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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

23/04/2016

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

22/04/2016

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.

21/04/2016

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

19/04/2016

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

18/04/2016

Italy

Italy goes to the polls over oil and gas drilling

Prime MInister Matteo Renzi urges voters to stay at home

17/04/2016

World News

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

15/04/2016

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

13/04/2016

World News

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

13/04/2016

World News

Who are the best-paid MPs in the European Union?

Exclusive: Huge differences exist between MPs’ salaries and expenses across the EU with some countries paying their parliamentarians ten times more

12/04/2016

World News

France pledges half a billion euros aid to students

Prime Minister Manuel Valls proposed measures to boost youth employment including subsidies for young job seekers and aid for apprentices and students, as protesters threaten to continue their Nuit De

11/04/2016

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Ceremonial dance at the Itsukushima Shrine

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised nations enjoyed a traditional Japanese dance on Sunday evening at one of Japan’s holiest

11/04/2016

Ukraine

Ukraine's parliamentary speaker set to become new PM

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has signalled his support for parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Groysman to replace him after tendering his

10/04/2016

World News

Ukraine's prime minister resigns in televised address

Arseniy Yatsenyuk blames "politicians' failure to enact real changes"

10/04/2016

World News

Pay MPs too little and you attract the under-qualified, says expert

Paying Europe’s MPs too little could see only the independently wealthy get involved in politics, an expert has claimed, just like Donald Trump in

06/04/2016

Iceland

'Panama Papers' push Iceland's PM to resign

Iceland’s under pressure prime minister,Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has tendered his resignation after his family’s offshore investments were

05/04/2016

Iceland

'Panama Papers': Iceland's prime minister requests dissolution of parliament

Iceland’s Prime Minister, Sigmunder Gunnlaugsson has asked for parliament to be dissolved in the wake of the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal. However

05/04/2016

Brazil

Brazil: Lula rallies support for Dilma as impeachment looms

Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been rallying support for his beleaguered political protégé and successor Dilma Rousseff as

05/04/2016

Hungary

Former Hungarian politician Bela Biszku has died

Former Hungarian politician Bela Biszku has died. He was the only high-ranking communist-era official to be tried for his role in a deadly crackdown

01/04/2016

Iraq

Moqtada al-Sadr gives green light to proposed Iraqi cabinet reshuffle

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has presented a new cabinet to parliament, just in time for the March 31 deadline. Parliament will vote on the

31/03/2016