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New Zealand households and businesses may be facing a tougher road than many had hoped for in 2026, according to Kiwibank economists Jarrod Kerr and Alexandra Turcu. By elocal Business Desk · In the latest episode of Markets, Mystics & Mayhem, the pair painted a picture of an economy squeezed by rising global uncertainty, a Reserve Bank preparing to tighten monetary policy, a cautious government budget, and continuing pressure from elevated oil…

The trainer outsourced to deliver the course was described as "deeply hateful of white people and British culture." Serving and former Hampshire officers told former Home Secretary Suella Braverman they were furious but stayed silent out of fear for their careers. by Tyler Durden · Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, · Multiple officers from Hampshire Constabulary have now gone on record about the ideological pressure inside the force. · X…

At the 2026 St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), leaders from Russia, China, Uzbekistan and Tanzania repeatedly returned to one central theme: sovereignty. Not sovereignty as a slogan, but sovereignty as an economic strategy. Sovereignty of finance. Sovereignty of energy. Sovereignty of technology. Sovereignty of infrastructure. Sovereignty of supply chains. Sovereignty of industry. President Vladimir Putin described what he…

The 29th St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) brought together political leaders, business executives and policymakers from more than 130 countries under the theme "Pragmatic Dialogue: The Path to a Stable Future." By INR International Desk · The forum's central message was clear: many nations now view the world as moving away from a Western-dominated economic order towards a more distributed, multipolar system built around new…

As we move through the first week of June, the overall picture for New Zealand's fuel supply remains stable, with regular coastal distribution continuing and several significant international fuel tankers arriving at key ports. While there are some positive signs emerging, there are also a few areas that deserve ongoing monitoring. · The Good News · The biggest positive this week was activity at Marsden Point. · Two international product…

US political activist and author, Candace Owens, speaks exclusively to RT's Rick Sanchez at the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum. · A Ukrainian strike on a train in Crimea leaves one person dead and three others wounded. The peninsula has now come under Kiev's drone attacks, every day for more than two weeks. · Iran's military demands the IDF pulls back its troops in Lebanon. That's as a new ceasefire agreement between Israel, Washington and…

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has urged the participants of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) to begin every conversation with Western journalists with the word “Starobelsk.” Starobelsk is a town in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic where 21 people, mostly teenage girls, were killed and dozens more injured in a multi-wave Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm on May 22. · Western politicians…

By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation · In recent days, Israel has intensified its military campaign in Lebanon, taking the operation to a whole new level. This isn’t just another exchange of strikes in the south of the…

The murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak has sparked national outrage in the UK after police bodycam footage submitted to court showed officers arresting and handcuffing him as he lay dying, while his killer remained uncuffed after falsely claiming to be the victim of a racist attack. The case has triggered protests, renewed accusations of two-tier policing, and an investigation into how British authorities handled the incident. · Who was…

Burned villages. Families slaughtered in their homes. Women, children, and the elderly hacked to death with axes and pitchforks. Thousands of Jews beaten, tortured, and murdered during pogroms that accompanied the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. These are some of the atrocities associated with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its military wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) - movements whose legacy remains one of the…