Hong Kong passes second national security law, widening crackdown powers and aligning city more closely with mainland China #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…...

Japan's central bank pulls the plug on its ultra-aggressive monetary stimulus programme, hiking rates for the first time in 17 years. The Bank of Japan's outlier policy of negative rates and massive asset purchases was aimed at jump-starting economic growth and price rises after...

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Armenia must hand over four frontier villages to Azerbaijan and return to its Soviet-era borders as part of a push for peace, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said, warning the alternative is another round of bloody fighting between the two South Caucasus nations. Full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press…...

The EU has signed off on a security deal with the United States that will allow it to pay Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch its satellites. Read the full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…...

The president of Serbia on Monday batted away any suggestion that he might have intentionally tried to steer a valuable real estate project in Serbia’s capital to Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, in an effort to influence Trump should he return to the White House. The…...