International•Jun 4 ’23 at 10:05Author of the book: Mark VanHarveldt Hong Kong police have arrested eight people, including activists and artists, ahead of the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Police said they were involved in acts of arson and disturbing public peace. Tiananmen activists Kwan Chun-bang (L) and Lau Ka-yee (R) hold papers with the word …

(ABM FN-Dow Jones) A ​​bilateral agreement that suspended the US debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion saved the US from an unprecedented default and safeguarded the nation’s economic growth. President Joe Biden made the announcement in a televised address from the Oval Office on Friday evening. “Nobody got everything they wanted, but the American people got what they needed,” Biden said. …

During the well-attended VVD conference, Education Minister Dennis Wiersma also apologized to VVD members for his outrageous behavior. “I made a mistake, I was very harsh. It was not good, and I am very sorry for that. I also want to apologize here,” he said. “I’ve learned my lesson and this won’t happen again,” Wiersma promised. This was followed by …

UpdateUS President Joe Biden announced on Friday evening that he will sign a bill to raise the US debt ceiling on Saturday. He said so at 7pm local time (1am Saturday morning Dutch time) in his first speech from the Oval Office in the White House since taking office two years ago. Majorities in the US House of Representatives and …

Gregory Russia, leader of the National Party of Suriname (NPS) and member of parliament, is against giving land to foreign powers. It is a pity that he does not go beyond to give the full facts, even though he knows the history. The National Party has often chaired the Foreign Ministry, for ten years, and several times in the distant …

Jamie Dimon, chief executive of US bank JPMorgan Chase & Co, will visit Taiwan on Friday, a source with direct knowledge said. He completed a trip to China this week, his first visit to the island in nearly a decade. Dimon’s visit to Taipei, which has housed JPMorgan Bank since 1970, comes amid heightened tensions over the democratically-ruled island, which …

The US said it would stop providing Russia with certain notifications required under the New START arms control treaty from Thursday, including the locations of its missiles and missiles, in response to “ongoing violations” of the treaty by Moscow. In a fact sheet on its website, the State Department says it will stop providing telemetry data — remotely collected missile …

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered a plot by the US National Security Agency (NSA) to use previously unknown malware to gain access to so-called specially designed backdoors in Apple phones. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said several thousand Apple phones were affected, including domestic Russian subscribers. Neither Apple nor the …

01 jun 2023 om 09:39Update: 30 minuten geleden Global renewable energy capacity is expected to increase by 440 gigawatts this year. This is the biggest growth ever, the Energy Agency IEA said on Thursday. The acceleration in growth is partly due to subsidies, higher prices for fossil energy and Russia turning off the gas pipeline. By the end of this …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister Kim Yo Jong has promised Pyongyang that her country’s military spy satellite will soon enter orbit, state media KCNA reported Thursday. “We are ready to do whatever it takes to protect his sovereign rights and interests,” Kim, a high-ranking government official, said in a statement released by KCNA. His comments followed Wednesday’s failed …