Barack Obama’s step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, has died at a hospital in Kenya at the age of 99. Affectionately called Granny Sarah by the former president, Mrs Obama defended her grand... Read more
Roland Oliphant Peel away the euphemisms, and Britain’s Integrated Review of defence and security policy identified two global adversaries: Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Bo... Read more
Peter Weber Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed into law a new law to restrict voting access in the state, shortly after the Republican-led legislature passed it along party lines. Georgia vo... Read more
Marianne Guenot A declassified memorandum reveals a 1963 US plan to create an alternative to the Suez Canal. It would have excavated more than 160 miles through Israel’s Negev desert w... Read more
Saudi Arabia is building a futuristic megacity from scratch named Neom. The city plans to ask future residents to submit a huge amount of personal data to help it run. Experts said technophi... Read more
BEIJING (AP) — The foreign ministers of China and Russia affirmed their countries’ close ties at a meeting Tuesday, amid intense criticism and new Western sanctions against them over h... Read more
Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich has sued HarperCollins over a book which claims that he acted corruptly and bought the football club on the direction of Vladimir Putin. The Russian-Israe... Read more
Giovanni Torre Australia’s national parliament has been hit by another scandal, with reports that government staffers filmed sexual encounters in the building and brought in sex workers to s... Read more
The Telegraph The Biden administration is preparing a series of aggressive cyber attacks on Russia in a major shift in tactics designed as a warning shot to rival powers. The attack, which i... Read more
PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union does not need Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 and can achieve immunity across the continent using European production, a leading EU e... Read more
