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Johnson fails to get nod again for early polls

Johnson fails to get nod again for early polls

-- 2019-09-10 16:37:23

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his final chance in the early hours of Tuesday to force an early general election as the British Parliament closed its doors for five weeks. Johnson’s...

UK parliament speaker to quit

UK parliament speaker to quit

Reuters 2019-09-09 21:31:41

John Bercow, Speaker in Britain’s House of Commons, announced on Monday that he would be standing down from the role. Bercow has helped bend parliamentary rules to give lawmakers opposed to a n...

UK Work and Pensions Secretary quits govt in Brexit protest

UK Work and Pensions Secretary quits govt in Brexit protest

-- 2019-09-08 12:22:42

Britain’s Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd resigned from the government and the ruling Conservative Party on Saturday in a protest over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the...

Ukraine, Russia exchange prisoners in landmark deal

Ukraine, Russia exchange prisoners in landmark deal

-- 2019-09-07 20:45:52

Russia and Ukraine have completed a long-awaited exchange of prisoners. Those freed include 24 Ukrainian sailors and - controversially - a "person of interest" over the downing of flight MH17 which k...

Brexit: MPs willing to go to court to enforce delay

Brexit: MPs willing to go to court to enforce delay

-- 2019-09-07 14:15:19

British MPs, including Tories expelled from the party, are preparing legal action in case the PM refuses to seek a delay to Brexit. A bill requiring Boris Johnson to ask for an extension to the UK's...

Russia welcomes Chinese investment: Putin

Russia welcomes Chinese investment: Putin

Xinhua 2019-09-06 18:16:49

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that his country welcomes Chinese investment and expects more positive outcomes from bilateral cooperation. Putin made the remarks Vladivostok at a m...

Opponents of 'no-deal' Brexit defeat UK PM Johnson

Opponents of 'no-deal' Brexit defeat UK PM Johnson

Reuters 2019-09-04 10:32:53

British lawmakers defeated Boris Johnson in parliament on Tuesday in a bid to prevent him taking Britain out of the EU without a divorce agreement, prompting the prime minister to announce that he wou...

British lawmakers begin no-deal Brexit battle

British lawmakers begin no-deal Brexit battle

Reuters 2019-09-03 10:22:11

Lawmakers will decide on Tuesday whether to move Britain one step closer to an early election when they vote on the first stage of their plan to block Prime Minister Boris Johnson from pursuing a no-d...

Labour says it will go all out to stop no-deal Brexit

Labour says it will go all out to stop no-deal Brexit

Reuters 2019-09-02 12:10:49

Britain's main opposition Labour Party will do everything possible to stop a no-deal Brexit after parliament returns on Tuesday, its leader Jeremy Corbyn will say on Monday. Lawmakers opposed to the...

Poland marks 80th anniversary of start of World War Two

Poland marks 80th anniversary of start of World War Two

Reuters 2019-09-01 17:56:01

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Vice President Mike Pence joined local leaders on Sunday to commemorate 80 years since the start of World War Two in Poland, where the conflict is still a live p...

Labour plans way to thwart no-deal Brexit

Labour plans way to thwart no-deal Brexit

Reuters 2019-08-30 10:43:40

The opposition Labour Party said on Thursday it would trigger an emergency debate in parliament next week to try to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking Britain out of the European Union without a...

UK parliament suspension sparks furious backlash

UK parliament suspension sparks furious backlash

-- 2019-08-29 11:06:25

The British prime minister's decision to suspend parliament has prompted an angry backlash from MPs and opponents of a no-deal Brexit. It sparked protests across the country, a legal challenge and a...

Queen approves Boris Johnson's request to suspend parliament

Queen approves Boris Johnson's request to suspend parliament

-- 2019-08-28 21:12:25

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has approved an order from the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend country's parliament from the second week in September until 14 October - just 17 days before the sc...

50 migrants rescued in two days in busy English Channel

50 migrants rescued in two days in busy English Channel

-- 2019-08-28 16:57:59

French maritime authorities say 47 migrants, including two dozen children, have been rescued over two days as they tried to cross the English Channel to Britain. The authorities said that In the firs...

Brexit deadline: UK govt to ask Queen to suspend parliament

Brexit deadline: UK govt to ask Queen to suspend parliament

BBC 2019-08-28 14:59:16

The Queen Elizabeth will be asked by the UK government to suspend Parliament just days after MPs return to work in September - and only a few weeks before the Brexit deadline. BBC political edit...

G7 summit: Macron delivers breakthrough on Iran

G7 summit: Macron delivers breakthrough on Iran

-- 2019-08-27 10:46:49

French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at a G7 summit for a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Washington and Tehran over a 2015 nuclear deal, but there was little else to show from a...

G7 leaders pledge $20.0m emergency fund to fight Amazon fires

G7 leaders pledge $20.0m emergency fund to fight Amazon fires

Reuters 2019-08-26 21:02:51

The leaders of the group of seven nations (G7) have agreed to a deal to provide an immediate $20.0m fund in emergency help to stop the Amazon forest fires, a French presidential source said. “T...

Nearly 100 companies move to Netherlands ahead of Brexit

Nearly 100 companies move to Netherlands ahead of Brexit

-- 2019-08-26 13:39:23

Nearly 100 companies have relocated from Britain to the Netherlands or set up offices there to be within the European Union due to the United Kingdom’s planned departure from the bloc, a Dutch g...

G7 nations close to deal on tackling Amazon fires

G7 nations close to deal on tackling Amazon fires

Reuters 2019-08-26 12:25:53

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday (local time) the leaders of the world’s major industrialised nations were close to an agreement on how to help fight the Amazon forest fires and t...

Top Iranian official lands at G-7 summit in surprise visit

Top Iranian official lands at G-7 summit in surprise visit

-- 2019-08-25 21:20:05

A top Iranian official paid an unannounced visit Sunday to the G-7 summit and headed straight to the building where leaders of the world’s major democracies have been debating how to handle the...

Squabbles erupt as G7 leaders open summit

Squabbles erupt as G7 leaders open summit

Reuters 2019-08-25 10:26:46

Squabbles erupted among G7 nations on Saturday as their leaders gathered for an annual summit, exposing sharp differences on global trade tensions, Britain's exit from the EU and how to respond to the...

Global disputes likely to thwart unity at G7 summit

Global disputes likely to thwart unity at G7 summit

Reuters 2019-08-24 16:50:44

Leaders of the G7 nations began arriving in France on Saturday for a summit as a US-China row over protectionism highlighted President Emmanuel Macron’s tough task in delivering real results on...

Ukraine, EU oppose Russia readmission to G7

Ukraine, EU oppose Russia readmission to G7

-- 2019-08-23 12:06:06

Ukraine's president backed leading European powers on Thursday in opposing the readmission of Russia to the Group of Seven advanced economies, saying Moscow still occupied Crimea and was frustrating p...

Greece says won’t help Iranian tanker to reach Syria

Greece says won’t help Iranian tanker to reach Syria

-- 2019-08-21 15:09:34

Greece will not facilitate an Iranian tanker sailing in the Mediterranean to deliver oil to Syria, the country’s deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.   “We wa...

Trump’s idea of selling Greenland to US is absurd, says Danish PM

Trump’s idea of selling Greenland to US is absurd, says Danish PM

-- 2019-08-19 12:47:26

Greenland is not for sale and the idea of selling it to the United States is absurd, Denmark’s prime minister said on Sunday after an economic adviser to President Donald Trump confirmed the US...

Turkish police detain 418 in Kurdish militant probe

Turkish police detain 418 in Kurdish militant probe

-- 2019-08-19 12:31:26

Turkish police have detained 418 people in 29 provinces in an investigation targeting suspects with links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, the Interior Ministry said on Monday, Reu...

UK PM in bid to get new Brexit deal

UK PM in bid to get new Brexit deal

-- 2019-08-18 12:05:28

Boris Johnson will tell EU leaders there needs to be a new Brexit deal when he makes his first trip abroad as PM later this week. The UK will leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal, he wil...

Eight die in Ukraine hotel fire

Eight die in Ukraine hotel fire

-- 2019-08-17 13:00:52

Eight people died and 10 more were injured in a fire early on Saturday in a private hotel in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, Ukraine’s emergencies service said. The fire occurred shortly...

Nazi bomb found in Moscow's Kremlin

Nazi bomb found in Moscow's Kremlin

-- 2019-08-16 12:03:41

An aerial bomb of Nazi troops was retrieved and removed from the Kremlin during archaeological excavation, the Kremlin's commandant Sergei Khlebnikov said Thursday, reports Xinhua. The undetonated bo...

Former Kyrgyz President Atambayev faces murder, coup plotting charges

Former Kyrgyz President Atambayev faces murder, coup plotting charges

-- 2019-08-13 00:00:00

Kyrgyzstan's former President Almazbek Atambayev has been charged with murder and plotting a government coup. He has also been accused of organising mass unrest and hostage-taking, reports BBC. Mr A...