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Thursday, April 3, 2025

Britain braces for make-or-break Brexit vote

AFP | British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to reveal Monday what changes, if any, she has secured to her EU divorce deal, on...

Britain, EU hit brick wall on Brexit deal

AFP | Britain and the EU were at loggerheads on Friday as Prime Minister Theresa May's call for "one more push" to secure a Brexit...

Strike, protests mark International Women’s Day in Spain

AFP | For the second year running, Spanish women went on strike Friday for International Women's Day, with several protests kicking off over what has...

Three ‘explosive devices’ found in London

AFP | British counter-terrorism officers are investigating three "small improvised explosive devices" believed capable of starting small fires that were found in separate locations in...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...