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Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is officially complete
Mar23

Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is officially complete

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. The Justice Department official said on Friday that the special counsel had submitted a report of his findings to Attorney General William Barr. Now, Barr and his team will begin the process of...

[Ticker] Dutch anti-EU party surges in provincial vote
Mar21

[Ticker] Dutch anti-EU party surges in provincial vote

The Dutch anti-EU, anti-immigration party Forum for Democracy is expected to enter the 75-seat upper-house senate with 12 representatives, after provincial elections Wednesday. The three-year-old party, which began as think tank opposed to an EU-Ukraine treaty, is however unlikely to unseat the four-party centrist-centre-right coalition led by...

World leaders urge Joe Biden to run
Mar20

World leaders urge Joe Biden to run

When former U.S. vice president Joe Biden attended the annual Munich Security Conference last month, the wonky foreign policy confab promised an escape from the nonstop speculation back home about the former vice president’s political plans. Instead, Biden’s potential 2020 intentions to run for U.S. president were the talk of the...

Italy plans scaled-back Silk Road agreement
Mar20

Italy plans scaled-back Silk Road agreement

ROME — The Italian government is preparing to sign a watered-down version of a “One Belt, One Road” deal with China this week. Rome’s prospective deal with China on trade and infrastructure investment, whose terms remain under discussion, has triggered objections from Washington as well as Brussels about giving support to a country that the...

Theresa May has a bigger problem than John Bercow
Mar19

Theresa May has a bigger problem than John Bercow

A majority in the House of Commons can do anything. That is the British constitution. A majority can ignore a referendum. A majority can vote to leave the EU. It can ignore international law or even become North Korea if it so wants. Theresa May’s problem is less the ruling Monday from Speaker John Bercow that she cannot keep bringing her...

Brexit delay shreds Theresa May’s strategy
Mar19

Brexit delay shreds Theresa May’s strategy

LONDON — The world could look very different by the end of the week. Despite fevered speculation in Westminster about the prospect of a third vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal, the stark reality facing MPs over the next 48 hours is that if EU leaders agree later this week to extend Article 50, Brexit is automatically delayed — and March 29...

UK Brexit secretary: Government still wants third Brexit deal vote
Mar19

UK Brexit secretary: Government still wants third Brexit deal vote

The U.K. government will continue its attempts to secure MPs’ backing for Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal and seek to bring it back for a third so-called meaningful vote, despite Monday’s intervention by the House of Commons speaker barring such a move unless the deal is “substantially” changed, Brexit Secretary Stephen...

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil | Krym.Realii – Ukraine
Mar19

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil | Krym.Realii – Ukraine

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Debate: Has the world accepted the Crimea annexation?
Mar19

Debate: Has the world accepted the Crimea annexation?

On March 18, 2014 Vladimir Putin signed the agreement on Crimea joining the Russian Federation – two days after a controversial referendum. Still today much of the international community still regards the peninsula not as part of Russia but as Ukrainian territory. Commentators describe what has changed on the ground since the annexation....

[Ticker] Russia celebrates fifth anniversary of Crimea annexation
Mar19

[Ticker] Russia celebrates fifth anniversary of Crimea annexation

Russian president Vladimir Putin marked the fifth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea with a visit to the region where Monday was officially been declared the “Day of Crimea’s Reunification with Russia” public holiday. The EU commented that “we do not, and will not recognise this violation of international...