4 h. ago Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’

Trump’s team flirts with weakening the dollar, threatening US influence, low borrowing costs and global stabilityMagical thinking is indispensable to understanding Team Trump’s economic policymaking. The White House often seems to believe two opposing policies can work together while one policy can do two or three contradictory things.A heavy dose of hocus pocus will be needed to make the administration’s dollar policy work in the interest of the United States, for it appears that they want to end the US dollar’s supremacy in global finance. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Dollar volatility tumbles as currency markets move past ‘Trump shock’

Investor expectations of US currency swings have fallen to lowest since before last year’s presidential election

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52 h. ago EU tightens rules on visas for Russians amid ongoing Ukraine aggression – Europe live

Russian nationals will no longer be able to receive multiple-entry visas, and have to apply individually every time they plan to travel to the EUThe European Commission has adopted stricter rules for issuing visas to Russian nationals to enter the European Union in response to what it said were “increased security risks stemming from Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine.”Under the new rules, “Russian nationals will no longer be able to receive multiple-entry visas,” and have to apply individually every time they plan to travel to the EU, the commission said. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago CHRIS HUGHES: 'Iran uprising shows choice between regime or uncertain future'

Uprising plotters have a firm eye on ngihtmare scenarios such as Syria and Iraq which fell into bloody anarchy after uprisings and war - there is a risk of collapse but Iran may be different.

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4 d. ago Wayne Rooney gets clear Cristiano Ronaldo response after war of words with Virgil van Dijk

Manchester United icon Wayne Rooney risks getting into a new war of words with Cristiano Ronaldo - alongside his ongoing spat with Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk.

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9 d. ago Gaza risks sliding into deadly limbo of ‘no war, no peace’, top Qatari diplomat warns

Majed al-Ansari calls for international force to be set up urgently to pave way for Israeli withdrawalGaza risks sliding towards a deadly limbo where a ceasefire is nominally in place but killing continues, a top Qatari diplomat has warned, calling for rapid progress in setting up the international security force and administration to pave the way for full Israeli withdrawal.“We don’t want to reach a situation of no war, no peace,” said Majed al-Ansari, adviser to Qatar’s prime minister and spokesperson for the foreign ministry. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump warned Ukraine war is creating ‘significant risks’ for US economy in new report urging end to conflict

Exclusive: A paper by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity argues there are are strong economic benefits for the United States if peace can be achieved

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1 week ago Trump’s bailout threat may have been key to Milei’s electoral triumph in Argentina

Voters appear to have responded to idea that US president’s ‘generosity’ would evaporate if Milei failed to win“The dollar always talks in the end,” Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal.Javier Milei’s surprise triumph in Argentina’s midterm elections – after Trump bailed him out with 40bn of them – suggests there may be some truth to that assertion. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump embarks on 'riskiest' foreign trip of his presidency to China as trade war threatens to explode

Donald Trump is jetting off for a trip through Asia on Friday just hours after reigniting a tariff fight with Canada and days after placing new sanctions against Russia.

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2 w. ago Syrian pensioner, 87, wins appeal to live in Britain with his family because he's 'too old to be cared for in his own country'

Jabra Yazbek, 87, has been granted the chance to live in the UK with his son, who is a British citizen and has not been able to visit his father due to 'war and safety risks'.

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2 w. ago Donald Trump urged Zelensky to accept Putin's terms to end their war or risk 'destroying' Ukraine in 'shouting match' White House meeting

The meeting between the two leaders reportedly turned into a 'shouting match', with according to the Financial Times, who cited sources close to the matter.

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3 w. ago UK risks trade war with China if London 'super embassy' is not approved

UK risks trade war with China if London 'super embassy' is not approved  The i Paper

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3 w. ago Sweden to begin stockpiling food as it prepares for war and admits there is a risk the country could be 'completely cut off' by Putin

Sweden is set to begin stockpiling food as it prepares for war, with top ministers admitting there is a risk that the nation may be 'completely cut off' by Vladimir Putin. 

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