According to internal sources, a temporary ban on political ads is designed to eliminate misleading political content that could affect the choices made by American voters. Facebook is considering a ban on political ads on the social media platform in the run-up to the US presidential election this November, Bloomberg […]
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You pay to kill our troops—we won’t invite you to our meeting of world leaders. That’s the scenario being mulled by senior officials in the upper echelons of the Trump administration, who are scrambling for a way to respond to Russia after news broke that Moscow paid bounties to the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107918/06/1079180662_0:0:3069:1727_1200x675_80_0_0_3302eb80897e8c9c16972230e5a2dd70.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006231079699890-battle-of-wits-trump-reportedly-mulls-challenging-biden-to-a-cognitive-test/ While a number of social media users appeared to express a desire to see Biden accept Trump’s challenge, at least one person wondered aloud what would happen if both candidates were to “lose”. With the presidential election in the United States looming on […]
Russian IT firms may enjoy significantly lower income tax and insurance payments, according to a plan laid out by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The tax break envisages a nearly twofold reduction of insurance payments – from 14 percent to 7.6 percent – while income tax could be cut to three […]
US President Donald Trump wants to personally “get involved” with advertiser boycotts that have hit American conservative speakers and outlets amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and make them illegal. Trump touched upon the hot topic on Friday, speaking exclusively with the Daily Caller. The president accused activist groups […]
Earlier reports claimed two of Britain’s biggest mobile operators, BT and Vodafone, warned the government that parts of the country might face mobile blackouts if they were to pull Huawei gear out of their networks following US pressure to ban the Chinese tech giant. British security officials have reportedly urged […]
Reports have emerge amid another book-related issue that resulted in a lawsuit – this involving former national security adviser John Bolton’s to-be-published tome “The Room Where It Happened”. A federal lawsuit against Bolton suggests that the book would reveal classified information. US President Donald Trump is said to be weighing […]
Viral 02:07 GMT 05.06.2020Get short URL The ‘dual tariff’ regime will allow different levels of duty on imported foods and meats, depending on whether they meet current UK standards. Opening up the UK to the lightly-regulated US agriculture market has been a contentious issue in US-UK trade talks. The UK […]
US 03:41 GMT 21.05.2020Get short URL The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), the only agreement limiting the number of nuclear weapons in Russia and the US to remain in effect, is set to expire in 2021, as the Trump administration keeps avoiding the extension, insisting instead that China must […]
World 06:47 GMT 14.05.2020Get short URL Last week, London and Washington launched formal talks on a free trade deal in the wake of the UK’s departure from the European Union. There are many things at stake in this process, which promises to be a “hard bargain”, including criticisms over American […]
Europe 16:58 GMT 10.05.2020Get short URL Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki praised the ruling by Germany’s Constitutional Court on the EU’s mass-bond buying scheme, which he called “one of the most important rulings in the history of the European Union”. Head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said […]