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February 16, 2019
Withdraw from Iran nuke deal, Pence tells EU
MUNICH — US Vice President Mike Pence pressed European countries on Saturday to withdraw from a nuclear deal between Iran and major powers.“The time has come for our European partners to stand with us and with the Iranian people,” Pence told the Munich Security Conference.“The time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.”Pence also said that Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism ...
February 16, 2019
UK, Russia hold first meeting in over a year
LONDON — Junior foreign ministers from Britain and Russia met in Germany on Saturday in the highest-level contact between the two countries since an alleged nerve agent attack in Britain last March froze diplomatic relations.Britain’s Minister for Europe Alan Duncan held talks with Russia’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov on the margins of the Munich Security Conference, according to the foreign office in London.“Alan underlined that we have deep ...
February 15, 2019
Russia marks 30 years since Afghan war pullout
MOSCOW — Hundreds of veterans of Moscow’s intervention in Afghanistan on Friday marked 30 years since the pullout of Soviet troops from the bloody conflict that remains an uncomfortable national memory.Marching with a brass band and dressed in olive-green fatigues, veterans of the decade-long war carried portraits of fallen comrades and a banner with the sign “We have carried out the orders of the Motherland.”The Soviet Union intervened in 1979 ...
February 15, 2019
Vatican envoy to France investigated over sex assault allegations
PARIS — French authorities are investigating allegations that the Vatican’s ambassador to France molested a junior official in Paris’ City Hall, a City Hall official said on Friday.The official said that Archbishop Luigi Ventura, 74, who has held the post in Paris for the past decade, was suspected of having touched the buttocks of the male junior staffer during Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s New Year address.Ventura “caressed in an insistent and ...
February 15, 2019
UN seeks $920 million aid for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
GENEVA — The United Nations on Friday called for $920 million in aid for around a million Rohingya taking shelter in Bangladesh after bloodshed in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.About 740,000 of the Muslim minority fled to Bangladesh as a result of a military crackdown in August 2017, condemned by the UN as ethnic cleansing.They joined another 300,000 Rohingya who were already living in overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar following previous bouts of ...
February 15, 2019
Russia detains major US investor on suspicion of fraud
MOSCOW — Russia has detained the US head of a major investment firm on suspicion of fraud and he will appear in a Moscow court on Friday, the court said.Michael Calvey, the founder of multi-billion-dollar investment fund Baring Vostok, was named in a court document as having been arrested and facing potential fraud charges.Several other people from the fund and other businesses were being held in connection with the suspected ...
February 15, 2019
UK govt says Brexit defeat in parliament ‘a hiccup’
LONDON — The British government on Friday dismissed as a “hiccup” its latest parliamentary defeat over Brexit, saying it would keep trying to renegotiate its EU divorce deal just six weeks before exit day.But senior minister Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the House of Commons, conceded that the setback might affect the ongoing talks with the European Union.“Yesterday was more of a hiccup than the disaster,” she told BBC radio.She ...
February 15, 2019
Spanish PM calls snap polls after budget defeat
MADRID — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a snap national election for April 28 on Friday after parliament voted down his budget bill, spelling an uncertain few months for a country whose political landscape is increasingly fragmented.Spain exited a deep economic slump in 2013 but has been plagued since then by political volatility, driven by deep divisions over an independence drive in Catalonia and the emergence of new, populist ...
February 14, 2019
More Brexit humiliation for May as parliament defeats her again
LONDON — British lawmakers defeated Prime Minister Theresa May in a symbolic vote over her Brexit strategy on Thursday, undermining her pledge to European Union leaders that she can get the unpopular divorce deal approved if they grant her concessions.Lawmakers defeated the government 303-258 on the main motion asking them to reaffirm support for her plan to seek changes.While the vote does not force the government to change tack, the ...
February 14, 2019
UK PM May could face another Brexit defeat in parliament
LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May could face a defeat in parliament on Thursday over her plan to renegotiate the Brexit deal, undermining her pledge to the European Union that, with changes, she can get the agreement approved.Thursday’s symbolic vote was seen by May’s team as little more than a rubber stamp of her plan to secure changes to the divorce deal with the EU, giving her more time ...
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