More than half (58%) of the Scottish respondents are in favour of the region's independence from the UK, a record high, media reported on Wednesday citing opinion poll data from Ipsos Mori. "Our recent survey is pouring water onto a nationalist mill, but it looks grim for Unionists (Unity with...

US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania have been infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus. The US President announced this on his Twitter. According to the American leader, he and his wife tested positive for the infection. “We will immediately begin to comply with quarantine and treatment....

Diplomats and analysts expect Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah to maintain Kuwait’s investment, oil and foreign policies and focus on domestic matters including boosting its finances which have taken a hit because of the coronavirus. On Wednesday, Kuwait’s new emir was sworn in at parliament. The...

While Britain has banned Huawei, France is likelly to informally exclude it, and Germany aims to effectively strangle it in red tape. In a significant development, Angela Merkel’s government has agreed in principle to bolster oversight of the country’s telecoms network but stopped short of banning...

A complex scheme for financing Islamist extremists in Syria through the use of cryptocurrencies was broken recently by the French police who arrested 29 people from various places all around the country in a vast operation.   Search warrants are out for the two main figures in the scheme,...

For the first time, airlines will also need to get percentage of their energy consumption from “renewable sources”. Germany has plans of hastening the “low-carbon transport” transition, whereby bringing the deadline to 2026 for “14% of fuel used in transport” to be sourced from “renewable energy”,...

The Health Ministry of Singapore reported that its has been over two months that no death has occurred in the island country due to COVID-19 infection. On the global scale, Singapore is at the bottom of the list on COVID-19 infected fatality rates as the country registered only “27 deaths” while...

Mexico's National Agency for Industrial Safety and the Environment in the Hydrocarbon Sector (ASEA) announced the arrest of the Blue Commander tanker, an oil depot and tanker trucks involved in the theft of fuel from the Pemex pipeline. "The ship and its crew were arrested for alleged possession...

Saudi Arabia's uranium reserves are estimated at about 90 thousand tons. This is enough to work on the nuclear program, writes The Guardian newspaper with reference to the report, which the journalists managed to get acquainted with. "The publication of such data will heighten concerns that Riyadh...