Australia and India to step up ties
President Ram Nath Kovind, the first Indian head of state to visit Australia, held talks with Prime minister Scott Morrison…
US Launches Cybersecurity Defence Agency
President Donald Trump signed into law the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Act of 2018, thereby establishing the first…
Pushback on Novartis therapy for muscular atrophy
Just weeks after Novartis floated the idea that $4-5 million was fair value for its new gene therapy against spinal…
Populists Oppose UN Refugee Pact
The UN migration pact continues to be at the center of political debate. A second UN agreement on refugees is…
Battle of Influence in Philippines
Chinese President Xi Jinping met Philippines President Duterte, forging bilateral ties that resulted in the signing of 29 bilateral agreements.…
Sweden to go cashless?
Physical currency is being squeezed out in Sweden so quickly that the government is recalculating the societal costs of a…
Swiss Nationalists protest international ties
The new “self-determination” initiative launched by the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) would assert the supremacy of Switzerland’s constitution over international…
US scales back joint military exercise
The US-South Korean Joint Military Exercise “Foal Eagle” is being reorganized a bit to keep it at a level that…
France Gives Google the Guillotine
The French Ministry of the Armed Forces last month said that they will no longer use Google’s search engine as…
Justice Delayed but not Denied
Almost 34 years after anti-Sikh riots shook Delhi, a city court, in a “rarest-of-rare” judgment on Tuesday, sentenced a 55-year-old…