A New York Times report alleging that Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for office and paid no income taxes at all during many others has dropped like a bombshell ahead of the US...
Iraqi Kurdistan: Kurdish locals divided over Turkey’s anti-PKK air strikes
In northern Iraq, Turkish bombings regularly target positions of the PKK, a Kurdish separatist movement deemed a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the US and the EU. The Turkish intervention, known as “Operation...
Socks and sandals: A faux pas or the latest fashion trend?
IN THE PAPERS: Monday, 28.09.2020: We take a look at how the papers are covering the tragic milestone of one million deaths from the coronavirus. We also look at the latest in science news: from building things on Mars...
Is Trump good at tax, or bad at business?
Donald #Trump’s image as a successful businessman has taken a hit after media reports showed nearly every American pays more taxes than the #US president. Joseph Smallhoover, president of Democrats Abroad, says the...
Binational couples separated by Covid-19 long to be reunited
The Covid-19 pandemic has been tough and lonely for many but it has been particularly challenging for binational couples who have been separated by travel restrictions.
President Trump paid only $750 income tax, bombshell report reveals
Donald Trump has denied claims he paid only $750 in federal income tax in 2016, and no income tax at all in 10 of the 15 years before, published in a bombshell New York Times report. It remains unclear what, if any...
‘Our government is not here’: Lebanon trying to rise from its rubble
The massive #explosion of a stockpile of ammonium nitrate at #Beirut port on August 4 killed more than 190 people, wounded thousands more and ravaged buildings in surrounding residential neighbourhoods. It was a...