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Eastern Europe’s love affair with Trump runs deep – but economic fallout may soon cool the romance.Despite Donald Trump’s fraying popularity at home, there is a corner of the globe where his brand remains remarkably resilient: Eastern Europe. Last Sunday, the Trump-loving far-right populist George Simion topped the first round of Romania’s presidential elections, securing over 40 percent of the vote and a realistic path to the top office. Echoing Trump’s pledge to “Make America Great Again,” Simion promises to “give back to the Romanian people what was taken from them”. He is not an outlier. In neighbouring Hungary, Prime…

Top House Democrats on Wednesday are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to spare a civil rights-era office that has frequently been referred to as the “peacemakers program.”An internal Justice Department memo reviewed by CBS News last month said President Trump’s appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service, which was created as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The mission of the office is to be “America’s peacemaker,” tasked with “preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, conflicts, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony.”In a letter sent Wednesday to Bondi and the Justice Department,…

In his first broadcast interview since leaving the White House, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. condemned President Trump’s handling of the war in Ukraine and his dealings with global allies, and defended the timing of his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential campaign.Mr. Biden did not mention his successor by name in the interview with the BBC. But in a departure from an unwritten rule of former presidents, he criticized some of Mr. Trump’s actions as president — including his combative meeting in the Oval Office with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in February.“I found it sort of beneath America…

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Disney — Shares of the media and entertainment company advanced more than 7% after surpassing Wall Street’s second-quarter estimates. Disney reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.45 on revenue of $23.62 billion, while analysts polled by LSEG were looking for $1.20 per share and $23.14 billion, respectively. The company also raised its full-year earnings outlook to $5.75 per share, while Wall Street was looking for $5.43 per share. Separately, Disney agreed to partner with Miral to build a theme park and resort in Abu Dhabi . Super Micro Computer — The…

A working flower farm that has been quietly growing some of the states most stunning blooms over the last 35 years is now open to the public seven days a week.Just off the Bussell Highway between Busselton and Margaret River sits Yelverton Protea Farm set over two hundred acres of undulating fields and nurtured by the Island Brook creek.The flower farm was previously focused on selling to wholesalers but now invites members of the public to visit the farm to buy blooms such as Proteas and Native Wildflowers.“We’ve always grown for the wholesale market . . . but opening our…

Is there a path to de-escalation and long-term peace? Researcher Iftekharul Basha from the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies think-tank wrote in a commentary after the April attack in Pahalgam that India needs to take steps to ensure social cohesion and co-existence; and respect diversity. “Alienating Indian Muslims will only pave the way for extremists to exploit the situation,” he said. Pakistan, too, has a responsibility to take credible measures to ensure regional peace and security by thoroughly investigating and clamping down on terrorist groups operating within its borders, Mr Basha added.  He also cited the South Asian Association…

In SummaryThe South Sudan and Somalia governments’ spending is now being monitored in real-time using digital systems to regulate corruption.Eritrea has added teaching anti-corruption to school curricula, Equatorial Guinea has adopted an e-ordering system, and Libya has eliminated paying ghost workers.Equatorial Guinea held the first-ever anti-corruption summit in Chad, where they addressed Guinea-Bissau’s computerized taxation framework, showcasing a notable shift in African governance practices.Deep Dive! To an investor, the corruption index of a nation is a very critical piece of information worth considering before making any serious investment decision. Just like other parts of the world, corruption is a huge…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One of the men accused of taking part in the antisemitic sign controversy that appeared at one of Barstool Sports’ bars in Philadelphia spoke out Tuesday in the latest twist in the ordeal.A sign that read “f— the Jews” was spotted at the bar in a video that went viral across social media over the weekend. Dave Portnoy has weighed in, at times furiously, and offered one of the men a trip to Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust as penance for the antisemitic incident.However, that offer has since been revoked. Barstool…

Israel’s latest plan to displace people in northern Gaza has prompted a new wave of despair among Palestinian civilians in the territory, many of whom have already been displaced several times since the war began.The displacement plan would compound an already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, where hunger has soared since Israel imposed a blockade on aid supplies in March, prompting the United Nations to warn this week of a “growing humanitarian catastrophe.”“We don’t want to even hear the word ‘evacuation’ again,” said Anees Jneed, 31, a displaced Palestinian living in a makeshift shelter in northern Gaza. Mr. Jneed said…

Amsterdam prospered as a banking center even as it declined as a center of manufacturing and commerce. By the late 18th century, Europe no longer wanted Dutch fabrics or Dutch fish, and it no longer needed Dutch ships. In 1783, a group of Dutch merchants sent a gift of salted herring to George Washington, requesting his endorsement and, presumably, seeking a new market. Washington responded that the herring was “undoubtedly of a higher flavour than our own,” but that America had plenty of fish. What remained in demand was all the money the Dutch had made from trade. The merchants…