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Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is set to cruise to victory after more than 30 years in power. Sunday's presidential election has been slammed as a sham, with his rivals broadly seen as government stooges.

Belarus: Lukashenko poised for 'farce' election victory

Will Thomas, assistant professor of business law at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, has been keenly and carefully following the legal twists and turns surrounding Donald Trump.

Thomas explores where things stand now that Trump is back in the White House:

I have been reading Stan Grant’s beautiful new book, Murriyang song of time (Bundyi: Sydney 2024). There is in it a sentence pertaining to the Uluru Statement of the Heart and the subsequent failed Referendum. Stan Grant says, poignantly, that ‘the Uluru Statement spoke from the afflicted to a nation that has never loved us.’

The US Senate has confirmed army veteran and Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense on Friday.

Vice President J.D. Vance arrived in the chamber and cast the tie-breaking vote, sealing Hegseth’s appointment.

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Mitch McConnell broke ranks and joined the Democrats in voting no.

DXY has begun its consolidation in earnest. Is it twin peaks as Trump turns soggy on China tariffs? AUD bear hunting season has started. Nice little inverse head and shoulders bottom for traders to buy. CFTC still way short. Bullish! Lead boots up and away! Gold grotesquely overbought but at least it has a falling

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FOR GUS Leonisky, this is a personal issue. When JFK was assassinated, Gus was visiting someone who had been working for the family. The person is long dead, but the tears are still alive. GUS has been waiting 62 years to find out WHO killed JFK…

The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States is this week’s main news story, not only in America but also in domestic Russian politics. Though all eyes on that day were fixed on Trump, it is telling that he also became the subject of intense discussions in this country, ranging from political circles to ordinary kitchen conversations. This is no anomaly — it is entirely logical.

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The big news to end the trading week here in Asia is a possible turnaround on the Trump Tariffs on Chyna with Asian stock markets lifting in general across the region while the USD was pushed significantly lower, particularly against Yen. This was helped by the expected rate rise by the BOJ in its meeting

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Just hours into his second presidency, Donald Trump was already bulldozing congressional Republicans.

ANZ with the details. The global gas market showed tentative signs of recovery last year following recent supply side shocks. However, the market remains finely balanced. We see a few key issues dictating the market in 2025. Geopolitical issues are likely to dominate global gas markets this year, particularly Russia’s role as a gas and

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Blackrock’s Larry Fink is badly upsetting the Aussie applecart at Davos. Larry Fink, CEO of @BlackRock, says developed nations with “xenophobic” immigration policies are going to have a higher standard of living than ever before. Non-xenophobic countries are going to have social problems with their new 3rd world immigrants. pic.twitter.com/XkDvBgFUsY — National Conservative (@NatCon2022) January

This is a great idea. Coalition MPs are pushing for bolder “Australia-first” populist policies in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the US, as an influential conservative think-tank questions the party’s economic vision. What form does it take? The opposition’s first economic policy of the year – a tax deduction for business lunches –

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