Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) for the first time won a district council election as it overtook Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats in national polls, sparking concerns over a…
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UK Estimates Cost of Deporting Each Asylum Seeker to Rwanda Will Be 169,000 Pounds
by Flynn Owenby Flynn OwenBritain’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost 169,000 pounds ($215,035) per person, according to the first detailed government assessment of a high-stakes promise to tackle record numbers…
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BombingCrimeNewsNorthern IrelandUK
Friendship between Jefferson and bomber
by Flynn Owenby Flynn OwenA woman whose father was injured in an IRA bomb 50 years ago has said the friendship she forged with the bomber has helped her through the recent death of…
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Brussels, Frankfurt (16/6 – 33) The European Union declared late last year that it intended to investigate how Russia acquired so-called “kamikaze drones” from the Islamic Republic of Iran, for…
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Canadian lawyer allegedly tied to major fraud case joins new NOC program office
by Flynn Owenby Flynn OwenLibya’s state-owned oil company, the National Oil Corporation (NOC), had established last month a new program office, but multiple foreign press reports claim that one of the staff running the office…
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FeaturedGolfNewsSports
The Spectacular Threat of LIV Golf: PGA Tour Forced to Change
by Flynn Owenby Flynn OwenLondon, New York, Mexico City (11/3 – 18) PGA is looking gloomy – are the fat years over? The emergence in 2019 of LIV Golf has spectacularly upset the status…
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Australia to Provide Drone Technology to PH Coast Guard to Boost Maritime Capabilities
by Flynn Owenby Flynn OwenMANILA — The Australian government will provide the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) with drone equipment and training to help boost its maritime capabilities amid heightened tensions in the West Philippine…
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President Tsai Meets With Swedish Parliamentary Delegation
by Flynn Owenby Flynn OwenPresident Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) says she hopes members of a visiting Swedish parliamentary delegation will support a bilateral investment agreement (BIA) between Taiwan and the European Union (EU). Her remarks…
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AsiaPoliticsTurkey
With Allies like This, Who Needs Enemies? Erdogan takes Türkiye, again
by Flynn Owenby Flynn OwenWhile the prevailing powers in both the USA and the EU have long yearned to gather Türkiye (formerly known as simply “Turkey”) into a western alliance encircling the old USSR…
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Starmer Sees Brexit Deal as ‘starting Point’ With ‘gaps to Fill’, Mcmahon Says
by Flynn Owenby Flynn OwenSir Keir Starmer views the current Brexit deal as a “starting point” with “gaps that we need to fill”, a Labour frontbencher has said. Shadow environment secretary Jim McMahon insisted…