Category: World

Synergia Foundation organised a round-table discussion with Professor James Mayall, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Cambridge University, who shared the stage with Krishnan Srinivasan, a former Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. The theme of the conference was “TWO FEMALE PRIME MINISTERS…

Mass protests among Rohingya minorities in Bangladesh halts efforts to send them back to Myanmar where they are treated in a deplorable manner. The Rohingya are a Muslim minority group in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, concentrated in the western state of Rakhine. The Myanmar…

Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has officially resigned and his party is leaving the coalition. Lieberman’s party, Yisrael Beiteinu, is no longer part of PM Netanyahu’s governing coalition, leaving the prime minister with a razor-thin majority of just 61 votes. The state of Israel was formed on 14 May 1948, to…

A California jury has cleared US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of liability in a case involving a woman who alleged that the company’s talc-based products contain asbestos and caused her cancer. Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational medical device…

Cuba’s health ministry rejected Jair Bolsonaro’s comments against the 20,000 Cuban health professionals that serve in Brazil as ‘contemptuous and threatening’. They will now be stopping the programme that brings medical care to areas of extreme poverty in Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right lawmaker…

Negotiators for the EU and the UK have finally struck a draft deal on the conditions of the British divorce from the bloc. But now Theresa May has to convince her Cabinet and Parliament to back the deal. Brexit, or the “British exit from the European Union”, is the proposed withdrawal of the United Kingdom…

As the Bangladesh poll date nears, hopes for a free and fair election and a truly democratic future come under question in Bangladesh. Bangladesh legislature is carried out in one house or chamber. The unicameral Jatiyo Sangshad, meaning national parliament, has 350 members…

Oil prices have fallen sharply to levels not seen for almost a year as traders see a return of a glut in supplies at a time of falling demand. The price of oil refers to the spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such…

Goldman is facing scrutiny around the world for its part in the deal known as 1MDB, where it reaped about $600 million in fees. 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) is a Malaysian strategic development company, wholly owned by the Minister of Finance (Incorporated). 1Malaysia Development…

The UN’s plan offers the best hope of ending Libya’s chaos, but it is moving slower than many had hoped. Italy and France are making things more complicated; the UN-led process is still the best hope for ending the chaos in Libya. The State of Libya is a country in North Africa, and has the…