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UK's May under pressure to rule out long Brexit delay

-- 2019-03-31 10:21:35

British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a new push by members of her Conservative Party to lead Britain out of the European Union in the next few months, even if it means a potentially damaging n...

Business ‘devastated’ by Brexit vote

-- 2019-03-30 16:33:32

Business groups in Britain have said they are 'devastated' after UK parliament's latest rejection of the Prime Minister's EU withdrawal plan. They urged lawmakers and the government to find a solutio...

No-deal Brexit fears rise as parliament sinks May's deal

-- 2019-03-30 11:41:05

Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in turmoi...

MPs reject May's EU withdrawal agreement

-- 2019-03-29 20:52:58

MPs reject Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement by 344 votes to 286, throwing UK’s Brexit plans into more confusion. Mrs May said the vote would have "grave consequences" and the "legal...

Theresa May puts twice-defeated Brexit deal to 'last chance' vote

-- 2019-03-29 19:30:31

British Prime Minister Theresa May puts a stripped-down version of her twice-defeated Brexit divorce deal to a vote in parliament on Friday, in an attempt to break the impasse over the United Kingdom&...

Pope enacts new legislation to prevent child abuse in Vatican

-- 2019-03-29 17:26:30

Pope Francis on Friday enacted sweeping new legislation to protect children from sexual abuse within the Vatican and other Holy See institutions in Rome as well as by its diplomatic corps worldwide....

Brexit: MPs face new vote on withdrawal deal

-- 2019-03-29 14:40:21

Theresa May will attempt to get MPs to back part of her Brexit deal later, on the day the UK was due to leave the EU. MPs will vote on the withdrawal agreement, which sets out the terms of the UK's d...

Prince William to honour Christchurch attack victims

-- 2019-03-28 14:42:28

The Duke of Cambridge is to visit New Zealand to honour the victims of the Christchurch mosques terror attack. Prince William will travel on behalf of the Queen in late April, at the request of New Z...

UK's May to meet her lawmakers as resignation talk swirls

-- 2019-03-26 18:30:09

LONDON:- British Prime Minister Theresa May will address her Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday, possibly to announce a resignation date in a last throw of the dice to win support for her twi...

Brexit options 'narrowing', says UK health secretary

-- 2019-03-26 17:32:28

The options for Brexit "are narrowing", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said, after MPs voted to seize control of the parliamentary timetable, reports BBC. The PM was dealt a fresh blow as the go...

Virus attacks Spain’s defence intranet

-- 2019-03-26 17:07:34

A computer virus infected the Spanish Defence Ministry’s intranet this month with the aim of stealing high tech military secrets, El País newspaper said on Tuesday, citing sources leading...

Four dead as migrant boat sinks off western Turkey

-- 2019-03-26 14:25:09

Four people, including a baby, died early on Tuesday morning when a dinghy carrying migrants sank off the northwestern coast of Ayvacik in Turkey, the Turkish coast guard said, according Reuters. A s...

British lawmakers vote to seize control of Brexit for a day

-- 2019-03-26 10:25:17

British lawmakers wrested control of the parliamentary agenda from the government for a day in a highly unusual bid to find a way through the Brexit impasse after Prime Minister Theresa May's EU divor...

Brexit up in the air as May pushes divorce deal for third time

-- 2019-03-25 11:36:02

British Prime Minister Theresa May held crisis talks with senior colleagues and hardline Brexiteers on Sunday trying to breathe life into her twice-defeated European divorce deal after reports her cab...

May faces pressure to quit

-- 2019-03-24 22:07:40

Prime Minister Theresa May faces growing pressure from within her own party either to resign or to set a date for stepping down as a way to build support for her Brexit agreement with the European Uni...

Hundreds airlifted from Norway cruise ship

-- 2019-03-24 17:42:37

Rescuers have airlifted hundreds of people stranded on a cruise ship off the west coast of Norway. The Viking Sky lost power on Saturday and sent out a distress signal after it began drifting towards...

Scores march in London for fresh Brexit referendum

-- 2019-03-23 20:59:59

Hundreds of thousands of people opposed to Britain's withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum as the deepening Brexit crisis risked sink...

Britain's May faces mammoth task to change minds on Brexit

-- 2019-03-23 14:38:08

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday began the mammoth struggle of persuading a deeply divided parliament to back her Brexit deal after an EU summit granted her more time but little to help ch...

Poland snubs Russia ahead of WWII commemoration

-- 2019-03-21 19:55:12

Polish authorities have refused to invite a Russian delegation to a commemoration ceremony marking the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Krzysztof Szczerski, an aide to the Polish presiden...

Brexit: Labour’s Corbyn to discuss ‘alternative’ plan with EU

-- 2019-03-21 12:35:50

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will travel to Brussels on Thursday to discuss an ‘alternative’ Brexit plan with European Union (EU) leaders, including the bloc’s chief negotiato...

May to request short delay to Brexit: Sky

-- 2019-03-20 13:08:38

British Prime Minister Theresa May will request a short delay to Brexit in a letter to the European Union on Wednesday, Sky cited an unidentified senior government source as saying. The delay, nearly...

Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore are most expensive cities

-- 2019-03-19 17:24:25

Paris has come top of a ranking of the world's most expensive cities, alongside Hong Kong and Singapore. It's the first time three cities have shared the top spot in the 30-year history of the annual...

Dutch police arrest tram shooting suspect after three killed

Reuters 2019-03-19 10:16:19

Dutch police arrested a Turkish man suspected of shooting dead three people and wounding five on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday. Police said the suspect, 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis, had...

Three dead after attack on tram in Netherlands

-- 2019-03-18 21:50:52

Three people were killed following a shooting on a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, the city's mayor says. Nine others were injured in the incident, which police said appears to be a terror...

Man opens fire on tram passengers in Netherlands

-- 2019-03-18 16:59:58

Several people were injured as a man has opened fire in a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht, police in the Netherlands said. An air ambulance was dispatched to treat the injured and Dutch media repor...

May warns of long Brexit delay unless MPs back her deal

-- 2019-03-17 10:52:02

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s warned lawmakers that unless they approved her Brexit divorce deal after two crushing defeats, Britain’s exit from the European Union could face a long...

Russia will respond to new EU sanctions

-- 2019-03-16 16:37:01

Russia will not leave new European Union sanctions unanswered, the foreign ministry was cited by the RIA news agency as saying in a statement on Saturday. The United States, Canada and the European U...

30,000 students join 'Global Strike for Future' in Belgium

-- 2019-03-16 14:26:50

Thousands of school students across Belgium abandoned classrooms for a day of climate demonstrations on Friday as part of the 'Global Strike for Future', local press reported. Over 30,000 people, ac...

France strengthens security following New Zealand shootings

-- 2019-03-15 17:36:08

French authorities have stepped up security measures near religious sites after deadly attacks against two mosques in New Zealand left 49 people dead, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said on Fri...

UK MPs set to vote on delaying Brexit

-- 2019-03-14 11:03:26

British MPs will vote on Thursday on delaying Brexit after they rejected the idea of leaving the EU without a deal. In a night of high drama in the Commons, MPs surprised the government and voted by...