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May should set resignation date next week: Senior lawmaker

May should set resignation date next week: Senior lawmaker

-- 2019-05-11 15:08:26

British Prime Minister Theresa May should set a date for her departure next week when she meets leaders of an influential group of Conservative lawmakers to address her future, the group’s chair...

Global peace depends on dialogue between civilizations: Pavlopoulos

Global peace depends on dialogue between civilizations: Pavlopoulos

-- 2019-05-11 14:29:12

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has said that world peace depends on the dialogue between different civilizations. "Global peace depends on the dialogue between civilizations," Pavlopoulos told...

US and China will avoid trade war, British minister hopes

US and China will avoid trade war, British minister hopes

-- 2019-05-10 17:58:40

British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Friday he is optimistic that the United States and China would step back from a trade war that would have a 'very serious' negative effect on Britain an...

UK, EU to agree free-trade deal

UK, EU to agree free-trade deal

-- 2019-05-10 17:18:28

Britain will eventually leave the European Union and agree a free-trade deal with the bloc, according to the vast majority of economists polled by Reuters who were, however, split on whether the two s...

France will not tolerate repeated Brexit delays: Official

France will not tolerate repeated Brexit delays: Official

-- 2019-05-10 15:13:00

France will not tolerate repeated extensions of the Brexit deadline, a French presidential adviser said on Friday, expressing hope that European elections in Britain would jolt its political parties i...

BBC fires presenter over royal baby tweet

BBC fires presenter over royal baby tweet

-- 2019-05-09 19:32:24

The BBC has fired a British radio presenter who tweeted an image of a chimpanzee dressed in clothes below the caption "Royal Baby leaves hospital". Meghan, wife of Prince Harry, gave birth in the ear...

Seven Russian tourists feared dead in Siberia avalanche

Seven Russian tourists feared dead in Siberia avalanche

-- 2019-05-08 14:27:58

Seven Russian tourists on a hiking holiday in Siberia are feared dead after an avalanche on a ridge in the Altai region, the local emergencies ministry said on Wednesday, saying rescue workers were st...

Erdogan backs re-run of Istanbul vote after 'organised corruption'

Erdogan backs re-run of Istanbul vote after 'organised corruption'

-- 2019-05-07 16:27:00

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the decision to re-run Istanbul’s mayoral election was an important step toward strengthening democracy, describing the March vote as marred by &...

Harry, Meghan welcome baby boy

Harry, Meghan welcome baby boy

-- 2019-05-06 20:59:10

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, on Monday welcomed a son, the first interracial baby in the monarchy’s recent history. Harry announced that they were 'absolutely...

Russia jet 'struck by lightning' crashes, 46 killed

Russia jet 'struck by lightning' crashes, 46 killed

-- 2019-05-06 18:06:48

Passengers and crew on board a jet that was forced to make an emergency landing at a Moscow airport say it was struck by lightning moments before it crashed. Reports of the strike came as survivors t...

41 die as plane crash-lands in Moscow

41 die as plane crash-lands in Moscow

-- 2019-05-06 09:32:47

Forty-one people on board a Russian Aeroflot passenger plane were killed on Sunday, including two children, after the aircraft caught fire as it made a bumpy emergency landing at a Moscow airport, Rus...

Russian FM, Venezuelan counterpart to meet in Moscow

Russian FM, Venezuelan counterpart to meet in Moscow

-- 2019-05-05 12:26:20

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza will hold talks in Moscow today (Sunday), the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday. Lavrov and Arreaza wi...

May steps up calls for Labour to agree a Brexit deal

May steps up calls for Labour to agree a Brexit deal

-- 2019-05-05 12:13:48

British Prime Minister Theresa May has stepped up calls on Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to agree a cross-party deal to leave the European Union, following poor results for both parties in local e...

UK’s May fires defence chief over Huawei leaks

UK’s May fires defence chief over Huawei leaks

-- 2019-05-02 12:02:08

British Prime Minister Theresa May summarily fired Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson Wednesday after an investigation into leaks from a secret government meeting about the Chinese telecommunications...

Demonstrators clash with police on May Day in Paris

Demonstrators clash with police on May Day in Paris

-- 2019-05-01 22:44:17

    French police have fired tear gas on masked protesters who joined large May Day demonstrations in Paris, reports BBC.   Traditionally a union-led day of action in the country, t...

Rare tornado hits Romania

Rare tornado hits Romania

-- 2019-05-01 21:06:37

Several people were injured when a tornado barrelled through southern Romania, forcing a bus off the road and overturning it in a nearby field, reports BBC. Twelve people on the bus were hurt and one...

Julian Assange gets 50 weeks in jail

Julian Assange gets 50 weeks in jail

-- 2019-05-01 17:22:18

A British judge on Wednesday sentenced Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions in 2012. The 47-year-old was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act las...

Socialists win Spain election amid far-right breakthrough

Socialists win Spain election amid far-right breakthrough

-- 2019-04-29 17:13:58

Spain's governing Socialists won the country's third election in four years on Monday, but have fallen short of a majority. PM Pedro Sánchez's party polled 29 per cent and will need the help o...

Poland unlikely to leave EU: Juncker

Poland unlikely to leave EU: Juncker

-- 2019-04-29 12:34:14

Poland is unlikely to leave the European Union, even if the ruling eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party wins re-election this year, EU executive head Jean-Claude Juncker said in an interview publis...

Ukrainians will reject Putin’s passport offer: Zelenskiy

Ukrainians will reject Putin’s passport offer: Zelenskiy

-- 2019-04-28 14:37:29

Russian President Vladimir Putin should not expect many Ukrainians to take up his offer of a Russian passport, Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, while offering Ukrainian citize...

Turkey seeks arrest of 210 military personnel

Turkey seeks arrest of 210 military personnel

-- 2019-04-26 14:32:05

Turkish prosecutors on Friday ordered the detention of 210 military personnel over their alleged links to a group accused of masterminding a coup bid in 2016, local media reported. Police launched si...

Russia offers passports to east Ukrainians

Russia offers passports to east Ukrainians

-- 2019-04-25 11:30:55

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order on Wednesday simplifying the procedure for obtaining a Russian passport for residents of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, prompting calls from Ki...

'Google, Facebook, Twitter have to do more to fight fake news'

'Google, Facebook, Twitter have to do more to fight fake news'

-- 2019-04-23 16:28:35

Google, Facebook and Twitter have to do more to tackle fake news ahead of key European Parliament elections next month, the European Commission said on Tuesday, as its latest report showed a lack of p...

Comedian wins Ukrainian presidential race by landslide

Comedian wins Ukrainian presidential race by landslide

-- 2019-04-22 10:32:08

Ukraine entered uncharted political waters on Sunday after exit polls showed a comedian with no political experience and few detailed policies had easily won enough votes to become the next president...

Queen Elizabeth celebrates 93rd birthday on Sunday

Queen Elizabeth celebrates 93rd birthday on Sunday

-- 2019-04-21 20:04:37

Queen Elizabeth II of Britain is celebrating her 93rd birthday, which this year coincides with Easter Sunday. Elizabeth II, who is head of the Church of England and has a strong faith, usually celebr...

Ukraine polls: Voters choose between comedian and tycoon

Ukraine polls: Voters choose between comedian and tycoon

-- 2019-04-21 12:34:15

Ukrainians are heading to the polls in a run-off election to pick the country's next president. Voters face a stark choice between tycoon Petro Poroshenko, the incumbent president, and television com...

N.Ireland police arrest two over murder of journalist

N.Ireland police arrest two over murder of journalist

-- 2019-04-20 15:44:24

Two men have been arrested in connection with the killing of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee during a riot in Londonderry on Thursday, police said, as politicians in the divided British region un...

Kosovo returns families of jihadists from Syria

Kosovo returns families of jihadists from Syria

-- 2019-04-20 12:31:32

Dozens of women and children, relatives of Kosovo jihadists fighting in Syria, were flown back home by plane on Saturday under heavy security. “The planned operation for the return of some of o...

Turkey pins hopes on Trump to avoid sanctions

Turkey pins hopes on Trump to avoid sanctions

-- 2019-04-19 22:26:09

Turkey's hopes of avoiding punishing US sanctions over its purchase of a Russian air defence system appear increasingly pinned on intervention from Donald Trump, but the president has little leeway to...

Journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland rioting

Journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland rioting

-- 2019-04-19 21:01:14

A journalist from Northern Ireland was shot and killed by what authorities called "terrorists" during rioting in the country ahead of this weekend's religious holidays. Lyra McKee, 29, was fatally sh...