Armin Laschet, Angela Merkel loyalist, is new CDU leader
After a marathon contest to lead the ruling CDU, the party’s most powerful state premier, Armin Laschet, prevailed at the
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Pandemic haunts new year as virus growth outpaces vaccines
Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the coronavirus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain
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World Bank raises Turkey’s 2020 growth projection
Outlook for 2021 downgraded with a sharp rise in new COVID-19 infections, weak tourism, tight monetary policy The World Bank
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Britain may soon be ripped apart
On January 2, 2020, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that the following 12 months would amount to a “fantastic year for
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Mosque attacked twice in 2 weeks in Germany’s southwest
COLOGNE, Germany: Fatih Mosque, run by the Turkish-Muslim umbrella group DITIB, was first attacked on Dec. 18 A mosque in
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Warsaw and Budapest had blocked not just the European budget for the next seven years
Time for clear words and actions With the Polish and Hungarian veto on the so-called Multi-year Financial Framework, the lingering
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Of BREXIT and all that
When the Brexit vote was taking place in the UK in 2016, I was addressing the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents’ Club at
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Russian Media: Lavrov will return the 300 Year Old Icon Dodik gave him
The 300-year-old icon, presented to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by the Chairman of Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad
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Brexit: EU’s Barnier says trade deal ‘possible’
British and EU negotiators have been locked in discussions for nearly nine months. But could a breakthrough be secured before
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Switzerland Imposes Sanctions on Belarus President Lukashenko
Switzerland’s federal government has extended sanctions on Friday against Belarus by freezing assets and imposing a travel ban against its
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