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Mar 26, 2019
Facebook has hired Britain's former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, as its top policy and communications executive, giving a Silicon Valley outsider the task of mending the social network's image.
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Mar 26, 2019
Italy's credit was cut by Moody's to the lowest investment-grade rating, in a move that will likely add further selling pressure on Italian bonds and raise borrowing costs for the debt-laden country.
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Mar 26, 2019
Macedonia's parliament approved a constitutional revision bringing a decades-old dispute with neighboring Greece one step closer to a resolution that would unblock the country's membership to NATO and the EU.
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Mar 26, 2019
The pope's keen instincts as a communicator have abandoned him at crucial moments, especially in Chile, where allegations have swept up 167 Catholic officials and 178 victims so far. Sex-abuse victims say he has dismissed coverup allegations and wavered on promised disciplinary action.
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Mar 26, 2019
National security adviser John Bolton, a longtime critic of a landmark nuclear treaty with Russia, is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin and other top officials in Moscow on Monday, according to U.S. and Russian officials, as tensions rise over what Washington calls the country's violations of the pact.
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Mar 26, 2019
U.S. and European trade negotiators are focused on aligning regulations on goods and services as they seek to cement a July trade cease-fire between President Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
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Mar 03, 2019
Italian politicians have a long record of granting amnesties allowing homes in earthquake-hit areas to be rebuilt. The upstart government was supposed to change that, but it has bowed to local pressure—a sign of how Italian political habits die hard.
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Mar 01, 2019
The House Oversight Committee renewed its request to the White House for documents related to the administration's security-clearance processes, following reports that President Trump ordered his former chief of staff to grant his son-in-law a top-secret security clearance.
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Mar 01, 2019
U.S. stocks rebounded Friday, propelled by a rise in energy shares as investors analyzed a batch of new economic data and waited for signs on U.S.-China trade talks.
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Mar 01, 2019
Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said Friday that wage growth appears to be picking up, and he expects inflation to follow suit later this year.
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Mar 01, 2019
West Virginia's dependence on increasingly out-of-favor coal has left a workforce that is ill-equipped to attract advanced jobs in technology and manufacturing that are key to prospering in today's economy.
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Mar 01, 2019
Moscow pledged much-needed international support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's embattled government while the U.S. announced a new round of sanctions, as a bitter standoff intensifies.
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Mar 01, 2019
Ahead of her new show at Pace Gallery, Smith talked to WSJ. about her favorite drafting tool and her greatest superstition
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Mar 01, 2019
Gambling revenue growth has stalled in the semiautonomous Chinese city, but casinos more geared to the mass market could still do well.
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Feb 28, 2019
The number of Americans filing applications for new unemployment benefits increased last week.
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Feb 28, 2019
Beijing wants to change China's mix of lending to businesses. Property prices, though, will remain the key driver for shares of the country's banks.
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Feb 26, 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May will allow parliament to vote on delaying the U.K.'s exit from the EU if lawmakers reject her divorce agreement, greatly reducing the possibility of an exit without a deal.
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Feb 26, 2019
European Union officials used a first-of-its-kind summit in Egypt this week to press Arab leaders to impose stability and stem migration but played down calls for democracy, reflecting a desire for calm after years of border tumult.
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Feb 26, 2019
With weeks to go until Britain is officially scheduled to leave the European Union, politics has finally—slightly—jolted investors out of a prevailing mood of Brexit boredom.
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Feb 26, 2019
The most senior Vatican official to ever stand trial on child sex-abuse charges was found guilty of assaulting two choirboys at a church in his former diocese.
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Feb 25, 2019
The U.K.'s main opposition Labour Party said it would support holding a second Brexit referendum, a policy shift that breathes some life into the prospect of Britons voting again on whether the U.K. should leave the EU.
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Feb 25, 2019
The French public has begun to turn against the yellow vest movement, with a new poll for the first time showing majority supporting an end to the protests. The shift in sentiment offers a sign of relief for President Macron.
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Feb 25, 2019
A top Russian state television broadcaster held out the possibility of a nuclear exchange with the U.S., boasting that the Kremlin could retaliate with strikes on the Pentagon and Camp David.
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Feb 24, 2019
Pope Francis strongly condemned sexual abuse but offered no specific solutions, disappointing clergy and laypeople who had hoped for a breakthrough at an unprecedented global summit to address the crisis in the Catholic Church.
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Feb 24, 2019
Pro-Brexit activists are mobilizing across Britain to ensure the country leaves the European Union as scheduled on March 29 amid competing efforts to push a new referendum, forcing a once-in-a-generation shift in British politics.
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Feb 23, 2019
The protest movement is bitterly divided over whether to coalesce into a formal organization or keep its antiestablishment roots, as it presses President Macron for change
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Feb 22, 2019
A month before the U.K. is set to leave the European Union, a long-feared exodus of financiers from London hasn't yet materialized.
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Feb 20, 2019
Three lawmakers quit British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party over Brexit, a move that further adds to the precariousness of her grip on power and underlines how the decision to leave the European Union is reshaping British politics.
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Feb 15, 2019
French authorities placed the Vatican's envoy to France under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a local Paris official last month, the latest in a string of embarrassing episodes involving Holy See diplomats.
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Feb 15, 2019
The European Union reported a record trade surplus with the U.S. last year, a development that could weigh on slow-moving U.S.-EU trade talks and comes as the Trump administration prepares to deliberate hefty tariffs on European car imports.
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Feb 14, 2019
Sweden has recalled its ambassador to China and opened an internal investigation into her role in arranging a meeting where Chinese businessmen allegedly threatened the daughter of a detained Swedish bookseller, Sweden's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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Feb 14, 2019
Japan and Germany avoided slipping into recession as 2018 drew to a close, but the world's third- and fourth-largest economies seem set for a year of weak growth amid uncertainty about global trade.
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Feb 14, 2019
The revised list, released Wednesday, results from efforts by the EU to tighten longstanding measures against money laundering and terrorism financing since the publication of the Panama Papers in 2016, which revealed how global elites avoided taxes or laundered money through offshore shell companies.
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Feb 14, 2019
British prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Prince Philip, the 97-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, after he was involved in a car crash near the royal estate in Sandringham last month.
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Feb 13, 2019
The bill is aimed at reining in tech giants and throwing a lifeline to news publishers. It is expected to be formally approved by mid-April, after which EU governments will have two years to include it in their national laws.
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Feb 13, 2019
As the clock ticks down on the U.K.'s planned departure from the European Union, EU leaders are still waiting for a signal from British Prime Minister Theresa May on the next steps in negotiating a critical divorce deal.
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Feb 13, 2019
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, head of Italy's ruling League party, has tapped into Italian anger at the country's ineffectual political establishment. But a look at his decisions in power suggests he is more of a pragmatist than his rhetoric implies.
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Feb 12, 2019
With just over a month until the U.K. leaves the European Union, British Prime Minister Theresa May's efforts to garner support for a Brexit deal will go down to the wire.
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Feb 12, 2019
The return of tensions over Catalan separatism is threatening to bring an early end to the government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
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Feb 12, 2019
Angela Merkel's ruling partners are reconsidering their support for a decadesold arrangement that puts Germany under the U.S. nuclear shield, a development that could further undermine the country's relationship with the U.S.
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Feb 11, 2019
The U.K. economy experienced its weakest growth since 2012 last year as businesses slashed investment in the face of growing uncertainty about the way in which the country will leave the European Union.
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Feb 11, 2019
Europe's faltering economy and fractious politics are complicating the region's biggest personnel question in years: Who will replace Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank?
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Feb 10, 2019
Italy's populist government launched an unprecedented attack on the country's central bank over the weekend, saying its top brass should be replaced because it had failed to supervise effectively the country's troubled banking sector.
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Feb 08, 2019
Italy began demolishing the remains of a highway bridge in the northern city of Genoa whose collapse last year killed 43 and exposed the perilous state of the country's infrastructure.
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Feb 08, 2019
A much-watched experiment in Finland failed to provide evidence that offering people a guaranteed income is the answer to some of the insecurities caused by potentially profound changes in the jobs market.
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Feb 06, 2019
Thousands of protesters took to the streets across France on Saturday for the 10th consecutive weekend of demonstrations, despite efforts by President Emmanuel Macron to channel yellow-vest anger through public debates over the next two months.
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Feb 06, 2019
Google was fined $57 million by a French regulator—the biggest penalty levied yet under a new European privacy law—alleging the search-engine giant didn't go far enough to get valid user consent to gather data for targeted advertising.
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Feb 06, 2019
Theresa May told the House of Commons that she wants to go back to the European Union and again seek tweaks to the Brexit agreement she spent months negotiating with the EU. Last week that deal was rejected by a historic margin by British lawmakers.
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Feb 06, 2019
A fight over a proposed high-speed railroad that includes a 35-mile tunnel under the Alps threatens to rupture the young government because of an uncomfortable fact: The two parties sharing power represent diametrically opposed electorates and ideologies.
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Feb 06, 2019
The eurozone's economic slowdown has taken European Central Bank officials by surprise, potentially disrupting their plans to lift short-term interest rates this year.
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Feb 06, 2019
Euroskeptic governments for several years have bloodied the European Union's nose by flouting its authority. Brussels has recently scored some points, though officials increasingly concede that only a change in public attitudes in the bloc's east can really prompt governments to shift course.
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Feb 06, 2019
European and emerging markets are too dependent on the choices of a handful of Chinese officials.
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Feb 06, 2019
President Trump's decision to stay in Washington to deal with the partial government shutdown has changed the script for this week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Feb 06, 2019
Germany's government banned an Iranian airline from operating in the country following U.S. allegations that its aircraft transported weapons and fighters to war-torn Syria. U.S. officials say the move against Mahan Air is the result of longstanding pressure from the Trump administration.
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Feb 06, 2019
The British Parliament looks set to reject a proposed Brexit deal by a huge margin, a defeat that will likely trigger a no-confidence vote in British Prime Minister Theresa May's government and force yet another round of frenetic negotiations with her European counterparts.
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Feb 06, 2019
The outcome prompted the head of the opposition to call for a vote on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's leadership, as uncertainty deepens around the U.K.'s exit from the EU in just over two months.
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Feb 06, 2019
The British Parliament's overwhelming rejection of the Brexit agreement reopens a tortuous debate that EU governments had hoped to avoid, over what fresh concessions, if any, to offer U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May without shattering the bloc's unity.
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Feb 06, 2019
The economic outlook for Europe and the world darkened after growth in Germany slowed sharply last year, hit by weaker exports to China and softer demand at home.
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Feb 06, 2019
The government of Emmanuel Macron kicked off a "great national debate" intended to channel the anger of the "yellow-vest" protest movement and shield the French president's pro-business agenda.
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Feb 06, 2019
A former senior Polish intelligence official, arrested with a Huawei Technologies employee last week, has been charged with spying for China while he worked in government with top-level access to Polish and allied intelligence.
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Feb 06, 2019
The octogenarian Italian businessman turned politician said he will run in the European Union parliamentary election. Mr. Berlusconi's pitch to Italians included a call to throw out the country's populist government and defend Europe's Christian roots.
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Feb 06, 2019
Concerns about China's state-backed capitalism are prompting the European Union to reassess its competition rules with an eye to allowing large mergers or a more muscular response to foreign competitors.
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Feb 06, 2019
Fresh U.S. efforts to enlist Europe in its pressure campaign against Iran faced a setback after officials said ministers from several European Union countries will likely skip a summit organized by Washington on Iran and the Middle East.
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Feb 06, 2019
The European Union made its opening bid in trade talks with the U.S., outlining a narrow goal of slashing tariffs on industrial goods, including motor vehicles, that sets the bloc on a collision course with Washington's broader agenda.
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Feb 05, 2019
U.K. stocks have become some of the most shunned assets in the world. One big reason: Investors have lost faith that a weaker pound will lift shares if Brexit takes a turn for the worse.
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Feb 05, 2019
The growing uncertainty surrounding the U.K.'s exit from Europe is hobbling the prime property market in central London as home buyers wrestle with ongoing political uncertainty.
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Feb 05, 2019
Europe's flagging economy got off to a weak start in 2019, as Italy showed few signs of emerging from recession and the uncertainty around Britain's exit from the European Union dragged on U.K. growth.
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Feb 05, 2019
Germany said it would step up efforts to shield important industries from foreign takeovers and competition, as it seeks to counter what it called growing protectionism in the U.S. and China.
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Feb 05, 2019
British businesses trading with the European Union can apply for a special status allowing them to circumvent some of the hurdles that a disruptive departure from the bloc could create, the U.K.'s tax authority said Monday.
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Feb 05, 2019
Much of Greek society has long been suspicious of U.S. power as a result of Washington's support for Greece's 1967-74 military dictatorship. Yet Greece's current government is cultivating the military ties.
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Feb 05, 2019
British lawmakers are set to vote this week on the terms of the divorce deal that Prime Minister Theresa May has spent two years hammering out with the European Union following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the bloc.
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Feb 05, 2019
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the bloc's economy was weakening unexpectedly amid rising headwinds originating outside the currency union, including an economic slowdown in China.
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Feb 05, 2019
The U.S. and many other large economies are set for a further slowdown this year, although there are signs of stabilization in China, according to leading indicators released by the OECD.
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Feb 05, 2019
Russia has stepped up criticism of U.S. efforts to implement a major arms treaty with an unusual message to lawmakers accusing Washington of undermining the New Start deal. The dispute comes as a separate arms treaty between the two sides is on the verge of collapse.
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Feb 05, 2019
British Prime Minister Theresa May likely faces a defeat in a vote Tuesday on her plan to leave the EU, setting the stage for further political turmoil that will test the U.K.'s historically stable political institutions.
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Feb 04, 2019
Poland is joining the U.S. in pressing its NATO allies to coordinate efforts to address security challenges from China after the arrest of two men on charges of spying for Beijing.
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Feb 04, 2019
The popular mayor of a major Polish city died after being stabbed during a public address, sparking an uproar in a country torn by political tensions between the conservative government and liberal opposition.
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Feb 04, 2019
Ahead of vital Brexit vote on Tuesday, many residents of U.K. manufacturing hubs closely linked to the bloc say they value their sovereignty above the economy.
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Feb 04, 2019
The U.S. and European Union are staking out sharply different goals for coming trade negotiations, raising the prospect for renewed trans-Atlantic commercial tensions.
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Feb 04, 2019
Polish officials are debating how to defuse any potential security threats related to Huawei after the bombshell arrest of an employee.
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Feb 03, 2019
Greece's unlikely governing coalition of left-wing and right-wing populists was thrown into disarray after the defense minister resigned, a move that added uncertainty to resolving the name-change deal with Macedonia.
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Feb 03, 2019
For the ninth consecutive Saturday, thousands of protesters clad in yellow reflective vests gathered in French cities in what is becoming a weekly test of the momentum of their antigovernment movement.
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Feb 03, 2019
Macedonia ratified a U.S.-backed deal with Greece to change its name to "North Macedonia," opening up a path to membership in NATO and the EU.
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Feb 03, 2019
Alpine countries across Europe are battling record snowfalls that have claimed the lives of over a dozen people and severed road and air access to entire communities.
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Feb 03, 2019
Polish authorities detained and charged a local sales director of Huawei, a Chinese national, with conducting high-level espionage on behalf of China, amid widening global scrutiny of the technology giant.
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Feb 03, 2019
Chinese telecom company Huawei fired a sales director who was arrested in Poland on espionage charges, saying he brought it "into disrepute."
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Feb 03, 2019
Iran said it has arrested a U.S. Navy veteran on charges it didn't disclose, a move that threatens to further strain relations between Washington and Tehran after the Trump administration reimposed sanctions last year on the Islamic Republic.
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Feb 03, 2019
The wife of a Norwegian multimillionaire real-estate tycoon was abducted more than two months ago, police said, gripping public attention in the rich Nordic country.
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Feb 03, 2019
A terrorism trial starting in Brussels on Thursday highlights the difficulties Europe's courts and prisons face containing the spread of jihadist ideology behind bars.
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Feb 03, 2019
Saudi Arabia priced a large international bond deal, drawing support from a roster of Western banks in the kingdom's first debt sale since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Feb 03, 2019
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used a speech in Cairo to rally the Arab world against Iran, casting the Islamic Republic as the Trump administration's top concern in the region at a pivotal moment in U.S.-Mideast relations.
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Feb 03, 2019
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is following the well-trodden path from politics to private equity. He will advise Switzerland's Partners Group on so-called impact investments.
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Feb 03, 2019
The Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission declared opposition leader Félix Tshisekedi as the winner of the December presidential election, a stunning announcement that contradicts an unofficial tally by the largest observer mission.
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Feb 02, 2019
The French government will take new measures to deter violence against police and damage to property as it seeks to corral the ‘yellow vest' movement, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said on Monday.
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Feb 02, 2019
Gun ownership is rising across Europe, a continent that until recently faced far less gun crime and violence than much of the globe, driven in part by insecurity arising from terrorist attacks.
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Feb 02, 2019
Fresh signs of a weakening German economy are raising fears that last year's slowdown could spill into 2019, deepening the challenges facing policy makers.
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Feb 02, 2019
President Trump's plans for a rapid withdrawal of American troops from Syria were thrown into disarray when Turkey's president rejected a request to protect U.S. allies fighting in the region, and instead threatened military strikes against them.
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Feb 02, 2019
Heathrow Airport, one of the world's busiest aviation hubs, temporarily halted departing flights late Tuesday after a nearby drone sighting, the second shuttering of a London airport due to drones in less than three weeks.
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Feb 02, 2019
The eurozone's unemployment rate fell to its lowest rate in more than a decade, a sign that the economic slowdown is unlikely to turn quickly into a recession, but rates in Southern Europe remain high.
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Feb 02, 2019
The British government plans to bolster counterdrone efforts and expand police enforcement against the misuse of unmanned aircraft after such devices caused massive disruptions at one of the country's largest airports.
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