Global economic growth will reach only three percent this year due to the lingering effects of Covid-19 and the economic ructions of the Russo-Ukraine War – think higher energy, food prices and other goods. Next year, for the same reasons, growth is expected to slow...
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Burkinabe army officers launched a coup against the country’s military junta over the weekend, a move that could further destabilize the security situation in the West African country amid an ongoing jihadist insurgency, the Associated Press reported. On Friday, a group of soldiers appeared on state...
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Venezuela freed seven US citizens imprisoned in the country over the weekend, a move that underscores recent efforts by the Biden administration to mend ties with the oil-rich South American nation, CBS News reported. The release was part of a prisoner swap that saw two nephews...
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Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins’ ruling party secured a decisive victory in Latvia’s weekend elections, even as voters punished a party favored by ethnic Russians, Bloomberg reported. Preliminary results showed that Karins’ New Unity party won nearly 19 percent of the vote, while the opposition Union...
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NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into a 520-foot-long asteroid last week, marking a big step forward in the agency’s quest to protect civilization from cataclysmic space rocks, USA Today reported. The 1,260-pound Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft – or DART for short– collided with the 11-billion-pound asteroid Dimorphos...
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