NewsReutersUK's Hammond: talk of warship deployment complicates China ties
Britain's talk of deploying a warship in the Pacific has complicated its relationship with China, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Thursday. As Britain prepares to leave the European Union at the end of next month, its biggest foreign and trade policy shift in more than 40 years, it is seeking
NewsAFP NewsKeep calm and carry on: Northern France 'ready' for Brexit
Northern France, with its huge ports and historic trading links to England, has more to fear than most if Britain makes a messy exit from the European Union next month, but local leader Xavier Bertrand insists everything is ready. For months, politicians on both sides of the narrow stretch of sea that
NewsAFP NewsSex abuse survivors describe horrors to world's bishops
Survivors of clerical paedophilia related their traumatic experiences to the world's top bishops on Thursday at a landmark summit at the Vatican on the protection of minors. Here are some extracts from their video testimonies, the transcripts of which were provided by the Vatican, without identifying
NewsReutersExplainer: The race for Nigeria's presidency in 2019
Nigeria's elections were postponed by a week to Feb. 23 just five hours before polling units were set to open last Saturday, causing shock and disappointment among many voters. President Muhammadu Buhari and his rival, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, urged voters to stay calm. Both leading
NewsAFP NewsKashmiri students flee Indian backlash after suicide attack
Junaid Ayub Rather cowered alongside 30 other students in a small room for two nights while mobs chanted for their blood outside, before finally escaping an angry backlash over a suicide bombing in Kashmir. Similar scenes have played out across the nation as Kashmiris living away from home flee violent
NewsReutersFrance's Macron says anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism
France will adopt an international definition of anti-Semitism and look on anti-Zionism as one form of the hate crime, President Emmanuel Macron said. Speaking at a dinner attended by Jewish leaders on Wednesday, Macron said a surge in anti-Semitic attacks in France was unprecedented since World War
NewsReutersUK govt source: It does not feel like we will have a Brexit deal by next week
It does not feel like Britain will have secured the changes it needs to its exit deal with Brussels by next week, a British government source said on Thursday. Prime Minister Theresa May will hold bilateral meetings with European Union leaders at an EU-League of Arab States summit in Egypt at the weekend
NewsAFP NewsSyria forces try to free last civilians from IS holdout
US-backed Syrian forces tried to negotiate the release of civilians still trapped Thursday in the Islamic State group's last redoubt, which the international coalition against the jihadists said faced "inevitable defeat". The implosion of the jihadists' proto-state has left Western
StyleAFP RelaxDramatic increase in airline fatalities in 2018 offset by improvements in accident rates: IATA
De Juniac points out, for example, that if airline safety statistics in 2018 remained at the same level seen in 2013, the world would have seen 18 fatal accidents instead of 11 last year. "Based on the data, on average, a passenger could take a flight every day for 241 years before experiencing
NewsAFP NewsOrban attacks pose dilemma for European conservatives
Three months from the European Parliament election, the assembly's dominant centre-right bloc has been weakened by a rift over how to handle Hungary's populist leader Viktor Orban. The conservative European People's Party produced the current president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude
NewsAFP News'Concrete measures' on sex abuse needed, pope tells Vatican summit
Pope Francis on Thursday opened a landmark Vatican summit on fighting child sex abuse, saying the world expected "concrete measures" on tackling paedophilia in the Catholic Church. Over the next three-and-a-half days, the pontiff will hold talks with bishops from around the world to discuss
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Seth Meyers Chews Out 'Desperate' Donald Trump Over Cow Lies: 'Fake Moos'
Seth Meyers mockingly summed up "desperate" President Donald Trump's skewedtake on parts of the Democrats' proposed Green New Deal with just two words
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Northam Cancels First Stop On 'Reconciliation Tour' After Students Ask Him To Reschedule
Embattled Virginia Gov
NewsReutersWhere Libya's revolution began, many now yearn for a strong hand
Sitting in his cafe near the spot where the protests against Muammar Gaddafi touched off the Libyan revolution eight years ago, Miftah Atluba is not sorry the dictator has gone. "Muammar needed to go but democracy hasn't worked out in Libya," he said, sipping coffee in one of the few buildings
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Sean Spicer Is Now A Journalist And Folks On Twitter Are Furious
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer has a new gig as a special D
NewsAFP News'Doomsday' inferno leaves Dhaka in shock
Chemical fireballs rained down and set rickshaws ablaze, while explosions rocked the streets and pedestrians engulfed in flames ran for their lives, witnesses said after the inferno that killed dozens in a dense Dhaka neighbourhood. Charred husks of cars, rickshaws and vans littered the narrow streets
TechReutersSouth Korea's Netmarble, Kakao, MBK submit bids for Nexon parent: report
South Korean tech firms Netmarble and Kakao as well as private equity fund MBK Partners submitted initial bids for acquiring NXC Corp, which controls gaming firm Nexon, the Seoul Economic Daily said. Kim Jung-ju, founder of Nexon, is looking to offload a 98.64 percent stake in NXC, held by himself
FinanceReutersGoogle fails to disclose microphone in Nest Secure
Alphabet Inc's Google said on Wednesday it had made an "error" in not disclosing that its Nest Secure home security system had a built-in microphone in its devices. Earlier this month, Google said https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/nest-secure-google-assistant Nest Secure would
StyleAFP RelaxHaving a strong social support network may lower the risk of death in postmenopausal women
New US research has found that postmenopausal women who have a strong social network to support them may have a lower risk of death from all causes. Carried out by a team of researchers from across the USA, the new study looked at women age 50 to 79 who were taking part in the Women's Health Initiative
NewsReutersMyanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi expected in Geneva next week
GENEVA (Reuters) - Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to address the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva next Wednesday, according to a U.N. official and an agenda for the meeting seen by Reuters on Thursday.
NewsReutersPutin to U.S.: I'm ready for another Cuban Missile crisis if you want one
President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States is foolish enough to want one and that his country currently has the edge when it comes to a first nuclear strike. The Cuban Missile Crisis erupted in 1962 when Moscow responded to
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People In Okinawa Live Longer Than Almost Anyone On Earth. Here's What They Eat.
South of mainland Japan lies Okinawa, a group of islands known as the "land ofthe immortals
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Senators Not Backing Green New Deal Received On Average 7 Times As Much Fossil Fuel Cash
The 12 senators co-sponsoring the Green New Deal resolution that Sen
TechReutersNew Infineon chairman Eder to start in August
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies aims to bring in outgoing Voestalpine Chief Executive Wolfgang Eder as its chairman in August, replacing Eckart Suenner earlier than expected. Eder, who was elected to the Infineon supervisory board last year with a view of taking over as chair in the medium term
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