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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Burkina Faso wants to expand partnerships with foreign media, including Russian ones, in response to Western media bias against the western African nation, Burkinabe Communications Minister Pingdwende Gilbert Ouedraogo told Sputnik.

In a little over two years, this state-owned generator will be the first to have more big battery capacity than coal, underlining rapid shift to flexible and clean power sources.

Gaza hospitals recorded another three starvation-related deaths due to the Israeli siege

by Dave DeCamp | August 26, 2025 at 1:54 pm ET | Gaza, Israel

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My WhatsApp group of 30 local school dads shares regular stories of attempted burglaries in my local area, as does the local community Facebook page. Jacqui Felgate, Melbourne’s 3AW Radio host, posts daily videos via Instagram of the latest armed robberies and crimes in Melbourne. A similar incident occurred last year when I awoke to

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Australian real wages are tracking 6.1% below their mid-2022 ‘covid-bubble’ peak. The latest RBA Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) also forecast that real wages will remain 5.5% below their peak at the end of 2027. SEEK’s latest advertised salaries index suggested that Australian wage growth is slowing. Advertised salary growth rose by only 0.2% in

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The Market Ear with the post-Fed news. Ready to move Gold is very trapped inside the massive triangle like formation. Note the last bounce on the 100 day. Expect a sharp break out soon… Source: LSEG Workspace Why so low? GDX to gold… Source: LSEG Workspace The dollar connection Gold likes a weak dollar, but

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Saul Griffith wants to build an army. Not of soldiers, but of householders, tradies, and communities who can demand more of the energy industry and government.

Goldman with an important note. We have previously argued Australia’s labour market is not inflationary because indicators that contain the most predictive power for wage growth have already normalised. Nonetheless, the unemployment rate is historically low, boosted by employment in the healthcare & social assistance industry, and it is not obvious why this has not

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the monthly CPI indicator for July, which reported a sharp jump in both headline and trimmed mean CPI inflation. Headline CPI rose 2.8% in the 12 months to July 2025, up from 1.9% in the year to June. The result was way above economists’ expectations of a

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The Housing Industry Association (HIA) released a bizarre ‘analysis’ claiming that the federal government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers would ultimately help to lower property prices and rents. The HIA claims that the $25,000 average amount required to pay for lenders’ mortgage insurance (LMI) “meant fewer new households could buy a home”, which

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Australia already has the highest per capita share of international students in the developed world. As of Q2 2025, there were 821,251 people in Australia on either a temporary student visa or a graduate visa. As a result, around 3% of the nation’s population was on either a student or graduate visa in Q2 2025.

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Risk markets continue to have second thoughts about the dovish mood at the Federal Reserve with the added volatility around the Trump regime looking to takeover the Fed’s independence itself not helping the USD.  Although Euro is seeing some kickback due to French political problems, Yen, Pound Sterling and the Australian dollar are all heading

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