LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): Food prices are rising at their highest rate in nearly 30 years, putting a strain on living standards. Inflation rose to 5.4 percent in the 12 months ending in December, up from 5.1 percent the month before, inflicting
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): An application was filed by a law firm based in London, on Tuesday, with British police demanding the arrest of India’s army chief and a senior government official of India for their alleged complicity in war crimes in
BEIJING (Parliament Politics Magazine): The Chinese IT giant’s enormous coffers and adaptability are considered as critical to surviving the coming year. Alibaba has had a difficult 14 months. The Chinese tech behemoth has struggled since regulators abruptly halted the first public offering
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): After Russia gathered roughly 100,000 troops on its border, Ukraine is being armed with short-range anti-tank missiles from Britain for self-defence purposes, according to the defence secretary. A smaller group of British troops will also be dispatched to
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): According to a documentary, Arnold van den Bergh handed over a diarist and her family to the Nazis. Following the documentary, Anne Frank may have been betrayed by a renowned Jewish businessman who turned a Nazi agent in
ISTANBUL (Parliament Politics Magazine): The infrequent passerby stops at the window of NakitCoins, which is located just off Istiklal Street, Istanbul’s busiest pedestrian thoroughfare, to look at a screen displaying cryptocurrency prices. Despite a previous history of scandalised exchanges, the brick-and-mortar exchange,
KYIV (Parliament Politics Magazine): Ukraine claimed that Russia was responsible for a cyberattack that vandalised its official websites and that Russia is engaging in a “hybrid war” with its neighbour on Sunday. This was declared a day after Microsoft’s announcement about dozens
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): Sue Gray is said to have interviewed Boris Johnson as part of the probe into numerous parties at Downing Street, after news of a new Covid-rule-breaking gathering surfaced yesterday night. According to the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson is
Rescue workers have confirmed that the body of British tourist Angela Glover has been recovered from the ruins of her house after the Tonga tsunami. The couple had been travelling in Tonga with their dogs when the disaster struck. Ms Glover’s brother
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): The Omicron variant creates a near-vertical increase in COVID-19 infections, according to a World Health Organisation official, and there is a “limited window of opportunity” for countries in Europe to prevent their health-care systems from being overloaded. That
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (Parliament Politics Magazine): According to a source familiar with the talks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is discussing a plea offer in his corruption case. The former is accused of fraud, taking bribes among others. The agreement, which may
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): There are demands for the police to bypass the civil service investigation when more lockdown gatherings are discovered. During the lockdown in late March 2020, and members of parliament had gone to their seats for an early Easter