Reuters 2019-12-20 20:24:59
Britain’s Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, was taken to hospital on Friday as a precautionary measure for treatment for a pre-existing condition, Buckingham Palace said...
Reuters 2019-12-20 18:03:52
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said that Ankara would retaliate against possible US sanctions over its purchase of Russian defense systems and a natural gas pipeline. US Congress has move...
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Estonia's president has apologised after the country's interior minister described Finland's new prime minister as "a sales girl". President Kersti Kaljulaid said she was "embarrassed" by the comment...
-- 2019-12-16 19:14:01
More than half of the population of the city of Brindisi, southern Italy, were evacuated from their homes on Sunday due to an unexploded World War II bomb, according to authorities. Some 54,000 peopl...
-- 2019-12-16 19:11:06
Turkey has dispatched a surveillance and reconnaissance drone to the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus amid tensions over offshore oil and gas exploration, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu...
-- 2019-12-16 16:56:37
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs to “focus on reality” and recognize that the Scottish National Party (SNP) has been given a mandate for a second independence referendum, Scottis...
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Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting top German business and union officials on Monday to discuss how to attract skilled workers from outside the European Union (EU) as the country tries to tackle a sh...
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Greta Thunberg has apologised for saying world leaders should be "put against the wall" in a speech. The teenage climate activist made the comment while addressing a Fridays For Future protest in Tur...
REUTERS 2019-12-15 10:45:06
Prime minister Boris Johnson visited former strongholds of his Labour opponents in northern England on Saturday and pledged to repay their trust for helping to deliver a stunning victory for his Conse...
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The planned visit of Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives) of the Netherlands has been cancelled. Suu Kyi was supposed to visit the lower hou...
REUTERS 2019-12-13 12:13:02
Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a resounding election victory on Friday that will allow him to end three years of political paralysis and take Britain out of the European Union within weeks. The Bre...
REUTERS 2019-12-13 10:43:48
Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn walks to a polling station to vote in the general election in London, Britain, December 12, 2019. Reuters Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Fr...
REUTERS 2019-12-13 10:07:02
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was on course for a resounding victory in Britain’s election after voters backed his bid to deliver Brexit on Jan. 31, the country’s...
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Finnish President Sauli Niinisto on Tuesday appointed the new coalition government under Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin. Following authorising decisions by the parties on Monday, parlia...
-- 2019-12-12 14:35:30
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it would expel two German diplomats from Moscow in a tit-for-tat response after Berlin last week ordered the expulsion of two Russian diplomats. Germa...
Reuters 2019-12-12 11:31:28
Voters go to the polls on Thursday in an election that will pave the way for Brexit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson or propel Britain toward another referendum that could ultimately reverse the dec...
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Turkey and Britain have agreed to speed up work on a project to build fighter jets, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told broadcaster A Haber on Wednesday. The two countries agreed a 100 mil...
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Nobel Peace laureates have demanded that Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, along with her army commanders, be held criminally accountable for crimes committed against the Rohingyas....
-- 2019-12-10 16:35:41
The Gambia has asked the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, to tell Myanmar to stop genocide carried out on Myanmar's own people....
-- 2019-12-10 14:49:03
An attacker shot dead four people and seriously injured two at a hospital in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava on Tuesday, police said. Police said on Twitter they were searching for the attacke...
-- 2019-12-10 11:27:34
Ukraine and Russia have agreed to implement a "full and comprehensive" ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of 2019, after top-level talks. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr...
-- 2019-12-09 14:00:07
Sanna Marin, aged 34, will become the world's youngest prime minister as head of a women-led coalition government in Finland. The transportation minister was picked by her Social Democratic party to...
AP 2019-12-07 19:08:26
Facebook has been fined around $4.0 million for allegedly misleading its users in Hungary by claiming the use of its services was free, the Hungarian Competition Authority said Friday. The authority...
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A climate law to ensure that Denmark achieves the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70 per cent in 2030 was passed in parliament on late Friday evening. The Climate Act, endorsed by 167 of...
-- 2019-12-05 18:41:55
A nationwide strike has severely disrupted schools and public transport across France. Workers are angry at being forced to retire later or face reduced pensions, reports BBC. School and transport w...
-- 2019-12-05 12:36:31
Four people have died after a three-story building in the southern Polish ski resort of Szczyrk collapsed on Wednesday following a gas explosion, a local police spokesman said on Thursday. The bodies...
Reuters 2019-12-04 17:31:57
NATO leaders gathered at a golf resort near London on Wednesday for a summit acrimonious even by the standards of the Trump era, aiming to tackle disagreements over spending, future threats including...
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Islamic State said the London Bridge attack on Friday was carried out by one of its fighters, the group’s Amaq news agency reported on Saturday. The group did not provide any evidence. It added...
-- 2019-11-30 10:47:38
The man who carried out Friday's stabbing attack at London Bridge was a former prisoner convicted of terrorism offences. The attacker, named by police as 28-year-old Usman Khan, was out of prison on...
BBC 2019-11-29 20:50:41
London Bridge has been cordoned off by police, with a BBC journalist reporting hearing gunfire. BBC reporter John McManus said he saw a group of men involved in a fight on the bridge. Police then ar...
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