World economy

13 Dec 2018

With legislators from the ruling and opposition seeking either a new deal or a fresh Brexit referendum, May could still face real threat to her leadership at the no-confidence vote

11 Dec 2018

Theresa May will now have to go for a negative vote or call re-election that would then go for a fresh Brexit referendum as the European Court of Justice has ruled that Britain can call off Brexit unilaterally

10 Dec 2018

Any decision to return to EU would cost Britain the special privileges it enjoyed so far, including a separate currency outside the union and push the nation into another and more difficult referendum

06 Dec 2018

After the parliament approved a motion by the main opposition Labour Party that found the government in contempt of the House, the British government agreed to publish the "final and full" advice of the attorney on the Brexit deal

03 Dec 2018

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26 Nov 2018

Russia on Sunday seized three Ukrainan Navy ships after a gunfire in the Kerch Strait, a narrow waterway that gives access to the Sea of Azov, in the Black Sea, raising concerns of a conflict with west-backed Ukraine

26 Nov 2018

If Prime minister Theresa May fails to steer the deal through Parliament, Britons would either hold a second referendum, hold a new election to replace May or return to Brussels to try and renegotiate the package, and in a worst scenario, will simply crash out of the bloc without a deal

23 Nov 2018

22 Nov 2018

Trump indicated he had no intention of cancelling military contracts with Riyadh, saying, "if we foolishly cancel these contracts, Russia and China would be the enormous beneficiaries" 

21 Nov 2018

An analysis of information shared on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election has found that bots played a disproportionate role in spreading misinformation online

16 Nov 2018

15 Nov 2018

While the draft agreement scraped through in the cabinet, Prime Minister Theresa May now faces the more difficult task of pushing her deal through Parliament, where opponents are lined up to tear the agreement apart

15 Nov 2018

Ousted Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said he intended to discharge his official responsibilities, after Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said the no-confidence vote against Rajapaksa was supported by 122 members of the 225-member house

13 Nov 2018

While Japanese economy expanded 11 per cent after Governor Haruhiko Kuroda started the massive stimulus in early 2013, real growth of the economy, however, has been just 6.7 per cent

12 Nov 2018

Not only is the US absent from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – where India might play a key role - but President Trump is skipping the summit in Singapore, leaving the space open for China

09 Nov 2018

Trump had been critical of  Attorney General Jeff  for appointing Robert Mueller as the special counsel into the Russia probe, which the president was keen on stopping

08 Nov 2018

The US mid-term elections, widely seen as a referendum on ‘Trumpism’, proved a mixed bag as the GOP increased its majority in the Senate from 51-49 to 54-46, but lost control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats

08 Nov 2018

05 Nov 2018

Trump said the penalties were aimed at the Tehran government, “not at the long suffering Iranian people,” adding, the Iranian regime has abandon its destructive behaviour

02 Nov 2018

For Saudi Arabia, which hosts the holiest sites in Islam and bans the practice of other religions, the hosting of evangelist Christians and Israeli supporters is a rare act, forced by circumstances

29 Oct 2018

If everyone on the planet wanted to eat a healthy diet, there wouldn't be enough fruit and vegetables to go around, according to a new University of Guelph study