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While tensions remain high in the Middle East, heated words were exchanged at the UN security council, following Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The international community has never recognised Israel’s claim, and several members roundly condemned the...

BARCELONA — Alfred Bosch, a member of the Barcelona City Council from the left-wing, pro-independence Esquerra Republicana party, sees Catalonia’s referendum on independence in dramatic terms. “The legality of the whole process is not the main...

The EU has told Theresa May it will not start discussing the terms of a trade relationship with the UK until February at the earliest, and only then if the British prime minister has taken a grip of...

Saad Hariri is back. The prime minister of Lebanon, who unexpectedly resigned from his post in November under mysterious circumstances in Saudi Arabia, returned to Beirut last week, and this morning announced that he was revoking his resignation....

Weapons, slaughtering of lambs to “find arteries”, and beatings of members who wanted to leave the organization are some of the terrifying details an ex-member code-named “Witness E” of the far-right Greek party Golden Dawn, told the court during a hearing....

The United Nations is soon to decide whether to give Neapolitan pizza makers World heritage status. It’s one of the candidates to join the list of intangible heritage created by UNESCO, but we’re not talking about...

Latest figures show new car sales in the UK heading for first yearly drop since 2011   New figures reveal car sales in Britain have now fallen five percent so far this year, on track for...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he would seek re-election in March 2018, a contest opinion polls show he will comfortably win, setting the stage for him to extend his dominance of Russia’s political landscape into a...

It is believed Donald Trump will announce the US recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a first step towards moving the country’s embassy there. The move is likely to inflame resentment and instability in the region, as...

So to the legions of experts required to make any sense of Northern Ireland we may now need to add lexicographers or semioticians. Where does the line, the border as it were, blur between regulatory “non-divergence” and “convergence”...