With over a year of sanctions failing to force Tehran to bend the knee, Washington is now resorting to creatively invoking “weapons of mass destruction” – the very same pretext the US used for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On Wednesday, the US Treasury Department expanded sanctions against Mahan Air, Iran's largest privately-owned airline, citing...
The US Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate alone and signalled that it expects to keep low rates unchanged through next year.
At least 70 soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military camp in Inates, near the country's border with Mali, according to officials, in the worst such attack on Niger's military for years. It's not clear who carried out the attack, but Islamist fighters aligned with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and Al-Qaeda...
Two more people have died after a volcanic eruption on White Island, bringing the official death toll to eight, New Zealand police said.
The willingness of adults to listen to teenagers rather than themselves is a sign of a deep societal crisis in the West. Edward Felsenthal, the editor-in-chief of TIME boasted that 16-year-old Greta Thunberg is the magazine's youngest choice to be named Person of the Year. I was not the least bit surprised – by now...
The London markets were extremely cautious as traders were on tenterhooks ahead of the latest Federal Reserve statement and Thursday's General Election.
A judge has told a west Clare farmer that “time runs out” for him in his efforts to clear his lands of his remaining 52 horses next February.
