BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has invited U.S. President Donald Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon to a media conference in Berlin for right-wing journalists and bloggers just two weeks before European elections. The office of AfD lawmaker Petr Bystron confirmed a report in Der Spiegel magazine that the invitation to the […]

Over 60,000 police officers were been deployed across France after yellow vest protesters took to the streets for a 23rd consecutive weekend last week. As the violence continues to grip France, economist Richard Welling has demanded European Union officials criticise the French police. On December 5, less than a month after the protests began, the […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat was promoted to deputy prime minister on Tuesday, strengthening expectations he will take over as the next leader of the wealthy city-state. Heng’s promotion will take effect on May 1, the prime minister’s office said in a statement. He will retain the role of finance minister […]

The US president will travel to Britain with first lady Melania Trump from June 3-5 where he will be officially hosted by the Queen. Her Majesty had invited Trump to make the state visit, which Palace officials this afternoon announced has been accepted. He may stay at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle for the duration […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Devastating Easter bombings in Sri Lanka were retaliation for recent deadly attacks on mosques in New Zealand, a Sri Lankan official said on Tuesday, adding that two domestic Islamist groups were believed to have been behind Sunday’s blasts. No group has claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks, which officials said were carried […]

The Indonesian holiday hotspot island of Bali saw the 3,000-metre high Mount Agung erupt on Sunday. The eruption led to volcanic ash being spewed two kilometres up into the sky at 3.21am local time. There have been no reports of any injuries after the thick ash plume was seen drifting to the south-west. Is it […]

But a surge in support for the far right Vox party has given Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez a headache with just days to go before the nationwide poll. Meanwhile, Catalan pro-independence groups are poised to throw a spanner in the works, fielding their jailed leaders – as well as others who fled the country to […]

The German MEP has pledged to double the number of staff at Europol, the EU’s crime-fighting agency, if he succeeds Jean-Claude Juncker as Commission president. Mr Weber will seek to hire over 1,000 more Europol agents and “turn it into a European FBI, where joint investigation teams combine all information on offenders and radicalised persons”. […]

Ndakazi and Ndeze were only months-old gorillas when their mothers were killed 12 years ago. Since then, they have lived in the Senkweke Sanctuary, a gorilla orphanage located in Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lately, the world has come to know them for their part in a selfie that two […]

Flames that consumed a Peachland home Apr. 20 are believed to have killed four pets belonging to a woman who lived in the home. The fire was a total loss for Amy Hansen and her landlord, who lived on the lower floors of the hillside home. “It’s so crazy,” Hansen told Global News. “I never […]