The House of Representatives contest has been a very comfortable win for Labor, and this has also been reflected in the Senate.
One of the biggest deciding factors in the Senate is whether either the left or right can win a “4-2 split”, where their side can win four out of six. Almost all elections are 3-3 splits, although there are some senators (such as Jacqui Lambie) who don’t fit into the two sides.
I thought it might be third time lucky, but I was wrong again. I backed the wrong horse as pope!
European leaders have urged Russia to agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine starting on Monday.
The call was issued at a meeting of the "coalition of the willing" in Kyiv. The leaders of France, Germany, the UK and Poland were hosted by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, while others joined remotely.
Russophobia is a way of turning specific pseudo-facts into essential one-dimensional values, barbarity, despotism, and expansionism in the Russian case in order to justify stigmatization and ostracism.
Russophobia: A “Will” of Peter the Great or a Polish “Memo” to Napoleon?
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Andrei Loginov’s Proposal
We have seen this play out before, the United States government relentlessly acting to control the government in a former Soviet Union republic bordering Russia and then proceeding to support that government in war against Russia. That course of action has led to devastation in Ukraine, including the deaths of hundreds of thousands of individuals, in a US proxy war against Russia.
The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland are on their way to the Ukrainian capital, according to a joint statement released late on Friday night.
DXY is back. AUD is forgotten. Lead boots are shaky again. Oil is a dead cat. Gold consolidating. Base metals growth no bueno. Big miners caput. EM caput. Junk is nervous. Yields uh oh for dead cat stocks. Dead cat looking lifeless. Current forex dynamics are not complex. If you want to buy dead cat
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Foreign exchange strategists at Westpac have revised their Euro (EUR/USD) and Pound Sterling (GBP/USD) forecasts higher against the US Dollar, citing structural US risks and stronger-than-expected growth in Europe and the UK.
Johann Wadephul, the new German Foreign Minister, has arrived in Ukraine for his first visit on 9 May.
Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church; he will be known as Pope Leo XIV.
Attention now turns to what vision the first US pope will bring.
Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt lost his parliamentary seat Thursday, as final counting from the recent general election concluded and voters showed the arch left-wing politician the door.
His party fared no better as the Greens have secured no seats so far, though one is still considered too close to call.
They had four seats in the previous parliament.
Tariff war is not an episode of economic relations; it is a new world emerging. Trump wants to create the conditions inside the U.S. to bring back distributed economic assets—especially industrial ones—from abroad. The goal is to restore economic sovereignty and generate momentum for inner development.
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