Cabinet ministers Pyne and Ciobo set to head out door
Mar 01, 2019 13:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The Defence Minister, Christopher Pyne and the Defence Industry Minister Steve Ciobo, both cabinet members, are set to announce they are quitting parliament at the election, in the latest of multiple high profile exits...
Feb 28, 2019 09:47 am UTC| Politics
The highly anticipated return of Michael Cohen to Capitol Hill happened on Wednesday. One of his most interesting claims is that United States President Donald Trump was negotiating hundreds of millions of dollars worth of...
Feb 28, 2019 09:47 am UTC| Politics
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently stated they have ample nuclear weapons developed and ready to be deployed if needed. A few days later, a state-run TV news outlet elaborated this statement and listed several...
Feb 28, 2019 09:43 am UTC| Politics
Melania Trump has been caught yet again in the controversy involving Donald Trump and American pornographic actress Stephanie Clifford (known professionally as Stormy Daniels). Michael Cohen Donald Trumps lawyer from 2006...
Feb 28, 2019 09:43 am UTC| Politics
Kim Jong-un recently met with Donald Trump again to continue the negotiations of disarming the nuclear programs that have been overseen by the North Korean leader. The two met in the Metropole hotel at Hanoi, Vietnam where...
El Salvador's new president must tackle crime, unemployment and migration — but nation is hopeful
Feb 26, 2019 15:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy
Ever since its civil war ended in 1992, El Salvador has been governed by two parties: the conservative National Republican Alliance and its former wartime enemy, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a guerrilla...
How Nigeria has got better at running elections that are freer and fairer
Feb 26, 2019 14:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The conduct of periodic, competitive, participatory, credible and non-violent elections is one of the main yardsticks used to determine the democratic condition of a state. As such, Nigerias 2019 general election is...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight