
Colombia presidential frontrunner vows closer US ties after Trump endorsement
Colombia's hard-right presidential frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella pledged closer ties with the United States on Tuesday after receiving US President Donald Trump's endorsement, strengthening his position ahead of a June 21 run-off election against leftist senator Ivan Cepeda.
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Inside Germany’s fight with Austria for a coveted UN Security Council seat
The contest between ostensible allies in Berlin and Vienna in a vote set for Wednesday has been unusually cutthroat.
POLITICOTrump team looking to cut aid to college majors that don’t result in high paying jobs
Donald Trump’s Education Department is considering a new rule that would cut federal student loan ac...
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-cuts-student-loans-majors-b2987412.html
Cossacks and Maroons
#Maroon communities of #Americas are of interest to anti-authoritarian left of the area, looking for inspiration outside White/European context. One way to explain history of #Cossacks of #Ukraine to an American Leftist would be to define it as European analogue of a Maroon society.
https://avtonom.org/en/author_columns/cossacks-and-maroons
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Cossacks and Maroons
Maroon communities of Americas are of interest to anti-authoritarian left of the area, looking for inspiration outside White/European context. One way to explain history of Cossacks of Ukraine to an American Leftist would be to define it as European analogue of a Maroon society. Listen this column in Spotify The currently popular story of the Ukraine among the mainstream Ukrainian liberal nationalists is that Ukraine is the original Kievan Rus civilized empire, whereas Russia is a cheap copy of it. This story has some consistency issues, but who would like to be the empire anyway, if you may be a freebooter Cossack, roaming freely in wild steppe?
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Trump to speak at rescheduled White House correspondents' dinner
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will attend and speak at a rescheduled White House correspondents' dinner on July 24, nearly three months after a shooting outside the original event prompted his evacuation. Organisers said the gathering will proceed with enhanced security, insisting violence will not dictate public life.
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Trump administration proposes 25% tariffs on Brazil despite US trade surplus
US claims world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in ‘unreasonable’ trade practices that ‘restrict US commerce’
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Cricket Canada suspended over allegations of gang-linked corruption
ICC’s decision comes amid growing concerns the team is being influenced by members of a notorious gang in India
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Trump signs order allowing AI companies to give government access to models before release
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to enable leading AI developers to voluntarily submit their most capable models for government cybersecurity tests before releasing them to the public. The order was triggered by concerns over Anthropic's Mythos model, which the company refused to release due to its ability to expose vulnerabilities in computer systems.
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