DPA, 21st OCTOBER, 2019 - A neck-and-neck contest to be Canada’s prime minister began on Monday as polling stations started opening across the country.

Britain secured a Brexit deal with the European Union on Thursday, more than three years after Britons voted to leave the bloc, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson must still win a knife-edge vote in parliament to get the agreement approved.

US, (Daily Mail), 17 October 2019 -A White House meeting on Syria policy quickly turned explosive on Wednesday when President Donald Trump called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a ‘third-grade’ politician.

Bogota (dpa), Oct 16, 2019- Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno on Tuesday replaced the heads of the joint command of the country’s armed forces and of the land force after a wave of violent protests forced the government to revoke a rise in fuel pri

MANBIJ REUTERS Oct 15, 2019- Turkey vowed to press ahead with its offensive in northern Syria on Tuesday despite U.S. sanctions and growing calls for it to stop, while Syria’s Russia-backed army moved on the key city of Manbij that was abandoned by

The United States slapped sanctions on Turkey Tuesday as it demanded an end to its deadly incursion against Syrian Kurdish fighters, accusing its NATO partner of putting civilians at risk and allowing the release of Islamic State extremists.

SRINAGAR (AFP), 15 Oct, 2019 - Text messaging services were blocked in Indian Kashmir just hours after being restored when a truck driver was killed by suspected militants and his vehicle set ablaze, authorities said Tuesday.

Japan beefed up relief and rescue operations on Monday after one of the most powerful typhoons to hit the country in decades, but the rescue efforts were being hampered by flooding and landslides.

Pakistan, (dawn.com) October 14, 2019 - Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton, will make their first visit to Pakistan today and are expected to arrive in Islamabad at 9pm.

DPA, 14th OCTOBER, 2019 - Spain’s supreme court sentenced nine of 12 accused Catalonian separatist leaders on Monday to between nine and 13 years in prison over their roles in an attempt to secede from the country.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened Europe he will send 3.6 million refugees to the continent if the invasion of Syria is defined as an occupation.

UK (Daily Mail), Oct10, 2019 - Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar said they can see the ‘pathway to a deal’ after intense Brexit talks today - as the clock runs down.

Germany, (rt.com), 10 Oct, 2019 - The shooter who killed two people and injured others at a synagogue in Halle had planned a “massacre” and wanted to inspire others to do the same, a German prosecutor said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of Turkey’s long-threatened military offensive in northern Syria, after a US decision to abandon its Syrian-Kurdish partners.

UK, (Daily Mail), 3 October 2019 - Scotland has become the first part of the UK to ban the smacking of children.

UK, (Daily Mail), 4 October 2019 - Boris Johnson will ask the EU for a Brexit delay beyond Halloween if Britain and Brussels have not struck an agreement by October 19, a court was told today.

China has got caught up in the growing impeachment tempest surrounding Donald Trump on Thursday, when the US president called on Beijing to investigate his political opponent, former Vice-President Joe Biden, and Biden’s son Hunter.

Baghdad (dpa) 3 Oct 2019 - Most areas in Baghdad were quiet on Thursday as Iraqi authorities enforced a curfew after two days of anti-government protests across the country left 16 dead and hundreds injured.

North Korea test-fired a ‘new’ submarine-launched ballistic missile, state media claimed today, just a day after Pyongyang announced it would resume nuclear negotiations with Washington.

AFP.com, 3 Oct, 2019 - A bellicose Donald Trump unleashed furious attacks Wednesday on the impeachment inquiry launched against him by Democrats, amid an intensifying standoff between the president and Congress.

US President Donald Trump stepped up the rhetoric in his attacks on the whistleblower at the centre of the Ukraine scandal, as lawyers for the government official who raised an internal alarm warned the person may be in harm’s way.

JAKARTA AFP Sept30, 2019 - Thousands rallied across Indonesia Monday in fresh demonstrations sparked by a raft of divisive legal reforms, including banning pre-marital sex and weakening the anti-graft agency.

PATNA AFP Sept30, 2019 - At least 100 people have died in northern India over the last three days in unusually heavy late monsoon rains which have submerged streets, hospital wards and houses, officials said Monday.

Rome (dpa), 27 Sept, 2019 - “More than 1 million people” have taken part in Fridays for Future climate protests across Italy this week, according to a spokesman for the movement.

Riyadh (dpa), 27 Sept, 2019 - Saudi Arabia will open its doors to international tourists for the first time under a new visa regime to be announced later Friday, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage said.

The White House scrambled to “lock down” records of President Donald Trump’s phone call pressing for Ukraine’s interference in next year’s US election, according to an incendiary whistleblower complaint released Thursday, in the latest epis

A whistleblower report released by a congressional panel on Thursday said President Donald Trump used his office to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 election to advance his personal political interests, risking U.S. national security.

LONDON AFP Sept26, 2019 -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered yet another setback on Thursday after MPs rejected his call to briefly suspend their business for his party’s conference, highlighting the hostility he faces in parliament just

Beijing (dpa), 25 Sept, 2019-Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of a new mega-airport south of Beijing on Wednesday, a week ahead of more planned celebrations for the People’s Republic of China’s 70th anniversary.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday launched what she designated a formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump – giving in to demands from her party’s leading presidential candidates and an increasingly bellicose caucus that Congress should fo