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Yellow Vest Protests: Macron To hold Crisis Meeting
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to meet trade unions and employers’ organisations, in a bid to defuse weeks of unrest in Paris and other cities.
Monday’s meeting comes ahead of a TV address in which he is expected to announce…
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Theresa May To Face Vote Of No Confidence Trom Tory MPs
UK Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of confidence in her leadership later on Wednesday.
Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, Mrs May said: “I will contest that vote with everything I have got.”
She said a new prime minister…
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John Kelly to Leave White House Job
President Donald Trump has announced that his chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job by the end of the year.
There have been persistent reports for several days that Gen Kelly was under pressure to go.
Some reports said that…
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Burdened with Brexit, Theresa May Is On the Brink
Exiting the European Union, Theresa May suggested after the referendum two years ago, was a simple process.
“Brexit means Brexit,” she said in the wake of the United Kingdom’s vote to quit the EU, following former Prime Minister David…
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Brazil Will Quit U.N. Migration Pact, Incoming Minister Says
Brazil will pull out of a United Nations pact on dealing with rising migration, the incoming foreign relations minister said, joining the United States and a growing number of countries in rejecting the agreement.
Ernesto Araújo - who…
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250,000 Syrian Refugees Could Return Home Next Year: UNHCR
Up to a 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on…
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EU Tells UK’s May: We Will Not Renegotiate the Brexit Treaty
The European Union ruled out renegotiating the Brexit divorce treaty or its Irish border protocol on Tuesday as Prime Minister Theresa May sought last ditch assurances from the bloc to save her deal after pulling a vote she acknowledged she…
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Mozambique Busts ‘30,000 Ghost Workers’
Mozambique's government has discovered more than 30,000 ghost workers on the civil service payroll.
The civil service minister said some were paid for jobs they had not done, others were dead or fictitious.
The fraud had cost the…
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South Africa Protests to Rwanda over Lindiwe Sisulu Slur
South Africa has summoned the Rwandan envoy in Pretoria after a Rwandan pro-government news site reportedly called a key minister a "prostitute".
Lindiwe Sisulu, the South African international relations minister, has also been criticised…
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Nigeria Elections: “I Have No Preferred Presidential Candidate” – Obasanjo
Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he has no preferred candidate in the forthcoming general elections.
He made the remarks at the 27th annual Owu National Convention, held in Iwo, Osun State…
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