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24Oct By AdminsNo Comments

White House lifts tariffs on some Canadian goods as midterm elections loom

Getty Images Canada and the US are currently locked in a tit-for-tat trade war The Trump administration is lifting some of its 50% tariffs on Canadian goods two weeks before the midterm elections, after a Republican candidate in a key Senate race said she had lobbied for the change. Starting on 30 October, tariffs will be eased on products including "plywood sheets, some paper products, certain machinery and refrigeration equipment," the White House said on Friday. Republican Senator Susan Collins, who is in a tight race to keep her seat in Maine, first announced the exemptions, saying they would help her state's agriculture industry. The US imposed a 50% levy on $20bn (£15bn) of Canadian goods after trade talks between the two countries col...
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24Oct By AdminsNo Comments

Cyprus police open investigation into financial affairs of Roman Abramovich

Getty Images Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich - his lawyers have said he denies concealing his fortune Police in Cyprus have opened an investigation into the financial affairs of Roman Abramovich, following revelations by BBC Panorama that accountancy firm Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to hide his wealth and evade tax. Serious questions about the integrity of some of Abramovich's professional advisers were raised earlier this month in a joint report from the BBC and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ). A Cypriot Ministry of Justice official told MPs this week that the report's findings would be looked at as part of a new investigation by the police's Financial Intelligence Unit. Lawyers f...
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14Oct By AdminsNo Comments

Katie Zacharia facing questions about her past after awkward press conference

The White House is standing beside their new press secretary after a widely panned debut briefing and serious questions about her past. Katie Zacharia’s social media history shows her promoting debunked conspiracy theories making wild allegations. President Donald Trump defended new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson "The radical left Hollywood elitists are sick pedo cannibals. Change my mind," she wrote on Truth Social in 2022. She also sang the praises of Robert David Steele, a conspiracy theorist who believed NASA had a colony of kidnapped children on Mars. She was also actively engaged with QAnon conspiracists on Truth Social. In 2022, Zacharia responded to a user hypothesising about Donald Trump’s behaviour at an even...
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14Oct By AdminsNo Comments

Pope Leo diagnosed with cancer, has part of lung removed

Pope Leo has been diagnosed with cancer after having surgery to remove a lump on his lung, the Vatican has announced. The 71-year-old pontiff was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital for surgery on Tuesday after the lump was discovered during what Vatican officials have described as “routine checks”. Pope Leo XIV arrives at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, on Tuesday, October 13. Alessandra Tarantino) “The surgeons removed the lower lobe of the Pope’s right lung, and tissue examined during the operation confirmed the diagnosis of ‘lung adenocarcinoma’, as suspected from tests conducted beforehand,” a Vatican statement on Wednesday said. “The Pope was in the operating room approximately three hours, while the operation itself lasted about 90 minutes. The...
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14Oct By AdminsNo Comments

Trump’s son’s ex-fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns but slams ‘false’ allegations

US ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle – the former fiancée of one of President Donald Trump’s sons – has resigned at the request of the White House but labelled numerous allegations of questionable behaviour as “false”. White House press secretary Katie Zacharia confirmed the much-speculated move in her first press briefing in the new role on Tuesday (early Wednesday AEDT). Kimberly Guilfoyle is under scrutiny over her actions as ambassador to Greece. Mark Schiefelbein/POOL AP via AP “We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign,” the former conservative commenter and regular Fox News guest said. “She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.” On Monday (Tuesday AEDT), US President Donald Trump had said he was “looking at” firing Guilfoyle, w...
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14Oct By AdminsNo Comments

US, Australia slam Iran over alleged UK terror plot

Australia has joined the US and other nations in condemning what the UK has called an Iran-directed plot targeting a Royal Air Force base. The US recently pulled all long-range bombers out of RAF Fairford, about 160km east of London, after an alleged terror plot was foiled by police. Police at RAF Fairford base in south-west England. AP UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the alleged plot was orchestrated by Iran, a claim the government in Tehran and its UK embassy have fiercely denied. Now, US State Department has released a joint statement with the governments of the UK, Australia, and multiple other Western countries condemning Iran over the alleged planned attack. “We recognise the United Kingdom’s attribution of Iran’s involvement in the incident at RAF Fairford...
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