Final Day of ‘difficult’ Talks
Leaders have begun a final day of talks at the G20 meeting in Hamburg as officials try to bridge the gap with the US on issues such as trade and climate change. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who...
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Trump Versus the Rest As Violent G20 Wraps Up
US President Donald Trump heads Saturday into the final day of a fractious and violent G20 summit in Germany at odds even with America's traditional Western allies. Negotiators from the world's 20...
Matthews Vows To ‘turn Brain Off’ In Crazy Tour de France Sprints
Australian Michael Matthews says the only way to tackle a Tour de France sprint finish is to "turn your brain off" and not worry about crashes. Two of the three flat stages in the first six Tour...
Solid Jobs Report Lifts US Stocks, Dollar
Wall Street stocks rallied and the dollar advanced Friday following a better-than-expected US jobs report for June, while equities elsewhere were mixed as a tense G20 summit got underway. The US...
France Unveils Brexit Plan To Lure Bankers From London
The French are planning to lower taxes on high earners, scrap a levy on financial transactions and build three international schools in a bid to attract bankers from the City of London. French Prime...
France To Ban Sales of Petrol and Diesel Cars By 2040
France will end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of an ambitious plan to meet its targets under the Paris climate accord, Emmanuel Macron’s government has announced. The...
G20: Trump and Putin Meet Face To Face For First Time
Latest: G20: Trump and Putin meet face to face for first time Using ‘imperfect scale to balance ‘imperfect system – The case of Ghana’s Constitution US President Donald Trump and Russia’s...
G20 To Press Trump To Rejoin Climate Deal
G20 leaders meeting in Hamburg will seek to persuade US President Donald Trump to rejoin the 2015 Paris climate change accord, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday. "I believe it is...
Trump and Putin To Meet Face To Face
US President Donald Trump is to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for the first time at a G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. They have both said they want to repair ties damaged by the...
Trump and Putin To Meet Face To Face For First Time
On Thursday, Mr Trump used a speech in the Polish capital Warsaw to call on Russia to stop “destabilising” Ukraine and other countries. Moscow should also end support for “hostile regimes”...
Trump, Putin In First Showdown At Fractious G20
US President Donald Trump meets Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the first time Friday, in an eagerly awaited encounter at a G20 summit marked by the growing divide between America and its Western...
Leave Atiwa Forest Out of Ghana-China Deal – Gov’t Told
A coalition of environmental groups has asked government to as a matter of urgency take out the Atiwa Range Forest in Kyebi from the Ghana-China deal. In a press statement jointly signed on...
France and Russia Vow To Fight Extremism
The French and Russian foreign ministers vowed Thursday to put aside their countries' differences to fight and defeat extremism. "International terrorism is our number one enemy and combatting it...
Lavrov Says Trying To Clarify US Syria No-Fly Zones Proposal
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday Moscow was seeking to clarify a claim by his US counterpart that Washington is ready to work together to set up "no-fly zones" in Syria. "We have...
France Plans Ban On Petrol Cars By 2040
France is set to ban the sale of any car that uses petrol or diesel fuel by 2040, in what the ecology minister called a “revolution”. Nicolas Hulot announced the planned ban on fossil fuel...
Saudi Arabia Accuses Qatar of Using Twitter To Stoke Dissent
Saudi Arabia, which is leading a four-country blockade of Gulf neighbour Qatar, on Thursday accused Doha of being behind over 23,000 Twitter accounts it blames for trying to stoke dissent in Saudi...
France To Ban Petrol and Diesel Vehicles
France plans to ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, the country’s new environment minister has announced. Nicolas Hulot made the announcement as he unveiled a series of measures as part of...
Trump Warns Future of the West At Stake
US President Donald Trump warned that the future of the West was at risk and lashed out at Russia and North Korea on Thursday at the start of a high-stakes trip to Europe. On the eve of what is...
Western Civilisation Is At Stake – Trump
US President Donald Trump is to argue that the future of Western civilisation is at stake in a keynote speech in the Polish capital Warsaw. Holding up Poland as an example of a country ready to...
Africa Must Unite On Climate Action Plans
African countries must work closer together when implementing national climate action plans under the Paris Climate Change Agreement. A statement issued by the United Nations Framework Convention on...