Germany MUST get behind EU reform of sprawling bloc or it will fail says German minister

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ANGELA Merkel’s Germany must lead the movement to reform the European Union or watch it fail, a leading German politician said today. Merkel: We hope to be ready to initiate phase two by December Former foreign minister Joschka Fischer said … Read More

Paul Manafort, Ex-Chairman of Trump Campaign, and Associate Plead Not Guilty to Money Laundering

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was indicted Monday on charges that he funneled millions of dollars through overseas shell companies and used the money to buy luxury cars, real estate, antiques and expensive suits. The charges against … Read More

Israeli and Palestinian ministers meet in Trump peace push

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Israel and Palestinian officials held a rare high-level meeting in Ramallah as the United States seeks to kickstart stalled peace efforts, officials said on Monday. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for international negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, wrote on Twitter that the … Read More

Iran says it will continue developing ballistic missiles

posted in: Middle East, News

Iranians walk past Sejjil (L) and Qadr-H ballistic missiles displayed next to a portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on September 25, 2017 in Tehran  Photo: AFP TEHRAN Iran’s president on Sunday said his country would continue building weapons including … Read More

North Korea vows to launch more satellites into orbit

North Korea vowed to launch more satellites into space Monday, in what the United States and the U.N. view as a covert test of the reclusive regime’s ballistic missile technology. The nation says its five-year space development program is aimed … Read More

How Europe exported its refugee crisis to north Africa

Fewer people are crossing the Mediterranean, but a nightmarish bottleneck has been created instead  A man looks out of a barred door at a detention centre for migrants in Gharyan, Libya. Photograph: Hani Amara/Reuters Something happened to the deadly migrant … Read More

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