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Russia hits energy system in 5 regions of Ukraine
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US approves $1.5bn deal for Peru naval base
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UK govt retreats on mandatory digital ID to work
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kill two near Russian border
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July 2019 hottest month ever recorded: EU
July 2019 was the hottest month across the globe ever recorded, according to data released yesterday by the European Union’s satellite-
5 August 2019, 18:00 PM
English? Non merci, French minister tells fellow citizens
France’s culture minister has urged people to cut down on their increasing use of English, in the latest effort to protect the French
5 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Boy thrown from London’s Tate Modern is ‘stable’
A six-year-old boy thrown from a tenth-floor viewing platform at London’s Tate Modern gallery is no longer in a life-threatening
5 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Putin urges new arms talks with US
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday urged the United States to begin new arms talks after the collapse of a Cold War nuclear
5 August 2019, 18:00 PM
China destabilising Indo-Pacific
China is destabilising the Indo-Pacific, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said yesterday, charging Beijing with predatory economics,
4 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Venezuela rivals in Barbados talks
The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition are continuing to hold talks in Barbados in an effort to find
3 August 2019, 18:00 PM
How to feed 10b without ruining Earth
Experts yesterday began negotiating the most comprehensive scientific assessment ever of the role the land we live off plays in climate change, expected to highlight the stark choices humanity faces to feed 10 billion people while preserving Nature.
2 August 2019, 19:12 PM
Dutch ban on burqas takes effect
The Netherlands banned the wearing of a face-covering veil, such as a burqa or niqab, in public buildings and on transport from
1 August 2019, 18:00 PM
UK to spend extra $2.6b on no-deal Brexit planning
Britain said it is ramping up preparations for a no-deal Brexit by spending an extra 2.1 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) to stockpile medicines, hire more border officials and fund one of the biggest peacetime advertising campaigns.
1 August 2019, 18:00 PM
UK PM holds Belfast talks on Brexit backstop riddle
Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson held talks in Northern Ireland yesterday in a bid to untangle an impasse over the Irish border “backstop” that has scuppered all efforts to secure an orderly withdrawal from the European Union.
31 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Macron, Rouhani hold talks amid tensions
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday spoke with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani and reiterated his call for a de-escalation of tensions between Iran and the United States, the Elysee said. Paris has engaged in intense diplomacy seeking to solve the
31 July 2019, 18:00 PM
No physical checks on Irish border after Brexit
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday promised Ireland’s Leo Varadkar there would be no physical checks on the border between their two countries after Brexit, a spokeswoman said.
30 July 2019, 18:00 PM
EU court rules sites must warn about FB ‘like’ button
Europe’s top court ruled yesterday that online retailers must warn web users that they send personal data to Facebook through the “like” button. According to the European Court of Justice ruling, a site that embeds the Facebook “like” icon and link on its pages also sends
29 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Earth’s 2019 resources ‘budget’ spent by July 29
Mankind will have used up its allowance of natural resources such as water, soil and clean air for all of 2019 by yesterday, a report said.
29 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Navalny ‘poisoned’, sent back to jail
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was “poisoned” by an unidentified toxic substance and doctors have sent him back to jail despite his condition, his lawyer and personal physician said yesterday.
29 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Western intel hacked ‘Russia’s Google’ Yandex
Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018, deploying a rare type of malware in an attempt to spy on user accounts, four people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
28 July 2019, 18:00 PM
UK ramps up preparations
The British government is working on the assumption that the European Union will not renegotiate its Brexit deal and is ramping up preparations to leave the bloc on Oct 31 without an agreement, senior ministers said yesterday.
28 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Top cop fired over slow response
Romania’s police chief and two county officials were fired late on Friday after authorities took 19 hours to respond to emergency calls from a kidnapped 15-year-old girl who died at the hands of her captor in the interim.
27 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Turkey ‘will turn elsewhere’ for jets
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey would turn elsewhere for fighter jets if the United States will not sell it the F-35 jets, adding that a US decision to cut Ankara from the programme would not deter it from meeting its needs.
27 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Hard Brexit can lead to united Ireland
A no-deal Brexit could lead to a united Ireland as more people in Northern Ireland would “come to question the union” with Britain, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said.
27 July 2019, 18:00 PM