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Theresa May’s cabinet meets later on Wednesday to approve or reject the text of a draft withdrawal agreement drawn up this week in Brussels by EU and UK negotiators two-and-a-half years after Britain voted to leave...

Calgary voters have clearly rejected the idea of bidding to host a second Winter Olympics in the Canadian city. If you can’t sell the Games to Calgary, the Olympics are in serious trouble, writes DW’s Chuck...

Europe’s biggest economy shrank 0.2 percent in the third quarter compared to the previous period. Economists are not worried and believe it is just a temporary slip. Germany’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.2 percent in...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has resigned due to differences with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a Gaza ceasefire. The move may trigger early elections. Israel’s hard-line defense minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation on Wednesday...

The UK and Brussels are ready for high-stakes meetings to assess Theresa May’s make-or-break Brexit deal. But her government could face the ultimate test as junior coalition partners hint at fresh elections. The British Cabinet is...

After ex-PM Nikola Gruevski fled the country to avoid serving his jail sentence, his former colleagues in government have rounded on him for evading justice and putting their own trials at risk. Macedonian authorities detained the...

An appeals court upheld the verdict acquitting former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Fatmir Limaj, who is now deputy prime minister, clearing him of responsibility for the murders of two ethnic Albanian civilians in 1998. The appeals...

Romania’s government on Wednesday said it was considering whether to sue the European Commission over what it called a highly unjust report on the country’s justice affairs – which the PM said had ‘outraged’ her. Romania’s...

Moldova’s intelligence service said it had broken up a paramilitary group that was illicitly recruiting fighters for the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The Moldovan intelligence service, SIS, on Wednesday said it had broken up a paramilitary...

Robert Shafran’s first inkling that his life would soon be turned on its head occurred on his first day at college in upstate New York in 1980. His fellow students greeted him like a long-lost friend....