In what turned out to be a chaotic end to the first year as U.S. President for Donald Trump, the U.S. Government went into a partial shut down following the failure of an eleventh-hour effort to ensure a deal for government funding.   A dramatic late-night voting stopped a stop-gap measure...

Twitter is getting ready to make about 700,000 if its users in the U.S. aware that they had either followed or retweeted or liked posts that were linked to a Kremlin-linked troll account. This was said by the social media company on said Friday.   A Russian government related troll army in...

2017 was the second warmest year for Earth ever since records had been kept according to multiple reports of environment and other agencies.   Ever since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, 2017 was adjudged to be the second warmest year according to the U.S. space agency NASA. On the other...

France and Germany want to achieve a common position on the reform of the Eurozone, including the convergence of taxes, capital markets and the banking union, between March and June this year, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday. Speaking after talks with his German counterpart...

Germany's proposal to pay about 1 thousand euros to individual asylum seekers and 3 thousand euros to refugee families for voluntary return to their homeland provoked condemnation and approval simultaneously. But the economic center of Europe, which in 2015 received a million refugees, is not the...

Fears have eased, while the news of both the Korean countries collaborating for the winter Olympics could result in a common women’s ice-hockey team. With the easing of several months’ long tensions caused by the “North’s weapons programmes”, the “unification ministry” of Seoul, informed that the...

Future partners in the parliamentary coalition in Germany reached agreement on the law on attracting qualified immigrants. The German media reported that it is bringing the parties closer to the beginning of official talks on the coalition. Conservative leader German Chancellor Angela Merkel is...

According to Munich Re insurance group, last year brought a record number of major natural disasters, which led to the most serious economic losses. This is stated in the report of the German company, which is one of the leaders of the insurance reinsurance market. Munich Re noted the alarming...

A dialogue between North and South Korea is all set to start after a gap of over two year, according to sources quoted in media reports.   The border village of Panmunjom, inside the demilitarised zone (DMZ) would be the place for t he proposed meeting slated reportedly for January 9....