that among the dozens of world leaders he met when he was in the position he found Chinese President Xi Jinping the "most unpleasant" ... He fit the psychological profile of an East German or Soviet Communist I came to study during my Army days,” he added.
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Pakistan buries mosque blast victims as death toll passes 90
RTE 31 Jan 2023
Distraught relatives have thronged hospitals in Pakistan's Peshawar to look for family a day after a suicide bombing ripped through a crowded mosque in a heavily fortified area of the city, killing more than 90 people, mostly policemen ... "We cut three main beams of the building and efforts are underway to cut the remaining one," he told Reuters.
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Cyclone in Madagascar kills dozens, displaces tens of thousands
Al Jazeera 30 Jan 2023
More than two dozen Madagascans have died and tens of thousands have been left homeless since a severe tropical cyclone made landfall last week and swirled for days off the island’s western coast, official records show ... Cheneso made landfall on January 19, packing winds of up to 110kmph (68.3mph).