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The open skies treaty| Russia's withdrawal from it | What we feel

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  What is the Open Skies Arrangement?  First proposed in 1955 by a previous US general as the easiest method to de-escalate pressures during the contention , the milestone arrangement was at last endorsed in 1992 between NATO individuals and previous Warsaw Settlement nations following the death of the land . It became real in 2002 and had 35 signatories, including vital participants US and Russia, related to one non-confirming part (Kyrgyzstan).  Russian President Putin on Monday marked a bill to pull out from a world deal permitting observation trips over military offices, following the U.S. exit from the settlement. The bill was supported by Russian officials after U.S. authorities revealed to Moscow last month that President Joe Biden's organization had chosen to not reappoint the Open Skies Deal that the U.S. left under President Donald Trump.  As an official competitor, Biden had condemned Trump's withdrawal as "foolhardy." Moscow had flagged its status to turn...

Columbian protests| Citizens' growing demands| Our view

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Here's everything you need to know about what's happening in Colombia We have been hearing stories over the past few weeks, that Colombian cities and towns have been ravaged by protests since the end of April . So the reasons the protests even began was because at first the people weren't happy with the government's new tax policy but now the reasons have become far more deep rooted. So why were the people unhappy with the government's new tax policy? Let's roll back in time to the last week of April when the government announced the new tax reform bill. The bill was being proposed as an economic measure to bounce the Colombian economy. The bill would have increased taxes, lowered the threshold at which salaries are taxed, removed several exemptions currently enjoyed by individuals and increased taxes in import businesses. Basically anyone with a monthly income of 2.6 million pesos which is roughly $684 would have been affected by this bill, and it is believed t...