Futures plummet as investors dump stocks on fears of pandemic
U.S. stock index futures tumbled on Monday as investors scurried to perceived safe-haven assets after a surge in coronavirus cases outside China stoked fears of...
With once-radical Podemos tamed, Spain’s new coalition is happy – for now
Just last year, Spain’s struggling prime minister said he would not be able to sleep at night had he made a pact with the hard...
Malaysia’s 94-year-old prime minister resigns
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad unexpectedly resigned as prime minister on Monday, leaving the country in political turmoil and drawing calls from some quarters for the world’s...
‘RIP Democracy’: Thai students protest party ban as opposition grills PM in parliament
Hundreds of Thai students protested on Monday against the dissolution of a popular opposition party as Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and five cabinet ministers faced...
Malaysia’s Mahathir quits but asked to stay as interim PM
Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad unexpectedly resigned as prime minister on Monday, leaving the Southeast Asian nation in political turmoil, but the country’s monarch asked him to...
Turkmen constitutional reform hints at succession plan
The Turkmenistan government published a series of draft constitutional amendments on Monday that would reserve seats for former presidents in the newly-established upper chamber of...
Britain’s top cop calls for law on police use of AI
Britain’s most senior police officer on Monday called on the government to create a legal framework for police use of new technologies such as artificial...
Julian Assange put lives at risk, lawyer for United States says
Julian Assange is wanted for crimes that put at risk the lives of people in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan who had helped the West, said...
News and quotes from Julian Assange’s extradition hearing
Julian Assange appeared before a British court on Monday to fight an extradition request from the United States which wants to put the 48-year-old on...
Trial to begin of former French PM Fillon over fake jobs scandal
Former French prime minister Francois Fillon and his wife Penelope go on trial on Monday over a fake jobs scandal that wrecked his 2017 run...