Spain and Portugal have received a reprieve from Brussels, despite the violation of EU fiscal rules. The European Commission has postponed a decision on the introduction of the first in the history fines for Eurozone countries that violated the limit of the budget deficit. European Commission...

Setting up a potential showdown with the White House, which has threatened a veto,  the U.S. Senate passed legislation that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia's government for damages.   There have been strong objections to the bill from the Saudis who deny...

Yesterday, the US Treasury Department uncovered data on volumes of Saudi investments in US Treasury bonds at the request of journalists. These data have been closed since mid-1970 - after the oil crisis of 1973, which sharply deteriorated relations between the US and Saudi Arabia. Information about...

Sally Jones, who was involved in prior terror attacks, plans to hit back in reply to her husband’s death. One of the most wanted woman “terror suspects” of “British Muslim” origins, Sally Jones, has taken to the social media to threaten Britain towards “new strikes”. One of the “kill” lists of...

Trumps has no support from the newly elected London Mayor. The first “Muslim Mayor” of London, Sadiq Khan criticized Donald Trump, while hinting that the latter would be exempted from his “proposed temporary ban” on Muslims’ entry into the U.S. as Khan considers Trumps comments to be “ignorant” and...

China called the U.S. Defense Department's annual report on the Chinese military as being a deliberate distortion that has "severely damaged" mutual trust and have severely condemned the report. The Chinese response was released on Sunday.   China is expected to add substantial military...

While claiming that no other country is fighting Islamic State as Ankara is, President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said that the country has killed 3,000 Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq.   NATO member Turkey faced criticism in the earlier stages of the Syrian war for failing to stop...

Thailand will close the country's largest gold mine Chatree by the end of 2016. The announced reason is the damage to the environment and health of workers – it outweighs the economic benefit from the field’s further development. The field, and processing plant located there are operated by Akara...

The faultlines in the company's business model, which relies heavily on income from the country's lightly regulated health sector was exposed by the death of a student following experimental cancer treatment he found through China's biggest search engine, Baidu Inc.   Baidu, which controls...