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China is calling for a one world global currency that can replace the dollar, which has been instantly dismissed by the United States and European Union.  Beijing’s central bank wants to overhaul the global financial […]

Is it possible that the precious mineral coltan also known as ‘blue gold’, has anything to do with Obama’s claim that Venezuela is an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US security? Obama generated international outcry […]

The Germanwings co-pilot who killed 150 people in the French Alps crash in March, had previously practised reducing a flight’s altitude on an outbound flight, the same day as the crash.  Theguardian.com reports: The BEA, France’s air accident […]

Denmark has moved a step closer toward being a cashless society as the government proposes scrapping the obligation for retailers to accept cash as payment. The Telegraph reports: Nearly a third of the Danish population […]

The federal government’s controversial new anti-terrorism bill known as Bill C-51, has won the approval of the House of Commons, giving the country’s spy agency extra powers and carte blanche to operate overseas for the […]

A former student of  the Adass Israel Girls School in Melbourne, is suing the school for damages stemming from abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of the former principal Malka Leifer. The court heard […]

A temporary crash of the Swiss Stock Market today halted the entire market for around 3 minutes. This was followed by an outage in the Stock Exchange data delivery in the morning. Curiously the event […]

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair came to the defense of the disgraced former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. At the corruption trial in the country’s Supreme Court, Olmert presented a letter of character reference […]

It is being reported by the German newspaper Handelsblatt that conscription evasion in Ukraine has skyrocketed with 95% of working-age men in Kiev alone evading military service, using various methods from bribery to fleeing to […]