Ahead of the early UK general election, due on December 12, the pro-EU opposition Liberal Democrats, Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru…
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Overseas rugby and cricket players in Brexit limbo
“Kolpak” rugby and cricket players risk being barred from UK sport after the EU has failed to renew an international…
Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky dies aged 76
Vladimir Bukovsky, a prominent Russian dissident who spent 12 years in Soviet prisons, forced-labour camps and psychiatric hospitals until 1976,…
Pro-union Catalans rally against independence
A huge pro-union Catalan protest was held in Barcelona yesterday (Sunday), a day after two pro-independence rallies. Police said yesterday’s…
Brexit exposes a system unfit for purpose
Several times in the last 30 years the UK has had governments completely unfit for power, visibly exhausted and devoid…
Spain braced for dictator’s removal from giant tomb
Spain’s Socialist government has today (Thursday) ordered for the 1.5-tonne slab that has covered dictator General Francisco Franco’s tomb to…
Spain’s female to strike over €8,000 annual pay offer
Almost 200 top-flight women’s footballers have voted to go on strike over pay and working conditions. The vote won 93-per-cent…
23 Oct 2019
Four charged over Slovakia journalist murder
22 Oct 2019
Spain prepares to move Franco’s corpse
21 Oct 2019
Germany’s Pegida faces counter protest in Dresden
20 Oct 2019
N Macedonia PM wants early election after EU snub
19 Oct 2019
Pro-EU UK MPs look to force Brexit extension
17 Oct 2019
Populists in Poland and Hungary suffer setbacks
17 Oct 2019
UK PM Johnson looks to make Brexit delay request
16 Oct 2019
Catalonia burns after heavy jail terms in Spain
16 Oct 2019