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Britain will be in the "front seat" to negotiate a new trade deal with the incoming administration of Donald Trump, a top Republican in the United States Senate said, the BBC reported. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said after meeting British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that a trade deal between the two countries would be a priority as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.
As Breitbart.com prepares to export its brand of anti-establishment xenophobia to Germany, the website has come under fire for a false report suggesting that a "mob" of 1,000 Muslims tried to burn down a German church. Breitbart London's editor-in-chief has now responded to critics with a 2,300-word rant that does not meet the laugh test.
President Reuven Rivlin delivers a speech at the European Union Parliament in Brussels on June 22, 2016. Indirectly rejecting overtures by Austria's right-wing party toward Israel, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has told Jewish officials that he strongly opposes contact between European parties with a history of anti-Semitism and his country's officials.
Crucial elections loom this year in France and Germany, where the same anti-establishment backlash that produced Donald Trump and Brexit could offer an opening to nationalist leaders who oppose Muslim immigration and further erode the European unity that has been a signature of the post-World War II era. The Middle East is spiraling deeper into the mire of fraying borders and sectarian disorder while violence in places such Syria is unleashing a tide of desperate refugees that is destabilizing Europe.
Massive 20-ton sanitation trucks, weighted with an extra 15 tons of sand, will surround the iconic New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, officials said Thursday, describing a security measure meant to stop deadly truck-driving attacks into crowds like those in Germany and France. The placement of the 65 trucks, along with 100 patrol cars, at intersections surrounding Times Square is a new element to an already heavily policed event that will include 7,000 officers, specially armed counterterrorism units and bomb-sniffing dogs.
HOW many of us have read the following words scribbled on Christmas cards: "2017 has to be better than this year." It might all have been so different: if a few votes had gone the other way last June, the phrase "diplomat-in-chief Boris Johnson" would still be a satirical oxymoron.
Teaching future executives in Mexico, and blessed with a Muslim nuclear family, my vote for she who is not Donald Trump was easy. But there is a substantial bright side to the Trump outcome from my perspective.
German police arrested four people who had been in contact with A Tunisian suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack that killed 12 people, media reports said on Thursday, as a nationwide manhunt for the migrant was underway. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack in which a truck plowed through crowds gathered around wooden huts selling gifts, mulled wine and sausages on Monday evening.
Germany, a country of 80 million, received over one million migrants and unvetted "refugees" in 2015. Chancellor Angela Merkel is expecting another million migrants this year.
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Margaret Evans is a foreign correspondent based in the CBC's London bureau. A veteran conflict reporter, Evans has covered civil wars and strife in Angola, Chad and Sudan, as well as the myriad battlefields of the Middle East.
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be a defender of the international "rules of the road" to help shepherd the world through a period of deep uncertainty. Biden delivered that message in a stirring speech at a state dinner in his honour in Ottawa on Thursday night, in which he singled out the fight against climate change as the most important issue of this generation.
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said Brexit is taking "far too long" and maintaining the U.K.'s ties to the European Union won't be easy. Gabriel signaled concern that extended uncertainty implied by U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's timeline for starting Britain's exit from the EU by the end of March might cause economic damage, though "we're not experiencing a strong impact" for now.
Donald Trump is Time's 'Person of the Year' President-elect complained about being passed over last year Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://usat.ly/2gT3eW8 The magazine named the president-elect the year's most significant person a year after passing him over for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, drawing complains from the then-candidate. Accepting what he called the "great honor" for this year on NBC's Today show, Trump said he will wait a few more days to make his own announcement: His choice for secretary of State.
Dec 6 After a U.S. presidential election and Brexit campaign that were tarnished by lies, vicious political attacks and deceptive online news stories, Germany is promising to double down on facts, values and seriousness. At a congress of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Tuesday, speaker after speaker talked about the importance of respect and moderation in politics, with some criticising social media platforms Facebook and Twitter for facilitating the spread of false news.
A man casts his ballot as a map of Italy is seen in background at a polling station in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.Italians are voting in a referendum on constitutional reforms that is being closely watched abroad to see if ... . Ballots are being put on a table at a polling station in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.
A man casts his ballot as a map of Italy is seen in background at a polling station in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.Italians are voting in a referendum on constitutional reforms that is being closely watched abroad to see if ... . Ballots are being put on a table at a polling station in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.
The recent discord between United States and Russia spurred by Kremlin-blamed cyberattacks is being emulated abroad after Germany's top intelligence official this week suggested Moscow may similarly interfere with his nation's general election next year. Bruno Kahl, the head of BND, Germany's federal intelligence service, said in an interview Tuesday that Russia may be setting its sights on the 2017 German election after being attributed with a series of cyberattacks, email leaks and online disinformation campaigns waged during the run-up to the recent White House race.
Britain's newly-formed Women's Equality Party is thrashing out topics such as unequal pay and the "disaster" of Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton to the White House, at its first ever conference this weekend. Sophie Walker , the leader of the Women's Equality Party, poses with the two joint founders of the party, Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig The WEP's debut congress since its formation in March last year is being held in a red-brick former warehouse close to Manchester United Football Club's famous Old Trafford ground in the northwest English city.