Day: February 18, 2025

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Australia’s central bank cut interest rates for the first time since the depths of the 2020 pandemic, saying progress had been made on inflation though it was still cautious about prospects of further policy easing reut.rs/3D4NFHh

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Leonard Peltier to be released from prison following sentence commutation in FBI killings

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is set to be released from a Florida prison Tuesday. That comes weeks after former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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Okinawa Is a Japanese Island Caught Between the U.S. and China

Residents of the Japanese island see U.S. bases as a legacy of war and colonialism, but younger generations also worry about a threat from China.
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U.S. Marines Start to Leave Japan, Decades Behind Schedule

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the perceived threat from a rising China.
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US and Russia prepare to hold talks on ending war in Ukraine

Donald Trump’s concessions to Vladimir Putin have alarmed European and Ukrainian officials
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President Trump Signs Executive Orders at Mar-a-Lago

President Donald Trump signs new executive orders at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.