World & Politics

While the Pokemon Go game’s cartoon characters have also helped U.S. police improve strained community relations and even arrest wanted suspects, the game’s craze is blamed for several robberies of

The United States has been threatened once again by Bin Laden. But this time it is Osama Bin Laden’s son. In an audio message posted online, revenge against the United

Greek broadcasters have opposed a bill on establishment of the state agency for the sale of television advertising. The document is a front-office decision proposed by the country’s government. The…

Alex Salmond, a former leader of the Scottish National Party, proposed an interesting idea: maybe Scotland should be an heir of the British membership of the EU after Brexit is…

While claiming in a video of last week’s killing of 20 people in a Dhaka cafe as being merely a glimpse of what is to come, the Islamic State has

Today, the French parliamentary commission, responsible for investigating the terrorist attacks in Paris, presented results of their work. The MPs concluded that weak interaction of various special services had become…

The United Kingdom voted in favor of leaving the European Union, which caused many questions. Is Brexit really going to happen? Who or what can stop it?

After the Brexit decision by UK voters, some of the questions that were doing the rounds in the U.K. this weekend were: Can the referendum result somehow be overturned? It

What happens after UK’s historic decision to end its 43-year love-hate relationship with the European Union? Firstly it would be the task of the present British government, the Prime Minister

In its first diplomatic admonishment of Beijing after Chinese jets intercepted a U.S. military plane over the contested waters last month, the European Commission said on Wednesday that countries must

Donald Trump’s popularity has led to the fact that the country’s fields are wasting large part of the crop. Given the attitude of the US presidential candidate to migrants, conducting…

According to Bulgarian Novinite agency, representatives of Bulgarian company Bulgartransgaz and Eustream (a Slovak gas transmission system operator) signed an agreement to build a gas pipeline Eastring.

In anticipation of the national referendum on Berxit, Pew Research Center has conducted a study on the attitude of European citizens towards the EU. As it turned out, not only…

As the U.S.-backed Syrian fighters press a major new offensive against the jihadists near the Turkish border, the Islamic State-held city of Manbij have been surrounded from three sides. However

As Taiwan’s top security agency warned that a move to set up a air defense zone by China could usher in a wave of regional tension, the island country’s new

The Scottish Parliament has voted for a moratorium on the use of the fracking technology.

Nearly a week after his disappearance set off a massive search that kept Japan riveted, a Japanese boy abandoned in a dense forest by his parents for being naughty was

The Bank of England on Thursday showed samples of the first plastic banknotes. Reverse side of the new five pounds-banknote depicts former Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

A major offensive to drive Islamic State out of a swathe of northern Syria it uses as a logistics base as launched by thousands of U.S.-backed fighters who opened a

The US State Department warned Americans traveling to Europe this summer about a threat of terrorist attacks. The report put a particular attention to UEFA Euro 2016 in France, and…

Tension built up in South East Asia on Monday after South Korea said it had detected evidence of missile launch preparations by North Korea and Japan put its military on

The Government of Malta launched a program granting a residence permit in exchange for investments. In contrast to all similar programs operating in other countries, the program does not imply…

US Chamber of Accounts has published a report, according to which the US government has a tendency to allocate less budgetary funds for modernization and development. As a result, many…

Monitors and state media of Syria said that on Monday, nearly 150 people were killed and wounded at least 200 others in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases

French accident investigator BEA said that minutes before the EgyptAir Flight 804lost contact with the ATC, there were automatic radio messages about smoke in the front portion of the cabin

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…

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

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…

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

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

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 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

European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is recruiting a group of experts to evaluate the risk of collision of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with manned aircraft. The decision was made after…

The US president urged Congress to push on with the approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

Amid mounting tensions on the Korean Peninsula and in the South China Sea, Russia offered support for China’s opposition to U.S. actions in two of Asia’s biggest security flash points.

One of the designers of the new Berlin-Brandenburg airport named after Willy Brandt (BER) believes that the building may never be opened. It was originally planned that the airport will…

Eighteen months before Mossack Fonseca’s leak of documents, consortium ICIJ published materials about the tax schemes in Luxembourg. The trial on the whistleblower, a former employee of PwC's, began on…