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Macron says Britain & EU ‘should push on with Brexit’ after UK’s election Britain and the European Union should push on with Brexit after the UK’s general election on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. He added that maintaining the unity of the remaining members was paramount, Reuters reports. “We must be able to advance quickly after these elections,” Macron said in Paris on Tuesday in remarks alongside the new head of the European Council, Charles Michel, who hosts an EU leaders summit this week. Macron also urged other EU leaders to remain united and “rigorous in the defense of our interests.” Macron says Britain & EU ‘should push on with Brexit’ after UK’s election Source: RT

World’s entire history, every revolution, every war, is shaped by taxation – RT’s Keiser Report The most innovative societies in history were always low-tax civilizations, according to British author and co-host of Money Pit Dominic Frisby. He joins Keiser Report to discuss the history of taxation. A big believer in low taxes, Frisby says labor should be taxed far less than it is now, noting that 50 percent of governments’ revenue is derived from income tax. //www.youtube.com/embed/rOp0LwZKWkU “The ultimate form of taxation is, of course, slavery, where you lose all ownership of your labor,” he says, adding that throughout history taxes had unintended consequences. “The entire history of the world, the ...

Greece lodges objections to UN over Libya-Turkish maritime border deal Greece has lodged objections to the UN over an accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries as a violation of international law, a government spokesman said in Athens on Tuesday. Greece expelled the Libyan ambassador in response to the deal last week, infuriated at a pact which skirts the Greek island of Crete and infringes, in Athens’s view, its continental shelf. “This agreement was compiled in bad faith,” Reuters quoted the spokesman, Stelios Petsas, as saying. It violates the UN Law of the Sea, Petsas saidm, adding that the sea zones of Turkey and Libya “do not meet, and nor is there a sea border between the two states.” The deal carves out a slanting sea corridor of maritime boundari...

Key suspect in St. Petersburg metro blast in 2017 sentenced to life Russia’s Second Western District Military Court on Tuesday found Abror Azimov guilty of bankrolling a terror attack in St. Petersburg in April 2017 and sentenced him to life in jail, TASS said. Prosecutors earlier demanded a life sentence for Azimov, who was a key suspect in the metro blast, his brother Akram, as well as Ibragim and Mukhamadyusup Ermatov. The court sentenced 10 other men to between 19 and 28 years in jail for the bombing. None of the suspects pled guilty. The blast killed 15 and injured 67 people on April 3, 2017, after suicide bomber, Akbarzhon Djalilov, brought two explosive devices to the St. Petersburg metro. He had left one bomb at a platform of a metro station, but it was found and safel...