World & Politics

The sun could be the new oil for the GCC countries says a report published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) at the the ongoing Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week.

Documents leaked from inside the ISIS territory reveals that wartime pressure of the Islamic State is forcing it to slash its fighters’ salaries by half. While ISIS operates as a

Around 3,500 people in Iraq, primarily women and children from the Yazidi community have been enslaved by the Islamic State militants, says a UN report. The atrocities that were committed

Iranian companies are going to buy tractors and trucks in the Czech Republic, said "The Czech TV" on Tuesday, January 19, 2016. Czech trade delegation arrived in Iran for talks…

With the first ever bunch of zinnia flowers blooming in space, the attempt of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), who have been there for nearly two years, the

Novak Djokovic spoke in depth for the first time about being offered $200,000 (£140,000) to fix a match 10 years ago on a day of extended drama and fevered speculation.

French President Francois Hollande has unveiled measures to combat unemployment, saying that the economy entered "a state of emergency." These measures include establishment of retraining programs for unemployed and providing…

Bahrun Naim, identified by police as the mastermind behind the deadly attack on Jakarta claimed by Islamic State, was quietly running an Internet cafe in the small Indonesian city of

According to a survey of 750 experts conducted by the world Economic Forum, a catastrophe caused by climate change is seen as the biggest potential threat to the global economy

New explosions occurred at the heart of Jakarta, according to Kompas TV. According to preliminary data, the bombings thundered close to a spot of shooting took place just a few…

With the country of Liberia – the last of the African regions to be still affected be the Ebola virus expecting the all-clear, the two-year Ebola epidemic that killed more

During the meeting scheduled for today, the European Commission will consider a very delicate question: Is the European Union ready to apply the mechanisms of pressure on Warsaw after Poland…

The US military is preparing testing of new nuclear weapons, equipped with modern control systems and programming. The main objective of the tests is to create charges at the power…

Billionaire Donald Trump, running for president of the United States, praised the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un. During his Saturday speech, the businessman said that the North Korean dictator…

Donald Trump, the controversial US presidential candidate and climate change sceptic now faces a fine for the carbon pollution from one of his enormous private jets as a possible deterrent

China is creating underground storage facilities that can accommodate up to a quarter of the expanded strategic oil reserves by 2020. This should reduce cost of the process of creating…

The severance of relations of Saudi Arabia and Iran can bring Riyadh huge losses due to alleged refusal of the Iranian pilgrimage to Mecca.

On Wednesday, January 06, 2016, North Korea allegedly tested a hydrogen bomb. It is reported by the North Korean agency KCNA. The fact that a powerful explosion resulted in an…

With the aim to arming and training extremists and supporting their families, about $500,000 in Australian cash was sent to Indonesia, a terror financing investigation has recently uncovered. The cash

Pentagon claims that it air raids have killed one of the plotters of the Paris attacks. The US said that the airstrikes have killed a French jihadi based in Syria

According to Reuters, Islamic State terroristic organization is a quite complicated bureaucratic system, which includes special management responsible for "war booty", including slaves, as well as exploitation of natural resources,…

In an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females, Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when “owners” of women

While letting go for the requirement of technology firms to install security “backdoors” as initially planned, the new Chinese new anti-terrorism law allows the military to venture overseas on counter-terror

Severe flooding in the wake of heavy summer rains brought on by El Niño has forced more than 100,000 people have to evacuate from their homes in the bordering areas

Troubled with bombs and booby traps that resulted in a slow pace, Iraqi army spokesperson said that the government troops have pushed deeper into the heart of the last remaining

It’s hard not to be emotional giving a cursory review to the outgoing year. 2015 proved to be one of the most dramatic in the recent history of humankind. Let's…

Spain’s annual Christmas lottery brought real fortune for an unemployed Senegalese man who was rescued by the Spanish coastguard after making a risky journey from Morocco eight years ago on

There has been hectic information seeking by the Japanese government following reports that a Japanese freelance journalist is being held hostage in Syria and has been threatened with execution. Yoshihide

Quoting army chief of staff Lt. General Othman al-Ghanemi, Iraqi state television said on Wednesday that the government forces expect to dislodge Islamic State militants from the western Iraqi city

Five months after an American dentist caused an international furore by killing Cecil, a famed lion which lived in Zimbabwe, the US plans to extend its endangered species protection to

In what constitutes the continent’s biggest wave of mass migration since the aftermath of the second world war, more than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means

The Islamic State is seeking to establish a “distant caliphate” in Indonesia, “either directly or through surrogates”, believes the Australian attorney-general. Isis “has identified Indonesia as a location of its

Taking a tough stand against alleged corrupt practices, Fifa banned Sepp Blatter and the longtime Fifa president’s one-time heir apparent, Michel Platini from football for eight years. While this is

Saudi initiates a new coalition to fight terrorism, while many countries form part of the member’s list as according to them Islam forbids the “destruction”.

Head of the Bundesbank Carl-Ludwig Thiele reported that gold reserves repatriation in Germany goes according to plan, and half of all German gold will be stored in the country by…

The Centre on Religion and Geopolitics, a leading thinktank claims that bore than half of the rebel fighters in Syria who are opposing President Bashar al-Assad are sympathetic to Islamic

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim that the deaths from drug overdoses have surged across the US to record levels. The deaths in the US in 2014 due

Following the straying of a B-52 bomber within two nautical miles of Chinese-claimed territory in the South China Sea last week, the US was accused by the Chinese authorities of

Spain completed the parliament election campaign - the most unpredictable in decades. According to results of Sunday's vote, the ruling People's Party is likely to take the first place. Yet,…

A UK Met Office forecast claims that 2016 is set to be the warmest year ever recorded. 2016 would be the third consecutive year that global temperature records would be