Month: October 2019

The US House of Representatives will this week will debate legislation establishing procedures for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. In a letter to her fellow Democrats,  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the measure would lay the groundwork for public hearings, along with ways to set "due process" for Mr…

The eight American stealth helicopters, carrying Delta Force and Navy Seals, came in fast and low over the olive trees in Barisha, a village of a few thousand people in Idlib province near the Turkish border. In the darkness around midnight they were fired on from the ground but quickly obliterated the source, before soldiers…

Hong Kong has fallen into recession, hit by five months of anti-government protests that erupted in flames at the weekend, and is unlikely to achieve any growth this year, the city’s Financial Secretary said. Black-clad and masked demonstrators set fire to shops and hurled petrol bombs at police on Sunday following a now-familiar pattern, with police responding…

Argentina’s Peronists swept back into power on Sunday, ousting conservative president Mauricio Macri in an election result that shifts Latin America’s No. 3 economy firmly back toward the left after it was battered by economic crisis. Peronist Alberto Fernandez had 47.79% of the vote, ahead of Macri’s 40.71%, with more than 90% of ballots counted,…

The man that stood at the helm of the world’s most feared terrorist organisation in modern times carefully controlled a fractious mix of domestic jihadists and disillusioned foreign extremists, creating an army that would for a time impose its brutal rule over eight million people.  Though barely seen in public, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died…

It’s clear there’s something different about Björn Höcke from the moment he arrives in Gotha. A ripple of expectation goes through the crowd as he strides across the cobbled town square, flanked by menacing bodyguards dressed in black. “There is nothing wrong with expressing our democratic opinion. We want Germany to remain German,” he tells…