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Monday, January 20, 2025

UK universities would take ‘decades’ to recover from no-deal Brexit, leaders warn

AFP | British university leaders warned on Friday that leaving the European Union without an official deal would be "one of the biggest threats our...

Boat with 311 migrants docks in Spain after spending Christmas at sea

AFP | A charity rescue vessel carrying 311 mainly African migrants plucked off Libya docked in Spain on Friday, ending a traumatic journey which saw...

‘Yellow vest’ protesters target Macron’s holiday hideaway

AFP | If Emmanuel Macron is hoping for some holiday respite from the anti-government protests which have rocked France, he might want to avoid the...

Macron, Merkel urge ‘full’ Ukraine ceasefire ahead of planned truce

AFP | The leaders of France and Germany on Friday reiterated their call for a "solid, full and permanent ceasefire" in Ukraine's conflict-torn east ahead...

London’s Gatwick airport sold to French Vinci conglomerate

AFP | French conglomerate Vinci said Thursday it had bought control of Gatwick airport, Britain's second-busiest, for nearly three billion pounds only months before Brexit....

Five things to know about Romania

AFP | Romania, which takes over the rotating EU presidency in January for the first time since it joined the bloc in 2007, is a...

Twenty years of the euro: key dates

AFP | Two decades ago the euro currency was launched, at first existing virtually for accounting and financial transactions and then three years later as...

Spike in illegal Channel crossings ‘concerning’: UK minister

AFP | Britain's Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes said Thursday that a spike in migrants crossing the Channel by boat was "deeply concerning", after dozens of...

‘Anti-Muslim Denmark’: Handshake made mandatory for citizenship

News Desk | In the new citizenship bill, the government of Denmark has made it compulsory for applicants to shake hands with the officials conducting...

Oil giant Total fined in France for Iran corruption

AFP | A French court on Friday fined oil giant Total 500,000 euros ($575,000) for corruption over bribes it paid to secure a huge gas...

Protesters return to streets as Hungary’s Orban digs in

AFP | At least 5,000 demonstrators took to the streets of the Hungarian capital Budapest late Friday, as rightwing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban dismissed...

British Army joins drone hunt after London airport shutdown

AFP | Britain called in the army Thursday after dozens of drone sightings grounded all flights from London's Gatwick airport for more than 24 hours,...