World Briefing: November 21, 2024

Ukraine says Russia fired RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile from its territory on its attack on Dnipro today. U.S. regulators demanding that Google be broken up to prevent it from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine

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World Briefing: November 18, 2024

US President Joe Biden has given the green light for Ukraine to use long-range US missiles to strike inside Russia. A top UN official warns of a mass displacement crisis in Ukraine after Russian attacks on critical infrastructure as winter takes hold

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World Briefing: November 16, 2024

Iran sent a message to the Biden administration in October saying that it was not trying to kill Donald J. Trump, as Tehran attempted to ease rising tensions with Washington. Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging the Kremlin leader to end the war against Ukraine and negotiate with Kyiv for a "just and lasting peace.”

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World Briefing: November 15, 2024

The United Nations' COP climate talks are "no longer fit for purpose" and need an urgent overhaul, key experts including a former UN secretary general and former UN climate chief say. Trump taps vaccine-denier Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

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World Briefing: November 11, 2024

The UN has warned 2024 will be the hottest year on record. Trump's Republican Party are edging closer to full control of the US Congress. They already have a majority in the Senate and need to win just a handful of seats to take the House of Representatives.

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World Briefing: November 10, 2024

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is about to become the most powerful civilian ever, if he hasn’t already. Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be assuming that Donald Trump will defer to the Kremlin's interests and preferences without offering any concessions or benefits in return

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World Briefing: November 8, 2024

US President Joe Biden spoke for the first time since Donald Trump’s victory and his party’s humiliating defeat in the elections, promising a peaceful and orderly transition. At a summit of European leaders, Ukraine’s Volodomyr Zelensky dished out some tough love to colleagues.

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Michael Bociurkiw
World Briefing: November 6, 2024

Here in Eastern Europe, it’s the day after of the last day of voting in the U.S. elections - and perhaps nowhere else are the results being watched as anxiously as in Ukraine. Thousands of people in Tel Aviv took to the streets late Tuesday after the beleaguered Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, fired the hugely popular defense minister Yoav Gallant

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World Briefing: November 5, 2024

It’s the last day of voting in the United States in a tumultuous election that’s being billed as the most significant in a generation. But virtually every prominent pundit seems to agree: for all the polls, no one can say with confidence who is going to win.

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World Briefing: November 4, 2024

The incumbent pro-Western president of Moldova, Maia Sandu, has won another term against a Russia-friendly opponent, in a second election runoff. Donald Trump, who said in Pennsylvania on Sunday that he regrets leaving the White House in 2021, is ending the 2024 campaign with a stew of violent, disparaging rhetoric and repeated warnings that he will not accept defeat if it comes

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Michael BociurkiwComment
World Briefing: November 3, 2024

Moldovans head to the polls today for a second-round vote to choose between the incumbent pro-EU president, Maia Sandu, and a Russia-friendly challenger. King Charles is profiting from the deaths of thousands of people whose assets are secretly being used to upgrade a commercial property empire managed by his hereditary estate

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