A challenge to the legality of PM Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament in the UK’s top courts is fundamentally about a group of British MPs reversing the result of the 2016Read More…
US President Donald Trump is postponing by two weeks the implementation of the latest round of tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods, after Beijing exempted over a dozen types ofRead More…
A group of astronomers may have found Earth’s long-lost cousin, discovering the first ever “habitable” terrestrial planet with water in its atmosphere, according to new research aided by the Hubble telescope. KnownRead More…
The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s new asylum rules to take effect, suspending a pair of injunctions by a California federal judge that had tried toRead More…
The government of Venezuela has denounced the US invocation of a Cold War-era mutual defense treaty on behalf of the opposition in Caracas, a move which clears the way for military interventionRead More…
Speaking for the first time about reasons for firing his national security advisor John Bolton, US President Donald Trump said he was “way out of line” on Venezuela, even as the StateRead More…
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Massive crowds gathered in Barcelona to mark the Catalan national holiday and to demand independence from Spain, in a vocal message from the separatist movement, whose leadership has mostly been jailed byRead More…
Vladimir Putin’s upcoming talks with Benjamin Netanyahu in Sochi are more important for the Israeli PM’s fight for re-election, but comparing notes with a key Middle Eastern player is also good forRead More…