France protests labour reforms
Over 300,000 workers and students took to the streets of France on Thursday, to protest the Macron government’s proposed public…
Markets decline amid trade war fears
Stock markets were down across the world amid fears of a potential trade war between China and the US. A…
Mogadishu hit again
A bomb blast in Mogadishu, Somalia has left at least 18 dead. The blast took place outside a popular hotel…
Petro doomed to fail?
Nicholas Maduro, President of Venezuela announced that the nation’s cryptocurrency, Petro, was officially on sale. The announcement comes just days…
McMaster out, Bolton in
US President Donald Trump has revealed that the country’s current National Security Advisor, HR McMaster would be replaced by John…
State of Emergency lifted in Maldives
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has officially lifted the state of emergency in the country after a period of 45 days.…
Peru’s political crisis
Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard has abruptly resigned after video recordings show him in the alleged act of “buying…
The weaponization of data mining
As more details emerge on how Cambridge Analytica used data mining to manipulate the 2016 US Presidential elections, Facebook continues…
US hikes interest rates, again
The US Federal Reserve Bank has announced that it will be raising its benchmark interest rate by 0.25%. The increase…
G20 to monitor cryptocurrencies
At the conclusion of the G20 summit in Argentina, finance ministers and heads of the central banks of the G20…