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Arriving at Nato headquarters early on Thursday, Europe's defence ministers had one common message - that there could be no negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine and Europe at the table too.

The question is to what extent the US is listening.

International Reads: Trump’s Tariffs Could Add $20K To The Cost Of Building A New Home – IB Times US inflation report points to impending recession – UnHeard Trump claims Musk has already found ‘tens of billions’ in savings. Even DOGE’s social media accounts disagree – Independent US eggs prices hit a record high of $4.95

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Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage have been announced as speakers at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference later this month alongside close allies of President Donald Trump and his anti-climate agenda, DeSmog can reveal.

ARC is a network of influential right-wing figures from across the world, and the group claims that its conference in London will “work to re-lay the foundations of civilisation”.

Asian share markets are fairly positive across the region although Japanese shares are suffering from a reversal in Yen strength and reports about more tariff diarrhea from the Felon in Chief while currency markets are still in flux but effectively rebuffing the continued trade war. The Australian dollar is now back to its mid January

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New survey confirms majority of Australians support replacing fossil fuels with a mix of firmed renewables, but few realise how soon most coal plants will be shutting down.

These guys are something else. Origin is an original East Coast gas cartelier, has squeezed NSW to death with Eraring subsidies, has tried to dominate LNG imports, and put competing hydrogen out of business, as well as funding the Grattan Institute to corrupt the energy debate. Origin Energy chief executive Frank Calabria has urged policymakers

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Ukraine was never promised NATO membership as part of any peace agreement with Russia, the US-led military bloc’s Secretary-General Mark Rutte has said. He added that the bloc should only ensure a new conflict between Moscow and Kiev will not break out in the future, he added.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Rutte said Kiev’s potential accession had never been tied to resolution of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

In October 2024, it was revealed that Victorian taxpayers paid more than $32.9 million to 102 executives working on the Suburban Rail Loop Authority (SRLA), averaging $322,000 a head. “It seems pretty clear from the annual report that we don’t have a railway line as much as we have a gravy train”, former Liberal Opposition

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Gotti is having a baby, which tells you this is a good thing. The Greens will require big banks to offer all residential home borrowers a “homekeeper” loan facility which carries an interest rate of 1 per cent above the Reserve Bank’s cash rate. Investment and holiday home borrowers will not be entitled to the

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Australia’s rental crisis appeared to be easing after CoreLogic and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported a marked easing in rental growth. However, the latest rental vacancy data from SQM Research suggests that the rental crisis has resumed. Following a period of rental easing during the second half of 2024, the national vacancy rate

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