Originally published on 14 March 2024. Getting caught up in geopolitical competition may seem uncomfortable enough for Pacific island countries. What’s making things worse is that outside powers’ struggle to influence them is weakening their resistance to organised crime emanating […]
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Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin – becoming only the third Western leader to meet the Russian leader since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. Fico –
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The European Union’s compliance and voluntary carbon markets, as they currently stand, cannot sustainably fund carbon-removal technologies. But policymakers can use regulation, such as requiring firms to purchase negative emissions credits, to promote investment and deployment of this green solution
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For about 48 hours last week, it looked like a debt ceiling fight in 2025 would be averted as ideas were floated to push the issue off until 2027 or 2029 (or even forever). But it was not to be.
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said it feels as if tech billionaire Elon Musk has become the United States’s prime minister. Gonzales joined CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where host Margaret Brennan asked him about the “confusing” dynamic between President-elect
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Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences, the US justice department alleged in a lawsuit filed on Friday. The suit against the state of Louisiana follows a multi-year investigation into what federal
