Greek farmers continue nationwide blockades to protest delayed funding
ATHENS, Dec 9 – Greek farmers continued their nationwide blockades on Tuesday, disrupting traffic along major motorways and intermittently closing border crossings to protest delays in farm aid payments. Read…
Tanzania deploys police and army to prevent Independence Day protests
Dec 9 – Police and soldiers deployed in force in Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, on Tuesday to try to prevent protests called for by activists to denounce the…
Greece’s Heraklion airport resumes flights after farmers end protest
ATHENS, Dec 9 – Flights to and from Heraklion Airport on the Greek island of Crete resumed early on Tuesday, aviation officials said, after farmers who had been blocking the…
French PM gambles on crucial social security vote
PARIS, Dec 9 – France’s social security budget faced a knife-edge vote on Tuesday that could trigger a fresh political crisis and leave a 30-billion-euro ($35 billion) hole in funding…
Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus
VILNIUS, Dec 9 – Lithuania on Tuesday declared a state of emergency due to threats to public safety from smuggled balloons originating in Belarus, the government said. Read More
French PM gambles on crucial social security vote
PARIS, Dec 9 – France’s social security budget faces a knife-edge vote on Tuesday that could trigger a fresh political crisis and leave a 30-billion-euro ($35 billion) hole in funding…
Somali TikTok star deported from US for spy kidnapping may be innocent
Mahad Maxamud may have been a victim of online rivals in ethnically tinged “roast-offs”. Read More
Trump’s top national security officials to brief ‘Gang of Eight’ US lawmakers, sources say
WASHINGTON, Dec 8 – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to brief…
Trump insists tariffs will buoy the economy but for now, he’s on damage control
Mr Trump has promised that tariff revenue will pay down the national debt, now at US$38.45 trillion. Read More
US Justice Department accuses two Chinese men of trying to smuggle Nvidia chips
One of the men and his co-conspirators allegedly got Nvidia chips through straw purchasers and intermediaries. Read More