‘The Russian State Duma has ratified the $100 billion BRICS bank that’ll serve as a pool of money for infrastructure projects in Russia, Brazil, India, China and South Africa, and challenge the dominance of the […]
‘Since 2010 the troika, consisting of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union’s commission, has forced different governments in Athens to implement six consecutive austerity programs which have severely lowered […]
‘The head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, resigns amid sexual harassment allegations by a 29-year-old female researcher at an institute he runs in India. The 74-year-old Indian and a […]
‘Egypt has adopted a new anti-terrorism law amid brutal crackdown on the opposition in the North African country. Under the law, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has given wide powers to authorities to clamp down […]
‘Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has warned that populism and demagoguery would be no option out of the country’s economic situation. In his last annual state of the nation debate on Tuesday, Rajoy warned against […]
‘Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry says a potential political agreement in Libya would not counter the threat posed by the ISIL Takfiri terrorists who have a base of support in eastern Libya. Shoukry made the […]
‘Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday warned that information warfare was “poisoning” relations between countries and called on international news agencies not to abuse freedom of speech for the sake of spinning their reports. […]
‘It took 16 hours of hard work to reach and sign the February 12 Minsk agreement on Ukraine. Five days later the 13-point accord was endorsed by the United Nations Security Council. On February 20, […]
‘Western states are trumpeting ISIS as the latest threat to civilisation, claiming total commitment to their defeat, and using the group’s conquests in Syria and Iraq as a pretext for deepening their own military involvement […]
‘Leaked tapes of Egyptian generals apparently plotting to persuade the world that arrested Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was in a civilian rather than a military prison – and thus not the victim of an army […]
‘Fractures began to appear in the Greek government today as Athens prepared to hand over a key proposed list of structural economic reforms to the country’s European creditors. The proposals – which include cracking down […]
‘Jack Straw is to take a job with a firm which won a £75 million government contract after he lobbied a minister on its behalf, The Telegraph can disclose. The former foreign secretary boasted to […]