Breaking - ArchivesPosts of 07/2017
King Felipe of Spain has called on the British government to work towards a new agreement over the future of Gibraltar, and demanded greater certainty over the future rights of Spanish citizens living in the UK after Brexit.
Addressing peers and MPs in the House of Lords as part of his state visit to the UK, King Felipe VI said there while there had “been estrangements, rivalries and disputes” in the countries’ history, those were now relegated to the past. Read more HERE.
Donald Trump Jr was informed in an email ahead of a meeting with a Russian lawyer that damaging information about Hillary Clinton to be handed over was part of an effort by the Russian government to help the Trump campaign, the New York Times has reported.
The Times did not publish the email – sent by Rob Goldstone, the intermediary who set up the meeting – but reported that three different people had described it to them...Read more HERE.
Allies of the German chancellor, have called for new curbs on leftwing extremists, including a Europe-wide register, after her decision to hold the G20 world leaders’ summit in Hamburg ended in violent clashes and injuries to nearly 500 police officers.
The cost of the damage has not yet been established but is expected to run into millions of euros. Merkel, who faces a parliamentary election on 24 September, has said that Hamburg residents who suffered damage will be properly compensated. Read more HERE.
The former Polish president Lech Wałęsa, the leader of the Solidarity movement that helped overthrow communism, has been taken to hospital with heart problems.
His son, Jarosław Wałęsa, said on Saturday his father was feeling “unfortunately weak”. The former president was being treated in the heart disease ward of the Gdańsk University clinic, in his home city. On Thursday, the 73-year-old former Solidarity movement leader was booed by government-supporting crowds. Read more HERE.
Militants killed at least 23 soldiers and injured dozens more in a car explosion and gun attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint in the north-eastern Sinai peninsula, officials have said.
Among those killed in the attack on Friday – the deadliest on the country’s military this year – were five officers, including a high-ranking special forces colonel, Ahmed el-Mansi, according to security officials. The assault started when an attacker rammed his vehicle into a checkpoint at a military compound. Read more HERE.