PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius President Prithvirajsing Roopun said on Tuesday that he had appointed 77-year-old opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam as the country's new prime minister, following a general election on Sunday.
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The Watergate figure said the president could "take the wind" out of Trump's plans for revenge and retribution with a stroke of his pen.
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday threatened 100% tariffs against a bloc of nine nations if they act to undermine the U.S. dollar. While the U.S. dollar is by far the most-used currency in global business and has survived past challenges to its preeminence, members of the alliance and other developing nations say they are fed up with America’s dominance of the global financial system. Trump, in a Truth Social post, said: “We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy."
Kash Patel may have finally been nominated for the position he craved the most—Federal Bureau of Investigation director. But it’s not like Donald Trump wanted him first. President-elect Trump said Saturday he would nominate Patel to head the FBI, heralding him as a “brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter” and signaling he would push current FBI Director Christopher Wray out of his 10-year term. But Patel wasn’t Trump’s first choice for the role, according to Axios—he just di
President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday just days before he was scheduled to be sentenced in separate federal gun and tax cases—marking an about face for the lame-duck president. “From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Biden said in a statement. The president accused his “political opponents in Congress” of pursuing the pr
Time and time again the Assad dynasty has survived internal and external challenges and lived to fight another day. But nothing lasts forever.
The president-elect pardoned Charles Kushner near the end of his first term in the Oval Office.
ANZ, Westpac and NAB are all in agreement in when the first rate cut could come, while Commonwealth Bank remains the outlier.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said he barred the ex-Israeli minister from coming to Australia due to concerns her views could “undermine social cohesion”.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) heaped praise on MAGA billionaire Elon Musk’s plans to rein in defense spending as part of his Trump-appointed mission to find ways to slash government spending. “Elon Musk is right,” tweeted Sanders on Sunday. “Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud. That must change.” That makes Sanders, a democratic socialist who twice came in second for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, a st
The Texas Democrat advised Republicans to "take a look in the mirror" after the president pardoned his son.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a record-breaking defense budget, setting aside a staggering third of the government’s total spending as the war in Ukraine drains resources from both sides nearly three years on.
On Sunday, the president-elect announced plans to appoint Massad Boulos, the father of Tiffany Trump's husband, to serve as his senior adviser on Arab affairs.
Andrew McCabe said Trump's controversial choice is a "terrible development" for those at the agency, and his lack of qualifications aren't up for "debate."
Brendan Carr has shown that he is willing to break with longstanding and bipartisan FCC precedent to punish Trump’s detractors.
The Biden administration's shift in policy to allow Ukraine to deploy long-range ATACMS missiles and provide $300 million in military aid, combined with Putin's loosening of conditions for the use of nuclear weapons, has intensified the war in Ukraine, as the country braces for a return of Donald Trump to the White House.
A Fox News contributor on Sunday night messed up his delivery of the breaking news that President Joe Biden was planning on pardoning his son, Hunter, days before he was set to be sentenced on federal gun and tax charges. Charlie Hurt was tasked with reading the news shortly after it was first reported, though he mixed up Biden’s name with President-elect Donald Trump, prompting his co-hosts to jump in and correct the record. “NBC News is reporting that President Trump has decided he will pardon
Beginning with Presidents Clinton and Bush in the early 2000s, the U.S. response to the Kremlin’s malign activities has all too often been excessively deferential.
UK intelligence say Putin's forces are attacking "behind established Ukrainian defences".
President-elect Trump warned nations to forego efforts to adopt a new currency on Saturday by threatening to impose a 100 percent tariff on countries that try to undervalue the U.S. dollar. “We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the…
The President-elect blasted the pardon, which was announced by Biden on Sunday evening
