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EU unveils bigger post-Brexit budget
AFP, Published on 02/05/2018
» BRUSSELS: The EU unveiled plans Wednesday for a bigger 1.279-trillion euro budget for the seven years after Brexit, featuring a controversial move to cut funding for countries that fail to respect the rule of law.
Why we really need globalisation
News, Koichi Hamada, Published on 02/05/2018
» From the Brexit vote to Donald Trump's election as US president to rising support for populist parties in countries like Germany and Italy, much of the electoral upheaval in Western democracies in recent years has been attributed at least partly to a backlash against globalisation. But globalisation does not deserve voters' ire.
British PM faces reshuffle after top minister quits
AFP, Published on 30/04/2018
» LONDON: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May faced the headache of another cabinet reshuffle on Monday after interior minister Amber Rudd quit having "inadvertently misled" lawmakers about deportation targets for illegal immigrants.
UK interior minister Amber Rudd resigns in blow to PM May
AFP, Published on 30/04/2018
» LONDON - Britain's interior minister Amber Rudd resigned Sunday, admitting she "inadvertently misled" lawmakers about deportation targets, in a body blow to the government as it faces public outrage over the targeting of the so-called Windrush generation of migrants.
Muslims do fit in, though more slowly
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/04/2018
» 'Every Continental [European] under the age of 40 -- make that 60, if not 75 -- is all but guaranteed to end his days living in an Islamified Europe," wrote polemicist Mark Steyn in 2006. "Native populations on the continent are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic."
Twitter bots get political in Malaysia
Published on 21/04/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: Just weeks before Malaysia goes to the polls, automated accounts known as bots are flooding Twitter with tens of thousands of pro-government and anti-opposition messages, according to a review of the tweets by Reuters and a US digital media research institute.
If the model is broken, best fix it
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/04/2018
» If the model is broken, should you try to fix it, or should you scrap it and get a new one?
Germany hits brakes on Macron's European dreams
AFP, Published on 18/04/2018
» BERLIN - French President Emmanuel Macron's vision for a stronger European Union may be in tatters as a growing rift emerges with Germany on everything from defence to his plans for deeper eurozone integration.
France's Macron to push EU lawmakers on reforms
AFP, Published on 17/04/2018
» STRASBOURG (FRANCE) - French President Emmanuel Macron will on Tuesday address the European Parliament for the first time in a bid to shore up support for his ambitious plans for post-Brexit reforms of the EU.
US, Britain warn of Russian campaign to hack networks
AFP, Published on 17/04/2018
» LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM) - Russian government-sponsored hackers are compromising the key hardware of government and business computer networks in like routers and firewalls, giving them virtual control of data flows, the US and Britain warned Monday.