• Global economic risks ‘could eclipse anything since second world war’, says JP Morgan boss

    In annual letter to investors, Jamie Dimon warns ‘wars in Ukraine and Middle East could become far worse’The boss of the US bank JP Morgan has warned that the world could be facing the most dangerous moment since the second world war, putting lives and economic growth at risk.In his annual letter to investors, Jamie Dimon said the world had been “generally on a path to becoming stronger and safer” in recent years but had suffered a major reversal in February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine....

  • World Bank's Banga wants to make gains in tackling the effects of climate change, poverty and war

    WASHINGTON (AP) — There was no shortage of stressors to the global economy when Ajay Banga took charge at the World Bank almost a year ago: inflation eating at nations drowning in debt, a once-in-a-generation pandemic, climate disasters and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Factor in the Israel-Hamas war and rising tensions between powerful nations, and […]

  • Detectives solve 1968 killing of World War II veteran who became milkman, Florida sheriff says

    Authorities say they've identified a man they believe killed a World War II veteran who worked as a milkman in a Florida cold case that dates back 56 years

  • German troops arrive in Lithuania, their first long-term foreign deployment since World War II

    Lithuanian leaders hailed a “historic event” as Germany on Monday began deploying troops in the Baltic country — a NATO member — marking the first time since World War II that German forces will be based outside the country on a long-term basis. About two dozen soldiers arrived in Lithuania,

  • World War II Didn't End The Great Depression

    World War II Didn't End The Great Depression By Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities A principal goal of Stark Realities is to “expose fundamental myths across the political spectrum” — and few myths are as universally embraced as the notion that US participation in World War II lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression. This myth is dangerous not only because it leads citizens and politicians to see a bright side of war that doesn’t really exist, but also because it...

  • Biden mischaracterizes his uncle's disappearance during World War II

    President Joe Biden on Wednesday mischaracterized the circumstances of his uncle's death during World War II as he lambasted former President Donald Trump's comments about the military. "He got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea," Biden said during his remarks invoking his uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan. However, U.S. military records about Finnegan's death do not mention the aircraft's...

  • Climate change education needs review, say Cambridge experts

    Cambridge Press & Assessment survey says students need to be empowered with skills and knowledge.

  • Trump says Israel's war with Hamas could end up in a global conflict

    At a Friday press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, former president Donald Trump suggested that Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza could escalate into a world war."What's going on in Israel could end up in a world war," Trump said.Trump then continued by criticizing President Joe Biden, saying he "doesn't know what the hell he is doing." console.log("2390 BODY2. CatId is:"+catID);if(catID==120){ console.log("2390 BODY. YES for anyclip script"); var script =...

  • Biden suggests unfounded idea about his uncle and ‘cannibals’ in World War II

    President Joe Biden appeared to suggest that cannibals ate his uncle after he was shot down during World War II, though military records say otherwise. Speaking with reporters on Wednesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden twice recalled the story of his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific theater […]

  • The abandoned Cambridgeshire storage facility for explosives used during World War II

    The site was also used to create mustard gas bombs

  • Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact, say experts

    Decision by European court of human rights around vulnerability of older women to heatwaves marks significant shiftA landmark legal ruling at the European court of human rights could open the floodgates for a slew of new court cases around the world, experts have said.The Strasbourg-based court said earlier this week that Switzerland’s failure to do enough to cut its national greenhouse gas emissions was a clear violation of the human rights of a group of more than 2,000 older Swiss women. The...

  • Dem Rep. Eric Sorensen Says Climate Change To Blame for Border Crisis

    Rep. Eric Sorensen (D., Ill.) believes climate change is driving the "chaos" fueling the ongoing border crisis. During an interview with a regional PBS affiliate last week, the first-term congressman was asked about the ongoing border crisis, which polling has consistently shown to be a top issue for voters in the upcoming elections. The congressman blamed climate change.