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Investors yank billions out of market following Trump’s tax invoice decide up

As Congress moved the tax bill forward, investors pulled the highest amount out of equities funds in more than three years, suggesting some investors may see « tax cuts » as already priced in. According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, redemptions from equities funds and ETFs totaled $14.5 billion, the fourth largest on record, and the…

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UN imposes new sanctions on North Korea

The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to impose tough new sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s latest missile test. The sanctions, passed on Friday, include a ban on nearly 90 percent of refined petroleum exports to North Korea.  The restrictions, proposed by the United States, are designed to prevent Pyongyang from furthering its…

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Interpreting the Catalan elections

The challenge of assessing the outcome of yesterday’s regional elections in Catalonia is that several actors in this crisis can claim different forms of victory – and are doing so – from different frames (majority in terms of seats neglecting share of votes, etc.). This, uncertainty and a strong component of post-truth politics in the…

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High 10 causes to possess time the UN vote on Jerusalem

A resounding majority of UN member states has denounced the US’ arrogant decision to unilaterally declare Jerusalem « the capital » of the Israeli apartheid settler colony.  The United Nations General Assembly voted 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions, for a resolution declaring the US move on Jerusalem « null and void ». Thursday’s vote came after the US…

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Mexico: Renewed land dispute displaces 5,000 in Chiapas

San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico – Maria* said the bullets « fell like rain » onto the tin roof of her house when the masked gunmen arrived in her village in southern Mexico on the night of November 9. In tears and speaking through an interpreter in her indigenous Tzotzil language, she recounted the events that…

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2017 laid the muse for faster, smarter AI in 2018

This might be a helpful time to clarify that AI is often a catch-all term for an assortment of different technologies. There’s artificial intelligence in our digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana and the Google Assistant. You’ll find artificial intelligence in software like Facebook’s Messenger chatbots and Gmail’s auto-replies. It’s defined as « intelligence displayed by…

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Israel to preserve ties with Austria’s a ways-correct FPO

Critics have blasted Israel’s plans to maintain ties with Austria’s new right-wing coalition, which features a far-right party with Nazi roots. Although Israeli officials promised to limit contact with ministers of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), rights groups fear any involvement at all with the far-right populist outfit that advocates anti-Muslim, anti-refugee, anti-immigration and Eurosceptic…