Brexiteers cast PM May’s draft Brexit deal as ‘surrender’
Britain and the European Union agreed a draft text setting out a close post-Brexit relationship, though wrangles over fish and the future of Gibraltar must still be settled before leaders meet on Sunday.
Italy’s 5-Star struggles to keep up with soaring Salvini
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement emerged as Italy’s predominant political force at March elections, allowing it to enter government for the first time in its short history and take many top ministerial jobs.
Empty, haunting Anne Frank House Museum revamped for new generation
The Anne Frank House Museum, built around the secret apartment where the Jewish teenager and her family hid from the Nazis, has reopened after being renovated to receive a new generation of visitors whose grandparents were born after World War II.
Britain working hard to free UK academic jailed in UAE, his wife says
Britain is doing everything in its power to free Matthew Hedges, a British academic jailed for life in the UAE on spying charges, his wife said on Thursday after meeting Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
France imposes sanctions on 18 Saudi citizens over Khashoggi killing
France said on Thursday it had imposed sanctions, including travel bans, on 18 Saudi citizens linked to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and said more could follow depending on results of an investigation.
EU, Britain agree on draft deal for future relations
Britain and the European Union agreed a draft text setting out a close post-Brexit relationship, officials said, though wrangling with Spain over control of Gibraltar must still be settled before EU leaders meet on Sunday.
UK PM May believes she can win vote in parliament on the Brexit deal -spokesman
British Prime Minister Theresa May believes she can win a vote in parliament on her Brexit deal and will focus her efforts on persuading members of her own party of the merits of the agreement announced earlier on Thursday, her spokesman said.
Egypt reveals it is holding daughter of Muslim Brotherhood leader, five others
Egypt revealed on Thursday that it was holding the daughter of Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater and five other people, three weeks after family members say they disappeared in a new government crackdown.
‘No more camps,’ Colombia tells Venezuelans not to settle in tent city
Francis Montano sits on a cold pavement with her three children, all their worldly possessions stuffed into plastic bags, as she pleads to be let into a new camp for Venezuelan migrants in the Colombian capital, Bogota.
Divided by war, Israel and Gaza’s Instagrammers tell their own stories
In another part of the world they might have gone to the same schools or be sharing wifi in the same coffee shops.
