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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to address the UN Security Council on Venezuela after the United States requested an urgent meeting for Saturday
World
10.08.2024
US requests UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela
"The leadership should be an example for the Madagascan people," Rajoelina said, demanding "rapid results" from the new government
World
10.08.2024
Madagascar's new president unveils streamlined cabinet
Critics of a bill in the Netherlands giving Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government emergency powers in the event of a no-deal Brexit say it would undermine the Dutch constitution
World
10.08.2024
Dutch government seeks emergency Brexit powers
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Davos: 'For Russia, this election is a final chance to get its revenge'
World
10.08.2024
In Davos, fears of Russian interference in Ukraine election
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The possibility of an international deal to tax US tech giants is sensitive, as countries threaten to go it alone and Europe is divided on the issue
World 10.08.2024
OECD hopes for global digital tax by 2020
Charlotte Knobloch said she had received "coarse verbal abuse, threats and insults by email and telephone almost by the minute" since calling the German far-right AfD party a threat to democracy
World 10.08.2024
German Jewish leader 'threatened' after criticising far-right AfD
The Saudi presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos "is deeply distressing", Amnesty International chief Kumi Naidoo told AFP on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the global elite in the Swiss Alps
World 10.08.2024
Activists wary of Saudi Davos welcome after Khashoggi murder
A combination of file pictures shows (clockwise from top L) the Doomsday Clock on January 25, 2018; on January 26, 2017; on January 26, 2016; on January 22, 2015; on January 10, 2012; and on January 14, 2010
World 10.08.2024
Information wars endanger civilization, say 'Doomsday' experts
Khashoggi was murdered on in Turkey in what Saudi Arabia called a "rogue" operation
World 10.08.2024
Activists wary of Saudi Davos welcome after Khashoggi murder
In unprecedented scenes, suspects have been hauled into court by the truckload, then denied bail and immediately put on trial in many cases -- some before they are given access to lawyers
World 10.08.2024
Mass protester trials put spotlight on Zimbabwe's judiciary
The Dutch parliament debated a controversial bill granting Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government emergency powers to deal with problems caused if a no-deal Brexit severs trade and customs ties overnight between Britain and the EU
World 10.08.2024
Dutch hospitals warn of risk to patients from no-deal Brexit
Demonstrators in Caracas rally against Nicolas Maduro, who the United States has declared to be illegimate as the president of Venezuela
World 10.08.2024
Pompeo warns Venezuela's Maduro against use of force
Old and new: Outgoing president Joseph Kabila, left, shakes hands with successor Felix Tshisekedi at Thursday's inauguration
World 10.08.2024
Tshisekedi vows to act on human rights as DR Congo's new president
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