Pekko Haavisto, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, said other countries have seen the issues faced by the UK and it has galvanised support for the EU “What Brexit actually triggered was a lot of support of European Union members,” Haavisto said. “They see
The billionaire cut loose scores of staffers who'd been promised paychecks through the election — and state parties are getting pressured to hire them. Mike Bloomberg’s decision to dump hundreds of former campaign staffers from his payroll — after promising them paychecks through the election —
The European Commission’s proposals to tackle money laundering run into resistance from national capitals. The European Commission is hell-bent on creating a watchdog to enforce the bloc’s anti-money laundering rules. But skeptics fear it won’t have much bite. Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis sounded a
The Trump administration's peace deal with the Taliban was dealt yet another blow Tuesday as the Afghan government announced it was resuming offensive operations against the insurgent group following a spate of deadly terrorist attacks. Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani announced the resumption of offensive operations during a televised
The US Navy has granted a waiver allowing a transgender service member to serve "in their preferred gender" for the first time since the military enacted a transgender ban. "The acting Secretary of the Navy has approved a specific request for exemption related to military service
U.S. government scientists said today that this year's annual spring flooding season will not be as severe or prolonged as in 2019. Too often disasters come in threes. But the year of global pandemic and record wildfires in Australia will not also be a year of
Astronomers have a new candidate in their search for the nearest black hole to Earth. It's about 1,000 light-years away, or roughly 9.5 thousand, million, million km, in the Constellation Telescopium. That might not sound very close, but on the scale of the Universe, it's actually right
In 2016, a Facebook group called “UC Berkeley Memes for Edgy Teens” had more than 100,000 members from around the globe, including many who had never laid eyes on the university. A saucy meme would be uploaded to the Facebook group, and in a matter of
Hong Kong has announced that all Boeing B737 MAX aircraft will be banned from the territory’s airspace following a deadly crash involving the plane in Ethiopia. The Civil Aviation Department said the plane will be temporarily prohibited from entering Hong Kong airspace from 6pm on Wednesday
From grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Australia, China’s ban on accepting the world’s used plastic has plunged global recycling into turmoil. For many years, China received the bulk of scrap plastic from around the world, processing much
