In the early 2000s, Venezuela was living an extensive oil bonanza. With Chávez in power, expenses were also increased when granting bonds to part of the population, making investments in projects...
On Tuesday night, the current Tory government faced a crucial vote on whether the House of Commons would back a bill to block a no-deal Brexit. It was a long day, for sure, and current Leader of the...
The autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region is completely landlocked and, as a result, has often historically become ensnared in the Middle East’s most vicious wars. Despite this, the region has remained...
Prorogue. /prəˈrəʊɡ/ verb discontinue a session of (a parliament or other legislative assembly) without dissolving it. "James prorogued this Parliament, never to call another one" It’s one of...
In recent weeks large parts of northern Iraq and northeastern Syria have been consumed by flames. Tens-of-thousands of acres of croplands have been burned, threatening agriculture in both regions....
Yesterday, voters in England and Northern Ireland voted in local council elections. The results of local elections are always interesting because people vote differently locally compared to...
He was just two years old when he chosen to be the leader of a vast nation that is twice the size of France and just a teenager when he saw that nation stolen from its people, forcing him to flee...
Theresa May has made a big balls-up of Brexit again. Actually, I don’t know if it’s ‘again’ so much as a continuous state of being. Desperate to get fellow Conservatives to vote for her...
This article originally appeared in January 2019. Given recent events, we thought it merited a re-up. Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, recently said BBC's Russian-language...
March 18 marked the one year anniversary of the conclusion of Turkey’s unprovoked and aggressive invasion of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwest Syria and the beginning of the ongoing...
