Russia has consolidated recent battlefield gains in the east of Ukraine, and is attempting to break through Ukrainian defensive lines before a long-awaited package of US military assistance arrives at the frontline. On Sunday Russian troops advanced near the city of Avdiivka. They seized two...
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The European Union (EU) has formally passed a new anti-money laundering regulation (AMLR), applicable to all crypto-asset service providers (CASPs). The laws would provide more powers to Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) to detect and combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Per a...
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For a very long time, many in the Western world have not engaged at all with the issues stemming from the occupation of Palestine. The occupation was in the news, every year or so, for a day or two, and then it would go again. It was too “complicated”, those who knew about the context – on either...
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The high natural gas storage level in Europe, along with a forecast of a warm winter that is set to lower demand, is expected to place downward pressure on gas spot prices, according to the latest report published by the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). Europe started the 2023–2024 winter...
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Ukraine’s Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky has been detained on suspicion of being involved in a multimillion-dollar landgrab scheme involving state property, according to prosecutors. An anticorruption court ordered Solsky to be held in custody until June 24, with bail set at 75.7 million...
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<p><em>By Marc Champion</em></p>.<p>Why are Donald Trump and MAGA America so fascinated by Viktor Orban, the prime minister of a small, landlocked central European nation that many of them likely couldn’t find on a map? Because, as he said in 2022 when he addressed a US...
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The EU parliament has just approved sweeping new rules that will require companies to avoid and mitigate human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains. These are noble aims. They have been a long time coming. But without careful design and more proactive support for business and...
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