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EU to endorse Brexit deal on Nov 25 as May faces mounting opposition

EU to endorse Brexit deal on Nov 25 as May faces mounting opposition

Reuters 2018-11-15 14:36:55

European Union leaders will meet on November 25 to endorse a Brexit divorce deal but British Prime Minister Theresa May was mauled by opponents, allies and mutinous members of her party who warned the...

6.5 quake rattles Russia's Kamchatka

6.5 quake rattles Russia's Kamchatka

Xinhua 2018-11-15 11:36:37

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 was registered near the coast of Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, according to Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy o...

Four UK ministers on verge of quitting May's govt over Brexit

Four UK ministers on verge of quitting May's govt over Brexit

-- 2018-11-11 12:24:52

Four British ministers who back remaining in the European Union are on the verge of quitting Theresa May’s government over Brexit, the Sunday Times reported, as pressures built on the prime mini...

Turkey shares tapes of Khashoggi killing

Turkey shares tapes of Khashoggi killing

-- 2018-11-10 19:08:06

Turkey has given recordings on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. Turkish sour...

Trump, Macron seek to diffuse tension before WWI anniversary

Trump, Macron seek to diffuse tension before WWI anniversary

-- 2018-11-10 18:39:12

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron worked Saturday to ease tensions after a dustup over their comments about European security that threatened to divert attention away from a...

Taliban attends diplomatic conference in Russia

Taliban attends diplomatic conference in Russia

-- 2018-11-10 15:44:46

A Taliban delegation on Friday attended a diplomatic conference in Russia for the first time, in a move that underscored Moscow's keenness to play a role in the Afghan peace process, but the Kabul gov...

Turkey orders 103 soldiers arrested in Gulen probe

Turkey orders 103 soldiers arrested in Gulen probe

Reuters 2018-11-09 14:35:22

Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 103 soldiers with suspected links to the US-based Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating a failed coup in mid-2016, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on...

Greece to hold general polls in October 2019: PM

Greece to hold general polls in October 2019: PM

-- 2018-11-09 13:32:56

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said that his country will hold the parliamentary elections in October 2019 and the ruling coalition of the Radical Left, commonly known as Syriza, will win. S...

France arrests six on suspicion of plotting to attack Macron

France arrests six on suspicion of plotting to attack Macron

-- 2018-11-07 10:49:10

Six people have been arrested in France on suspicion of planning to carry out a "violent" attack on President Emmanuel Macron, officials say. The individuals, reported to be five men and a woman, wer...

Seven die in Siberia residential house fire

Seven die in Siberia residential house fire

-- 2018-11-06 13:00:53

Seven people have died in a fire in a residential house in the town of Yugra in Russia’s southwestern Siberian Kemerovo Region, a source in emergencies services told TASS on Tuesday. “The...

French Pacific territory of New Caledonia rejects independence

French Pacific territory of New Caledonia rejects independence

-- 2018-11-05 14:44:33

Voters in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia have rejected a bid for independence. Final results showed that 56.4 per cent chose to remain part of France while 43.6 per cent voted to leave...

70 UK business bosses want fresh referendum on Brexit

70 UK business bosses want fresh referendum on Brexit

-- 2018-11-04 20:22:16

More than 70 British business leaders have signed a letter urging a new referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union. The executives say the British government's plan for a divorce de...

New Caledonia votes on independence from France after long struggle

New Caledonia votes on independence from France after long struggle

-- 2018-11-04 16:23:49

The French Pacific islands of New Caledonia began voting on Sunday whether to become the world’s newest state. Queues formed at polling stations across the French archipelago in the South Pacif...

Italian storms claim 17th life, and 14 million trees

Italian storms claim 17th life, and 14 million trees

-- 2018-11-04 11:15:33

Heavy rain and gales devastating parts of Italy have claimed two more lives, taking the overall death toll o at least 17. A German tourist died on Friday when hit by lightning on the island of Sardin...

EU plans post-Brexit London 'embassy'

EU plans post-Brexit London 'embassy'

-- 2018-11-03 14:26:37

The European Union plans to have a 29-strong team of diplomats in London to represent it after Brexit. It will be called a "delegation" - not an embassy - and will be part of the EU's foreign policy...

Storm leaves four dead in Italy

Storm leaves four dead in Italy

-- 2018-11-02 14:45:20

Four people died Thursday in the second of two storm fronts that battered Italy with torrential rains and gale-force winds beginning at the weekend, local media reported. An elderly couple was crus...

Shenzhen opens direct flight to London

Shenzhen opens direct flight to London

-- 2018-11-01 15:05:48

Shenzhen Airlines on Wednesday celebrated a new direct flight from Shenzhen city, known as the Silicon Valley of China, to London. It was the first direct flight between Shenzhen and London. The inte...

Russia starts probing into terrorism after suicide bomber kills himself

Russia starts probing into terrorism after suicide bomber kills himself

-- 2018-10-31 18:15:13

Russia opened an investigation into suspected terrorism after a 17-year-old youth blew himself up on Wednesday in the lobby of an office belonging to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in t...

France not ruling out sanctions against Saudi Arabia

France not ruling out sanctions against Saudi Arabia

-- 2018-10-31 14:41:04

France doesn’t rule out any sanction against Saudi Arabia if its authorities are found to have been involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Dr...

German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients

German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients

-- 2018-10-30 19:38:41

A former nurse has admitted murdering 100 patients during the first day of his trial, making him one of Germany's worst post-war serial killers. Detectives say Niels Högel, 41, administered fata...

Russia’s lone aircraft carrier damaged in accident

Russia’s lone aircraft carrier damaged in accident

-- 2018-10-30 16:34:35

An accident in the docks in Russia's north on Tuesday damaged the country's only aircraft carrier and left one person missing and four injured, officials said. A floating dock sank early morning in M...

Merkel to step down in 2021

Merkel to step down in 2021

-- 2018-10-29 18:58:11

Germany's Angela Merkel says she will step down as chancellor in 2021, following recent election setbacks, reports BBC. "I will not be seeking any political after my term ends," she told a news confe...

Former conservative joins race to replace Merkel as CDU chair

Former conservative joins race to replace Merkel as CDU chair

-- 2018-10-29 17:45:52

A former parliamentary group leader of Angela Merkel’s conservative alliance wants to join the race to replace the German chancellor as chairwoman of her Christian Democrats (CDU). Conservative...

Protest against education reform turns violent in Greece

Protest against education reform turns violent in Greece

-- 2018-10-29 17:41:59

A protest against education reform turned violent in Greece as youths clashed with police on Monday parliament’s Syntagma square in central Athens. Protesters threw stones, flares and petrol bo...

Saudi prosecutor heading Khashoggi case arrives in Turkey

Saudi prosecutor heading Khashoggi case arrives in Turkey

-- 2018-10-29 12:54:31

The Saudi public prosecutor heading the investigation into the killing of Jamal Khashoggi arrived in Istanbul overnight, the state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Monday, ahead of expected talks wit...

Istanbul’s new airport, launching Monday, seeks to be world’s biggest

Istanbul’s new airport, launching Monday, seeks to be world’s biggest

-- 2018-10-28 20:53:42

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held plenty of grand opening ceremonies in his 15 years at Turkey’s helm. On Monday he will unveil one of his prized jewels — Istanbul New Airport — a megapr...

5.8 magnitude quake jolts Romania

5.8 magnitude quake jolts Romania

-- 2018-10-28 15:25:15

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Romania’s eastern county of Buzau on Sunday morning, the National Institute for Earth Physics announced. It was the strongest earthquake not only in this y...

Higgins wins second term as Irish president

Higgins wins second term as Irish president

-- 2018-10-28 14:52:12

Michael D Higgins has been re-elected as Irish president after receiving 56 per cent of the country's election vote. Businessman Peter Casey came second with 23.1 per cent, while none of the other fo...

Irish voters set to elect president

Irish voters set to elect president

-- 2018-10-26 15:26:49

Polls have opened in the Republic of Ireland as voters elect their president. Higgins is the first incumbent in 50 years to face a challenge in his bid for a second seven-year term. The president is...

French court rejects Sarkozy’s appeal in ‘Bygmalion’ case

French court rejects Sarkozy’s appeal in ‘Bygmalion’ case

-- 2018-10-25 13:37:43

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost an appeal against an earlier decision to send him to trial over charges of illegal campaign financing, in a case known as the ‘Bygmalion’ a...