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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...

Notre Dame’s bees survive cathedral blaze

Notre Dame’s bees survive cathedral blaze

-- 2019-04-19 20:52:00

Hunkered down in their hives and drunk on smoke, Notre Dame’s smallest official residents — some 180,000 bees — somehow managed to survive the inferno that consumed the cathedral&rsq...

Kim to meet Putin this month

Kim to meet Putin this month

-- 2019-04-19 18:24:13

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will travel to Russia this month for talks with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Thursday, announcing the first Russia-North Korea summit since Kim came to...

Russia shrugs off Mueller report

Russia shrugs off Mueller report

Reuters 2019-04-19 14:51:11

Russia’s foreign ministry on Friday dismissed the findings of the long-awaited report by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller and said it had failed to present any evidence of Russian meddling in U...

ArcelorMittal to provide steel or Notre Dame rebuilding

ArcelorMittal to provide steel or Notre Dame rebuilding

-- 2019-04-18 18:45:14

ArcelorMittal has offered steel for the restoration of the Notre Dame in Paris after a fire gutted the gothic cathedral's roof and destroyed its iconic spire, the steelmaker said on Thursday. "The co...

29 die as tour bus overturns on Portugal’s Madeira island

29 die as tour bus overturns on Portugal’s Madeira island

-- 2019-04-18 10:46:17

At least 29 people, most of them German tourists, were killed and 27 others injured on Wednesday when their bus veered off a steep narrow road on the Portuguese island of Madeira, authorities said. T...

Nearly $1.0b raised to rebuild Paris' Notre Dame

Nearly $1.0b raised to rebuild Paris' Notre Dame

-- 2019-04-17 15:06:34

Nearly 1.0 billion US dollar has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a massive fire. Construction tea...

Socialists battle to stop right-wing surge in Spanish election

Socialists battle to stop right-wing surge in Spanish election

-- 2019-04-17 00:53:49

Spain holds its third general election in four years on 28 April, in a battle between the established parties, Catalan and Basque nationalists, and a rising far-right. This time, however, the elector...

Fire out, treasures intact but work ahead for Notre Dame

Fire out, treasures intact but work ahead for Notre Dame

Associated Press 2019-04-16 20:59:17

Firefighters declared success Tuesday in a more than 12-hour battle to extinguish an inferno engulfing Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral that claimed its spire and roof, but spared its bell tow...

London police arrest 52 climate protesters

London police arrest 52 climate protesters

-- 2019-04-16 12:19:23

Thousands of people joined protests across central London as climate change activists blocked roads and vandalised Shell's headquarters. Extinction Rebellion campaigners parked a pink boat at Oxford...

We will rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral: Macron

We will rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral: Macron

-- 2019-04-16 09:31:52

A massive fire consumed Notre-Dame Cathedral on Monday, gutting the roof of the Paris landmark and stunning France and the world, though firefighters saved the main bell towers and outer walls from co...

New Brexit referendum ‘good chance’ to make breakthrough

New Brexit referendum ‘good chance’ to make breakthrough

-- 2019-04-14 10:14:25

The idea of a second Brexit referendum is very likely to be put before Britain’s parliament again although the government remains opposed to any new plebiscite, the British finance minister said...

London police fire shots as vehicle rams Ukraine ambassador's car

London police fire shots as vehicle rams Ukraine ambassador's car

-- 2019-04-13 21:35:22

British police fired shots after a vehicle rammed the parked car of Ukraine’s ambassador in London on Saturday, the Ukrainian embassy said. No one was injured, it said. The ambassador’s o...

UK likely to consider ‘new Brexit referendum’

UK likely to consider ‘new Brexit referendum’

-- 2019-04-13 15:35:56

The idea of a second Brexit referendum is very likely to be put before Britain’s parliament again although the government remains opposed to any new plebiscite, the British finance minister has...

British police arrest Wikileaks co-founder

British police arrest Wikileaks co-founder

-- 2019-04-11 16:41:03

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Mr Assange took refuge in the embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault c...

EU gives May till October for Brexit, seeking clarity

EU gives May till October for Brexit, seeking clarity

-- 2019-04-11 09:51:42

European Union leaders gave Britain six more months to leave the bloc, more than Prime Minister Theresa May says she needs but less than many in the bloc wanted, thanks to fierce resistance from Franc...

EU to grant May a Brexit delay, with conditions

EU to grant May a Brexit delay, with conditions

Reuters 2019-04-10 17:38:11

The European Union will grant British Prime Minister Theresa May a second delay to Brexit at an emergency summit on Wednesday but leaders will debate a longer extension with conditions to prevent any...

May to make Brexit plea at EU summit

May to make Brexit plea at EU summit

-- 2019-04-10 14:44:16

EU leaders are to meet for an emergency summit in Brussels to decide whether to offer the UK another delay to Brexit. Prime Minister Theresa May wants to postpone the date the UK leaves the EU beyond...

Turkey’s election board rejects recount call in 31 districts

Turkey’s election board rejects recount call in 31 districts

-- 2019-04-09 12:53:27

Turkey’s High Election Board has rejected a request by President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party to recount all votes in 31 Istanbul districts, a board member said on Tuesday, but his party vowe...

Russia signs agreement to free captive whales

Russia signs agreement to free captive whales

-- 2019-04-08 20:20:57

Russia on Monday signed an agreement with a group of international scientists to free nearly 100 whales that have been held for months in cramped pens in Russia’s Far East, a scandal that has tr...

UK prince completes three-week work with security services

UK prince completes three-week work with security services

-- 2019-04-07 13:53:45

Britain’s Prince William has concluded a three-week attachment with the country’s security and intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, his office said on Sunday. William started his assi...

Brexit: UK issuing passports without ‘European Union’ label

Brexit: UK issuing passports without ‘European Union’ label

-- 2019-04-06 11:47:30

British passports are being issued without the words 'European Union' on the cover, despite the delay to Brexit. The new burgundy passports were introduced from 30 March, the day after the UK was sup...

Serbia sentences four over killing of prominent journalist

Serbia sentences four over killing of prominent journalist

-- 2019-04-05 17:27:20

Four people were sentenced to up to 30 years in prison by a Serbian court on Friday over the killing in 1999 of opposition journalist and newspaper publisher Slavko Curuvija, during the rule of late s...

UK asks EU for further Brexit extension until 30 June

UK asks EU for further Brexit extension until 30 June

-- 2019-04-05 17:13:16

British Prime Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to request a further delay to Brexit until 30 June. The UK is currently due to leave the EU on 12 April and, as yet, no withdrawal...

Brexit: MPs back delay bill by one vote

Brexit: MPs back delay bill by one vote

-- 2019-04-04 10:54:16

MPs have voted by a majority of one to force the prime minister to ask for an extension to the Brexit process, in a bid to avoid any no-deal scenario. Labour's Yvette Cooper led the move, which the C...