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Ireland FM: Optimism over Brexit talks ‘not well founded’
Oct 13, 2018 03:06Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney says optimism about an imminent breakthrough in Brexit talks is "probably not well founded," and that the public should be realistic about time frames defined in negotiations between Britain and the European Union.
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EU punches the US in the face over trade with Iran
Oct 11, 2018 05:18As said before, the US policy of sanctions vis-à-vis Iran has put it in diplomatic isolation, forcing its most trusted ally since the Second World War, Europe, in an antagonistic position.
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UK FM Hunt bashes Saudis over fate of missing Saudi journalist
Oct 11, 2018 03:46In a rare British challenge to Riyadh, the UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has asked Saudi Arabia for answers over the disappearance in Turkey of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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EU postpones vote to reinstate Russian voting right on council
Oct 10, 2018 09:55The Council of Europe has postponed a controversial decision on restoring Moscow's voting rights on the organization, stripped after Crimea's vote in 2014 to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.
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Charities slam UK for ignoring brutal housing crisis
Oct 10, 2018 04:04Charities in the United Kingdom have slammed the government’s failure to tackle the rising levels of homelessness in the country, which left hundreds dead last year, saying the housing crisis in Britain had become more brutal and horrifying than ever.
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A small nation that thinks it's a world power
Oct 09, 2018 12:07There were many reasons why Britain narrowly voted to leave the EU just over two years ago.
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Most Britons want UK to remain in EU: Study
Oct 09, 2018 08:52The majority of British voters want to stay in the European Union (EU), an analysis of recent polls shows, more than two years after a controversial referendum that triggered the country’s divorce from the bloc.
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UN: World must must take 'unprecedented steps' to avert effects of global warming
Oct 08, 2018 10:07Society would have to enact "unprecedented" changes to how it consumes energy, travels and builds to meet a lower global warming target or it risks increases in heat waves, flood-causing storms and the chances of drought in some regions as well as the loss of species, a UN report said on Monday.
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Dog owners march in London to demand new Brexit vote
Oct 08, 2018 05:47Around a thousand people and their dogs have marched in London to demand a reversal of Brexit, saying Britain should stage a new “Wooferendum” to allow people to decide on the terms of the country’s withdrawal of from the European Union.
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Risk of no-deal Brexit staggers European companies and economy
Oct 07, 2018 10:59The growing likelihood of a no-deal Brexit next March is sending economic and political shock-waves across Europe.