USA - The deployment, the first of its kind in decades, comes amid persistent missile tests by the North. The US will deploy submarines to South Korea armed with nuclear ballistic missiles, officials told reporters on Tuesday. Intended to deter North Korea from further missile tests, the deployment is also likely aimed at reassuring the South Korean public, who recently learned that the US systematically spied on their government.
AUSTRALIA - Canberra is set to adapt its military assets amid ongoing US-China tension. A comprehensive assessment of Australia’s defense forces has found that the country’s military must undergo drastic changes if it is to have the capacity to address fluctuating strategic demands in the Indo-Pacific. The report comes amid concern in Canberra over the potential impact of posturing by Beijing and Washington in the region. The center-left Labor government-ordered Defense Strategic Review, released on Monday, declared Australia’s armed forces to be not “fit for purpose,” and called for increased spending on assets, including long-range missiles and military drones.
USA - US President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday that a North Korean nuclear attack on his country or South Korea would spell doom for Pyongyang. Under a new agreement between Washington and Seoul, the US would respond to such an attack with nuclear weapons, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol added. “A nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies or partners is unacceptable and will result in the end of whatever regime were to take such an action,” Biden told reporters at the White House.
ISRAEL - Netanyahu calls for unity as protesters opposed to his government’s hardline policies gather outside Jerusalem event and opponents hold ‘protest party’ in Tel Aviv. Israel marked its 75th Independence Day on Tuesday under the pall of societal fissures exposed by the hardline government’s contentious policies, with a national ceremony taking place in Jerusalem and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging unity, while protesters demonstrated outside the main event and the coalition’s opponents held a dueling rally in Tel Aviv.
USA - Cases of a dangerous, extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strain of shigella — an easily transmissible bacteria that results in serious, potentially life-threatening gastrointestinal infections — are on the rise in the United States, according to a recent health advisory from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although shigella causes an estimated 450,000 infections in the US each year, none had been linked to the highly resistant strain before 2015. Since then, infections with the XDR strain have been reported in 29 states and now make up about 5% of all cases nationwide.
UK - Did you know that synthetic fragrances are considered the new second hand smoke? Crazy right? Just like cigarette smoke, synthetic fragrances pollute the air and wreak havoc with our health. Please tell me I’m not the only one who holds their breath walking past Lush, the fragrance counter at David Jones, or the cleaning isle in the supermarket. Manufacturers get to hide behind the word parfum or fragrance, as these can be considered a trade secret recipe. But this means these synthetic fragrances may be composed of hundreds of synthetic endocrine disrupting chemicals that are wreaking havoc with your hormones and your health. And most of these chemicals aren’t tested for safety. Synthetic fragrances have been linked to hormone imbalances, respiratory problems, brain fog, allergies, headaches, migraines and more.
USA - The most common synthetic chemical offenders are found in pesticides, plastics (by way of the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA), and beauty products (thanks to two types of chemicals: phthalates and parabens). They can show up in the food you eat, the cookware you use, and the products you put on your face, as well as in everyday objects like receipts and plastic bags.
GERMANY - This week marks the first bombing waves of the wars of aggression in violation of international law, which have had no consequences for the perpetrators. Today, twenty years ago, US troops launched the invasion of Iraq with the participation of British, Australian and Polish troops. This invasion was legitimized with blatant lies and was to serve strategic power interests, like the assault on Libya, launched by French fighter jets twelve years ago yesterday – invoking initially a resolution of the UN Security Council, which was immediately violated and illegally used to overthrow the Libyan government.
LEBANON - We are in the early stages of a global economic collapse, and people all over the globe are getting extremely angry. Here in the United States, higher prices are an inconvenience, but in other parts of the world higher prices can mean the difference between feeding your family or not. And once people get to a point where they cannot even survive on the incomes that they are bringing in, they can become very unpredictable and very violent. For example, a large economic protest that just happened in Lebanon quickly descended into violence as protesters aggressively clashed with government security forces…
UK - An online calculator showing what pay rise Britons need to keep up with inflation has been unveiled - after a Bank of England chief said people must 'accept they're worse off' and stop asking for more money. It comes as BoE chief Huw Pill's remarks provoked outrage across the political spectrum. A top City figure suggested he should 'engage brain before opening mouth' and a business group described the chief economist as 'astonishingly out of touch'.
USA - The United States has been the world’s most dominant economic nation since World War 2, and the primary way they have maintained their empire has been by controlling the world’s oil and energy. But the world is quickly changing as more and more people wake up to the fact that the Ukraine war has been a proxy war between the US and Russia, and that the goal of the US has been to cut off Europe, which does not produce near enough oil to meet the needs of its population, from the cheap energy they were importing from Russia. But the rest of the world is striking back now, and quickly abandoning the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, which has been called the “petrol dollar,” being the currency that the world has used to trade oil.
GERMANY - German authorities are reportedly rethinking a plan to sell a large stake in its largest port to a company owned by the Chinese government. A formerly government-approved plan to sell a large stake in the port of Hamburg to Chinese multinational COSCO Shipping is now reportedly in doubt after further investigation into the port has revealed — as if it wasn’t already obvious — the level of its strategic significance. The port of Hamburg is the largest in Germany, the second largest in Europe, and one of the most important in the world.
UK - Sex before marriage is no longer taboo in America, but a new report suggests staying abstinent until after your wedding ensures a happily ever after. Researchers from Brigham Young University found that 45 percent of men and women who had only had sex with their spouse reported a 'very high' level of relationship stability in their marriage. The researchers suggest their findings might be due to the risk of comparing or previous sexual partners interfering with a marriage. "These findings challenge the notion that sexual experimentation in the dating years helps people 'settle down' and get ready for marriage," reads the study.
UK - Britain's £3.2 billion aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been reduced to acting as a scrap-yard. Essential pieces of equipment are being ripped out of the stricken warship, a move that raises questions over its long-term future. The UK's second carrier has been in dry dock since breaking down off Portsmouth in August 2022. Now Navy top brass have begun stripping the carrier – a process known as 'cannibalisation' – which will render HMS Prince of Wales inoperable for much longer. Lift chains, which allow fighter jets to be raised from below deck, electrical systems and sections of the ship's gas turbines have been taken out.
BANGLADESH - The head of Sonali Bank Limited, Md Afzal Karim, stated that “Bilateral trade with India in taka and INR will reduce pressure on the US dollar.” As Bangladesh dumps US currency and becomes the 19th country to trade with India with rupees, both nations stand to gain from this. Bangladesh has become the 19th nation to settle bi-lateral trade with India in Indian rupees. Both the countries were in talks for months to give up dollar and use their local currencies for clearing transactions.
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