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(Courtesy CCTV) — The UK risks losing the opportunity for international cooperation in the fight against terrorism should it decide to leave the European Union, anti-terrorism expert Nigel Inkster said on Tuesday. Inkster is a former Director of Intelligence and Operations for MI6 and is now Director of Future Conflict and Cyber Security. He said staying with the EU will help Britain maintain its traditional relations with EU partners in intelligence sharing, especially for […]
UK’s Leave and Remain campaigners clashed in a televised debated on Tuesday (June 21) night in a last-ditched effort to persuade voters to stick with, or ditch, the European Union. On Thursday (June 23) Britons will vote to decide whether to quit the bloc they joined in 1973, a choice with far-reaching economic and political consequences for Britain and the whole of Europe. The Leave campaign, led by Conservative MP Boris Johnson, accused the opposition […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned Britain Tuesday that voting to leave the EU would be “an act of self-harm” that would endanger everything Europeans had worked together to achieve. “To turn your backs on your neighbors and retreat into isolation would go against everything that Europe and the UK stand for,” Juncker said during an address to Greek business leaders in Athens, adding: “To leave would be an act of […]
by Alex PIGMAN BRUSSELE, Belgium (AFP) — A man with a fake suicide belt was arrested after a bomb scare at a shopping centre triggered a major anti-terror operation in central Brussels on Tuesday, federal prosecutors said. Belgium remains on a high state of alert after Islamic State-claimed bomb attacks in March left 32 dead at the airport and on the metro. Tuesday’s incident began at about 6:30 am (0430 GMT) after a report of a […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The number of people displaced worldwide has hit a new record, with 65.3 million people forced from their home as of the end of 2015, the UN said Monday. “This is the first time that the threshold of 60 million has been crossed,” the UN refugee agency said. The figures, released on World Refugee Day, underscore twin pressures fuelling an unprecedented global displacement crisis. As conflict and persecution force growing numbers […]
by Angus MACKINNON ROME, Italy (AFP) — Virginia Raggi was elected Sunday as Rome’s first female mayor in a triumph for the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) that represents a stinging setback for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Raggi swept into City Hall with two thirds of the votes cast in a run-off contest with Roberto Giachetti of Renzi’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD). The anti-establishment M5S also claimed control of the northern city of Turin, […]
by Katherine HADDON LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — After years of seeing his premiership buffeted by rows over Europe, British Prime Minister David Cameron faces his day of reckoning for country and career in Thursday’s EU referendum. Opinion polls put the vote on European Union membership neck-and-neck, and if Britain does become the first state ever to withdraw from the bloc, Cameron’s epitaph will be sealed after six years in power. “He’s put himself front […]
SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron is holding a referendum on EU membership to “blackmail” and “scare” Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Friday. “Why has he set up this referendum? To blackmail Europe? Or to scare it? What is the purpose if he himself is against” Britain leaving the European Union, Putin said during a meeting with representatives of news agencies, including AFP. “It’s not our business, it is the […]
by Alice Ritchie LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Jo Cox, a British member of parliament who campaigned for the country to stay in the EU and for more aid for Syrian refugees, was killed in a brutal attack on Thursday. A 52-year-old man is in police custody after Cox was shot and stabbed numerous times in her constituency in northern England. Campaigning for the June 23 referendum has been suspended through Saturday out of […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Five key facts about the election of Rome’s new mayor on Sunday: A woman at last Every king, consul, emperor and pope who has run Rome since it was founded two and a half millennia ago has been male: that looks set to change with Virginia Raggi the runaway favourite to be the next mayor. Female mayors club Raggi headed the first round with 35 percent of votes, well ahead of […]
by Robin MILLARD LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British MP Jo Cox, a lawmaker who campaigned for Britain to stay in the EU and more aid for Syrian refugees, was killed in a street attack on Thursday. Weapons, including a firearm, have been recovered from the scene of the incident in her constituency and the sole suspect is being held by police. This is what we know so far: – Who was Jo Cox? – […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The alleged killer of British lawmaker Jo Cox was a “dedicated supporter” of a neo-Nazi group based in the United States, a civil rights group reported Thursday. The Southern Poverty Law Centre said that the man named by British media as the attacker, Thomas Mair, had a “long history with white nationalism”. “According to records obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center Mair was a dedicated supporter of the National […]
