The Dutch government has resigned in the wake of the childcare benefit scandal after an official report said ministers, civil servants, parliament and even judges had a role in the affair, which left parents powerless MORE
Dutch TV news has aired footage of customs officers confiscating ham sandwiches from drivers arriving by ferry from the UK under post-Brexit rules banning personal imports of meat and dairy products into the EU. MORE
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is speaking out against Twitter’s ban of Donald Trump, calling it “problematic.” Steffen Seibert, Merkel’s chief spokesman, spoke of the chancellor’s thoughts to reporters in Berlin on Monday. “The right to MORE
A Sriwijaya Air flight with 62 aboard is missing after losing contact with Indonesia’s aviation authorities shortly after takeoff from Jakarta. Flight SJ182, a 26-year-old Boeing Co. 737-500, was scheduled to depart from the nation’s capital to Pontianak on MORE
The world reacted with mixed emotions to the breach of the Capitol on Wednesday. Some expressed distress, disappointment, and indignation to Donald Trump, his supporters, and the state of democracy in America. “A fundamental rule MORE
The Trump administration is declassifying as-yet uncorroborated intelligence, recently briefed to President Trump, that indicates China offered to pay non-state actors in Afghanistan to attack American soldiers, two senior administration officials tell Axios. The big MORE
The US flew nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the Middle East Wednesday in the latest show of force meant to deter Iran, as defense officials remain divided over the risk posed by the regime and the Iraq-based militias MORE
“This is a catastrophe,” Mayor Darinko Dumbovic. “My city is completely destroyed.” “We need firefighters, we don’t know what’s under the surfaces, a roof fell on a car, we need help.” At least one person MORE
Nigel Farage joined other prominent Brexiteers revelling in Britain’s exit from the EU, following an historic deal reached between London and Brussels on Thursday. The former Brexit Party leader, who proved instrumental in Britain’s momentous MORE
JERUSALEM — Israel’s divided government collapsed early Wednesday, triggering the country’s fourth election in under two years and bringing an unprecedented threat to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lengthy grip on power. Netanyahu, who is used MORE
Iraqis have reacted with outrage to Donald Trump’s move to pardon four security guards from the security firm Blackwater who were jailed for a 2007 massacre that sparked an outcry over the use of mercenaries in war. MORE
A wealthy Tory MP is facing demands to pay reparations for his family’s part in the Caribbean slave trade after the Observer revealed that he now controls the plantation where his ancestors created the first MORE
The UK will have “a range of robust enforcement measures” at the end of the Brexit transition period, including “numerous” offshore patrol vessels available in its territorial waters, the Ministry of Defense (MOD) said Saturday. MORE
Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist, and Trump knows about it. MORE
Because COVID-19 is not enough… At least one person has died and 200 others have been hospitalized due to an unidentified illness in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, reports said Monday. The illness MORE
Around the world, minks are getting sick. The small, ferret-like mammals farmed for their valuable fur have raised alarm after contracting and mutating the coronavirus, passing it back to humans. The virus, officials said, spread MORE
Iran will not accept preconditions from a new Biden administration over its nuclear programme and the US must return to a 2015 deal before talks can take place, its foreign minister says. Javad Zarif said MORE
A member of the European Parliament representing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party has resigned from his position in Brussels after he was caught leaving what reports described as a 25-man orgy on Friday. MORE
At least two people have been killed and 15 injured after a car ploughed into a crowd of people in the historic centre of the city of Trier, in south-west Germany. According to the local MORE
If the Iranians retaliate, giving Mr. Trump a pretext to launch a return strike before he leaves office in January, Mr. Biden will be inheriting bigger problems than just the wreckage of a five-year-old diplomatic MORE
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, reportedly displayed “excessive anger” over the coronavirus pandemic and its economic damage, a South Korea’s spy agency said on Friday. According to The Associated Press (AP), Kim is also MORE
Iran has vowed retaliation after the architect of its nuclear programme was assassinated on a highway near Tehran, in a major escalation of tensions that risks placing the Middle East on a new war footing. MORE
The incident came as President Emmanuel Macron’s government is pushing a new bill that restricts the ability to film police, which has prompted protests from civil liberties groups and journalists concerned that it would allow MORE
The Israel Defense Forces have in recent weeks been instructed to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. will conduct a military strike against Iran before President Trump leaves office, senior Israeli officials tell me. MORE
As this election meltdown continues, observers from around the world are weighing in on the dysfunction with various reactions. The U.S. had set itself up as a model for democratic elections, impressing some with the MORE