German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday showed support for Jean-Claude Juncker as the ” leading candidate ” to head the European Commission, to be designated by the European People’s Party, the most voted in the last election. It has done after meeting in Harpsund (Sweden) with three other center-right European leaders critical of the former […]
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The presence of radical Islamic schools in areas with a high proportion of Muslim population has caused political tensions in the UK and even within the government of Prime Minister David Cameron. After investigating 21 schools in the Birmingham area supposedly influenced by Islamist elements, school inspection has concluded that five of them are improperly […]
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At least six people have died in the last hours in West Germany because of the worst storm of the last seven years, which has damaged hundreds of buildings, land and affected air traffic and cut power in several regions. The German weather service reported that this time there have been stronger gusts of wind […]
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A rumor spread Thursday Donetsk Rebels have taken the hospital. It was not accurate. Rather a group of militants had occupied autonomously the top floor of a medical ward to ensure that a sick colleague was well attended. One patient out the door explaining that he was forced to jump out of bed. A gunman […]
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Seven months after the scandal that has damaged in recent years diplomatic relations between Washington and Berlin, a German court has decided to take action on the matter. The federal prosecutor Harald Range, announced yesterday an investigation into surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel phone by the intelligence services of the United States. The decision came […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met Friday with the first elected president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, as part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings (France). Putin also held an “informal” meeting with Obama, about ten or fifteen minutes, White House sources told Reuters, without which so far has transcended the content […]
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The political earthquake UKIP took a breather in the midterm elections of Newark, central England, where the Conservative Party retained the seat with no problems left by the resignation of one of its members. The Tory candidate Robert Jenrick scored 45% of the vote, well ahead of the UKIP candidate (26%) and Labour (18%). As […]
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The fight against the phenomenon of European jihadists must renew and coordinate policies of member countries. Schengen interior ministers of the European Union in Luxembourg on Thursday asked to step up border controls to ensure that travelers do not pose a security threat without endangering free movement. In everyone’s mind was the bombing of the […]
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About 800 skeletons of newborns have been discovered in a cement tank near a former Catholic convent in the town of Tuam, Ireland which was home to women who became pregnant out of wedlock between 1925 and 1961. “Someone told me about the existence of a cemetery in newborns, but what I found there was […]
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The intensity of security measures is usually directly related to the significance of an event. Brussels has awakened Wednesday besieged by police to host the G -7 marked by an absence: the first meeting without Russia in the last 17 years of which were once the seven major industrial powers of the world, a snub […]
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It is the reform of all reforms. France map will change and will have some of 22 metropolitan regions combined in a bid to reduce administrative costs. After the defeats in local and European, with unemployment rising and the economy stagnating, Hollande needs a project to hold on to continue his mandate. Only thus its […]
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The mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, and 34 others, among which a regional councilor, several businessmen and even a retired general have been arrested early in the morning charged with offenses of corruption, embezzlement and money laundering in relation to the construction of the Moses project, a flood prevention system composed of 78 large gates […]
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