Source link Washington’s borrowings have reached $34 trillion for the first time, up by over $6 trillion since President Joe Biden took office US government debt has breached an unflattering milestone, topping $34 trillion for the first time in history and more than doubling the total of the world’s next-biggest borrower, China. The US Treasury […]
Source link An investigation has been launched after three people were found dead, having been taken in for questioning by the security forces Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh has promised “justice” amid an investigation into the deaths of three civilians who were detained by the army, as the official visited insurgency-prone regions on the border […]
Source link Senator Rand Paul has highlighted such boondoggle outlays as researching Russian cats and monkey gambling From a Pentagon lobster tank to a transgender monkey study, the US government found a wide range of ways to waste taxpayer dollars in 2023, Senator Rand Paul has revealed in a report highlighting $900 billion of Washington’s […]
Source link Opposition party MPs have occupied the headquarters of Warsaw’s public TV station in protest of sweeping media reforms The Polish state TV channel TVP went dark on Wednesday morning as Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s new government attempts to address media outlets that critics have accused of acting as mouthpieces of the previous administration. […]
Source link Slovakia will not follow its neighbor’s lead and freeze Russian assets on its territory, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said Slovakia has no intention of following its neighbor’s example and seizing Russian real estate on its territory, Prime Minister Robert Fico told the local news media outlet InfoVojna in an interview aired on […]
Source link MPs were barred from both houses after the opposition demanded a debate on last week’s attack on parliament Indian opposition leaders have hit out at the government after 141 lawmakers were suspended following a brawl in parliament over a major recent security breach. In the past week, 95 MPs have been barred from […]
Source link Faith in President Vladimir Zelensky has also greatly deteriorated among the country’s residents, according to a new survey Ukrainians are losing trust in the country’s public institutions, a new poll conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) suggests. At the same time, the country’s populace seems to remain overwhelmingly supportive of […]
Source link Olaf Scholz holds the lowest approval rating for a chancellor since the survey began in 1997 Over four in five Germans (82%) are dissatisfied with the performance of the country’s “traffic light” governing coalition, according to an ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll published on Friday. Chancellor Olaf Scholz in particular received the worst approval rating of […]
Source link Potential recruits would often rather bribe their way out of the country than join a military “rife with corruption and incompetence,” the American newspaper reported Many draft-age Ukrainians are unwilling to fight for President Vladimir Zelensky’s “corrupt government,” avoiding conscription through bribery, forged documents, and perilous attempts to flee to neighboring countries, the […]
Source link An annual report on extremism in the American military has revealed a rise in suspected cases Extremism in the ranks remains a troubling trend for the US military, as evidenced by the fact that 78 service members were suspected of being advocates for the overthrow of their own government, an annual Pentagon report […]
Source link The only platform that refused to cooperate and take down “vile” posts was Elon Musk’s X, the justice minister said Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee has claimed that most social media companies complied with the government’s requests to take down posts during last week’s Dublin riots. However, Elon Musk’s X refused, the minister […]
Source link Cabinet members must use French messaging apps, which are supposedly more secure and private than mass-market alternatives French government employees have been officially forbidden from using WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and other widely-used messaging apps for internal communications due to security vulnerabilities, a memo from Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, obtained by French broadcaster BFMTV […]
Source link Tegan Farelly has become the fourth Irish boxer to be forced to withdraw from an event after being paired with an athlete from Russia A teenage boxer from Ireland has had to withdraw from an event in Armenia after drawing a Russian opponent in the bantamweight division. Proceeding with the bout would have […]
Source link No sane administration can seriously speak about discriminating against part of its own population, Dmitry Peskov has said Moscow refers to Kiev as a “regime” because of its treatment of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine, which it considers to be discriminatory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Sunday. The […]
Source link Various experts have been banned from government-sponsored events for criticizing the cabinet or the prime minister, the paper says At least 15 British government departments have been engaged in a deliberate social media and internet profiling campaign against public experts in various fields to ensure that none of its critics are allowed to […]