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Japan has been brought to a standstill by the news that former prime minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot on the campaign trail for the upper house elections tomorrow. A lone gunman attacked Abe, who was pronounced dead at an hospital in Nara fr...

“The decisions we have taken in Madrid,” North Atlantic Treaty Organisation secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said as a summit of the alliance’s members closed on June 30, “will ensure that our alliance continues to preserve peace, prevent conflict,...

Uganda discovered recently that it had a cache of gold ready for mining that is worth trillions. No one is surprised because this is Africa, which is rich in metal and mineral resources, including oil and gas. The irony is, in spite of the tremendous...

The Covid-19 pandemic set women’s employment back by two years in Bermuda, a spokeswoman for UN Women said today. Tonni Brodber, from the UN Women’s Multi-Country Office, added that the pandemic demonstrated how “hazards exploit already-existing ineq...

When a pro-Trump mob laid siege to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, several people died and scores were injured, including some 140 police officers. Windows were smashed. Desks were overturned. Faeces were smeared on the Capitol’s walls. But the a...

Speaker of the House of Assembly Dennis Lister represented Bermuda at the Commons and Overseas Territories Conference in London. Mr Lister attended the conference, hosted by the UK House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, from May 4 to 6. The fir...

On the day Russia commenced its invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Security Council convened in a televised eleventh-hour attempt to avert the conflict. For several minutes, the session continued uninterrupted, with delegates unaware that Russia...

Bermuda’s marriage equality controversy is expected to feature in a debate in the UK’s House of Commons. Crispin Blunt, a Conservative backbencher, has secured a parliamentary slot for a discussion of LGBT rights in Britain’s Overseas Territories. Mr...

Officers from the Royal Bermuda Regiment joined counterparts from the Caribbean and the UK for a course run on the island for the first time. RBR junior officers, with soldiers from the Cayman Islands Regiment, the Turks & Caicos Islands Regiment, Ar...

Lawyer Wendell Hollis has resigned as a director of Russian vodka maker Roust Trading in protest over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Lawrence Scott, the Minister of Transport, will update Parliament on the latest with regard to the British sanctions imposed in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Addressing the matter yesterday, David Burt, the Premier and finance minister, c...

The Association of Bermuda International Companies (Abic) has expressed its concern that Bermuda will remain on a European Union grey list until October despite having done what was needed to satisfy the OECD’s Forum for Harmful Tax Practices (FHTP)....