Category: General Interest
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IMF chiefs warns UK
Britain could spiral into recession if it leaves the European Union without a bespoke trade deal, the International Monetary Fund warned Monday, and economic growth will slow regardless of what deal it reaches over trade and tariffs with Brussels. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization..
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Addis Ababa rocked by ethnic clashes
Central Addis Ababa area known widely as Piazza has been rocked by violent conflicts between the youth who came from towns of the Oromia Special Zone surrounding the capital and the Addis Ababa youth. Ethiopia is a landlocked nation in eastern Africa, with a population of over 100 million..
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China’s Silicon Valley faces serious hurdles
Integrating the two Special Administered Region (SAR) cities with mainland Chinese cities will be a massive program which will curtail the semi-autonomous status of Hong Kong and Macau. Hong Kong is an autonomous territory that holds a separate political and economic system from…
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Suu Kyi defends arrest of journalist
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has vehemently defended the imprisonment of the two Reuters journalists who were given seven-year jail terms after reporting on the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Rahkine state. The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority group from Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. Their origin can be traced…
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Trump launches fresh attacks on FBI and Justice Department with dubious allegation
As the country was marking the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Trump used the platform to launch a fresh round of assaults on the FBI and Justice Department. US President Donald Trump is a polarizing figure in world politics…
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Google will fight the Right to be forgotten in EU Court
The tech giant has been fighting for the rights of its end user’s data to be expunged from its databases. Irrespective of the verdict, this is a landmark case which will define the rights of an individual and their online data. Google LLC is an American multinational…
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Volkswagen gears up for the Emission scandal lawsuits
Investors in the German carmaker are getting ready to pursue the €9bn in damages from the 2015 Diesel emission scandal. In 2015, US’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to German automaker Volkswagen Group. The automaker was accused..
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Germany’s troublesome right-wing media outlets.
Aggressively expanding right-wing news sites are posing a challenge to traditional media agencies in Germany. Alternative news outlets cater to readers disillusioned by consensus-driven journalism. A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing..
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Pyongyang celebrates 70th anniversary
North Korea hosted a parade featuring soldiers, along with columns of tanks and heavy artillery. However, it did not show off the intercontinental ballistic missiles that are thought to be capable of reaching the United States. The Korean peninsula was divided post World War II in 1945..
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Twitter bans conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
The Social media company says it was responding to ‘abusive behaviour’ by the founder of InfoWars website. Alex Jones is a controversial conspiracy theorist who has a strong right-wing base and has claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. Jones was part of…