Japan’s Abe says no-deal Brexit must be avoided ‘by all means’
AFP | Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday a no-deal Brexit must be avoided "by all means" as Japanese firms have used Britain as...
Crisis-hit Greeks foot steep bills for health and education
AFP | Every month, when his respiratory medicine runs out, Dionysis Assimakopoulos heads to the most unlikely pharmacy in Athens. Amid derelict stadiums dating from...
Footballers in England protest over racism
AFP | Premier League stars led footballers in England and Wales in a 24-hour social media boycott on Friday in a bid to combat racist...
Turks annoyed with Macron interference
AFP | French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday hosted representatives of the Kurdish-led force that defeated Islamic State (IS) extremists in Syria, drawing a sharp...
29 German tourists killed in Portugal bus crash
AFP | Twenty-nine German tourists were killed when their bus spun off the road and tumbled down a slope before crashing into a house on...
Woman shot dead in N.Ireland in ‘terrorist incident’
AFP | A woman has been shot dead during riots in the city of Londonderry in Northern Ireland and the killing is being treated as...
Notre-Dame’s fire changed many lives in Paris for ever?
AFP | Quasimodo Cafe: Victor Hugo's immortal hero Days after the catastrophic fire at Paris's Notre-Dame, around 30 business owners on Thursday gathered at a cafe...
How Brexit threatens Falklands’ economy — and Spanish fishermen
AFP | A no-deal Brexit would deal a severe blow to the economy of Britain's Falkland Islands which is heavily dependent on squid exports --...
On American hard drives, the most accurate 3-D model of Notre-Dame
AFP | At Vassar College in the United States, a university team gathered the week before the devastating fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris to...
Macron vows to rebuild a ‘more beautiful’ Notre-Dame in 5 years
AFP | President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to rebuild Notre-Dame "even more beautifully" within five years, as all of France's cathedrals prepared to ring their...
German plane crash lands, disrupts airport traffic
AFP | A German government plane crash-landed on Tuesday, briefly disrupting traffic at Berlin's Schoenefeld airport, in the latest of a series of technical faults...
UK employment hits record high despite Brexit uncertainty
AFP | British employment has reached a record-high level, shaking off stubborn uncertainty surrounding the UK's departure from the European Union, official data showed on...