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19Dec By AdminsNo Comments

Canada’s finance minister resigns as unpopular Trudeau faces biggest test of his political career

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces the biggest test of his political career after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long one of his most powerful and loyal ministers, announced Monday that she was resigning from the Cabinet. The stunning move raised questions about how much longer the prime minister of nearly 10 years can stay on as his administration scrambles to deal with incoming US President-elect Donald Trump. Trudeau's popularity has plummeted due to concerns about inflation and immigration. Opposition leader Jagmeet Singh, whose party Trudeau's ruling Liberals have relied upon to stay in power, called on Trudeau to resign. The main opposition Conservatives demanded an election. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accompanied by Canada's Mini...
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19Dec By AdminsNo Comments

Jaclyn Symes to become Victoria’s first female treasurer

Jaclyn Symes will be sworn in as Victoria's new treasurer tomorrow, becoming the first woman to serve in the role. The Northern Victoria MP is currently serving as the attorney-general and emergency services minister. She will replace Tim Pallas, who resigned this week after a decade in the job. Victoria Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes defends public drunkenness law reform on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. (9News) Pallas, who said he was the longest-serving standalone state treasurer, having stepped into the job in 2014 when Daniel Andrews became premier, said it was a "great honour and privilege" to serve the people of Victoria. Reflecting on his career and explaining his decision to resign, Pallas said he felt it was "simply his time to go". His resignation ...
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19Dec By AdminsNo Comments

Australian ambassador to return to Kyiv at critical point in Russia’s war on Ukraine

Australia's ambassador will return to Kyiv next month, almost three years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine prompted the embassy's evacuation. The announcement by Foreign Minister Penny Wong on her first visit to Ukraine since the unprovoked assault, followed repeated calls from Ukraine, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to relocate Canberra's diplomatic representatives from Poland. The visit and reopening came at what Wong called "such an important time for your country and for the future of your people", amid huge uncertainty about what impact US President-elect Donald Trump will have on the war. Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha‎, right, and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong talk before a flower laying ceremony at the Memory Wall o...
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13Dec By AdminsNo Comments

Nato must switch to a wartime mindset, warns secretary general

The head of Nato has said it is time to "shift to a wartime mindset", as he warned the military alliance's members were not spending enough to prepare for the threat of a future conflict with Russia. Secretary general Mark Rutte said Moscow was "preparing for long-term confrontation with Ukraine and with us", describing the current security situation as the worst in his lifetime. "We are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years," he said in his first major speech since becoming secretary general in October, urging members to "turbocharge" their defence spending. His comments come weeks before president-elect Donald Trump takes office, having previously suggested the US would not protect Nato allies that were failing to spend enough on defence. Reut...
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13Dec By AdminsNo Comments

Donald Trump named Time’s Person of the Year and rings New York Stock Exchange opening bell

US President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell on Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange after being recognised for the second time by Time magazine as its person of the year. The honours for the businessman-turned-politician are a measure of Trump's remarkable comeback from an ostracised former president who refused to accept his election loss four years ago to a president-elect who won the White House decisively in November. Before he rang the opening bell at 9.30am (1.30am on Friday AEDT), a first for him, Trump spoke at the exchange and called it "a tremendous honour". Donald Trump named Time's 2024 Person of the Year. (X) "Time magazine, getting this honour for the second time, I think I like it better this time actually," he said. Trump, acc...
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13Dec By AdminsNo Comments

Biden commutes about 1500 sentences, pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency

US President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of about 1500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It's the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The commutations announced on Thursday are for people who have served out home confinement sentences for at least one year after they were released. Prisons were uniquely bad for spreading the virus and some inmates were released in part to stop the spread. At one point, one in five prisoners had COVID-19, according to a tally kept by The Associated Press. Biden said he would be taking more steps in the weeks ahead and would continue to review clemency petitions. The second largest single-day a...
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