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Egie C. Asis Eagle News Service MADRID, España — Pedro Sánchez fue elegido el nuevo presidente del Gobierno de España, tras obtener la mayoría absoluta del Congreso de los Diputados en una moción de censura contra Mariano Rajoy del Partido Popular. El socialista consiguió 180 votos a favor de la moción que él mismo inició frente al escándalo de corrupción del caso Gürtel que condenó al PP. Más de 100–o 169—fueron en contra, mientras que hubo una abstención. En […]
Egie C. Asis Eagle News Service MADRID, España — El Congreso español debate este jueves y viernes la moción de censura contra Mariano Rajoy, presidente del gobierno. El debate sobre la moción promovida e impulsada por el líder del Partido Socialista, Pedro Sánchez, se inicia tras la sentencia que sacudió al Partido Popular por las tramas de corrupción donde se involucraba el negociante Francisco Correa. Correa, el considerado cabecilla de la trama ‘Gürtel’, fue condenado a 51 años […]
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AFP) — Slovenia’s former center-right Prime Minister Janez Jansa and his Democratic Party (SDS) look set to emerge on top in early parliamentary elections on Sunday, as campaigning enters the home stretch. The campaign has been overshadowed by controversy over Jansa’s strident anti-migrant rhetoric and the public support he has received from fellow firebrand Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. According to the latest poll published by daily Dnevnik on Wednesday, Jansa’s SDS is […]
by Marine LAOUCHEZ with Matthieu DEMEESTERE in Brussels Agence France Presse LIEGE, Belgium (AFP) — A gunman on a police watchlist for contacts with Islamist extremists launched a brazen suspected terror attack in Belgium on Tuesday, shooting dead two female police officers with their own weapons before killing a bystander. The bloodshed in the gritty eastern industrial city of Liege began around 10:30 am (0830 GMT) when the attacker armed with a knife repeatedly stabbed […]
by Marine LAOUCHEZ Agence France Presse LIEGE, Belgium (AFP) — It was late morning and the children were playing football in the schoolyard when they heard the bang-bang of gunshots in the street. Outside, though they could not see it, Belgium’s latest deadly attack was under way in the medieval city of Liege. A man in black had chased two policewomen along a boulevard, stabbed them, taken their guns — which they were now using […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — A man killed three people including two policemen on Tuesday in the eastern Belgian city of Liege before being shot by other members of the police, prosecutors told AFP. The shooting occurred around 10:30am (0830 GMT) on a major artery in the city, close to a high school. “We don’t know anything yet,” Catherine Collignon, spokeswoman for the Liege prosecutors office, told AFP when asked about the shooter’s motives. © Agence […]
by Lucy ADLER Agence France Presse ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy’s caretaker prime minister was Tuesday assembling a cabinet lineup despite almost certain rejection by the populists whose bid for power collapsed at the weekend. Fresh elections are now looming as the most likely outcome of the long-running political saga sparked by inconclusive elections in March. Carlo Cottarelli, a former IMF economist, was tasked with naming a technocrat government on Monday after President Sergio Mattarella […]
by Ambre TOSUNOGLU / Clare BYRNE Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — A Malian migrant who scaled a Paris apartment block to save a four-year-old child was hailed Monday as an “example” by President Emmanuel Macron, who welcomed him to the presidential palace and offered him citizenship. Two days after his daring rescue — viewed millions of times online — Mamoudou Gassama, nicknamed “Spiderman” by French media for his astonishing climbing ability, met Macron […]
by Terry Daley Agence France Presse ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy could be forced to hold new elections after Giuseppe Conte gave up his bid to form a government following the collapse of talks with the president over including a eurosceptic economy minister in his cabinet. Conte, 53, a lawyer and political novice, picked for prime minister by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and far-right League seeking to form a coalition, had to present a […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Friday that the world could be heading for an unprecedented economic crisis due to the confrontational trade policy and protectionism being pursued by the United States. Without directly naming US President Donald Trump, who has slapped on tariffs and pulled out of trade deals, Putin lamented that a new era of protectionism was emerging and “breaking” the free trade system responsible for global prosperity. “Today we need not trade […]
Russia said Friday the Netherlands had provided no evidence that Moscow was directly behind the 2014 shooting down of flight MH17 over war-torn east Ukraine, accusing the Dutch of promoting their own agenda. “Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok called me today,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Saint Petersburg. “They have practically no doubt that the BUK missile came from Russia. I asked him about facts proving these claims. He did not give […]
by Jo Biddle and Jan Hennop Agence France-Presse THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Netherlands and Australia on Friday took the first step towards dragging Russia to court over the shooting down of flight MH17, accusing Moscow of being responsible for the disaster over war-torn eastern Ukraine in 2014. The move won swift support from international allies, a day after investigators concluded that the Russian-made BUK missile which tore apart the Boeing 777 passenger plane in […]
