British PM meets EU's Tusk on eve of key Brexit speech

6 years ago

By Alice RITCHIE  LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May hosts EU President Donald Tusk for Brexit talks Thursday, on the eve of her keynote speech on future trade ties...

Hamburg Islamist knife attacker gets life in prison

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AMBURG  - A Palestinian jihadist who killed one man and wounded six other people in a German supermarket knife rampage last year was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison.  Ahmad...

Television titans bulk up to battle internet rivals

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NEW YORK - Traditional television titans are bulking up in a battle with online streaming giants Netflix and Amazon as viewers take to binging on shows when and where they...

India bids tearful farewell to Bollywood superstar Sridevi

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MUMBAI - Thousands of heartbroken fans and Bollywood actors paid their last respects to Indian superstar Sridevi Kapoor Wednesday following her shock death from accidental drowning in a Dubai hotel...

Marriage rate in Britain at lowest level since 1862

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LONDON - Opposite-sex Marriages in Britain have fallen to their lowest number on record, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in an annual report Wednesday.  An analysis of marriages...

Airstrikes on illicit drug centers kill 13 militants in Afghanistan

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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - Air raids against illicit drug centers in the poppy growing southern Helmand province have left 13 Taliban fighters dead, said a statement of Miwand Army Corps...

14 people feared dead in shipwrecks in DR Congo

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KINSHASA - Fourteen people were feared dead on Monday night during shipwrecks of two boats on the Congo River in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to an...

Saudi crown prince to visit Washington on March 19

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RIYADH  - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is to visit the United States from March 19-22, for the first time as heir to the throne, a Saudi government source told...

S. Korea, DPRK hold working-level talks to discuss latter's participation in Winter Paralympics

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SEOUL - South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday held working-level talks to discuss the DPRK's participation in the Winter Paralympics, Seoul's unification ministry said.  ...

Prosecutors seek 30 years' jail for ousted S. Korea president

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  SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a 30-year-jail sentence for former president Park Geun-hye, sacked over a wide-ranging corruption scandal which exposed shady links between big...

Maldives opposition seeks UN-mediated talks to end crisis

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COLOMBO - The Maldivian opposition said Tuesday it had hired a former UN rights rapporteur to push the global body to intervene in a political deadlock that has roiled the...

Cambodian court order seizure of former opposition HQ

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PHNOM PENH - A Cambodian court has ordered the seizure of the former opposition party headquarters, months after the group was dissolved as part of a wide-ranging crackdown.  The ruling...

Strikes on east Syria's last IS pocket kill 25 civilians

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BEIRUT  - Air strikes on the last pocket of Islamic State jihadists in eastern Syria have killed at least 25 civilians, including seven children, a monitor said Monday.The strikes were conducted...

Syrian ceasefire possible if all parties come to terms: Russian FM

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MOSCOW - A ceasefire in Syria proposed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is possible if all parties involved come to terms, which is a complicated process, Russian Foreign Minister...

Shehbaz Sharif likely to be acting PML-N chief

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Lahore [Pakistan] - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's brother and Punjab Province Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif is likely to become the interim president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).  ...