Exit polls have revealed Angela Merkel will remain Chancellor but her victory has been overshadowed by the far-right AfD winning its first seats in the Bundestag. Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party gained 32.9 per cent of seats, her coalition Social Democrats Party (SPD) led by former EU leader […]
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BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany’s parliament for the first time in more than half a century, exit polls showed. After shock election results last year, from […]
Taro Aso made the shock comments at a press conference in Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo. He questioned whether police would be able to handle a mass influx of people fleeing war in North Korea, before making his extreme suggestion. He said: “Can police handle them? “Will the Self-Defence Forces be […]
Exit polls for the German election have revealed Mrs Merkel will remain Chancellor but her victory has been overshadowed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party winning its first seats in the Bundestag. Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party gained 32.7 per cent of seats, her coalition Social […]
The president is hoping to drum up international support as tensions grow between Spanish and Catalan authorities over the planned October 1 ballot. Spain’s central government says the planned referendum violates Spain’s constitution, and the Constitutional Court has ordered it suspended while it studies its legality. Mr Rajoy will visit […]
After a rough summer, the latest poll numbers look a bit better for President Donald Trump. But according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey, one group of voters may be at the core of Trump’s bump: men without a college degree. The September NBC/WSJ poll, conducted before this weekend’s […]
THE smoking Mount Agung volcano in tourist hotspot Bali has been hit by 300 huge tremors over a six-hour period, sparking fears it could erupt for the first time in 50 years. Despite the terrifying tremors, tourism chiefs have insisted the eastern Indonesia holiday hotspot is still safe to visit […]
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former commander at the UK Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment (CBRN), said the prospect of Pyongyang arming jihadis with nerve gas is “a major concern”. The rogue state is believed to have between 2,5000 and 5,000 metric tone of chemical weapons, according to the Centre […]