Britain will take urgent measures to remove their nationals from Sharm el-Sheikh, according to Head of the British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, reports Sky News. According to him, the exportation will begin on Friday, 6 November. Hammond also said he did not rule out possibility of involvement of "Islamic State" to the plane crash. Earlier, the terrorist group took over responsibility for...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou will hold a historic meeting on Saturday in Singapore. It will be the first bilateral talks since 1949. However, Beijing is still stressing the country adhere to the "one China" policy - so it is not a full-fledged bilateral meeting of the two presidents, but talks of leaders of the Taiwan Strait’s two sides. The historic business...

Turkish Justice and Development Party (JDP) of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unexpectedly won the election on Sunday. This returns the country to one-party system, will stimulate the presidential power, but can also exacerbate deep social divisions. The Turkish government will remain faithful targets to put in previous years. The Turkish prime minister and JDP’s Head Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking to...

About 220 thousand refugees have arrived in Europe in October 2015. This number was a record since the beginning of the year, Reuters reported referring to the press-secretary of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Adrian Edwards. - This is the highest monthly figure in the history, this number roughly corresponds to the number of arrivals in the past year, - said Edwards. According...

US Secretary of State John Kerry will be the first head of the US Department of State to visit all five Central Asian countries in a single tour. In recent years, the region began to attract attention not only of the traditional players in the region (Russia and China), but the United States as well. This is especially supported by the Islamist threat faced by the countries of Central Asia after...

The Chinese authorities have decided to abandon the one-child policy. All families are now allowed to have two children, reports the agency "Xinhua". This decision was made during the last plenum of the Communist Party of China at Beijing. Leaders of the Communist Party also announced their intention to take measures to combat population aging and eradicate poverty in the country by 2020. In...

The US Senate approved a resonance bill on cybersecurity (Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, CISA), what caused criticism of a number of Internet giants - in particular, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. The document provides additional protection to companies, which voluntarily decided to share data on cyber threats to government agencies. Opponents of the law argue that it can be used...

According to Greek and British press, former Minister of Finance of Greece Yanis Varoufakis, whose actions put the country on the brink of economic disaster, estimates his lectures for $ 60 thousand. Yanis Varoufakis is believed to be the man who nearly brought the country to economic collapse. One of the ideologists of the ultra-left party "Syriza", he was given the post of Minister of Finance...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for the incorrect use of intelligence in the preparation of operations in Iraq in 2003. Then he claimed that Iraq had chemical weapons, which can be powered for 45 minutes. Mr. Blair also admitted some connection between the emergence of Islamic State and the war in Iraq. At the same time, former Prime Minister said that he cannot apologize for...