This weekly news diary is compiled by Ockham Communications, a public affairs firm based in Cape Town. The Ockham Observer looks ahead to the week ...

The British Prime Minister has hit Russia with a “triple whammy” of sanctions to mark the third anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine. Sir Keir Starmer’s fresh ...

Part Steve Bannon, part Elon Musk, Konstantin Malofeyev is dead set on Making Russia Great Again ...

Democracy is not static. Its health always depends on the next election. The fall of Germany’s government and possible ...

Angry residents of Japan fed up with the country's monetary recklessness gathered outside the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo on ...

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia’s top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in South Africa. Lammy was ...

And yet it is anything but guaranteed how party chairman Friedrich Merz can govern a country in which the far-right Alternative for Germany comes second, polarization hits record levels, and ...

Russia may agree to cede $ 300 billion of assets frozen in Europe for the restoration of Ukraine, but will insist that part of this money be spent on the territories included in the Russian Federation ...

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper decided he could not grant a motion from unions representing the workers to temporarily block President Donald Trump’s mass firings of federal workers. He did, ...

The Hungarian foreign minister called his German counterpart "one of the most dogged pro-war politicians in Europe" and said that Hungary "rejects in the strongest possible terms the use of European c ...

Russia would insist that part of the money is spent on the one-fifth of the country that Moscow's forces control, three ...