Iran’s top foreign affairs official dismissed weapons launched against the country by neighboring Israel as ‘toys’ and said there was no plan to retaliate. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian downplayed the Israeli strike during an interview on Friday, hours after the impact. ‘What happened last night wasn’t a strike,’ Foreign…
The House of Representatives has approved sending $60 billion to Ukraine for its defense against Russia’s invasion, an issue that has roiled Speaker Mike Johnson’s already perilously slim majority. The aid package passed 311 to 112, with more Democrats voted in favor than Republicans – and just 101 Republicans voted…
The House of Representatives showed overwhelming bipartisan support for a $26 billion foreign aid bill providing funding for Israel and humanitarian aid to Gaza. The bill predictably polarized the most right and left-wing members of Congress; the former are furious over the $9 billion in aid aimed at the State…
Whistleblower Edward Snowden called for President Joe Biden to veto the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Saturday after the Senate voted to pass the re-authorization on Friday. ‘The House has voted to approve unconstitutional, warrantless searches of Americans’ communications,’ Snowden wrote on X,…
The Biden administration could announce sanctions against an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) battalion for alleged human rights violations in the West Bank before the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas-led terrorists, according to reports. Axios reported that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken could announce the sanctions against IDF…
Major indexes slid this week as market participants adjusted their interest rate expectations. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin halving is approaching, and some experts are urging buyers to exercise caution. Also this week, the company that made humanoid robots a reality introduced a new and improved version. 1. Bitcoin halving quickly approaching…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index (INDEXTSI:JX) fell 20.69 points last week to close at 567.02. Statistics Canada released March consumer price index figures this past Tuesday (April 16), showing inflation was up 2.9 percent on a year-on-year basis, higher than the 2.8 percent year-on-year growth reported in February. Gasoline prices,…
International Graphite Limited (ASX: IG6) is delighted to announce it has received an additional $6.5 million grant from the Western Australian Government to establish Australia’s first downstream graphite processing plant. The award builds on two years of establishment work and brings the Company’s total funding from the State’s Collie Just…
Spartan Resources Limited (Spartan or Company) (ASX:SPR) is pleased to announce that the Company has successfully completed an institutional placement (Placement) and the institutional component of a 1-for-17 fully underwritten pro rata accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer (Institutional Entitlement Offer, together with the Placement the Institutional Offer) of new fully paid…
Galan Lithium Limited (ASX:GLN) (Galan or the Company) is very pleased to announce that on Friday 19 April 2024 (Argentina time), the Catamarca Governor signed a commercial agreement in support of the grant of permits for the commercialisation of lithium chloride concentrate from the Hombre Muerto West lithium brine project…