Mr Johnson said Britain was a “reassuring presence” for allies facing “Russian antagonism” ahead of the high-level talks in London on Monday night. Foreign ministers from EU nations Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden will attend the working dinner and meeting, along with counterparts from non-EU nations Norway and […]
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Tensions between Hong Kong and Beijing’s ruling Communist Party leaders have grown in recent years, particularly over the “Occupy” civil disobedience movement in 2014 when tens of thousands of protesters blocked roads for 79 days demanding full democracy. Hong Kong returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997 with the […]
The hardline conservative Laurent Wauquiez added the string of budget cuts and reforms announced by the government this summer could spell bad news for France’s struggling middle class. Making a thinly veiled allusion to the president’s start-up party, Republic on the Move, he said: “Mr Macron has no project for […]
Pyongyang boasted it had tested a hydrogen bomb, a device 10 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, in an underground bunker in the north of the country. North Korea claimed its sixth nuclear test was a “perfect success”, hours after seismologists detected an earth tremor in the area, which […]
GETTY Nazi concentration camp guard escapes justice: At 96, he is too ill to answer for crimes Hubert Zafke, 96, has – after a legal fiasco of a trial in which he was in court for four days over two years – has finally been pronounced too sick to answer […]
The military training involved long-range air-to-surface missiles and ballistic missiles, South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff said in a statement. And more drills are being prepared with the US forces, the statement continued. The news comes after US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis warned the US would respond to any attack […]
Merkel was bounced into beefing up her rhetoric on Turkey during the debate after her main challenger, Social Democrat Martin Schulz, vowed to stop Ankara’s bid to join the EU if he was elected chancellor. Mrs Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, told a regular government news conference in Berlin: “The chancellor’s […]
North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, which it said was of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, prompting the threat of a “massive” military response from the United States if it or its allies were threatened. But Chinese equity markets, which have […]