EU rejected Italy‘s proposed new annual budget. It’s the first time the European Commission has rejected any member state’s budget proposal. The bloc gave Rome three weeks to revise its spending plans.
US warships in the Taiwan Strait are a part of a “pattern of gradual acceleration and escalation of the threats to China,” American writer and academic James Petras says. On Monday, two US warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait, according to an American military spokesman, amid heightened tensions with China. The USS Curtis Wilbur and USS Antietam carried out a routine transit to prove US commitment “to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Colonel Rob Manning told reporters at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
TASMANIA is set to be the first Australian state to completely remove gender from birth certificates in what is being described as a step forward for the state’s transgender residents.