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Bahrain's king holidays at Sharm el-Sheikh and tips Egypt for tourism

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has done his bit to promote tourism – in Egypt. Breaking off after an official visit to the country, he went

Venezuela

Venezuela opposition collects signatures in bid to oust President Maduro

Venezuela’s opposition says it has delivered 1.85 million signatures to the country’s elections authority in a bid to seek a recall referendum

Japan

Japan's PM embarks on whirlwind European tour ahead of G7 summit

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is on a whirlwind tour of European capitals to lay the ground work for a G7 summit he’s due to host this month. On

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US piles on pressure in trade talks with EU

The US has been putting pressure on the European Union to scrap or change environmental and health legislation in trade talks according to leaked

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Iraq

Baghdad protesters leave Green Zone but vow to keep up pressure over corruption

Protesters in Baghdad have left the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone after invading the heavily-fortified district to stage a 24-hour rally against

Germany

Germany: hundreds arrested as anti-immigrant AfD congress starts

German police arrested some 400 protesters trying to block access to a conference being held by an anti-immigrant party on Saturday. Clashes broke

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Simplify MPs expenses to improve transparency, says campaigner

South Africa

South African court paves way for Zuma to face renewed corruption charges

South Africa’s High Court has ordered a review of a decision in 2009 to drop nearly 800 corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, saying the move that

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Two-day week for Venezuela's public workers amid energy crisis

Venezuela’s socialist government has ordered public workers to do a two-day week, in a bid to save energy. President Nicolas Maduro had already

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South Sudan rebel leader Riek Macha sworn in as vice-president

South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar is back in the capital Juba and has retaken his position as the country’s first vice president. He has taken

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Spain's king makes final attempt at coalition talks

Spain’s King Felipe is to begin a fresh round of talks with the country’s political parties in a last ditch effort to install a government and avoid

United Kingdom

Obama urges young Britons to reject isolationism and xenophobia

Barack Obama called on young Britons to reject xenophobia and not to pull back from the world on Saturday, a day after warning the UK about the risks

Venezuela

Drought-hit Venezuela faces daily power cuts to save energy

Venezuela has announced power cuts from next week – plunging people into darkness for four hours each day as the crisis-hit country grapples with a

Kazakhstan

Eurasian Media Forum: political tactics, oil prices and diplomacy

In partnership with eurasianmedia

The do’s and dont’s of political survival were set out by Jack Straw, former UK Foreign Secretary at the Eurasian Media Forum in Kazakhstan.

Cuba

Cuba's Castro brothers to "give way to a younger generation"

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro stole the show at the five-yearly Communist party Congress in Havana as he made a rare appearance along side his

Brazil

Brazil's impeachment vote sends crowds into a football like frenzy

As Brazil’s congress voted to launch impeachment proceedings against the President Dilma Rousseff, thousands of ‘yes’ supporters exploded into

Italy

Italy goes to the polls over oil and gas drilling

Prime MInister Matteo Renzi urges voters to stay at home

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Quiz: How much do you know about MPs' income in the EU?

Republic of North Macedonia

Opposition fury in FYR Macedonia as Ivanov halts phonetap inquiry

Protesters in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia surrounded the headquarters of the ruling party in Skopje, furious at the decision to drop

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Handing MPs cash lump sums for expenses 'opens door to cheating'

Exclusive: MPs across Europe are riding an “unaccountable” system of perks that entitles them to claim tens of thousands of euros a year, Euronews