World & Politics

US would dispatch 250 special force soldiers to help local militia to build on successes against Islamic State is what is the biggest expansion of U.S. ground troops in Syria

Applicants for Presidency from the Republican party Ted Cruz and John Kasich announced that they are entering into a coalition to prevent leader of the party race Donald Trump from…

American prosecutors decided to start their own investigation into the information contained in the so-called Panamanian files. The Ministry’s officials have appealed for help to reporters published these data to…

A research group has said the Islamic State has been forced to introduce a range of new taxes as the group’s revenues have dropped about 30% since mid-2015, reported The

In what is being seen as the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington, Microsoft Corp has sued the U.S. government for the

The Communist party of China has decreed that teeing off is not a crime allowing the lifting of millions of fairway fanatics out of the rough. Golf enjoyed a renaissance

Late on Saturday, Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to establish a joint investment fund with a registered capital of 60 billion Saudi riyals ($ 16 billion).

As operations go on to track down militants who have fought with or take direction from leaders in Syria, Belgian police detained two key suspects on Friday in the Islamic

Experts of IHS Global Insight estimate the probability of Brexit at the June referendum vote at 35-40%. The consequences of a possible exit from the EU for Britain, according to…

In an apparent response to Islamic State’s loss of ground elsewhere in Syria, the group’s fighters launched attacks on government-held areas near Damascus overnight on Tuesday. The Tishrin power station

Publication of an investigation on offshore companies in Panama has caused the first reaction of governments and the tax bodies. Tax authorities in Australia began checking more than 800 of…

The largest blue diamond ever put up for auction will be sold on May 18 at Christie's Geneva auction. According to preliminary estimates, the lot costs $ 38 - $…

In theory, Chinese officials get career increase depending on their progress on a number of key indicators: strong economic growth, social stability, and, until recently, the observance of one-child policy.

Instagram account 'Iraqiswat provides its subscribers an opportunity to decide the fate of captured militants of "Islamic state". The account presumably belongs to a Shiite militias group fighting against the…

China accelerated pace in buying US companies this year, and this begins to disturb the US lawmakers.

Hundreds of thousands of migrants from Libya are going to invade Europe, said French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on the air at radio station "Europe 1".

Germany had become too powerful and must leave the euro zone in order to avoid collapse of the monetary union, said the former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn…

As reported by Bloomberg, citing informed sources, the Saudi authorities for the first time demanded international banks operating in the country to disclose their financial statements and other information. This…

The commandant of the US Marine Corps General Robert Neller, responsible for the preparation of the US Marines, said in a speech before Congress that the troops entrusted to him…

Key oil-developing countries have decided to hold talks on the freeze on April 17 in Doha, Qatar, the sources told Reuters. However, the question of whether Iran will join oil…

Even after Moscow said it had begun withdrawing its forces from Syria, Russian fighter jets have continued to carry out intense air raids in the country in support of forces

A nuclear warhead and ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads would soon be tested by North Korea, the KCNA news agency reported quoting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The US Justice Department accuses Apple of false rhetoric and deliberate sabotage of execution of decisions in the course of proceedings on unlocking information encrypted on the iPhone, belonging to…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the country to improve its nuclear attack capability by conducting more tests while watching a ballistic missile launch test the official KCNA news

As South Korean and U.S. forces conducted massive war games on the sea, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday in defiance of a U.N.

Projections for global population growth could be cut by as much as 1 billion over the next 15 years due to the fact that the number of women using contraceptives

Stepping up sanctions against the isolated state, South Korea has announced a crackdown on individuals and companies linked to Pyongyang’s weapons program and China has barred a North Korean freighter

The billionaire, media mogul and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he has decided not to participate as an independent candidate for the US president office. He…

After the terrorist attacks in Paris, The European Central Bank came to think if it's time to get rid of the €500-bills. Large banknotes has long been associated with the…

Suspicion of forgery of more than £1million on eBay for the purpose of funding terrorism has resulted in the arrest of a man who had earlier claimed to be an

After being accused of fraudulently pocketing $2.8 billion and after a lengthy trial process, Iran’s billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, a judicial official said

Asking a judge to support Apple Inc in its encryption battle with the U.S. government, tech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc’s Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, AT&T and more than

The precedent of Britain came faster than many experts expected. Norway plans to significantly reduce payments to foreign workers from the EU, as London did.

Urging other party members to learn from his example, a retired property developer who criticized President Xi Jinping’s state media clampdown is to be “seriously punished” by the Communist Party

While accusing the opposition of violating the agreement intended to halt nearly five years of fighting, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad described the cessation of hostilities in force since Saturday as

Apple and the FBI’s confrontation has become the largest in recent years public debate about where to draw the line between privacy of personal information and national security. The point…

A jehadi leader accused of demolishing ancient mausoleums in Timbaktu is the first case that would come up for trial in the international criminal court’s first war crimes trial for

Disturbed intermittently with reports of scattered airstrikes and bombings but with an overall the slowdown in fighting, Syria’s fragile ceasefire has entered its second day. The cease fire in the

The death of Justice Antonin Scalia is a blow to businesses that have had success recently in challenging class action cases at the U.S. Supreme Court was evidenced when Dow

Described by the United Nations as the best hope for peace in five years of civil war, a cessation of hostilities appeared to hold for its first day as guns

Claiming the unlocking an encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters would violate its free speech rights and override the will of Congress, Apple Inc struck back

Seeking to demonstrate its nuclear arms capacity at a time of rising strategic tensions with Russia and North Korea, the U.S. military test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a

As a mark of protest against Saudi Arabias heavy bombing campaign in Yemen, members of European Parliament have voted for a European Union-wide arms embargo against the gulf country. Citing

The terrorist organization "Islamic State" threatened Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey with violence because of accounts closed in relation to terrorist content. ISIS released a new video, one of which…