Glitzy Astana lacks the architectural gems of neighbouring Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has visited Astana in Kazakhstan to boost…
Opinion
Polls tip Macron for victory
Former finance minister Emmanuel Macron. French presidential front-runner, the 39-year-old former finance minister Emmanuel Macron, now has over a 60-per-cent…
Uzbek leader makes first foreign trip
The Wedding Palace in Turkmenistan’s surreal capital, Ashgabat. Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev surprisingly chose Turkmenistan as the destination for his first…
Dutch reject Wilders’ populism
Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom was left disappointed. There is not going to be a European Union referendum or a “Nexit” from…
Abuse victim quits Vatican probe
The Vatican remains opaque. Source: Wikimedia A clerical sex abuse survivor has left a Vatican panel set up by Pope…
By-elections put Corbyn in spotlight
Copeland in Cumbria largely voted to leave the European Union last year. Source: Wikimedia UK by-elections in Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent…
Assassin could be one of many
The bloodshed in Aleppo could be replicated in Turkey. Source: Flickr The murder of the Russian ambassador to Turkey by…
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