Issued on: 21/01/2020 – 02:34 Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump have agreed to extend negotiations on a dispute over a French tax on digital giants to the end of the year, postponing Washington’s threat of sanctions against Paris, a French diplomatic source said Monday. Advertising Read more The source said the French and US […]
WASHINGTON — The historic impeachment trial of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump is due to resume in the Senate on January 21. The impeachment trial is expected to continue six days a week, with breaks each Sunday. On January 20, a brief filed by Trump’s lawyers presented the most detailed view of the defense they […]
Britain has slipped to 81st place in the world for the value of home internet packages as sluggish broadband speeds fail to keep pace with steadily rising prices, research shows. A global study of more than 3,000 fixed-line monthly bundles found the UK lagging “far behind” much of Europe, mainly due to reliance on ageing […]
France’s bioethics reform reaches the Senate floor on Tuesday, three months after lower-house lawmakers passed the controversial legislation. The bill, which has been considerably amended by senators in committee, could yet change, with the lesbian couples and single women poised to gain legal access to medically assisted reproduction potentially seeing social security coverage for the […]
Eight European Union member states have given their support for a European-led maritime surveillance mission in the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic route for world oil supplies. Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and Portugal backed the new force, they said in a “political statement” issued by France’s Foreign Ministry on January 20. […]
Issued on: 20/01/2020 – 17:00Modified: 20/01/2020 – 17:00 A SARS-like virus that has spread across China and reached three other Asian nations is contagious between humans, a government expert said Monday, fuelling fears of a major outbreak as millions travel for the Lunar New Year holiday. Advertising Read more The new coronavirus strain, first discovered […]
An Uzbek blogger who spent weeks in involuntary psychiatric care after extensively covering alleged corruption and abuse among politicians has fled the country. Nafosat Olloshukurova, known on Facebook as Shabnam Olloshukurova, told RFE/RL in a telephone interview on January 20 that she planned to ask for political asylum in an unnamed Western state. In September, […]
Carlos Becerra Bloomberg News Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó presides over a session of the National Assembly at a public amphitheater in El Hatillo last week. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, recognized as the nation’s rightful president by the United States and nearly 60 other countries, defied a travel ban Sunday to make a surprise […]
Issued on: 20/01/2020 – 09:44Modified: 20/01/2020 – 09:44 Thousands of people opposed to France’s plans to reform the law on assisted reproductive technology took to the streets of Paris on Sunday, two days before a major bioethics bill is put before the Senate. Advertising Read more French law currently only allows women in heterosexual relationships […]
Tajik police have decided not to open a criminal probe to find the perpetrators behind a sex video shared online in an apparent smear campaign against a woman activist. The copy of a letter issued by the Vahdat district police in Dushanbe says authorities will not open a criminal case “because there have been no […]