A top Venezuelan lawmaker has voiced concern about the oil deal with the United States that hands Washington a 35 percent stake in a Venezuelan oil company that was just rewarded with rights to about 20 percent of the country’s oil reserves, according to the Financial Times.
European countries have been footing most of the bill for the Ukraine war and promised another $105 billion loan through 2027, but piggy banks are running low and politicians are facing struggling economies, just as Kyiv requested tens of billions of dollars in additional funding to keep up the fight for the rest of the year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
As we have forecast in the Trends Journal, in our podcasts and in numerous interviews, Gerald Celente has said that this September and/or October there may well be a stock market crash.
In his closing speech at this year’s conclave of member nations in the BRICS trading bloc, Chinese president Xi Jinping urged leaders to deepen and tighten their economic ties, in part by creating a BRICS “Special Economic Zone” and opening a discussion about making commerce in services smoother among the countries.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suffered a serious political blow after Alternative for Germany (AfD) saw big gains in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, as he watched his own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) lose over half of its support since 2021 and is now polling at 17.4 percent, according to the Financial Times.
Children across the world are falling behind traditional standards in various educational tasks, like “skim reading” and writing drafts for reports, raising new concerns about the impact that smartphones are having on the development of young minds.
The Alternative for Germany [AfD] party saw its best performance ever in Sunday’s election in Saxony-Anhalt, the eastern state, after securing 44 percent of the vote as the country continues to turn on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition.
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), founded in 2015, has been seen inside the country as a burgeoning agency tasked with investigating top officials – some of whom have close ties with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Financial Times reported.
The excitement In Washington is palpable with the announcement that President Donald Trump has a new project to help beautify the city on top of the huge banners bearing his image festooning the fronts of government buildings, his billion-dollar White House fortified ballroom, the paving of the rose garden, the enlarging of the helicopter landing pad, the soon-to-be-demolished and renamed “Trump”-Kennedy Center, the renaming of the “Trump” Institute of Peace, and the soon-to-be-started Trump-fal Arch being constructed between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, one has to ask: has the nightmare ever really ended?