Source link Geopolitical tensions and political polarization at home threaten “America’s global leadership role,” Jamie Dimon has warned The US is facing grave risks in the wake of rising global geopolitical tensions and the nation’s domestic political polarization, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase chief executive, has warned. In an annual shareholder letter on Monday the CEO […]
Source link Nearly $7 billion worth of aid could be jeopardized if the legislation is signed into law Ghana could lose $3.8 billion of World Bank funding if its anti-LGBTQ legislation is signed into law, the West African nation’s Finance Ministry has warned. A $3 billion IMF loan package could also be jeopardized, it claimed […]
Source link EU nations are pledging more lethal weapons to Ukraine while refusing to accept Moscow’s insistence that it harbors no intention to attack NATO into their comfortable war narrative. This could be a serious misjudgment Any serious and objective non-Western observer of geopolitics would be baffled by the conduct of European nations in the […]
Source link A panel of British MPs has concluded that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s immigration policy violates the Human Rights Act A UK parliamentary committee has warned the British government against deporting immigrants to Rwanda, saying a draft bill promoting the East African nation as a safe haven is incompatible with human rights obligations and […]
Source link Moody’s placed the country on review following the escalation of hostilities in Gaza International ratings agency Moody’s has lowered Israel’s credit rating, in the country’s first-ever sovereign downgrade, the company announced on Friday. Moody’s cut Israel’s credit score to A2, the sixth-highest investment grade, and kept its outlook as “negative,” meaning further downgrades […]
Source link Israel plans to recapture the Philadelphi Corridor, but experts warn that might be a bad idea The 14km border that separates Gaza from Egypt has been used for years by militants in the enclave to smuggle weapons, technology, money, and personnel. To stop that from happening, Israel is now mulling the possibility of […]
Source link Big brands have warned about supply shortages due to the shipping disruption through the Suez Canal The disruption of cargo ships in the Red Sea due to attacks by Houthi militants from Yemen is causing global shippers to redirect vessels, potentially leading to increased prices for goods. Swedish furniture giant IKEA announced this […]
Source link Overdose-related deaths are the highest they’ve ever been in the UK, and a super-strong new drug is hitting the streets Major cities in the UK may risk facing a similar epidemic of synthetic opioid deaths as in the US, a top police chief told the Telegraph on Wednesday. The epidemic of drug overdoses […]
Source link Lasting security in the region cannot be achieved at the cost of Palestinian lives, the French president has said French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Israeli authorities to “more precisely define” the end goals of the war with Hamas, while arguing that the stated aim of totally eliminating the Palestinian militant group may […]
Source link Despite Cairo’s resistance, the old plan to relocate Palestinian people to Egypt has prompted new discussions Egypt’s reaction to the events in the Gaza Strip has drawn renewed attention to the US-Israeli plan of relocating the Palestinian population living in Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula, which is now a part of Egypt. In […]
Source link The potential spread of the Israel-Hamas conflict threatens global oil supplies, the CEO of the energy services firm has said Growing global uncertainty amid the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East could have a negative impact on the world’s oil and LNG supply, Lorenzo Simonelli, chief executive of Baker Hughes, told the […]