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JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank knowingly benefited from their links to sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, the suits claim
A US judge has cleared the way for three lawsuits to move forward against banking giants JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, alleging both companies knowingly benefited from their relationships with convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Mexico’s leader has blasted Washington for believing it’s the “government of the world” after report alleging human rights abuses
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has bristled over his government being accused by the US State Department of human rights abuses, dismissing his country’s neighbors to the north as “liars.”
Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday in Oaxaca,
The new plan will bring the 70-ton tanks into action “as quickly as possible,” the Pentagon said
The US military will accelerate its shipment of M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukrainian forces, opting to send an older model after finding that the latest version could take more than a year to reach the battlefield.
Violent unrest has continued across the country after lawmakers failed to depose the government over the debated bill
The French government has survived two parliamentary no-confidence votes over President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to push through a controversial pension reform bill without lawmakers’ approval. The failed motions on Monday were followed by renewed violent unrest overnight.
A newly enacted law will still allow for redactions to keep some highly classified information under wraps
US President Joe Biden has signed a bill that directs the federal government to declassify material related to the genesis of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the White House suggesting “potential links” between the virus and a high-security research lab in China.
The EU has offered to help cover a small fraction of the reconstruction efforts following quakes that left more than 50,000 dead
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has estimated that devastating earthquakes which struck the region in February inflicted around $104 billion in damage in Türkiye alone, appealing for assistance from abroad while saying that no country is capable of handling such a disaster on its own.
Snopes stepped in to confirm that Oxfam really did call English the “language of a colonizing nation” after a backlash
Global anti-poverty charity Oxfam’s new “inclusive language guide,” a 92-page tome billed as a must-have for NGOs “who have to communicate in English,” has elicited indignation and even a fact-check following its publication earlier this week.
Warsaw will have “no choice” but to take part in the hostilities should Kiev fail to defend its “independence,” the country’s envoy to France has said
Poland may end up “joining” the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine should the latter fail to protect its “independence,” the Polish ambassador to France,
Ma Ying-jeou will pay a visit to China this month amid increased tensions with Beijing, his office has reportedly confirmed
Ma Ying-jeou, the former Taiwanese president who made history by meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in 2015, reportedly plans to break new diplomatic ground again by making an unprecedented trip to the mainland later this month.
China’s president has previewed his visit to Moscow by declaring that “no single country should dictate the international order”
Chinese President Xi Jinping has set the tone for his visit this week to Moscow by touting improving relations with Russia in the ten years since he took office and vowing that the transition to a “multipolar world” liberated from US domination won’t be stopped.
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