Sealed with a Juncker kiss, Trump says EU and US ‘love each other’
Theresa May may have held hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, but European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker went full Brezhnev. After meeting with Juncker in the White House on Wednesday and...
View ArticleUS confirms blast outside Beijing embassy
An attacker detonated a bomb outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Thursday. “There was an explosion at approximately 1 p.m. today in the public space off the southeast corner of the embassy...
View ArticleCalais president: Plan to cut French ports out of EU trade route ‘scandalous’
Xavier Bertrand, the president of the Calais region in France, described a European Commission plan that excludes French ports from a new shipping route linking Ireland with the Continent after Brexit...
View ArticleUproar in France as Macron refuses to break holiday for WWI ceremony
This isn’t going to help Jupiter’s image problem. The French commentariat and En Marche’s political opponents are furious at President Emmanuel Macron’s decision not to attend a ceremony to commemorate...
View ArticlePolice shoot Barcelona knife attacker
Barcelona police shot dead a man wielding a knife who attacked officers at a police station in the Cornellà neighborhood early on Monday morning. The Catalan regional police force, the Mossos...
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Australia’s ‘Game of Thrones’ is still on
SYDNEY — Move over Italy, Australia is now the world’s electoral basket case. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday called a surprise leadership vote. His party supported him and he saw off a...
View ArticleScott Morrison to be Australia’s new PM
Scott Morrison — best known as an architect of Australia’s harsh refugee policy — will replace Malcolm Turnbull as the country’s prime minister, after winning a party room brawl on Friday. Morrison...
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Macron loses ‘untouchable’ status
France As 12 million French students return to school, Libération focused on Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer’s warning that he will be watching both students and teachers. “Smile, you are...
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Nigel Farage colonizes Australia
SYDNEY — Nigel Farage is good — just ask him. He is the most popular British politico on social media. He is the only human being in the world who was involved in both the campaign for Brexit and the...
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Boris Johnson’s marital difficulties cast pall over leadership ambitions
United Kingdom The Sun had the day’s top scoop, reporting about ex-foreign secretary and would-be PM Boris Johnson’s marital troubles. “Bonking Boris booted out,” the paper blasted. The saga is likely...
View ArticlePutin claims Skripal poisoning suspects are ‘civilians’
Russia knows who the two men suspected of attempting to murder a former Russian spy and his daughter in the U.K. are, and there’s “nothing criminal” about them, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday....
View ArticleUS considering building ‘Fort Trump’ in Poland
U.S. President Donald Trump is “very seriously” considering Warsaw’s request for a permanent U.S. military base in Poland, he said on Tuesday. Speaking at a joint press conference with Andrzej Duda in...
View ArticleVietnam’s President Trần Đại Quang dies
Vietnamese President Trần Đại Quang died Friday at the age of 61 after a “serious illness,” the government announced. He died at the Central Military Hospital in Hanoi. Quang was appointed to the...
View ArticleAnother defeat for Merkel
Germany The ongoing Dieselgate saga and the campaign for Bavaria’s October election dominated German press. Die Welt declared that the German government’s diesel deal, struck Tuesday, “is another...
View ArticleEmmanuel Macron’s unexpected break has pundits asking ‘Should we be worried?’
France Presidential fatigue had French media concerned. — Franceinfo reported that the Council of Ministers was this week moved from Wednesday to Tuesday to allow Emmanuel Macron to “catch his breath”...
View ArticleFears of addiction crisis as medicinal cannabis goes on sale in UK
United Kingdom The reputation of a seaside town in Essex is on the line in Britain. — The Independent reported that a U.S. politician had apologized for using an “out of date” image of the English...
View ArticleUK strikes Brexit deal on financial services: report
The U.K. and EU struck a tentative deal that would give Britain’s financial services firms continued access to European markets after Brexit, the Times reported Thursday citing anonymous government...
View ArticleDonald Tusk confirms November 25 Brexit summit
European Union leaders will meet November 25 to finalize the draft Brexit agreement struck by EU and U.K. negotiators, European Council President Donald Tusk said Thursday. Speaking at a press...
View ArticleTheresa May loses first minister over draft Brexit deal
Britain’s Northern Ireland Minister Shailesh Vara resigned Thursday over the draft Brexit deal agreed by EU and U.K. negotiators. Vara said in his resignation letter, posted on Twitter, that the draft...
View ArticleBrussels police shoot knife-wielding attacker who injured officer
Police shot an attacker who injured a policeman in Brussels Tuesday morning. The policeman has been transferred to hospital, and his injuries aren’t life-threatening, according to a tweet by Belgian...
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