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Protesters began gathering in Brussels on Thursday to show support for deposed president Carles Puigdemont and urge the EU to support their drive for independence from Spain. People carry banners and wave flags during a pro-independence demonstration on December 7, 2017 in Brussels. Photo: Dirk Waem/Belga/AFP. A sea of around 45,000 supporters of Catalan independence demonstrated […]

Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets of Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to protest against the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a contentious move that has inflamed tensions in Palestine and across the region. In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in a handful of cities throughout […]

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri meets world leaders for crisis talks in Paris on Friday as Lebanon tries to chart a path through the regional power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia. M © FRANCE 24 screen grab | Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron open the talks in Paris […]

Thirteen months ago Donald Trump was elected president. Many people predicted that American foreign policy would take a disastrous turn. Trump had suggested that he would scrap trade deals, ditch allies, put a figurative bomb under the rules-based global order and drop literal ones willy-nilly. NATO was “obsolete”, he said; NAFTA was “the worst trade […]

The visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Athens started in controversy as he clashed with his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos during introductory remarks at the presidential Palace in Athens. In his welcoming remarks, Pavlopoulos made a point of rejecting Erdogan’s claims that the decades old treaty, establishing the current borders between the two […]

North Korea wants to engage directly with the US to assure its security, Russia’s foreign minister has revealed. Sergey Lavrov said he has briefed US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the developments and that Moscow is ready to “facilitate such talks.” Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov © Leonhard Foeger / Reuters “We know that, […]

Queen Elizabeth II formally commissioned into the British navy the UK’s newest and biggest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, at a ceremony on Thursday. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (C) gives an address as she  attends the Commissioning Ceremony for the Royal Navy   aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth at HM Naval Base in Portsmouth, southern England ( AFP […]