Pro-Beijing media published personal details of a US diplomatic official caught meeting with notable Hong Kong independence activists, including her children’s names...
"We now think that fresh elections will most likely take place between mid-October and mid-November 2019. Our base case is of a far-right government headed by Mr Salvini’s Lega."
"They occupied the highest executive positions in those three Goldman Sachs subsidiaries, and exercised or ought to have exercised decision-making authority over the transactions of those bodies corporate."
...some racist psycho murdered a bunch of people in Texas, so it’s time to “take the gloves off” again, pass some new kind of Patriot Act, further curtail our civil liberties, and whip the public up into mass hysteria over “white supremacist terrorism.”
"I am more worried about internal social war in the United States than outside wars... I don’t feel comfortable living in the United States anymore because people are so aggressive on everything..."
Well that didn't last long... Germany's finance minister confirmed to Bloomberg via phone that Germany has made no decision to give up a balance budget.
In a potentially catastrophic escalation of tensions in the Persian Gulf, Russia plans to use Iran’s ports in Bandar-e-Bushehr and Chabahar as forward military bases for warships and nuclear submarines...
Ireland’s soft power in the US has long been hidden in plain sight, drawing on the appeal of an ethnic identity that around 35m Americans claimed in the last national census...
