Europe’s ruling forcing Apple to pay back taxes to Ireland has proven mighty unpopular in the Emerald Isle.

Zuma responds to bad election news by moving to tighten his grip on power.

The first thing anybody needs to do who wants to follow the news intelligently is to learn to filter out the noise in order to focus on the signal. The G-20 is noise; what goes on there has little or nothing to do with the real events shaking the earth.

An irresistible force is approaching an immovable object…

If the Turkish government never wants to see Gulen extradited, it should continue with this kind of paranoid reasoning.

The exit polls are in, and the German anti-immigrant party has come in a strong second in state elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

There is absolutely no policy justification for these concessions being kept from the public.

Russian authorities have authorized a one-time payment to pensioners next year to help in difficult times. The disbursement, however, will at least in part be funded by expropriating today’s workers’ savings.

New polls show the AfD pulling ahead of Angela Merkel’s CDU in an eastern German state, ahead of elections this Sunday.

Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia recalled their ambassadors to Brazil, and Brasilia returned the favor.