JUSTIN Trudeau has desperately tried to downplay a political split in his Liberal party, triggered by the scandal that threatens to rip the Canada’s leadership from his grasp.
THE European Central Bank has "missed the turn" twice on interest rates and European economies are "now grinding down" putting the eurozone in real "danger", chief economist David Folkerts-Landa has warned.
THE EBOLA epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 1,000 cases, the Health Ministry has confirmed, adding the outbreak had already killed more than 600 people.
INDIAN citizens are preparing to hit the polling booth, as the country’s national elections are approaching next month. Certain portions of the country’s population have been barred from voting this year, however.
VENEZUELA is still in the grips of political chaos, as the country struggles to regain a semblance of control following a coup which saw Nicolas Maduro ejected from incumbency. Looting and violence are now sweeping the streets as rolling blackouts continue.
BEIJING has seemingly given into tensions with Washington, agreeing to buy up to 300,000 tonnes of US pork in a bid to break the two nations’ trade deadlock.
CANADIANS have been warned “not to trust the lofty promises” of any politicians as a second parliamentary committee considers opening a further investigation into wrongdoing by senior aides to Justin Trudeau.
GERMAN businesses are being warned to step up preparations for a hard Brexit after MPs wrestled control of the parliamentary agenda from the government to try to find a way through the Brexit impasse.
AUSTRIA has rejected criticism from the European Union after Wien slashed benefit payments for immigrants’ children still living abroad, claiming they simply adjusted the rates to the local living costs.
JUSSIE Smollett has had criminal charges against him dropped after the actor had been accused of filing a false police report after allegedly staging a homophobic and racist attack.
CHINA is preparing to tear the European Union apart and displace the United States as a regional hegemon in Asia, French Green lawmaker Yannick Jadot warned on Monday.
FLASH FLOODS in southern Iran have killed at least 19 people and injured more than 100 as 16 out of 31 regions are on high alert for imminent flooding.
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity dipped again this month following a brief rebound, according to a poll on Tuesday, as the anti-government Yellow Vest protest movement enters its 20th week of action.
PAKISTAN Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to “crackdown” on terrorist organisations operating in his country after hostilities with India brought the two countries to the brink of war last month.
Canberra warned social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, their executives could face jail time in Australia if they did not quickly remove extremist content from their platforms on Tuesday, according to The Australian. Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with a number of tech firms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google, to question them over how to keep their platforms from being "weaponized" by terrorists. Morrison's government is considering new laws in the wake of the white supremacist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand. Morrison said the companies "get an ad to you in half a second" so "they should be able to pull down this sort of terrorist material and other types of...
