September 11 marks the ‘Diada’, Catalonia’s national day, which commemorates the fall of Barcelona to Spain in 1714 and is traditionally used by pro-independence activists to call for secession for the northeastern region with a distinct language. However, this year’s event had particular significance as a show of strength for […]
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The UN Security Council voted unanimously to ban North Korea’s profitable textile exports and cap fuel supplies to Kim Jong-un’s regime. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe quickly welcomed the resolution and warned after the vote it was important to change North Korea’s policy by imposing a higher level of pressure. […]
WASHINGTON — Hope Hicks, the longtime aide to President Donald Trump who’d been serving as the interim White House communications director, will now lead the communications team on a permanent basis. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told NBC News of the move Tuesday. Hicks becomes the third full-time […]
Around 180 street protests have been planned nationwide by French unions against the president’s proposed reforms, which are aimed at reducing unemployment by by reducing restrictions on how businesses hire and fire people. France’s biggest trade union, the CGT, has called 4,000 strikes across the country and students, civil servants […]
The country’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released pictures showing scientists leaving Pyongyang after a stay in the capital. In astonishing scenes thousands lined the streets to wave off weapons experts, as they were driven away in a massive convoy of coaches yesterday. It comes as North Korea reacted with […]
Separatists rallied in Barcelona on Monday, waving red and yellow striped flags and banging drums, in a show of support for independence after Madrid moved to block a referendum on the region’s split from Spain. But protestors from left-wing groups including CUP and Arran sparked a counter-demonstration which saw hooded […]
The visit is important for Najib, who faces elections next year and wants to signal he is still welcome at the White House despite a criminal probe by the US Justice Department into a state fund called 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). Prime Minister Najib founded the fund, which is facing […]
Pyongyang rejected a UN Security Council resolution to slap sanctions on North Korea following its sixth nuclear test and ramped up tensions with its latest threat sparking fears World War 3 could break out. A defiant North Korea “categorically rejected” the resolution, saying the United States was “fired up” for […]