Brexit deal: What just happened?
UK and EU leaders stood on a stage in Brussels on Thursday and declared that a Brexit deal had, finally, been done. Negotiations had gone on past the supposed deadline, and top officials had...
Category: International
Why Trump fired John Bolton
US President Donald Trump has fired his national security adviser, John Bolton, saying he disagreed “strongly” with him. The world learned of the departure through Trump’s favourite medium. “I informed John Bolton last night...
Jack Ma, China’s richest man, quits Alibaba on company’s 20th anniversary
He co-founded Alibaba in 1999 and it has become one of the world’s biggest internet firms 20 years on. Daniel Zhang, currently Alibaba’s chief executive, will replace him as executive chairman. The company is now...
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe ex-president, dies aged 95
Mr Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April. He was ousted in a military coup in 2017 after 37 years in power. The former president was praised for broadening...
UK PM’s brother quits as Tory MP and minister
Jo Johnson, the younger brother of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is resigning as an MP and minister, saying he is “torn between family loyalty and the national interest”. The business minister and Tory MP...
Mysterious village where a boy hasn’t been born for a decade
During a competition for younger firefighters, the Mayor of Miejsce Odrzanskie in Poland, Krystyna Zykziak, a 67-year-old woman noticed something unusual about the small Polish village. Every single one of the uniformed children showing off...
BREAKING: Nigeria to recall ambassador to South Africa
Indications emerged on Wednesday that the Nigeria High Commissioner to South Africa, Ambassador Kabiru Bala, will any moment from now be recalled for consultation over the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in that country. A...
President Trump cancels automatic citizenship of non-citizens born in US
A new policy alert released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services under President Trump’s administration, has cancelled automatic citizenship for the children of some US service members and US government employees living abroad and children of non-citizens born in the United States. Under the new citizenship policy...
Queen Elizabeth approves Boris Johnson’s plan to suspend UK Parliament
Brexit took yet another chaotic turn Wednesday when a controversial request from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend UK Parliament from mid-September was approved by Queen Elizabeth. The audacious gambit wrong-footed the Prime Minister’s opponents...
Ryugyong Hotel: The story of North Korea’s ‘Hotel of Doom’
In 1987, ground was broken on a grand new hotel in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. The pyramid-shaped, supertall skyscraper was to exceed 1,000 feet in height, and was designed to house at least 3,000 rooms, as...
