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Crypto markets have rallied to an all-time high of $4.24 trillion in market capitalisation, as investors increased their bets that the Federal Reserve will further cut interest rates at their upcoming October 29th meeting following weaker-than-expected employment data from the US. Although the current government shutdown prevented the release of the main non-farm payrolls report, we did see ADP figures,...

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned hours after naming his new government, the Elysee Palace announced Monday, deepening the country's political crisis. Farar-right National Rally immediately urged President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election. French President Emmanuel Macron named Lecornu, a former defence minister, to the post last month. He unveiled a largely unchanged cabinet late Sunday which drew...

Romania’s foreign ministry has responded to accusations by the Russian President Vladimir Putin that it manipulated elections, accusing Moscow itself of trying to illegally sway the vote in recent Romanian and Moldovan elections. The foreign ministry came back at claims made by Putin who said Romania had  “manipulated the will of the people” during statements given at the Valdai Discussion...

Romania will be battered by winter storms this week, with the highest red alert issued for southeastern regions, forecasters said. The National Meteorological Agency said there would be heavy rain and high winds of up to 90 km/h and blizzards at high altitudes until Thursday. Snow  dumps up to 30 cm can be expected, more than usual for early October. A...

Is it a grand bargain over Hamas? Either way, he executive order granting NATO-style protections deepens the enigma of whether Netanyahu really defied the US in striking at Doha President Trump’s latest executive order was overshadowed by the seemingly shinier proposal this week to end the war in Gaza, but its implications are seismic: The United States has extended NATO-style...

Lawmakers from the Danish autonomous territory which is Greenland are currently in debate on joining the European Union.  This comes after a recent meeting between Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission in Copenhagen with the occasion of the European Political Community summit.  Von der Leyen told Nielsen that the European Union wanted...

Why We Believe (or Pretend To) Science, reason, and democracy challenged God — yet billions still cling to religious faith. Here’s why. This is the High Holiday season of Judaism, when even some secular people may find themselves engaged in some ritual whose meaning they barely endorse or comprehend — yet which they still feel compelled to honor. It is...

The former mayor of Bucharest, Sorin Oprescu, convicted on corruption charges in Romania, was detained on Saturday by Greek authorities in the parking lot of Thessaloniki Airport 10 years after his initial arrest. An image of Oprescu escorted by officers, with a police car next to him, was released by Greek police. "According to our sources, Sorin Oprescu was caught in...

On 10 September, Poland shot down Russian drones intercepting its territory.  A few days later, Russian drones dropped over Romania.  On 23 September, airports in Denmark and Norway closed due to drone sightings.  Now, on Saturday and Friday, Munich Airport was closed twice in 24 hours due to drone sightings. This caused massive disruption and delay for travellers.  Approximately 6,500 passengers were stranded.  Russia’s Kremlin...

It's now up to Qatar and the Arabs to get the terrorist group to "Yes" This weekend Trump celebrated what he called a breakthrough in Gaza. Hamas, he declared, was “ready for a lasting PEACE,” and he ordered Israel to stop bombing so that hostages could be freed. The occasion was a statement issued by the Islamist movement in response...