In a bid to pressure the country to give up its nuclear ambitions, the United States and its allies have ratcheted up sanctions against North Korea. However, some analysts are of the opinion that it might prove a losing strategy.   In fact, as firms develop better methods of...

A global city is a city considered to be an important element of the world economic system. Such a city usually bears key importance for large regions of the Earth and has a serious political, economic or cultural impact on them. In contrast to the concept of "metropolis", which can be used in...

With Sara Armstrong’s resignation from RNC’s Chief Of Staff, the count of resignations at RNC continues to grow. Three familiar people have reported that Republican National Committee’s Chief of Staff, Sara Armstrong, will be resigning, whereby turning out to be the “latest in a string of...

France assures Iraq to remain with the latter in peace as they did in the times of war. The Foreign Minister of France, Jean-Yves Le Drian, informed the Iraqi officials that France will stand by in Iraq’s reconciliation efforts to reconstruct the country as it “emerges from a war against Islamic...

While the U.S. has dragged its feet in selling the technology to one of its closest allies, an imminent threat from North Korea could help spur the multi billion dollar deal. In the wake of a growing threat from North Korea, Japan is seeking a land-based version of the Aegis ballistic missile...

French President Emmanuelle Macron said that the European Union needs to think about its future after Brexit during a debate with the United Kingdom, Reuters writes. Head of the Fifth Republic also expressed his desire to see strengthening of the economic and monetary union for the main group of...

His application, AloPeyk, a delivery service in Tehran, had been removed due to sanctions put in place by the U.S. government, Iranian entrepreneur Mehdi Nayebi received an email from Apple Inc.’s App Store Review stating this on a Saturday in mid-August.   There are also others....

Vietnam is going to legitimize bitcoin and recognize it as an official means of payment by 2018, the regional news agency VNA reports. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc instructed the Central Bank of Vietnam, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Public Security to develop a regulatory regime...

A recent report of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on transnational crimes said that cigarettes follow the same routes used for other contraband, including the supply of drugs and counterfeit goods. One in five adults in Southeast Asia - 122 million people - was a smoker in 2015, which...