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Argentina's right-wing president-elect to meet with a top Biden adviser
WASHINGTON (AP) — Argentina's right-wing President-elect Javier Milei will meet with President Joe Biden's national security adviser on Tuesday in Washington, according to the White House. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday that Milei will meet...
Republicans want to pair border security with aid for Ukraine. Here's why that makes a deal so tough
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress returns to session this week, lawmakers will be trying to forge an agreement on sending a new round of wartime assistance to Ukraine. But to succeed, they will have to find agreement on an issue that has confounded them for decades. Republicans in both...
New Zealand's new government promises tax cuts, more police and less bureaucracy
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealanders can expect tax cuts, more police on the streets and less government bureaucracy, according to the three leaders who signed an agreement Friday to form a new government. The coalition deal ended nearly six weeks of intense negotiations...
Dutch election winner Geert Wilders is an anti-Islam firebrand known as the Dutch Donald Trump
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — He's been called the Dutch Donald Trump. He's been threatened with death countless times by Islamic extremists, convicted of insulting Moroccans, and Britain once banned him from entering the country. Now Geert Wilders has won a massive victory in a...
Editorial Roundup: West Virginia
Charleston Gazette-Mail. November 17, 2023. Editorial: What ‘middle’ is Manchin looking for? Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said this week he’d consider a third-party presidential run on a centrist ticket representing “the radical middle” of U.S. politics, if it...
Greece's left-wing opposition party slips into crisis as lawmakers quit in defiance of new leader
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s main left-wing opposition party, Syriza, suffered a damaging setback Thursday when nine lawmakers quit the party in protest against its newly elected leadership. Miami-based businessman Stefanos Kasselakis, 35, stunned party veterans when he won the...
Turkey's central bank hikes interest rates again as it tries to tame eye-watering inflation
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s central bank delivered another huge interest rate hike on Thursday as it tries to curb double-digit inflation that has left households struggling to afford food and other basic goods. The bank pushed its policy rate up by 5 percentage points, to...
An anti-European Union billboard campaign in Hungary turns up tensions with the Orbán government
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A countrywide billboard campaign that flooded the streets of Hungary this week takes aim at European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the start of an election campaign that marks an escalation of tensions between the country's nationalist conservative government...
Dutch election winner Geert Wilders is an anti-Islam firebrand known as the Dutch Donald Trump
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — He's been called the Dutch Donald Trump. He's been threatened with death countless times by Islamic extremists, convicted of insulting Moroccans and Britain once banned him from entering the country. Now Geert Wilders has won a massive victory in a...
Pennsylvania governor appeals decision blocking plan to make power plants pay for greenhouse gases
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration said Tuesday that it is appealing a court ruling that blocked a state regulation to make Pennsylvania's power plant owners pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, even as the Democrat warned lawmakers to get to work on a...
