A little over a year ago, Poland’s Law and Justice Party (PiS) swept to power promising to challenge the political elite, restore national control of the country’s affairs, and realign government with traditional conservative values. Since then concerns have grown, at home and in Europe’s capitals, that Poland has taken a wrong turn. The government’s most recent moves do …

  An off-duty Turkish cop killed Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Ankara. If this killing had happened few months back, the repercussion would have been unimaginable. The murder of Andrey Karlov, the first Moscow envoy to be killed in his post in almost 90 years, was an open provocation aimed at derailing the normalisation of Russian-Turkish relations and Syria peace …

  Dubai / WAM In his capacity as Ruler of Dubai, Vice President, Prime Minister, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum approved the Government of Dubai’s Budget Law No. (17) for the year 2016 for the emirate’s 2017 general budget, with AED47.3 billion expenditure, according to the new budget classification. Issued earlier this year, the Financial Regulations for the …