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UAE pardons British academic

UAE pardons British academic

-- 2018-11-26 18:00:57

The United Arab Emirates on Monday pardoned and released British academic Matthew Hedges jailed for life on spying charges. The academic secured the pardon as the UAE granted a request for clemency a...

Helicopter crash leaves four soldiers dead in Turkey

Helicopter crash leaves four soldiers dead in Turkey

-- 2018-11-26 17:55:42

Four Turkish soldiers were killed and another wounded on Monday when a military helicopter crashed in a residential area in Istanbul during a training exercise. The helicopter went down in the Sancak...

EU executive urges Russia to release Ukraine ships

EU executive urges Russia to release Ukraine ships

-- 2018-11-26 17:49:46

The European Union’s executive urged Russia on Monday to release three Ukrainian ships it seized at the weekend near the Crimean peninsula that it annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The European Com...

Children among six die in Swiss Apartment fire

Children among six die in Swiss Apartment fire

-- 2018-11-26 13:05:38

Six people were killed in an apartment fire in Switzerland early on Monday morning, police said, while an unspecified number of others caught in the blaze were taken to the hospital. Children were am...

Protests erupt in Kiev as Russia seizes Ukraine ships off Crimea

Protests erupt in Kiev as Russia seizes Ukraine ships off Crimea

-- 2018-11-26 12:28:52

Ukraine's parliament is to decide whether to bring in martial law as anger over the capture of three of its naval vessels by Russia spilled into the streets overnight. Protesters gathered outside the...

EU leaders seal Brexit deal

EU leaders seal Brexit deal

-- 2018-11-25 17:05:34

European Union leaders formally agreed a Brexit deal at a Brussels summit on Sunday, urging Britons to back Prime Minister Theresa May’s package, which faces furious opposition in the British pa...

May writes letter asking public to back Brexit deal

May writes letter asking public to back Brexit deal

-- 2018-11-25 10:04:59

Theresa May has written a letter to the British public pleading for their support for her Brexit deal, as the EU prepares to formally sign it off. The UK prime minister said her agreement promises a...

EU president tells the union to approve Brexit deal

EU president tells the union to approve Brexit deal

-- 2018-11-24 21:11:10

European Council (EU) President Donald Tusk on Saturday has recommended that the EU approve the Brexit deal at a summit on Sunday. It comes after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez dropped his thre...

French police use tear gas to disperse fuel protesters

French police use tear gas to disperse fuel protesters

-- 2018-11-24 17:57:32

Police in Paris have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters demonstrating for a second weekend against rising fuel prices. Clashes broke out on the Champs-Elysées despite a poli...

Spain bars May's way to Brussels Brexit deal

Spain bars May's way to Brussels Brexit deal

Reuters 2018-11-24 11:03:50

Spain was standing between Theresa May and a Brexit deal as it threatened to derail an EU summit on Sunday if it does not get new assurances on having a say in the future of Gibraltar. As negotiation...

Swiss to vote Sunday to decide cows with or without horns

Swiss to vote Sunday to decide cows with or without horns

-- 2018-11-23 17:37:31

Switzerland votes this Sunday on an issue of national importance that has divided the Alpine country - whether to subsidise farmers who let their cows’ and goats’ horns grow naturally. Th...

Spain accuses UK of treachery over Gibraltar Brexit deal

Spain accuses UK of treachery over Gibraltar Brexit deal

Madrid threatens to ‘stop the clock’ on Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement 2018-11-23 10:28:06

Spain accused the UK of “treachery” and acting “under the cover of darkness” in an escalation of a war of words over the future of Gibraltar that risks derailing Theresa May&rs...

EU, UK agrees on draft Brexit deal

EU, UK agrees on draft Brexit deal

-- 2018-11-22 18:06:45

The EU and UK have agreed a draft agreement on their future relationship, paving the way for a Brexit deal to be finalised this weekend. The political declaration - outlining how trade, security and...

Denmark suspends weapon exports to Saudi

Denmark suspends weapon exports to Saudi

-- 2018-11-22 13:03:15

Denmark has decided to suspend approvals of weapon and military equipment exports to Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the situation in Yemen, its foreign minister said o...

Russian military intelligence chief Korobov dies

Russian military intelligence chief Korobov dies

-- 2018-11-22 12:29:33

The head of Russian military intelligence agency GRU, General Igor Korobov, has died at the age of 62, Russia's defence ministry says. General Korobov, who took up the post in 2016, is said to have d...

EU Commission says Italy faces excessive deficit action

EU Commission says Italy faces excessive deficit action

-- 2018-11-21 18:10:41

Italy’s 2019 budget fails to comply with euro zone rules and so the government should face action from the European Union to reduce its deficit, the European Commission said on Wednesday, accord...

May seeks to cut deal on future EU ties in Brussels

May seeks to cut deal on future EU ties in Brussels

-- 2018-11-21 17:42:17

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives in Brussels on Wednesday to try to agree a blueprint on post-Brexit ties with the European Union (EU), which the bloc’s diplomats said was being held u...

May gambles on last-minute Brussels trip

May gambles on last-minute Brussels trip

-- 2018-11-21 13:57:51

Why is Theresa May rushing to Brussels on Wednesday when she has a fair few political headaches to contend with back home, and when she's due back here in just a few days for the seal-the-deal Brexit...

Train derails near Barcelona killing one

Train derails near Barcelona killing one

-- 2018-11-20 15:30:32

One person died and dozens were injured Tuesday after a landslide derailed a commuter train travelling toward Barcelona city of Spain, authorities said. The regional civil protection agency said th...

Macron's popularity dips as French fuel tax revolt simmers

Macron's popularity dips as French fuel tax revolt simmers

Reuters 2018-11-19 13:02:16

Emmanuel Macron’s popularity took a further hit in recent weeks, according to a poll on Sunday, as fuel tax protests rumbled on across France in the latest sign of discontent with the president&...

Putin told Pence Russia didn't meddle in US election: Kremlin

Putin told Pence Russia didn't meddle in US election: Kremlin

-- 2018-11-19 12:41:36

Russian President Vladimir Putin told US Vice President Mike Pence Russia had nothing to do with meddling in the 2016 US election, Interfax reported on Monday, during discussions about an upcoming mee...

Malta police identify ‘masterminds’ in journalist murder

Malta police identify ‘masterminds’ in journalist murder

-- 2018-11-18 17:45:44

Investigators have identified a group of at least three Maltese nationals who they believe masterminded the killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia 13 months ago, reports AP citin...

UK's May sees 'no alternative' to her Brexit plan

UK's May sees 'no alternative' to her Brexit plan

Reuters 2018-11-18 13:39:19

British Prime Minister Theresa May says she sees no alternative to the Brexit deal she presented earlier this week, amid reports that some of her senior ministers want her to renegotiate the draft agr...

Five ministers lobby May to renegotiate Brexit draft text

Five ministers lobby May to renegotiate Brexit draft text

-- 2018-11-17 18:29:17

Five Eurosceptic cabinet ministers are pressing UK prime minister Theresa May to make last-minute changes to her controversial Brexit deal. The leader of the Commons, Andrea Leadsom, is believed to b...

French protesters block road over hiked fuel tax, one dies

French protesters block road over hiked fuel tax, one dies

-- 2018-11-17 18:02:16

A protester has died and there are reports of injuries elsewhere as demonstrators angry at rising fuel prices disrupt traffic across France. The female protester was struck after a driver panicked an...

May appoints new Brexit Secretary

May appoints new Brexit Secretary

-- 2018-11-16 22:56:08

Stephen Barclay has been confirmed as the new Brexit Secretary as Theresa May seeks to fill posts in her cabinet. The MP for North East Cambridgeshire and Leave supporter had been serving as a minist...

UK Environment Secretary expresses confidence in May

UK Environment Secretary expresses confidence in May

-- 2018-11-16 18:40:31

Michael Gove says he "absolutely" has confidence in Theresa May as she pursues her Brexit deal. Rumours had been rife that the environment secretary would follow fellow Brexiteers out of the cabinet...

Turkish police arrest 12 over failed coup

Turkish police arrest 12 over failed coup

-- 2018-11-16 15:44:52

Turkish police on Friday detained at least 12 people, including academics, in Istanbul over their suspected links to a group believed to be behind a failed coup in 2016. The state-run Anadolu Agency...

Ex-Nazi guard testifies against his involvement in killing

Ex-Nazi guard testifies against his involvement in killing

-- 2018-11-15 20:57:08

A former Nazi concentration camp guard on trial on hundreds of counts of accessory to murder has testified he was aware that inmates were dying but says he didn't know they were being killed, reports...

May hit by several ministerial resignations over Brexit deal

May hit by several ministerial resignations over Brexit deal

-- 2018-11-15 19:03:41

UK Prime Minister Theresa May battled on Thursday to save a draft divorce deal with the European Union after her Brexit secretary and other ministers quit in protest at an agreement they say will trap...