Lima (Reuters) – Peruvians began voting on Sunday in a referendum on a raft of political and judicial reforms introduced by the new government of President Martin Vizcarra aimed at stamping out corruption and cronyism in one of Latin America’s most promising economies. The proposals were announced in August following a series of corruption scandals involving high-ranking officials and politicians, […]

‘I’m against these special prosecutors. I think they’re a huge mistake. And I think they’re a huge abuse of government power.’ Republican Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, said Sunday that the appointment of Special Counsel should be considered a “huge abuse of government power.” Paul made the remarks during an appearance on MSNCB‘s Meet the Press, while discussing the latest […]

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The top official of Somali’s parliament administration said on Sunday he had filed a motion with the speaker of parliament to impeach the country’s president, Mohamed Abdullahi, but the grounds for the move were unclear. “We have filed an impeachment against the president of the federal republic of Somalia,” Abdikarim H. Abdi Buh said in a statement. Constitutionally, […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Fast-track courts set up in Iran to fight economic crime have jailed 30 men for up to 20 years each, the judiciary said on Sunday, as the country faces renewed U.S. sanctions and a public outcry against profiteering and corruption. The new Islamic revolutionary courts — whose rulings cannot be appealed, except for death sentences — were […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The story of how Prime Minister Theresa May reached agreement on how Britain can leave the European Union offers lessons for the future of Brexit, whatever happens when parliament votes on the deal on Tuesday. In conversations with nearly a dozen people closely involved on both the British and EU sides of the negotiations over the past […]

Cheshire Police have been looking for Daley Smith, 29, since he failed to turn himself in at a court over drug charges. Smith, from Alsager, near Crewe, told his Facebook followers he had no intention of turning himself in and wanted to spend his 30th birthday, in April, a “free man”. In a warped rap-style message he said: “Cheshire Police […]

Dane Andreas Hvid posted the x-rated image on his own website and in a video he later unveiled on YouTube. The footage – which has since been deleted – shows the lensman and the unnamed woman reaching the 455ft top and looking out over the view of Cairo below. An explicit still picture which is inserted into the video then […]

The launch of a massive rocket carrying out a mission for the U.S. agency responsible for spy satellites was called off just seconds ahead of liftoff on Saturday. United Launch Alliance, a contractor for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), was expected to launch a Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-71 mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday […]

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Sunday President Emmanuel Macron was to blame for the “yellow vest” protests that have rattled France and urged Brussels to take heed of what was happening. Salvini, head of the rightist League, has clashed repeatedly with Macron in the past over immigration policy and has leapt on the anti-government […]

It is also when the Sun is at its lowest point in the sky, in the northern hemisphere. When is the winter solstice 2018? This year’s winter solstice, which is also known as midwinter, is on December 21 at 10.23pm. The world "solstice" comes from the Latin solstitium meaning "Sun stands still" because the apparent movement of the Sun's path north or […]