Ukraine launched another drone attack on Russia in the overnight hours Saturday into Sunday and struck the Kirishi refinery in the Leningrad region, which produces 355,000 barrels of crude per day and is one of the country’s most important oil refineries.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters across France clashed with police and attempted to interfere with normal traffic over the government’s plan to cut €44 billion in spending to rein in its ballooning budget deficit and debt load.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Israel on Sunday and the two prayed together at the Western Wall in Jerusalem amid a show of friendship, even as Israel carries out a genocide in Gaza and an attack on Qatar, which has a close relationship with the U.S.
Top Israelis warned last month that the more European countries that say they’ll recognize a Palestinian state, the more settlements Israel will build to smash any hopes of one, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the full backing of the Trump administration, signed an agreement Thursday that he said is the death knell of any two-state solution.
Israel Katz, the genocide loving Israeli defense minister, said last week that there is nowhere that an enemy of his country can seek refuge that he is out of reach from the IDF—insinuating that regional countries should be on notice after the brazen strike on Doha intended to kill Hamas negotiators.
The Wall Street Journal tried its best to present Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a leader who is exhausted trying to achieve a diplomatic end to his country’s paranoid aggression in the Middle East by running a headline: “Qatar Strike Shows Netanyahu is Done Talking.”
Israel’s decision to carry out a bombing attack on Hamas negotiators in Doha was the latest example of how Tel Aviv has never been interested in a diplomatic resolution to the Gaza genocide to obtain its hostages still in Hamas possession, WSWS said in a report.
Because governments are giving “insufficient supervision” to stablecoins, they may be forced into multibillion-dollar bailouts if the market for the digital currencies goes bad, Jean Tirole, 2014’s Nobel Prize winner in economics, said in a Financial Times interview.
China has announced a tariff of as much as 62 percent on pork imported from the European Union, claiming the Eurozone is dumping its excess pork into China at unfairly low prices.
Bogged down by stiff new U.S. tariffs, Canada’s economy contracted by 1.6 percent in this year’s second quarter, according to the government’s Statistics Canada agency.