The Caribbean island of Barbados wants to remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic, the government has said, reviving a plan mooted several times in the past. A former colony that gained independence in 1966, Barbados has maintained a formal link with the British monarchy as have other countries […]
Former chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga became Japan’s new prime minister on Wednesday, and is expected to closely champion Shinzo Abe’s policies during his record-breaking tenure. Suga, 71, won an easy victory in a parliamentary vote, where his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held a commanding majority. His new cabinet was announced shortly after the […]
Joe Biden branded President Donald Trump a “climate arsonist” on Monday for refusing to acknowledge global warming’s role in deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, while Trump blamed lax forestry and declared, “I don’t think science knows.” Dozens of conflagrations have raged with unprecedented scope across some 4.5 million acres in Oregon, California and […]
British lawmakers on Monday backed a new bill that would override parts of the Brexit treaty struck with the European Union last year, despite outrage in Brussels and alarm at home over such an overt breach of international law. MPs in the House of Commons gave their initial approval to the UK Internal Market Bill […]
Thousands gathered outside the residence of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday in Jerusalem, chanting for his step-down due to his lacklustre response to the spread of coronavirus in Israel. The protests come a day after the ‘historic’ Israel-Bahrain peace talks, the latter being the second Arab country to normalise ties, backed by the […]
