The sharp-tongued Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has not shied away from using a four-letter word responding to the “hypocritical” EU blaming him for stoking up anti-drug violence. He accused EU states of mass killings in US-led campaigns in the Middle East. Duterte, who has already acquired some fame for being[…]
Refugee children as young as seven have been sexually assaulted in official EU migrant camps in Greece, where children and women are said to be too afraid to go outside their tents when it’s dark, a report states, citing charities working at the venues. The revelations were published in the[…]
Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May wanted Britain to stay in the European Union, but the government she has unveiled leaves little doubt that she intends to fulfill voters’ instructions and take the UK out of the 28-nation bloc. May on Thursday finalised the details of the cabinet. Leading eurosceptics[…]
Train services on the longest rail motorway in Europe have been shut down after numerous attempts by migrants from the so-called “Jungle” camp near the French city of Calais to break into the unaccompanied trailers transporting goods from Spain to the UK. The migrants repeatedly attempted to get inside the[…]
The rand has seen a 25% recovery against the British pound since January, after Britain voted to leave the European Union on June 24. “The rand has certainly been doing well,” said RMB analyst John Cairns on Monday. “The fall in (the pound to rand exchange rate) has been the[…]
Thousands have protested in London against British voters’ decision last week to leave the European Union, which has left the country deeply polarised. Most protestors who gathered on Saturday were young adults, and many were draped in EU flags, while others waved banners in support of the EU. Marching through[…]
Austria’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a presidential run-off election must be held again, handing a narrowly defeated candidate another chance to become the first far-right head of state in the European Union. Norbert Hofer of the anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO) lost the May 22 vote to former Greens leader[…]
Brits disappointed with the UK’s referendum results will not be getting a second chance at voting, as UK’s Electoral Commission said that an online petition that gathered 3.7 million signatures was not enough to trigger a second referendum. The online petition carries no legal authority, the Electoral Commission ruled, after[…]
OPINION by Ibrahim Hewitt The news that a majority of voters in Britain have opted to leave the European Union has produced a lot of surprise, shock and anger, and that’s just within the UK itself. The result has given a major boost to far-right extremists who see it as[…]
UK authorities are investigating a highly-popular anti-Brexit petition after “discovering” tens of thousands of fraudulent signatures. The petition platform’s lack of identity check raises concerns the vast majority of 3.5 million signs could be fake. Britain’s House of Commons Petition Committee announced on Sunday that it has removed around 77,000[…]
WhatsApp us 