Roundup Budget deficits and global political notes mixed in one report
The report notes November federal deficits at 136.7 billion dollars and two month total at 180.8 billion, with calendar quirks altering timing. It also covers Richard Spencer's Twitter return and alt right activity, Brazilian President Temer’s rising disapproval in polls, and Chicago gun violence figures with 15 shot over the weekend and 4 170 homicides year to date.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Congressional Budget Office
Dallas
Twitter
Richard Spencer
Spencer
America
Texas A&m University
Altright
USA Today
National Policy Institute
Radix Journal
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Guterres sworn in as ninth UN secretary general
Antonio Guterres, former Portuguese prime minister and former UN refugee chief, was sworn in as United Nations secretary general succeeding Ban Ki moon. He vowed to streamline the UN and push for gender parity, with Samantha Power endorsing his leadership.
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United Nations
Antonio Guterres
U.N
General Assembly
Ban Ki-moon
Guterres
Security Council
Council
Assembly
Peter Thomson
U.N. General Assembly
New York
Turkish authorities arrest 235 in crackdown after Istanbul stadium bombings
In Istanbul authorities detained more than 235 people across 11 cities after a Saturday stadium bombing left 44 dead and 149 wounded. Most detainees were linked to a pro Kurdish party, with officials citing ties to the PKK and related groups.
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Istanbul
Kurdistan Workers’ Party
PKK
Turkey
Cenk Sidar
Sidar Global Advisors
Washington
Interior Ministry
Peoples’ Democratic Party
Ankara
HDP
Venezuela enters hyperinflation record with 50 percent monthly rise
Venezuela joins seven Latin American peers as hyperinflation hits a 50 percent monthly threshold on December 3, placing the country among the world’s 57 cases. Johns Hopkins researchers call the situation an economy in chaos with daily inflation around 3.96 percent and real hardship visible in shortages and long lines.
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Bogota
Colombia
Venezuela
Latin America
France
Johns Hopkins University
Hungary
Zimbabwe
Steve Hanke
Baltimore
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Nicaragua
Peru
Hawke
Italy forms Gentiloni government amid continuity
Italy sworn in a center left cabinet led by Paolo Gentiloni remaining largely unchanged from Renzi era. Economist Pier Carlo Padoan stays as finance minister as youth unemployment remains high and south lags. Gentiloni vows to confront economic malaise while acknowledging political and regional tensions.
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Italy
Paolo Gentiloni
Matteo Renzi
Pier Carlo Padoan
Renzi
Gentiloni
Democrat Party
Renzi’s
Renziloni
Bell
Chigi Palace
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Michel Temer
Temer
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Folha de S. Paulo
Dilma Rousseff
Dave Bryan
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Dominique Soguel
NATO
Islamic State Group
Syria
Iraq
Jim Wyss
Miami Herald
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