Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his 12-year-old hold on power as prime minister of Israel after the country’s parliament voted 60-59, to a new coalition government led by right-wing nationalist Naftali Bennett of the Yamina party who will leading an unprecedented coalition of parties. The incoming prime minister will be in office until September 2023 as…
Joe Biden is in the UK for the Global leaders’ summit in Cornwall which officially starts on Friday. US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill met the Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Carrie for the first time and admired the view overlooking St Ives Bay, with Mr Biden saying “ It’s gorgeous I…
President Donald Trump declared “ The United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice”. After a 2018 raid by US special forces which resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, the leader of Isis. Abu Ali al-Basri’s mole within Isis who had provided information that lead to the attack. Margaret…
West Bengal home to 90 million people and the city of Kolkata Trinamool Congress Party ( TMC) returned to power with 200 seats out of 294 as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party failed to win a key state in the assembly elections held amid record Covid-19 deaths and cases. Despite the defeat, West Bengal…
Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment: Winning and losing in one-click America, highlights with empathy and breadth, what drives economic populism and the division between a sliver of the professional-managerial elite in winner-takes-all cities and everyone else, also the hidden human costs of other inequality not the growing gap between the rich and poor, but the gap between…
A group of eight Russian diplomats and their families made an unusual exit out of North Korea across the border by initially traveling by train and bus before pushing themselves across the Russian border for about 0.6 miles (1km) over train tracks. North Korea has blocked most passenger transport to limit the virus spread,…
Kamala, the daughter of a Jamaican-born father and India-born mother who met in the 60s Bay Area political activism. In her 2020 Democratic National Convention acceptance speech as Joe Biden’s running mate, she proudly recalled having “ a stroller’s eye view of people getting into what the great John Lewis called “ good trouble”. Her…
The army has seized power in a military coup in Myanmar as Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of her governing party are detained. All authority has been transferred to the top army commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing and a one-year state of emergency has been declared according to a statement on military TV.…
On-the-record test for support for conviction on impeachment charges that Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted to consider stopping the trial even before it starts. After the vote, Rand Paul, who pushed for the dismissal, crowed that the impeachment article delivered by…
Joe Biden started dismantling his predecessor’s legacy, signing a series of 15 executive orders including boosting the federal response to the coronavirus which has already claimed over 400, 000 lives in the US, the mandate to wear masks, and practice social distancing on all federal government property, re-join the Paris climate change, immigration –…