International News

November 28, 2018

White House denies Haspel prevented from briefing Senate on Khashoggi murder

The White House has denied preventing the CIA director, Gina Haspel, from briefing the Senate on the murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist, Jamal […]
November 27, 2018

Ukraine-Russia clash: MPs back martial law

Ukraine has declared martial law in part of the country after Sunday’s capture of three of its naval vessels and 23 crew members by Russia. Lawmakers […]
November 27, 2018

Brexit: Trump says May’s Brexit plan could hurt UK-US trade deal

Donald Trump has suggested Theresa May’s Brexit agreement could threaten a US-UK trade deal. The US president told reporters the withdrawal agreement “sounds like a great […]
November 26, 2018

Trump Administration Seeks Quick Supreme Court Ruling on Transgender Military Ban

(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to issue an unusually quick ruling on the Pentagon’s policy of restricting military service by transgender people. […]
November 26, 2018

Can you be ’employed’ for one hour’s work?

Just how many hours do you need to work to be officially classified as “employed”? Steve Garner, a sociologist, recently tweeted about how his son had […]
November 15, 2018

The Indian man in prison for cracking “offensive” jokes

In September, Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, a Delhi-based defence specialist with some 20,000 Twitter followers posted what he himself described as a “disparaging” video from a visit to […]
November 15, 2018

Trump Backs Criminal Justice Reform Plan

WASHINGTON — President Trump threw his support behind a substantial revision of the nation’s prison and sentencing laws on Wednesday, opening a potential path to enacting […]
November 15, 2018

Brexit: Draft agreement a ‘decisive’ step forward, says Barnier

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier says “decisive” progress has been made in reaching a final agreement on the UK’s departure from the bloc. Mr […]