The Associated Press reports an official from the territorial security bureau wrote to 27-year-old Hong Kong National Party leader Andy Chan to inform him a decision has been made to dissolve his party as a threat to “public safety” and “public order” under a national security law that was last invoked against a political party in 1997. The HKNP has only been around since 2016, formed in protest of Beijing’s growing influence over semi-autonomous Hong Kong.
The Iraqi government has announced it will not hold talks with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) following Monday’s independence referendum, describing the process as “unconstitutional.”
Just days after the British people voted to regain their independence from an unelected bureaucracy, campaigners in Hong Kong have launched a political party agitating for the city to be returned to British rule as a transitional stage towards independence.
The president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, declared in an interview with Swiss newspaper Neue Zuricher Zeitung that “Kurdistan is ripe for independence.”
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Saturday her separatist party would make a renewed push to convince Scots of the case for independence from the United Kingdom. The Scottish National Party leader told the left-wing secessionists’ spring conference that a
January has seen a series of student protests throughout Hong Kong, driven by concerns over Beijing’s growing influence in Hong Kong’s domestic affairs. These political developments create several risks for investors.
Iraqi Kurdish leaders have announced an independence referendum in November, a day after President Masoud Barzani recommended holding one before the U.S. election.
Tsai Ing-wen tallied up 56 percent of the vote to become Taiwan’s first female president on Saturday. Her election also marks the end of eight years in power for the Kuomintang Party, which was much more favorably aligned with China than Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party.
The much touted “unemployment rate” is a false measure of prosperity. Especially since those on the left seem to be targeting, rather than building up, the Middle Class.
The people of Cuba received unprecedented news today, though they were unable to hear of the United States’ reforms in diplomacy with Cuba from President Barack Obama. Instead, they were treated to an address by dictator Raúl Castro, in which
As a consequence of the aggravated Scottish devolution conceded by Dave and the girlie men of our effete government and opposition, in a panic reaction to an isolated opinion poll in the closing stages of the independence referendum campaign, the
Federal Reserve policymakers meet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss when to raise interest rates and how they will communicate those intentions without upsetting financial markets or the economic recovery. Unfortunately, the Fed is constrained by its own past missteps, and
Three months after the independence referendum, the majority of Scots now support an independent Scotland a YouGov poll has found. The survey says that 52 percent of Scots now want Scotland to break away from the UK, once undecided voters
Over four in ten voters want Britain to leave the European Union, a survey showed on Monday. If a referendum was held immediately, 42 percent of Britons would support leaving the EU, compared to 31 percent who would opt to
LONDON (Reuters) – The opposition Labour party has elected former cabinet minister Jim Murphy as its new leader in Scotland, five months before a national election in which the party faces a tough battle to retain its Scottish seats to
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn into office on Friday, cementing his status as the leading candidate to succeed his 90-year-old boss Robert Mugabe, the country’s sole ruler since independence from Britain in 1980. Mnangagwa, nicknamed
(Reuters) – As the dust settles on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy ‘Occupy’ protests, China is likely to embark on a sweeping but covert campaign across the territory’s judiciary, media and universities to ensure there is no recurrence, activists and politicians say. The surprisingly
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams has waded into the debate on Britain’s membership of the European Union, voicing his support for the country remaining part of the bloc. The controversial cleric even indicated that he may be in favour
LONDON (Reuters) – A prominent female member of Britain’s anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) has accused its general secretary of sexual harassment five months before a national election, prompting the party to suspend him pending an investigation. The imbroglio is
LONDON (Reuters) – The two parties in Britain’s governing coalition clashed on Monday over their plans for the economy as they tried to differentiate themselves in voters’ eyes before a national election due next May. Prime Minister David Cameron’s right-leaning
Amber Rudd, the Conservative minister for climate change, has apparently been banned from attending the second week of the UN’s climate change conference in Lima by Chief Whip Michael Gove. He has insisted that she stay behind in order to
It’s not an unfamiliar sight: Oil prices go up, and influential U.S. politicians, sometimes even presidents, run to Saudi Arabia hat-in-hand, hoping that Middle Eastern royalty thousands of miles away will lower gas prices at the station on the corner and keep
Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party has hit the headlines for daring to question whether women should ostentatiously breastfeed in public. “Nigel Farage says breastfeeding women should sit in a corner” screamed the Guardian. But closer inspection reveals
An “increase in the Muslim population” in Northern England and the Midlands has exacerbated the rate of pub closures, a Conservative member of the House of Lords has said during a debate on a cross-party amendment that will allow landlords
Zimbabwe’s 90-year-old dictator, Robert Mugabe, is continuing to expand his purge at the highest levels of office, disparaging his vice president, Joice Mujuru, as a politician willing to cooperate with white people. Mugabe did not mention Mujuru by name, though
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com On Tuesday’s broadcast of “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) downplayed the role the next secretary of defense would have in the Obama administration. McCain mentioned former Sen. Joe
Arch Eurocrat Herman Van Rompuy will pocket almost 22 times the UK average salary over the next three years. The former EU Council President will get 55 per cent of his full salary, which works out at £133,723 a year
Poland has warned British Prime Minister David Cameron against his plans to reform European Union migration rules to curb the number of arrivals, saying this was an “absolute red line”. Cameron last week unveiled proposals including delaying access to benefits
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Hong Kong police clash with protesters, worst violence in weeks Arab League agrees on plan to ‘end Israeli occupation’ of Palestine Egypt promises troops for Palestine to assist police forces Hong Kong police clash
The Queen has been accused of deliberately intervening in the Scottish independence referendum in September. In the days leading up to the poll, the Queen made a ‘gaffe’ by telling a member of the public she hoped ‘people will think
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Taiwan voters choose independence from China Sunflowers and Umbrellas Taiwan voters choose independence from China Student protests in Taiwan in April of this year (AFP) Taiwan’s ruling nationalist party KMT (Kuomintang) suffered disastrouslosses in
For the first time in its 144 year history, Texas’ San Jacinto County is now a red county. San Jacinto Republican Party Chair Dwayne Wright’s slogan is “Results, not Excuses.” Elected in the Republican Primary in 2014 when he ran
Conservative backbenchers have come out in support of a campaign to introduce a manifesto pledge to overturn the ban on new grammar schools. The campaign, run by Conservative grassroots group Conservative Voice, aims to increase social mobility through the reintroduction
It must be the memory playing tricks, but some of us could have sworn that when we woke up last 19 September to the result of the Scottish independence referendum, the SNP had lost. Not just lost, but been defeated
The capital of China’s restive region of Xinjiang will recruit 3,000 former soldiers to help guard its residents, the Chinese government has said. The soldiers will be carefully vetted to determine their political views. They will join the military and
