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France rejects asylum request by Wikileaks founder Assange

YoopyaJul 3, 2015July 2, 20230

France swiftly rejected on Friday a request for asylum by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The founder of the transparency website had appealed directly to President

French police clash with migrants as ferry strike causes chaos in Calais

YoopyaJun 24, 2015July 1, 20230

People face off with drivers and gendarmes in attempts to board lorries en route to UK as industrial action creates huge lines of trucks entering

François Hollande holds emergency meeting after WikiLeaks claims US spied on three French presidents

YoopyaJun 24, 2015July 2, 20230

NSA documents appear to show that American agents spied on Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Hollande, even listening to their phone calls. The French president,

As Vladimir Putin Talks More Missiles and Might, Cost Tells Another Story

YoopyaJun 18, 2015July 2, 20230

KUBINKA, Russia — They call it Russia’s military Disneyland, and the underlying idea that Russia will soon field a high-tech, modernized army was indeed part

EU nations strongly divided over plan to take in migrants

YoopyaJun 16, 2015July 1, 20230

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — European Union nations failed to bridge differences Tuesday over an emergency plan to share the burden of the thousands of refugees crossing

Six Ukrainian servicemen killed, 14 wounded in past 24 hours

YoopyaJun 13, 2015July 2, 20230

Six Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 14 wounded in separatist eastern territory in the past 24 hours, despite a four-month-old ceasefire deal, the Ukrainian

Are Ukraine and the U.S. allies or not?

YoopyaJun 11, 2015July 1, 20230

At this critical moment for the future of Ukrainian, European and U.S. interests in the region, the U.S.-Ukraine strategic partnership lacks both strategy and partnership.

Can Pope Francis Work a Vladimir Putin Miracle?

YoopyaJun 11, 2015July 1, 20230

The pope can use his partnership with Putin to take a lead in foreign affairs In light of Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin meeting Wednesday

France’s Nicolas Sarkozy rebrands UMP party as “Les Republicains”

YoopyaJun 1, 2015July 8, 20230

Nicolas Sarkozy has sought to get his centre-right UMP party a facelift by rebranding it ‘Les Republicains’ two years before the French presidential elections. The

International effort rescues over 5,000 Mediterranean migrants

YoopyaJun 1, 2015July 8, 20230

The corpses of 17 migrants were brought ashore in Sicily aboard an Italian naval vessel on Sunday along with 454 survivors as efforts intensified to