Tag: signals
France signals willingness to discuss reparations for colonial massacres in Niger
More than a century after its troops burned villages and looted cultural artefacts in the quest to include Niger in its west African colonial portfolio, France has signalled willingness over possible restitution, but is yet to acknowledge responsibility. The 19 June response was given to a letter dated two months earlier from a UN special…
Trump EPA Reorganization Signals End to Climate Work
EPA Reorganization Signals End to Climate Work Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate offices that track greenhouse gas emissions and regulate air pollution By Jean Chemnick & E&E News EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin aims to eliminate the Office of Atmospheric Protection and Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. CLIMATEWIRE |…
A Quick, Quiet Trip to Belarus Signals a Turn in U.S. Policy
Trump Administration After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow. By Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled…
Trump to be sentenced over hush money case but judge signals no jail time
A judge has ordered that Donald Trump will be sentenced on 10 January in his hush-money case in New York – less than two weeks before he is set to be sworn in as president. Judge Juan Merchan signalled he’d sentence Trump to a conditional discharge, in which a case is closed without jail time,…