Turkey not ready for visa-free travel: Germany
Lifting compulsory visa requirements for Turkish citizens is currently not on the agenda, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier reiterated in an interview published Tuesday. Speaking to...
View Article‘Highly radicalized’ French girl charged with terrorism
A 16-year-old French girl will face preliminary terrorism charges for allegedly supporting the Islamic State group and planning a terror attack, prosecutors said Monday. The teenager was arrested...
View ArticleTurkey justice minister: US shouldn’t ‘sacrifice’ relations for ‘a terrorist’
The man Turkey blames for the failed coup in July is no longer “a useful tool” for the U.S. and should be extradited, Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said Tuesday, the state-run Anadolu news...
View ArticleFormer shadow health minister to run for mayor of Greater Manchester
Labour Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham has won the vote to become Labour’s candidate for Greater Manchester’s first mayoral election in May 2017. Burnham beat Bury South MP Ivan Lewis and interim...
View ArticleJK Rowling: Jeremy Corbyn is not Dumbledore
Harry Potter author JK Rowling is fed up with Jeremy Corbyn supporters comparing the Labour leader to one of her most famous characters. Supporters of Corbyn have called him a “socialist version” of...
View ArticleNicola Sturgeon launches fresh drive for Scottish independence
Nicola Sturgeon on Friday urged Scotland to “control its own destiny” as she launched another push for independence. In a speech in Stirling, the Scottish first minister said choosing independence...
View ArticleEx-Tory leader to Theresa May: Don’t go into Brexit talks on ‘bended knee’
Former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith has warned Prime Minister Theresa May not to approach Brexit talks on “bended knee” in an attempt to gain concessions from Europe. Smith, who served...
View ArticleSturgeon warns May: Pursue ‘hard Brexit’ and Scotland could leave UK
GLASGOW — Scotland could vote to leave the U.K. before the U.K. leaves the EU, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Thursday, in a dramatic challenge to Theresa May to pull back from a “hard Brexit”...
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‘Hard Brexit’ gives Scottish nationalists hope
GLASGOW — Scottish nationalism has a surprising new pin-up: Theresa May. The British prime minister’s hardline stance on Brexit may have won friends in England. But in nationalist Glasgow — Scotland’s...
View ArticleScottish nationalism’s brash new face
GLASGOW — Facing a conference room crammed with exuberant Scottish nationalists, the youngest Westminster MP for more than a century and one of the unlikelier new stars of British politics was taking...
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