December 5, 2023
TEL AVIV — Israel is at war, and its longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, seems at once everywhere and nowhere. As the country confronts its gravest security crisis in decades, set off by a devastating surprise attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas that killed 1,400 people in southern Israel, the prime minister has carried on with
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Sky News contributor Kristin Tate says US President Joe Biden’s problem for running for a second term isn’t his age but his competence. “Age is absolutely just a number,” she told Sky News host Chris Kenny. Donald Trump has an incredible amount of energy, and compare that to Joe Biden, who has no energy, no
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In a year the AFL has followed the NRL’s lead into a Magic Round, maybe its time the NRL take a leaf out of their rivals’ book. Since 2016, the AFL have had a bye round before the start of the finals — which will be this week — in order to encourage teams to
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Kamala Harris has made history again by becoming the least popular vice president in US history. “Harris’ net negative rating (-17) is the lowest for any vice president in the history of the poll,” according to NBC News. I, for one, can’t remember a single achievement she achieved during her time in office. This is
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WASHINGTON – Two television events in the last 10 days – Donald Trump’s rowdy rally announced CNN City Hall and a much calmer MSNBC interview with President Biden, a sobering preview of the 2024 presidential campaign. It won’t be pretty. It may not be inspiring. And basically it will be about which candidate you no
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Paris CNN — France’s pension reform came into effect a day after the country’s Supreme Court approved the government’s unpopular plans to raise the retirement age by two years to 64. This decision marked a huge victory for President Emmanuel Macron in the face of mass protests countrywide. The Constitutional Council, in a similar fashion
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New York CNN — On Tuesday, investors shifted their focus from the stock market to Stockholm as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made his first public appearance this year. Powell took part in a panel discussion on central bank independence at an event hosted by Sweden’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank. Powell acknowledged that the painful
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