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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Brexit talks resume as divorce day looms

AFP | The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier meets Britain's negotiating team on Tuesday as both sides seek a breakthrough with just weeks to...

Outbreak of anti-Semitism forces France to confront painful past

AFP | A surge in anti-Semitic violence and hate speech has prompted soul-searching for many in France, which has long wrestled with its history of...

EU ready to give Britain conditional Brexit extra-time

AFP | The European Union is ready to give Britain some extra-time beyond the March 29 deadline to achieve Brexit -- albeit with strings attached. "If...

Belgium wins appeal on repatriation of children from Syria

AFP | Belgium won an appeal Wednesday against a ruling ordering it to repatriate six children of Belgian jihadists living in a refugee camp with...

Irish tomb raiders steal head of 800-year-old crusader

AFP | Tomb-raiding vandals have stolen the head of an 800-year-old mummified body known as the 'Crusader' from a Dublin crypt, the local vicar told...

50 years since iconic Paris market uprooted

AFP | In the early hours of Friday, February 28, 1969, Parisians headed to the centuries-oldfresh food market in the heart of the city to...

UK PM opens way to three-month Brexit delay

AFP | Prime Minister Theresa May promised on Tuesday to allow parliament to delay Brexit by up to three months to avoid Britain crashing out...

‘Flying bulldog’: World’s largest bee rediscovered

AFP | The world’s largest bee — a giant insect roughly the size of a human thumb — has been rediscovered in a remote part...

Brexit: May heads back to Brussels but EU not budging

AFP | Prime Minister Theresa May heads back to Brussels on Wednesday to renew her quest to reopen the terms of Britain's Brexit divorce but...

Britain to strip IS teen of citizenship: lawyer

AFP | Britain will strip citizenship from a UK teenager who joined the Islamic State group in Syria but now wants to return home with...

Ireland expresses ‘frustration’ at Brexit deal delay

AFP | Ireland's deputy prime minister expressed annoyance on Monday at Britain's continued failure to ratify a deal on its orderly withdrawal from the European...

Homegrown heavyweights shine at London Fashion Week

AFP | The dreamlike elegance of Roksanda, earthy shades of JW Anderson and a rubber-inspired collection from Christopher Kane were among the highlights of the...