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Italy Seeks €20bn For Banks As Monte Dei Paschi Flounders
The Italian government will seek parliamentary approval to borrow up to €20bn (£17bn) to support its fragile banking...
Yahya Jammeh Must Step Aside
The people of Gambia went to the polls on December 1, 2016. And as a result, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh lost the...
Joint Call For EU Citizens To Stay In UK
Businesses and trade unions have called on Theresa May to guarantee immediately the right of EU citizens to stay in the...
Post-Brexit Deals ‘not At Price of EU Free Trade Ties’
Post-Brexit trade deals should not "come at a price" to existing agreements with other EU nations, ex-chancellor George...
Mahama Co-Chairs Gambia Mediation Team
President John Dramani Mahama has been appointed as co-chair of the ECOWAS mediation team in The Gambia. He will,...
IOM, Gov’t and CSOs Move To Protect Rights of Vulnerable Ghanaian Migrants
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and seven key Ghanaian Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)...
Protests Grow In Poland As Political Crisis Deepens
A bitter political crisis in Poland worsened over the weekend with heated protests both in and outside the nation's...
President Mahama Invites ECOWAS Leaders To Akufo-Addo’s Investiture
President Mahama delivered a farewell speech member of the West African sub-regional body ECOWAS, during the closing of...
Turkey’s Erdogan Blames Kurdish Militants After Car Bomb Kills 13, Wounds 56
A car bomb killed 13 soldiers and wounded 56 when it ripped through a bus carrying off-duty military personnel in the...
Foreign Banks In Britain Pay Fraction of Tax Rate
Some of the biggest foreign investment and commercial banks operating in Britain paid an average tax rate of just 6...
AU Expresses Concern About Upcoming Summit In Restive Ethiopia
The African Union has expressed concern about Ethiopia’s current State of Emergency against the upcoming Heads of...
UK Recycling Figure Drops For First Time, Figures Show
The level of household waste which is recycled in the UK has fallen for the first time, figures have shown. The...
EU Extends Russia Sanctions Over Ukraine
EU leaders have agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia for six more months. Earlier, France and Germany...
Bank of England Holds Interest Rates
The Bank of England has voted unanimously to keep the UK's main interest rate at a record low of 0.25%. It said that...
Greece Passes Pension Deal In Defiance of Bailout Creditors
The Greek parliament has defied the international creditors providing Athens' bailout funds and voted through a one-off...
Ethiopian Troop Withdrawal From Somalia Exposes Peacekeeping Problems
Since October, Ethiopia has been withdrawing troops from Somalia. The redeployment highlights problems with the...
Murdoch’s Fox Agrees Deal To Buy Sky For $14.6 Billion
Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox (FOXA. O) said on Thursday it had agreed to buy European pay-TV firm Sky...
A Legacy In Jeopardy? – How Obama, Cameron & The Media Got Trumped
When he thumped his chest on that cold Wednesday morning, January 23rd 2013, and vowed to allow the people to carry...
Brexit Trade Deal ‘could Take 10 Years’
A post-Brexit UK-EU trade deal might take 10 years to finalise and still fail, Britain’s ambassador to the EU has...