Analysts warn that Britain’s wish to revise Brexit deal could backfire and open Pandora’s Box, as disgruntled EU states, unhappy with the current shape of the agreement, begin demanding their own ways.
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The hype around the technology often obscures its true standing.
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The "future of transportation" has proved to be the peeve of present.
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Criminalization is a tool generously used to silence audacious voices.
At least 100 people have died, and hundreds of others are missing after an overloaded passenger ferry capsized in the south of Lake Victoria, Tanzania on Thursday.
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Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa averted a run-off vote by securing just over 50 percent votes while opposition leader Nelson Chamisa bagged 44.3 percent of the total 4.8m votes cast.
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The U.N. and former colonial power the U.K. have called on Zimbabwe to exercise restraint in dealing with protesters who took to the streets against the ruling Zanu-PF party over alleged vote-rigging in Monday’s elections.
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Incomplete official results from Zimbabwe’s election show that the country’s ruling Zanu-PF party is headed for a comfortable majority in the parliament amid claims of vote-rigging by the opposition MDC Alliance.
Far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro snagged a thumping win in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election but fell just short of amassing 50 percent votes, required to avoid second-round run-off later this month.
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Brazil’s presidential election took a bloody turn on Friday after far-right presidential hopeful, Jair Bolsonaro, sustained “grave” wounds in a knife attack during a campaign rally in the south-east state of Minas Gerais.
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Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said the country should set its fuel prices at par with the international levels to combat rampant smuggling, which inflicts a loss of about $18 billion on the national exchequer annually.
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Following a marathon debate spanning over 15 hours, Argentina’s Senate voted 38 to 31 against a bill that seeks to legalize elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy in the country dominated by Roman Catholics.
Chinese media accused the U.S. of resorting to hooliganism over the arrest of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, accusing Washington of attempting to hamstring the expansion of its leading competitive technology company.
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Beijing called on Canada to immediately release Meng Wanzhou, Chinese telecoms giant Huawei's CFO, who was detained in Vancouver and faces extradition to the U.S. over a possible breach of sanctions against Iran.
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Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany called on Berlin & other Western states to up the ante against Russia by imposing new sanctions in response to Moscow’s seizure of Ukrainian ships near Crimea on Sunday.
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Pakistan’s supreme court has drawn praise from liberal for its brave refusal to be cowed down by extremist Islamist groups as it overturned the death penalty of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy.
British PM Theresa May warned the lawmakers in her Conservative party that a new leader would be forced to delay or stop Brexit, creating even more uncertainty and divisions in the country.
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British PM Theresa May, after canceling a vote on Brexit deal on Tuesday, rushed to European leaders in a last-ditch attempt to extract changes to the agreement that can make her Brexit plan more palatable to lawmakers.
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Hours before British PM Theresa May’s Brexit plan faces an acid test in the House of Commons, the European court of justice ruled that the U.K. can unilaterally revoke Article 50, without approval from the bloc members.
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The French government, after failing to bridle public anger that resulted in violent protests across major cities for the last three weeks, is caving in and could announce the suspension of plans to introduce an eco-fuel tax.
The U.S. tightened the noose around Iran on Monday by re-imposing the sanctions that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear deal, a move that prompted a defiant response from the country’s President Hassan Rouhani.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is at the helm of the kingdom, could have been involved in the gruesome killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday told MPs from his ruling party that the “savage” killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned days in advance before he was murdered in Istanbul.
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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir admitted that the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in a “rogue operation,” carried out without the knowledge of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Special counsel Robert Mueller in a memo filed on Tuesday praised former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn's “substantial assistance” to the probe into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 U.S. election.
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The U.S. Senate, miffed at being denied a C.I.A. briefing over the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, pushed a bipartisan motion on Wednesday, to end U.S. military support to a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
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The development comes as a setback for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is now short of a key witness over alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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A Lion Air Boeing 737 passenger plane, carrying 189 people to Pangkal Pinang, an Indonesian tin-mining region, plunged into the sea within minutes after it took off from the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
