United States President, Donald Trump, said Monday that he had fired the chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority, criticizing the federal-owned corporation for hiring foreign workers. Trump told reporters at the White House that he was formally removing chair Skip Thompson and another member of the board, and he threatened to remove other board members […]

Spain’s former king, Juan Carlos I, is leaving Spain to live in another, unspecified, country amid a financial scandal, according to a letter published on the royal family’s website Monday. The letter from the Spain’s former King, Juan Carlos, to his son, King Felipe VI, said: “I am informing you of my considered decision to […]

Lebanon’s foreign minister Nassif Hitti resigned Monday in protest at the government’s failure to tackle a spiralling economic crisis, warning that if there is no will to reform “the ship will sink”. “I have decided to resign today as foreign minister,” Hitti said in a statement, charging that the government had shown no will to initiate […]

United States President, Donald Trump, said Monday that popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok would be “out of business” in the United States if it did not sell its US operations by September 15, preferably to an American buyer. “I set a date of around September 15, at which point it’s going to be out of […]

Eight Russians have been arrested and charged with human trafficking in the country’s first surrogacy probe, and a court on Monday was to consider extending the arrests. Surrogacy is legal in Russia and has been a lucrative business for many years. However, a criminal probe was made possible due to “ambiguities” in legislation, defence lawyer […]