Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to victory in elections on Sunday, returning the country to single-party rule in an outcome that will boost the power of President Tayyip Erdogan. Wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
Cleaning staff at a museum in Italy showed what they thought of an artwork being exhibited there. The art installation of empty champagne bottles and spent party poppers reopened on Tuesday, three day ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
The House of Lords, Britain's unelected upper house of parliament, briefly reclaimed its long-lost pre-eminence this week when it rejected the government's welfare reforms. The chamber voted to delay ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
A guided-missile destroyer from the US Navy on Tuesday came within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea, a challenge to Beijing's territorial claims in the dis ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
The United States and its NATO allies denounced Russia for violating Turkish airspace and Ankara threatened to respond. In Brussels, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization held an emergency meeting of ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-06
Islamic State (IS) militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a 2,000-year-old Roman monument in the Syrian city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief said on Sunday. Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-05
Bahrain has recalled its ambassador to Iran, a day after it said security forces had discovered a large bomb-making factory and arrested a number of suspects linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Reu ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
A gunman opened fire at a community college in southern Oregon on Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding some 20 others before he was shot to death by police, Reuters reported. The shooting rampage ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Reuters reported, citing Lebanese sources. Russian warplanes, in ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
Guyana accused its neighbor Venezuela of "intimidation and aggression" two days after the countries agreed to restore diplomatic ties. In his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Guyana's Pre ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-30
Australia’s new leader criticized China’s building of artificial islands in the South China Sea as his government sought to reassure Washington about his country’s tight alliance with the United State ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-23
The Dalai Lama said more research was needed to settle the fate of the man he named as the Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism, Reuters reported. Gendun Choekyi Nyima, now 26, ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-15
Wildfires are roaring through large swathes of northern California, razing hundreds of structures and forcing thousands of residents from their homes. The so-called Valley Fire, the most destructive a ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-14
Singaporeans head for the polls on Friday, and the ruling party that has ruled the former British colony for 50 years is expected to remain in power. But although the People's Action Party, led by Pri ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-10
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is abandoning open outcry trading on the London Metal Exchange (LME) as most commodity clients are opting for deals conducted via electronic screens. The change, announced by ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
The Chinese government has spent at least US$70 million buying Hong Kong properties over the past 12 months, official records show. Three sources close to Chinese officials told Reuters the move refle ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-01
Traffic came to almost a halt at a busy intersection of Manila's main highway on Sunday as thousands of members of a Christian group occupied the road for a third night in a row to protest alleged int ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-31
A judge condemned Colorado gunman James Holmes to 12 life sentences and the maximum 3,318 years in prison for the 2012 movie rampage that killed 12 people and wounded 70. "It is the court's intention ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-27
US viewers are reeling from the cold-blooded killing of two television journalists during a live broadcast. Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27 were gunned down and a woman they were interv ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-27
Singapore is moving up a general election to Sept. 11, more than a year early. The government is seen riding the feel-good factor from the country's recent 50th birthday celebration amid a slowing eco ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-26
