Category: World

The United States has announced fresh tariffs on $200 billion (€171 billion) of Chinese goods, spooking markets worried about an escalating tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s largest economies. The United States and China are two of the largest economies in the world. Both countries consider..

Trade ministers from the Group of 20 countries said that there was an “urgent” need to overhaul the World Trade Organization. President Trump has threatened to withdraw the United States from the WTO over its lack of clarity in its operations. The WTO is the only international organization…

World leaders and royalty have paid their respects to one of Africa’s most famous diplomats, Kofi Annan, at his funeral in his home country of Ghana. Kofi Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from January 1997 to December 2006…

President Macron formally acknowledged its military’s systemic use of torture in the Algerian War of Independence in the 1950s and 1960s, a step forward in grappling with its colonial legacy. Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest in Africa with a…

The lira has risen against the dollar after Turkey’s central bank hiked interest rates to 24% on Thursday – the biggest increase in President Tayyip Erdogan’s 15-year rule. Turkey comprises 1 percent of global GDP. Turkey’s lira had earlier fallen to a record low against the dollar and its $900…

The new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet has expressed her deep concerns about the worsening situation in the English speaking region of Cameroon. The Republic of Cameroon shares its borders with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast and Gabon…

Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, claimed his country was being condemned for choosing not to be a “country of migrants”, as he conceded that the European Parliament was set to trigger the EU’s most serious sanction against his government. Landlocked and lying approximately between latitudes 45° and 49° N and longitudes 16° and 23° E,…

Despite a year that saw Israeli and Iranian forces directly clash, Tehran’s foreign minister on Sunday sent “all Jews” a Rosh Hashanah greeting, wishing them a new year of “peace and harmony.” Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, a day of…

The international criminal court has ruled it can prosecute Myanmar for alleged crimes against humanity against the Rohingya people, an unprecedented decision that could expose the country’s politicians and military leaders to charges. The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority group from…

Rand weakens as Africa’s most advanced economy reports slowed economic growth for the second quarter this year. Analysts blame ineffective reforms and a sluggish agricultural sector for the deceleration of the economy. South Africa is an upper-middle-income economy and a newly industrialised country..