Fighting for Libyan oil terminals highlights obstacles, ahead of emergency EU meeting on migration crisis Senior European diplomats have privately admitted that plans to stabilise Libya, on which the long-term hopes rest of an end Europe’s migration crisis, are badly off track. European leaders will meet on Sunday in a ...
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Ukraine extends its Russian sanctions list
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree to enact a recently adopted decision to expand sanctions on Russian companies and entities, Ukraine’s council of national security and defense said on Friday. It said 30 Russian legal entities and 14 individuals were added to the sanction list, taking it to ...
Read More »Special Report: Trump’s catch-and-detain policy snares illegal immigrants long in U.S.
Morena Vasquez didn’t want to drive that February night last year, but a co-worker at her job cleaning offices near Atlanta needed some keys dropped off. ‘I knew it was my responsibility,” Vasquez said. Driving was always risky for the 38-year-old mother of six. An El Salvador native, she had ...
Read More »North Korea, China leaders agree to boost ‘strategic, tactical’ cooperation: KCNA
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed measures to bolster “strategic and tactical” cooperation between the two countries in a second meeting on Wednesday, the North’s state media said on Thursday. The meeting between Kim and Xi came on the North Korean leader’s second and ...
Read More »World Refugee Day 2018: How many displaced people are there around the globe and what is being done to help?
2.9 million people became asylum seekers in 2017 – biggest single-year rise in history of UN refugee agency World Refugee Day is held on 20 June every year to draw attention to the plight of displaced people around the globe. Inaugurated by the UN Refugee Agency, the occasion was first ...
Read More »World Cup 2018 schedule: All the groups, fixtures, results, kick-off times and venues for the tournament in Russia
After the 2018 World Cup draw we now know that Russia will bring up the curtain in Moscow when they face Saudi Arabia on Thursday June 14. Portugal vs Spain is one of the most enticing of the early ties, which takes place in Sochi on the second day of ...
Read More »Asia stocks skid to four-month low as Trump raises stakes in China trade war
Asian stocks sank on Tuesday and Shanghai shares tumbled to near two-year lows as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on Chinese goods in an escalating tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. U.S. and European equity markets looked set to follow Asia into the red. S&P ...
Read More »Germany’s Merkel to visit Beirut at end of June
BEIRUT: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Lebanon for two days starting June 21, accompanied by a high-level delegation, a press release from the German Embassy in Beirut announced Friday. The chancellor is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, President Michel Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. According ...
Read More »Kaliningrad photos appear to show Russia upgrading nuclear weapons bunker
Satellite images from Baltic outpost and World Cup venue are latest sign of Russian emphasis on nuclear arms Russia appears to have upgraded a nuclear weapons storage bunker in its Kaliningrad enclave, in the latest sign of Moscow’s increased emphasis on nuclear arms in its standoff with Nato, according to ...
Read More »Turkey’s Islamists and secularists join forces in bid to unseat Erdoğan
The leader of Turkey’s largest Islamist party rattled off what he believes to be the failures of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government: a high unemployment rate, a widening trade deficit, a chaotic foreign policy, a stalled European Union membership application and a state of emergency since the failed 2016 coup ...
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