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Australia is preparing policy ahead of the federal election in May focusing on clearer rules for digital assets and artists. Policy specifically relating to NFTs needed to be implemented quickly to stave off a potential “brain drain” on Australia’s economy, according to NSW Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg. Tax Restructuring Sorely…

Russia’s senseless invasion of Ukraine, which has destroyed a maternity hospital among the many confirmed civilian targets, is shifting its focus west, with an attack on an airport Friday just 70 miles from the Polish—read NATO—border. It is the first time previously unaffected cities in the country’s west have come…

When the demo day for Y Combinator’s winter cohort of startups begins later this month, Bloom will put Sudan on the American accelerator’s famed map for the first time. The barely year-old company was founded by Ahmed Ismail, a Sudanese former Barclays investment bank associate, and Youcef Oudjidane, an Algerian…

Today, Defence Minister Anita Anand, accompanied by Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), General Wayne Eyre, concluded a trip to Europe during which they reaffirmed Canada’s strong support to Ukraine and commitment to working with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Allies and partners to strengthen the Alliance’s deterrence and defence…

Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. SEN. Juan Edgardo "Sonny" Angara on Wednesday urged authorities to expedite the distribution of fuel subsidies to the transport, agriculture and fisheries sectors following the global disruption of oil supply because of the war in Ukraine. "The trigger for the release of…

Published March 9, 2022 11:28am Presidential candidate Senator Manny Pacquiao has urged the Senate  to pass its version of the proposed amendments to the Centenarians Act of 2016 that will grant Filipinos who reach 101 years old a cash incentive of P1 million. "I hope Senate will have time to…

Senator Ademola Adeleke and Dotun Babayemi emerged Osun State governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party in two parallel primary elections conducted on Tuesday. A faction of the party led by Mr. Sunday Bisi held its governorship primary at Osogbo City Stadium, while Wale Ojo-led faction held another primary at…

OTTAWA — A Conservative senator from Quebec helping Pierre Poilievre try to win leadership of the party is criticizing Jean Charest as a "Conservative of convenience," who on Monday nabbed an endorsement from another potential contender. OTTAWA — A Conservative senator from Quebec helping Pierre Poilievre try to win leadership…

Nothing happens in isolation – least of all the shift to ‘green energy’, especially after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Germany supplies arms to Ukraine while paying Russia for 40% of its oil imports and 50% of its gas. European countries pay US $500m–$700m daily to Russia for oil and gas.…

Camps should be created inside the Polish border to speed up the processing of Ukrainian refugees arriving into the European Union, Fianna Fáil Senator Timmy Dooley has said following a brief visit to Ukraine on Sunday. Mr Dooley, who is vice president of the EU Alliance of Liberals and Democrats…