"Never was so much owed by so many to so few" was a wartime speech made by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. What was true then and sagely spoken by Mr. Churchill is...
At least 10 armed men disguised as policemen attacked a high security prison Sunday and freed a top Sikh militant commander and four others in India's Punjab state, officials said. The attackers...
It appears the internet's honeymoon phase with Justin Trudeau is officially over. While it once appeared as though the adored Canadian Prime Minister could do no wrong in the judgmental eyes of the...
Overtime, states have opposed autocratic leaders who make decisions based solely on their philosophies and judgement, seldom accepting any ideologies besides theirs. El Comandante Fidel Castro, a...
The death of Cuban leader Fidel Castro prompted celebrations among the country's exiles in Miami , but expressions of sorrow from several current af former world leaders. Former Soviet president...
(Memo: 24 March, 1962) Continuing... We noted in Part I that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah understood there is public policy; there is partisan policy; and there are matters that are personal. That is another...
Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, his brother has said. “The commander in chief of the Cuban revolution died at 22:29 hours this...
The mobile phone numbers of former Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, celebrities and millions of other people are being stored in databases that can be searched by the...
Four ex-footballers have appeared together in an emotional interview to tell of their torment after being abused as children by a coach. Andy Woodward, who was the first to go public last week, wept...
Four ex-footballers have appeared together in an emotional interview to tell of their torment after being abused as children by a coach. Andy Woodward, who was the first to go public last week, wept...
An Australian militant thought dead is still alive and under arrest in the Middle East, according to reports. The Australian government in May said Neil Prakash, a senior recruiter for the so-called...
EU leaders are not "bluffing" when they say the UK will be left without access to the single market when it leaves the bloc if there is no free movement of people, Malta's prime minister says. Joseph...
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated as wildfires rage through parts of Israel's third largest city of Haifa. The fires follow a two-month drought and are being fanned by strong winds in...
The Turkish military has said that three of its soldiers have been killed and 10 more wounded in Syria by an air strike allegedly launched by Syrian government forces. A statement from the Turkish...
A founding member of pressure group, OccupyGroup, says the Smarttys bus branding scandal that broke early this year is a unique example of an institutional corruption. Sydney Casely-Hayford says even...
America is receding from the global economic stage, opening the way for China to take a lead role and a supporting one for Russia. Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific...
Philip Hammond opens his first Autumn Statement by looking at the UK economic figures. The UK economy is "resilient" despite forecasts that government finances will be £122bn worse off than...
An Iraqi paramilitary force says it has seized a key road west of Mosul, effectively encircling the city controlled by so-called Islamic State. The Popular Mobilisation (Hashd al-Shaabi) declared it...
A 23-year-old law graduate has been given the task of leading Ukraine's anti-corruption drive, the second major appointment of a young woman in weeks. Anna Kalynchuk's promotion has provoked...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is concerned that white supremacists in the United States are being emboldened by the election of Donald Trump and is watching developments closely. The...
