Trade

The Taliban has agreed to join China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

FTC's bureau of consumer protection director Samuel Levine stated, “Facebook has repeatedly violated its privacy promises. The company’s recklessness has put young users at risk, and Facebook needs to answer for its failures.”

"The catastrophic effects of the pandemic and subsequent interventions forced on our country and citizens deserve intense scrutiny, and we are pursuing any hint of wrongdoing to the fullest."

The newly approved courses, "Ethnic Studies: World Geography" and "Ethnic Studies World Histories," will be offered this fall.

"I'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes."

"The dollar suffered a stunning collapse in 2022 in its market share as a reserve currency, presumably due to its muscular use of sanctions," says CEO and co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ Capital.

"There is risk when we use financial sanctions that are linked to the role of the dollar that over time it could undermine the hegemony of the dollar," Yellen said, adding that implementing sanctions against Russia "does create a desire on the part of China, of Russia, of Iran to find an alternative."

"Who decided that the dollar was the (trade) currency after the end of gold parity?" asked President Lula.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, along with government officials and 35 generals embezzled $400 million in U.S. aid to the country, according to an estimate from the Central Intelligence Agency.

Russia's "merchant of death" Viktor Bout recently sent Donald Trump a message, warning the former president his life was in "danger."