Saudi Arabia has detained dozens of royal figures and ministers – in what it calls Phase One of its ‘anti-corruption push’.

The US Department of Treasury has imposed sanctions against ten Venezuelan officials, including a member of the recently elected Constituent Assembly, several electoral officials, and a diplomat. Thursday’s designations include nine new officials and an updated entry on Freddy Bernal, previously placed on the sanctions list as the former mayor of Caracas. Bernal is currently […]

A second woman has now accused ‘Gossip Girl’ star Ed Westwick of rape, only days after the British actor took to Twitter to deny the initial claims made against him. Westwick is now being investigated by the LAPD’s sex crimes unit over allegations made by actress Kristina Cohen, according to the LA Times. Cohen took […]

The United States is expected to spend nearly $6 trillion through 2018 on government-wide costs related to the wars waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria since 2001, reveals a study by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. According to Brown University’s Cost of War project analysis, authored by Neta Crawford, the total […]

The state of Texas executed Mexican citizen Ruben Ramirez Cárdenas, 47, late Wednesday night via lethal injection after a last-minute appeal by his attorneys to the US Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution was rejected. The execution had been denounced in advance by the Mexican government and by international human rights advocates. Cárdenas had […]

The anachronistic family enterprise known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long been politically fragile. In some respects it is remarkable that this entity has endured into the Twenty-first Century. A clan of royals lives on rake-offs from the country’s petroleum wealth, while using more of that wealth to buy off a fast-growing population. The Saudis […]

Queen Elizabeth II should give the money her estate invested offshore to desperate residents of Grenfell Tower, says Labour MP Emma Dent Coad following revelations about the British monarch’s financial affairs. Dent Coad said the revelations – outlined in the Paradise Papers released on Sunday – shed a light on the massive gap between the […]

The UN-backed joint mission investigating the chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib province back in April has found government forces to be responsible.

The Republican Party’s candidate likely to win Alabama’s Senate race next month is accused of inappropriate sexual conduct with a 14-year-old girl in 1979, a new report says. According to the report published on Thursday in The Washington Post, Leigh Corfman, now 53, said when she was 14 Roy Moore took her into his house […]

Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday said, “Jeb [Bush] and Hillary [Clinton] should have just run on the same ticket” after slamming the former Florida governor and former President George H.W. Bush for their recent criticism of President Trump. “Neither Bush, we found out, voted for Donald Trump,” Ingraham said on her Fox News program,  […]