Ukraine has barred Russian men of military age from entering the country amid an escalating military and diplomatic standoff following last weekend’s naval clash.  Petro Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine, said the ban on male Russian citizens between the ages of 16 and 60 would be imposed under the state of martial law he declared…

US politicians introduced legislation on Wednesday urging the White House to consider sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the ongoing crackdown against Muslim minorities, and halt the sale of US technology potentially used by China for surveillance. A draft bill seen by The Telegraph calls specifically for sanctions against Chen Quanguo, a senior official and Communist Party…

Japan has taken a step towards relaxing its strict immigration laws with a new bill that could pave the way for an influx of hundreds of thousands of overseas workers. The controversial legislation, which opposition parties attempted to block, was pushed through the lower house of parliament by the ruling coalition. The new bill marks…

Italy’s populist government has escalated tensions with France by saying it will cancel the previously agreed loan of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci paintings to the Louvre for a major 2019 exhibition. Speaking to The Telegraph on Sunday, Lucia Borgonzoni, Italian undersecretary for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, said the government would block the Louvre…

NEW YORK — Just as “Black Panther” is setting records at the box office, a new study finds that diverse audiences are driving most of the biggest blockbusters and many of the most-watched hits on television. UCLA’s Bunche Center released its fifth annual study on diversity in the entertainment industry Tuesday, unveiling an analysis of…

Humans are being used as bait in a bid to catch a man-eating leopard after it killed three people in the space of a week in India’s western state of Gujarat, with forest rangers spending the night in a cage to lure the animal. The wild cat has killed three, including two children, and injured five people…

The emerging new global economy is that of a clean technology economy — the age of resource economies reaching the end of an era. But you would never know that if one based one’s assumptions on the Trudeau administration’s Budget 2017 and Budget 2018. No game plan is presented. The story line we are getting…

Nasa has revealed the first photo of the distant world of Ultima Thule, the most distant object that humanity has ever explored. The tiny, icy object resembles a snowman in the photo, which is just the first of a whole host of data that the space agency hopes to receive back from its New Horizons…