Carrie Lam's interim successor may be appointed by March. As the Financial Times learned, the Chinese government is preparing a plan to replace Carrie Lam as Head of the Hong Kong administration. According to the publication, if the decision is approved by Xi Jinping, the interim head of the...

Iran is getting ready to take a new step to reduce its obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said. "We are preparing for the fourth step to reduce obligations on the nuclear deal. Tehran hopes that Europe will fulfill its...

The Dominican Republic travel industry lost $ 200 million amid reports of the death of American tourists in the country, Dominican Today reports. "The flow of tourists to the Dominican Republic from North America and Europe has declined amid reports of the death of tourists. From June to September,...

Amid the ongoing Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria, France decided to take the necessary measures to secure its military and civilians in the region, AFP reported. A day earlier, the United States announced its readiness to withdraw about a thousand US troops from the territory of...

Protests in Hong Kong continue, and their intensity is not going to subside. In Beijing, fears are growing that the riots may spread to other explosive locations in the country - Tibet and Xinjiang. Protests have been shaking Hong Kong since the spring of 2019. Despite the fact that by now the...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled his compromise proposals to the EU on Brexit terms. First of all, they relate to the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, says BBC News. Johnson proposed that Ireland and Northern Ireland remain a single space, and Northern Ireland remain on...

As experts warned, the international outbreak of hemorrhagic fever (African swine fever – ASF) is devasting livestock populations in China and other parts of Asia. When cases of infection appeared last year, analysts predicted that China would be unable to control the spread, and that by the time...

It has been almost a year that the sudden disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was later learnt to have been murdered while he was inside in the Saudi Arabian consulate office in Istanbul, had rocked the world – especially the western countries and their...

In 2007, Angela Merkel, who stood in a red jacket amid melting Greenland icebergs and urged world leaders to step up the fight against climate change, came to be known as the “climate chancellor”. Over the past 12 years, she has saved the Eurozone during the debt crisis and, despite strong...