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Syrian sanctions blocked over shutdown

The US Senate Democrats have blocked the action on the new Syrian sanctions bill. They said they would not vote to consider the penalties until the chamber takes up legislation to open the closed…

Hungarians march against Victor Orban

Many thousands of Hungarians marched through central Budapest, voicing anger at their right-wing government and its recent controversial policies. Hungary, a country located in Central Europe became…

Hackers target German politicians

Hackers have leaked the personal data of hundreds of German politicians, journalists and celebrities. This is reported to be one of the worst cyber security breaches in Germany. A cyberattack is any…

Bermuda is Google’s new Tax Haven

US tech giant Google moved some $23 billion in profits to a Bermuda tax haven in 2017, an increase of $4bn from 2016, newly released filings reveal. Google has exploited the loophole in the EU tax…

Robots are not killing jobs

The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank chief economist Pinelopi Koujianou said, despite common gloomy predictions that humans are set to…

Somalia expels UN Official

Somalia’s government took the drastic step of expelling the United Nations’ most senior official in the country after he questioned the detention of a former al-Shabab leader contesting the regional…

Washington state enacts new gun controls

Washington state joined a handful of other states that ban anyone under 21 from buying a semi-automatic assault rifle after voters passed a sweeping firearms measure in November that has drawn a…

US government shuts down

A partial US government shutdown has taken effect after US lawmakers failed to break a budget impasse. This is the second government shut down of the Trump administration in less than a year. A…

Germany closes last coal mine

Germany will close its last black coal mine on Friday, a milestone marking the end of a 200-year-old industry that once fuelled the country’s economic growth. This is the latest step in the push for…

Reporters accused of Fake News

Two of Europe’s leading newspapers are seeing their employees being accused of propagating fake news by writing unverifiable stories and making up claims. Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or…

Affordable Healthcare Act Repealed

A federal judge in Texas said on 14 December ruled that the Affordable Care Act's individual coverage mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law, therefore, cannot stand. The Patient…

Genome Project: A Healthcare Revolution

A Cambridge research project has sequenced 100,000 genomes from around 85,000 people. The aim is to create a new genomic medicine service for the NHS, transforming the way people are cared for; 1 in…

Global governance in a hyper-connected world

The eleventh edition of the World Policy Conference was held in Rabat, Morocco, from the 26-28th of October 2018. Tobby Simon, the founder and president of Synergia Foundation, at the eleventh…

Denmark’s new “migrant island”

Denmark’s right-leaning coalition government announced that the island of Lindholm will house about 100 migrants, mostly asylum seekers who cannot be deported. Since 1926, Lindholm island has housed…

EU Fights Election-Time Fake News

European Union authorities want internet companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter to file monthly reports on their progress eradicating "fake news" campaigns from their platforms ahead of…

India’s Malnutrition Crisis

Global Nutrition Report 2018 revealed that the global burden of malnutrition is unacceptably high and now affects every country in the world. India faces a major malnutrition crisis as it holds…

Togo transforms junk to robots

Togolese innovators are turning the world's junk into robots, mostly from discarded electronic waste. Health hazards remain the primary concern for local innovators who lack the facilities to…

British parliament seizes Facebook documents

The British parliament has reportedly seized documents that are alleged to contain important information about Facebook decisions on data and privacy controls that led to the Cambridge Analytica…

Ground-breaking Cancer Drug Gets FDA Approval

The US Food and Drug Administration approved Vitrakvi, an advanced cancer treatment drug shown to significantly reduce tumours in 81 per cent of patients with 24 different types of cancers while…

NASA lands robotic probe on Mars

The US-made spacecraft has survived what NASA called “seven minutes of terror” and landed safely on a flat Martian desert, to begin the first scientific investigation of the planet’s interior.…