Showcasing its push to develop long-range nuclear missiles despite international sanctions, secretive North Korea is revealing details of its weapons development program for the first time ahead of a rare ruling party Congress next month. With foreign governments and experts… Read More ›
Geopolitics
David Cameron, Britain’s Prime Minister admits to having had stake in offshore trust
Iceland’s President has already resigned following the leak now dubbed as the ‘Panama Papers’. There is increasing pressure on Britain’s Prime Minister to come clean. During a TV interview, yesterday, British Prime Minister David Cameron acknowledged that he once had… Read More ›
Saudi Arabia and Egypt sign a $21.5 billion development deal
Egypt has struggled with discontent and poverty following the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Reuters has reported citing two Egyptian government sources that Saudi Arabia is all set to sign a $20 billion deal with Egypt so as to develop… Read More ›
Panama Papers Leak has Left Europe Reeling
While may be just a handful was aware of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca before the weekend fewer perhaps considered Panama a key global financial center. However the world’s financial and political leaders have been rocked by disclosures of… Read More ›
Heads begins to roll as a result of the Panama Papers
The President of Iceland, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, has resigned following the startling disclosures in the Panama Papers. In what has been ascribed as the first casualty of the ‘Panama Papers’, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, Iceland’s Prime Minister, has resigned on Tuesday…. Read More ›
Governments across the globe to probe information in Panama Papers
The Panama Papers come at a time when countries across the globe are facing a financial shortfall. It would be in their interest to recover monies illegal parked in offshore accounts. With the leaking of documents from a Panamanian law… Read More ›
Financial details of the wealthy and corrupt – leaked
Is this another Edward Snowden for financial dealings? In a development that is likely to have serious wide ranged implications, tax authorities in New Zealand and Australia are investigating into a massive data leak from a Panama based law firm… Read More ›
ISIS Claims Responsibility for Jakarta Attacks
In what is the first time the radical group has targeted the world’s most populous Muslim nation, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack by suicide bombers and gunmen in the heart of Jakarta on Thursday. The brazenness of their… Read More ›