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Brexit Party MEP left red-faced after asking Green colleague & professor of economics...for some economic credentials (VIDEO) A Brexit Party MEP was left mightily embarrassed after his attempt to show up a Green politician and her lack of economic competence backfired - big time - after she tells him that she’s a professor of economics. Robert Rowland, the Brexit Party’s MEP for the South East England, addressed a question on Brexit to Green Party MEP Molly Scott Cato in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Rowland asked Scott Cato, who represents South West England, why she was so sure a Canada+ style post-Brexit trade deal would leave the UK in financial jeopardy, because “as far as I'm aware she does not have any degree in econom...

Saudi-led coalition frees 200 Yemeni rebels to advance UN-brokered peace deal A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen says it has released 200 Houthi rebels to advance a UN-brokered deal aimed at ending the war in the Arab world’s poorest country, AP reports. Coalition spokesman Col. Turki al-Malki was quoted by Saudi Arabia’s state-run news agency as saying on Tuesday that the move was aimed at paving the way for a larger and long-delayed prisoner swap agreed upon last year. The coalition will also work with the UN to fly patients out of the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, for treatment abroad, Al-Malki said. The coalition has been battling the rebels since 2015. The two sides signed a UN-brokered peace deal in Sweden last December but have yet to implement it. Saudi-...

Brazil nominates diplomat Forster as ambassador to Washington Brazil’s government on Tuesday sent to the Senate the nomination of career diplomat Nestor Forster to be ambassador to the United States. The move ends a saga in which President Jair Bolsonaro tried to nominate his own son for the role. Forster, who is currently chargé d’affairs in the Washington embassy, still has to go through a hearing in the Senate’s foreign relations committee and have his name approved in a voting session. Brazil’s government said it does not expect any resistance to his nomination and had received positive feedback from the US. Bolsonaro had initially pushed for the nomination of his son Eduardo as ambassador but ultimately gave up on the idea amid a spat with his then-political party, known ...

US Fed is a ‘mortician pumping formaldehyde’ into economy – RT’s Keiser Report International rating agency Moody’s has issued a debt downgrade warning to the entire world due to deepening global geopolitical uncertainty and risks. RT’s Keiser Report discusses the issue, noting that despite the rising turmoil the US Federal Reserve continues with its money-printing. “Certainly, we do have a zombie economy thanks to the never-ending parade of free money from the Fed and the growing pile of debt,” says Stacy Herbert. She recalls the words of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who said recently “the debt is growing faster than the economy.” Max Keiser says that it reminds him of “the story of a mortician who is pumping formaldehyde into the corpse saying ‘no matt...