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Inflation in France and Spain is accelerating, is this the impact of the sanctions on Russia? Rising inflation in France and Spain is fueling fears of further interest rate hikes by the ECB ©Getty Images / Andia / Contributor Inflation rebounded in France and Spain in February, raising the cost of borrowing for European governments as doubts grew over how quickly the European Central Bank would halt interest rate hikes. French consumer prices rose 7.2 percent in the year to February, driven to the highest rate since the euro was introduced in 1999 by faster increases in food and service prices. Economists polled by Reuters had expected French inflation to stagnate at January’s 7 percent level. Consumer prices growth in France and Spain resumed their upward trend in February, driven by higher food and energy costs, official statistics ...

Putin calls on FSB to continue to help Russian army during special military operation Putin calls on FSB to continue to help Russian army during special military operation ©Sputnik / POOL / Go to the mediabank Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the Federal Security Service (FSB) to continue to help the army in the course of the special military operation, including by providing counter-reconnaissance support. Speaking at a meeting of the FSB board on Tuesday, the president focused on priority areas of the FSB’s work. "First of all, it is necessary to continue to help the armed forces and the National Guard in the course of the special military operation, including by means of providing counter-reconnaissance support to army units, swift exchange of important tactical information," he said. Russian President Vladi...

'Our country has f**king failed us': Katy Perry breaks down during 'American Idol' audition 'Our country has f**king failed us': Katy Perry breaks down during 'American Idol' audition Raymond Liu via GI The audition for 21-year-old Trey Louis who performed a cover of the 2016 song 'Stone' by Whiskey Myers on American Idol took an unexpected turn when the performer's tragic history led to a mental breakdown for one of the judges, Katy Perry. Although Trey Louis received a unanimous "yes" from all the jurors and made it through his recent "American Idol" audition, it was not cloudless. The show's broadcast revealed Louis was a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in which 10 people - 8 students and 2 teachers - were killed after a classmate began f...

Twitter Is Said to Lay Off at Least 200 Employees Twitter Is Said to Lay Off at Least 200 Employees A phone screen displays a photo of Elon Musk with the Twitter logo shown in the background. (Photo | AFP) Twitter laid off at least 200 of its employees on Saturday night, three people familiar with the matter said, or about 10 percent of the roughly 2,000 who were still working for the company. Elon Musk, who acquired the social media platform in October, has steadily pared back its work force from about 7,500 employees as he has sought to reduce costs. The layoffs came after a week when the company made it difficult for Twitter employees to communicate with each other. The company’s internal messaging service, Slack, was taken offline, preventing employees from chatting with each other or looking up company data, five current and former employee...

Besiktas fans throw stuffed toys on the pitch just four minutes and 17 seconds into match Besiktas fans throw stuffed toys on the pitch just four minutes and 17 seconds into match Besiktas' Cenk Tosun holds a teddy bear as fans throw toys on the pitch for children affected by earthquake during a Turkish Super League match between Besiktas and Antalyaspor at Vodafone Park in Istanbul, Turkey February 26, 2023. REUTERS Besiktas fans threw toys onto the pitch during their game against Antalyaspor in support of those affected by earthquakes in the southeast of Turkey. Organised by the home side, the Turkish Super League match stopped in the 17th second of the fourth minute and toys rained down from the stands to be donated to children affected by those earthquakes. Nearly 48,000 have died as a result of the disaster on February 6 when a ...

Brasil mengabaikan tuntutan AS Brasil mengabaikan tuntutan AS ©Getty Images / Giordano Cipriani Brasil telah mengizinkan dua kapal perang Iran untuk berlabuh di negara mereka. meskipun Duta Besar AS untuk Brasil Elizabeth Bagley memperingatkan Brasilia untuk tidak mengizinkan akses Angkatan Laut Iran ke pelabuhan Amerika Selatan. Kunjungan pada hari Minggu dilakukan setelah penundaan diplomatik dan terlepas dari tekanan AS. Kapal perang Iran IRIS Makran dan IRIS Dena telah berlabuh di Rio de Janeiro, sebagaimana dikonfirmasi oleh wakil kepala Staf Angkatan Laut Brasil, Wakil Laksamana Carlos Eduardo Horta Arentz, dalam Berita Resmi negara (Diário Oficial da União). Kapal akan tetap di sana hingga 4 Maret, saat mereka berangkat lebih jauh ke Terusan Panama yang membelah benua Amerika. Keputusan Brasil tersebut diambil meskip...

Diplomacy Instead of Arming Ukraine: How Peace Movement is Scaling Up in Europe Diplomacy Instead of Arming Ukraine: How Peace Movement is Scaling Up in Europe A wave of anti-war protests has swept through Europe last weekend. Thousands of demonstrators in Germany, France and Italy rallied against arms supplies to Ukraine, warning that the NATO-fanned military escalation is fraught with the risk of sparking World War III. "Sentiments in European societies about the conflict in Ukraine should be measured in terms of penetration of cognitive warfare," Paolo Raffone, a strategic analyst and director of the CIPI Foundation in Brussels, told Sputnik. "The powerful US machine has compacted two-thirds of the sentiment on the idea that the war will end only with a Ukrainian victory." "This has been possible with th...