Category: Global Economy

  • Israeli forces raid Al Jazeera office in occupied West Bank

    [ad_1] Israeli forces have raided the offices of news broadcaster Al Jazeera in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, and ordered it to close for an initial period of 45 days. Armed and masked Israeli soldiers entered the building early on Sunday during a live broadcast. Viewers watched as the troops handed the closure order…

  • Israel limits gatherings in north as it strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon

    [ad_1] Israel has launched air strikes in Lebanon and is restricting gatherings in the city of Haifa and other northern areas as it continues to attack targets linked to Hezbollah. Dozens of fighter jets started “extensively” striking southern Lebanon “following detection of Hezbollah preparing to fire toward Israeli territory”, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear…

  • Donald Trump turns down second debate with Kamala Harris

    [ad_1] Watch highlights from Trump-Harris clash Vice-President Kamala Harris accepted a CNN invitation to a presidential debate on 23 October, just days before the November election. Hours later, Donald Trump told supporters at a rally in North Carolina that he would not participate, saying it’s “too late”. The two faced off in a previous debate…

  • French President Emmanuel Macron announces new right-wing government

    [ad_1] French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled his new government almost three months after a snap general election delivered a hung parliament. The long-awaited new line up, led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, marks a decisive shift to the right, even though a left-wing alliance won most parliamentary seats. Despite the partnership between Macron’s centrist…

  • Watch: Hundreds of paratroopers leap to mark daring WW2 offensive

    [ad_1] Eighty years after hundreds of Allied soldiers parachuted from military aircraft into Nazi-occupied Netherlands as part of a daring World War Two offensive, their modern equivalents repeated the jump in commemoration. In an airborne spectacular, 700 paratroopers from eight Nato nations – including the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and the US – parachuted from…

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    [ad_1] ECB president Christine Lagarde says the global economy is headed for recession  Cryptopolitan [ad_2] Source link

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    [ad_1] ECB president Christine Lagarde says the global economy is headed for recession  MSN [ad_2] Source link

  • Russia dissident freed in prisoner swap vows to return

    [ad_1] A dissident freed by Russia in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War has vowed to return to the country. Vladimir Kara-Murza told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg he thought he was being “led out to be executed” during his release in Siberia last month. The dual British-Russian citizen realised he was one of…

  • Lebanon latest: Death toll rises from strike that killed Hezbollah commanders

    [ad_1] Reuters Medical personnel work at the site of Friday’s Israeli strike, as search and rescue operations continued on Saturday The number of people killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday has risen significantly, Lebanese officials say, with several children and women among the dead. All day on Saturday, rescuers searched through the…

  • Vladimir Kara-Murza vows to return home to Russia after prisoner swap

    [ad_1] Russia dissident freed in prisoner swap vows to return A dissident freed by Russia in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War has vowed to return to the country one day. Vladimir Kara-Murza told the BBC he initially thought he was being “led out to be executed” when prison officers came in the…