The Zimbabwean parliament has passed a "controversial" Patriotic Bill that criminalizes any citizen who meets with foreign diplomats or foreign government functionaries in terms of association, assembly, and speech ...Anyone found in violation of the new law, according to the bill, will be arrested and imprisoned ... This Bill must become law." ... 23 ... .
Brazil’s conservative-majority Congress has voted to scale back the authority of two ministries dedicated to upholding Indigenous rights and protecting the environment, following opposition from the South American nation’s powerful agribusiness industry ... The measure easily passed in the lower house of Congress a day earlier ... .
French PresidentEmmanuel Macron called Thursday for new elections in four northern municipalities of Kosovo after a meeting with German ChancellorOlaf Scholz. ... "We have asked both sides to organize new elections in these four municipalities soon, ensuring meaningful participation from the Serbian side,” said Macron ... .
A former head of Israel’s military intelligence on Thursday claimed that Iran possesses a quantity of uranium capable of making three to five nuclear bombs ... On May 24, Israel’s army chief of staff also said Iran has made unprecedented progress in its uranium enrichment program.
NEW YORK. Warning of a new threat to global food security, the United Nations said Thursday that Russia is limiting the number of ships allowed to pick up Ukrainian grain at Black Sea ports in its campaign to get Kyiv to open a pipeline for a key ingredient of fertilizer to get to world markets ...Odesa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny ... Following Russia’s Feb.
TOKYO, June 2 (Reuters) - Japan's birth rate declined for the seventh consecutive year in 2022 to a record low, the health ministry said on Friday, underscoring the sense of crisis gripping the country as the population shrinks and ages rapidly. The fertility rate, or the average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime, was 1.2565.
Subscribe to GPM. Investment strategy. Not a time to play the hero. DavidWoo voices skepticism about the smooth passage of the debt ceiling deal and ponders the motivations behind Kevin McCarthy’s actions. He discusses the performance of GPM’s portfolio trades and a bullish outlook on gold due to the debt ceiling situation. Ukraine... Like this..
The French president has claimed that Ukraine is ?protecting Europe? and deserves assurances from NATO. French PresidentEmmanuel Macron has argued that Ukraine is "protecting Europe" and should be provided with security guarantees by NATO ... However, they have stopped short of offering the blanket protection afforded to NATO members ... (RT.com) ....