China, a country the size of a small continent, tends to leverage its heft by negotiating with other states one-on-one rather than through regional blocs. It has put this technique to use with Asean, the Southeast Asian association, using bilateral deals to divide members. Judging by the tone of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Italy […]

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish construction firm Ferrovial has approached U.S.-listed metals group Ferroglobe to discuss a potential bid for its mini hydro-electric power assets, two sources with knowledge of the deal said. The acquisition would be the Heathrow airport owner’s first step into renewable assets in Spain and could help to recover some of the […]

While Donald Trump and his acolytes do their victory dance over William Barr’s tilted assessment of the Mueller Report, one outstanding question that remains: if Trump and his team did no wrong, why did they lie ? Why did Trump insist that he had no business dealings in Russia when, in fact, he was negotiating […]

In “We’re Asking the Wrong Questions of YouTube and Facebook After New Zealand,” Charlie Warzel wrote about the online impact of the video streamed allegedly by the gunman during the shootings in Christchurch and the need for social media and tech companies to take more responsibility for the content posted by extremists on their platforms. […]

Over the last three years, since Brexit and the Trumpening and the general rise of disreputable forces in Western politics, there has been a steadily boiling elite panic about the power of the paranoid fringe, the mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, the pull of fake news and the danger of alternative realities. And yet over that […]

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Jet Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal will step down from the board of the Indian carrier he founded 25 years ago and its lenders will seize control, the company said, as part of a deal led by state-run banks to save the airline from bankruptcy. Saddled with debt of more than $1 […]

It beggars belief Theresa May did not seek cross-party consensus before going to the EU to negotiate a deal once she took over from Dave. On the other hand, I can see why it didn’t happen – May could have been seen as weak by asking for help when she probably wanted to be the […]

Next Tuesday, the National Transport Authority (NTA) will publish its latest design for Metrolink in Dublin. The northside route is largely agreed but there remains an issue on the southside. The integration of the Metro on to the Green Luas Line is creating real concerns because the new driverless and fully segregated system will divide […]

On a bitter night nearly two-and-a-half squandered years ago, Donald Trump was duly elected the 45th president of the United States of America. His victory was a political scandal, a democratic emergency and a moral shame — but as Robert Mueller seems to have concluded after a definitive investigation, Mr. Trump’s win was not the […]

A Russian tourist was arrested after attempting to smuggle a two-year-old orangutan found drugged and stuffed into a suitcase at an airport in Indonesia, authorities said. The tourist, identified as Andrei Zhestkov, was arrested Friday at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali after an X-ray revealed the male orangutan was inside a basket stuffed in […]