EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said she “will be very smart” by the end of her term thanks to her reading habits.
Kallas made the remark at a press conference on Thursday after a journalist offered to give her a book on Kurdish history by Masoud Barzani, the first president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.
International Reading: ‘The American People Deserve It’: Democrats Reveal Their 3 Demands to Avoid a Shutdown. – Time Scott Bessent said Americans should skip toys for kids’ birthdays and instead invest in Trump’s accounts – Independent Melania Trump to earn at least $28M from Amazon for documentary deal: report – NY Post Partial federal shutdown
Science in the Arctic — and Greenland — is on the frontline of pressing challenges facing humanity, like climate change and genetics. Some researchers worry international collaboration is at risk.
Decades of successful scientific collaboration could be at risk if political relations between Europe and the US continue to fray over trade and defense issues.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has declared that the military is fully prepared to “deliver whatever” President Donald Trump orders regarding Iran, as a major naval armada moves toward the region.
Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Hegseth warned Tehran against pursuing nuclear weapons, which Iran has consistently denied seeking.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stated that the principle of self-determination does not apply to the people of Crimea and Donbass, drawing sharp condemnation from Moscow.
High speed rail is synonymous with the kind of high capital cost infrastructure which seems to paralyse governments in Australia. Here's a solution.
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Nobody wants US dollars. But they want Bitcoin even less. This is a pretty stark break from the narrative we’ve been sold about BTC being “digital gold” or some kind of alternative “reserve currency” that can’t be debased. Indeed, markets are consumed by a global fiat debasement trade at the moment, yet BTC keeps falling.
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Wednesday’s CPI inflation release for December was a shocker that, alongside the decline in the nation’s unemployment rate to 4.1%, suggests that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will hike the official cash rate at next month’s monetary policy meeting. The policy-relevant trimmed mean inflation rose by a stronger-than-expected 0.9% over the December quarter to
BNEF says a more needs to be done, and quickly, for Australia to meet its renewable targets. Storage looks good, but wind and solar comes up short. Bowen is batting on.
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London: A photograph of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin standing side by side in Alaska has been framed and put on display in the White House.
The posed portrait of the US and Russian presidents, taken at the Alaska summit in August, has been hung on a wall in the Palm Room, which links the West Wing to the presidential residence.
When I moved to Hellbourne from Sydney (oh, the regret) in 2009, after successfully selling The Diplomat in Japan on the eve of the GFC, I met the rulers of the incipient Grattan Institute to see if they might be worth my time. It was a jarring experience. My freewheeling intellect and entrepreneurial style clashed with their
The media frequently criticises coal generation subsidies while overlooking the significantly larger subsidies for renewable energy. Some of Australia’s leading fund managers and economists are warning that two major federal financing programs for renewable energy—the Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) and the National Reconstruction Fund (NRF)—risk becoming “slush funds” unless the government provides far greater transparency
The ferrous jaws must close! A 2% pop yesterday, driven by news of the easing of the “three red lines” for some Chinese property developers, faded overnight. This is quite right, but it shows that sentiment is in no mood for reflexive recoveries. The news flow wasn’t bullish on the ground, either. Inventories of imported
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Salespeople are using social media to urge consumers get in soon to beat solar panel price rises, but is it as big a deal as they are making out?
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Origin starts tapping into revenues from the first stages of the two biggest battery storage projects currently being built in Australia.
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