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The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but h ...[Read more]

The United States would like to weaken Russia’s energy cooperation with the European Union, said former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, adding it’s unacceptable to create barriers to Russian gas deliveries to the German market. "It’s wrong if t ...[Read more]

The four main Nordics—Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland—are doing rather well. If you had to be reborn anywhere in the world as a person with average talents and income, you would want to be a Viking. The Nordics cluster at the top of league tables ...[Read more]

There’ve been a lot of important revelations in the last week, but one of the most significant has gone obscenely under-reported in the shuffle. In a recent interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, timeshare tycoon and top Democratic party donor Steph ...[Read more]

Obama has conceded that the intervention “didn’t work”. White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Monday said Obama’s regrets extended to what “the United States and the rest of the members of our coalition didn’t do”. “The president has tried ...[Read more]

The World Trade Organization is struggling to balance the interests of wealthy countries, such as the United States, with those of China and other less-developed countries. The 11th World Trade Organization ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentin ...[Read more]

It was the true story that moved a Tory to tears: Heidi Allen, Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, wept after Frank Field, the veteran Labour MP for Birkenhead in Wirral, told parliament of the hungry constituent who said he had had “a lucky week� ...[Read more]

Male domestic violence victims are being urged to come forward and report their suffering in spite of the "stigma" surrounding their plight. Nationally, the number of women killed through domestic violence is more than double that of men. But in Cornwall ...[Read more]

A quarter of property in England and Wales owned by overseas firms is held by entities registered in the British Virgin Islands, BBC analysis has found. The Caribbean archipelago is the official home of companies that own 23,000 properties - more than any ...[Read more]

News Edward Snowden, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, has put National Security Agency (NSA) documentation at the disposal of online news organization The Intercept displaying a secret program that was set to spy on Bitcoin trading on th ...[Read more]

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had canceled the debt of African countries in excess of $ 20 billion. To help the African continent overcome poverty, Russia has decided to cancel more than $ 20 billion in debt contracted by African countries. � ...[Read more]