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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that Europe and Canada are raising defence spending at the fastest pace in three years.

NATO expands military spending and sends thousands of troops to Afghanistan

Moon Jae-in, far from seeking to curb Washington’s threats, has fallen into line with the steady build-up toward confrontation with North Korea.

US threatens war with North as South Korean president arrives in Washington

The IMF has not only revised down its projections of US growth but said the country’s “economic model” was failing to deliver “broadly shared” income

International Monetary Fund revises down US growth predictions

Just days prior to the G20 summit in Hamburg, the EU Commission imposed a record fine on US internet firm Google.

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Multi-billion fine for Google intensifies transatlantic tensions

While these long overdue prosecutions are welcome, it has been so long since the terrible crime was committed that many of the guilty figures are either

Criminal prosecutions finally brought 28 years after 96 Liverpool fans killed at Hillsborough stadium

May’s tawdry, anti-democratic arrangements with the ultra-right loyalist Democratic Unionist Party enabled her government to press ahead with its attacks

May government’s legislative agenda scrapes through UK parliament

Call Center Unions Build International Connections

Call Center Unions Build International Connections

LabourStart headline - Source: Catholic News Service

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