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EU, Canada Sign Free Trade Deal But Battle Not Over

The European Union and Canada signed a free trade agreement on Sunday that aims to generate jobs and growth though it...

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EU and Canada Sign Long-Delayed Free Trade Deal

The European Union and Canada have signed a long-delayed landmark trade deal, following weeks of uncertainty due to...

International

EU and Canada To Sign Long-Delayed Free Trade Deal

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finally on his way to Belgium to sign a long-delayed landmark trade deal with...

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Turkish Parliament To Consider Death Penalty For Coup Plotters, Says Erdogan

Our government will take this (proposal on capital punishment) to parliament. I am convinced that parliament will...

International

EU-Canada Trade Deal To Be Signed On Sunday

Protests against the agreement have been taking place outside the Walloon parliament in Belgium Canada and the European...

International

EU and Canada Hold Out Hope For Trade Deal

Canada and the European Union say they remain hopeful a landmark free trade deal can go ahead despite three Belgian...

International

Last-Ditch Bid To Save EU-Canada Trade Deal

Emergency talks are under way in Brussels in an effort to save an EU free trade deal with Canada (Ceta), blocked by a...

International

Russia Says Aleppo Escape Corridors Under Fire

12:30 a.m. The Russian military says that in the first day of the pause in fighting over the Syrian city of Aleppo, the...

International

EU Threatens Russia With Sanctions Over Syria

European Union leaders warned Russia at a summit on Thursday that they will consider sanctions over its role in the...

International

DR Congo’s Bemba Found Guilty At ICC of Witness Bribing

Former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has been found guilty by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of...

International

EU Gets Tough On African Migrants

'No more Mr. Nice Guy': EU gets tough on African migrants Migrants crossing the Sahara desert into Libya ride on the...

International

Dollar Steady As Investors Await U.S. Presidential Debate, ECB

The dollar was steady in early trading on Thursday, as investors awaited the final debate before next month's U. S....

International

Boris Johnson’s Secret ‘Remain’ Article Revealed

The contents of a newspaper column written by Boris Johnson urging Britain to stay in the EU have been revealed....

International

Germany Bomb Suspect Strangles Himself To Death

A Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack "with Islamist motives" on a Berlin airport has strangled himself...

International

German Terror Suspect Jaber Al-Bakr’s Jail Death A Scandal

The death in a prison cell of a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany is a judicial scandal,...

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Syrian Terror Suspect Jaber Al-Bakr Found Dead In Cell In Germany

A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has killed himself in his prison cell in...

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Paris Attacks Suspect Salah Abdeslam’s Lawyers ‘quit His Defence’

Lawyers representing the main terror suspect of the Paris attacks have said they will no longer be defending him...

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EU/Europe Quo Vadis

Revisiting and rethinking Europe recently on these very pages, prof. Anis Bajrektarevic asked: “… is the EU the...

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Belgian Prison Counselor Weeps Over Conditions At Kumasi Central Prison

A Belgian prison counselor was drawn into tears during a visit to the Kumasi Central Prison where she witnessed what...