BERLIN — Germany’s supreme court has dismissed another challenge to a European Union-Canada trade deal that was signed late last year following tortuous negotiations. The Federal Constitutional Court in October rejected calls from opponents of the trade deal, known as CETA, to issue an injunction forcing the German government to withhold its approval of the
Taiwan objected on Thursday to a Nigerian request to the island to relocate its representative office in the African country, a request Taiwan sees as more pressure by China to isolate it. Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province, ineligible for state-to-state relations, and to be taken back by force if necessary, especially if it makes moves toward independence. Taiwan has no diplomatic ties with Nigeria, but has an office for handling business affairs in Abuja.
Читать дальше...ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Thursday stayed the execution of a mentally ill convict who was sentenced to death in 2003 for murdering a fellow police officer over a land dispute, a rights group said. The order from the Lahore High Court came just days before the scheduled execution of 55-year-old ex-police officer Khizar
The nation acts as a case study for industries with a culture of long hours
The England midfielder has been in impressive form for Liverpool this season, leading Luis Enrique to step up and take interest in the 28-year-old
Explosions can be heard a few blocks away but butcher Haj Fawzi is wielding his cleaver again as he greets customers at a reopened market in liberated east Mosul. "What we would still need is to be able to come and go freely to get our supplies," said Haj Ramzi, who runs another butcher's shop facing his brother's. The entire area around the city is a military area, where tens of thousands of Iraqi forces are closing in on die-hard jihadists from the Islamic State group defending their last major Iraqi bastion. Читать дальше...
Jazz musicians from Canberra and elsewhere will pay tribute to several past masters as well as performing their own compositions.
Retired UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon returned to South Korea Thursday as momentum builds around his possible run in elections to succeed impeached President Park Geun-Hye.
HAAKSBERGEN - Burak Basut was een van de vier nieuwkomers die eersteklasser SVZW binnen 24 uur bekendmaakte. De verdediger komt momenteel nog uit voor HSC’21, in de derde divisie. „Sportief ga ik er inderdaad niet op vooruit”, erkent Basut, die drie jaar geleden de overstap van Luctor et Emergo naar Haaksbergen maakte.
The U.S. dropped an average of three bombs an hour in 2016 — a total of 26,171 explosive devices dropped in seven countries in the past year, a report found. The report published last week comes at the close of President Barack Obama’s second term as he prepares to hand power over to his successor, Donald Trump.
WARSAW, Poland — American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream some Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have U.S. troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia. Some people waved and held up American flags as U.S. troops in tanks and other vehicles crossed into southwestern
New OSCE chairman Sebastian Kurz has declared he wants to build bridges in Europe and lift anti-Russian sanctions, but it remains to be seen whether he can repeat his successful handling of the recent migrant crisis, Austrian commentator Stefan Haderer wrote.
President-elect Donald Trump has said he would simultaneously repeal and replace 'Obamacare', as he sought to quell all speculation over the signature programme of outgoing US President Barack Obama.
Leonard Snart (Wentworth Miller), a.k.a. Captain Cold, is going to have a completely different dynamic with Mick (Dominic Purcell) and Sara (Caity Lotz) when he shows up once again in Season 2 of “Legends of Tomorrow.” In an interview with Entertainment Weekly at the Television Critics Association’s press tour on Wednesday, Miller said that he thinks Leonard is a “straight up villain” when Mick, Sara and the rest of the Legends meet him again.
German economy grew by 1.9 percent of the gross domestic product amid a large number of people seeking refuge immigrated, which resulted in considerable costs, according to the federal statistics office Destatis.
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Milner Library at Illinois State University has received a $268,000 award to digitize a collection of circus route books dating back to the 19th century.
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Milner Library at Illinois State University has received a $268,000 award to digitize a collection of circus route books dating back to the 19th century.
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Milner Library at Illinois State University has received a $268,000 award to digitize a collection of circus route books dating back to the 19th century.
(AP) — Milner Library at Illinois State University has received a $268,000 award to digitize a collection of circus route books dating back to the 19th century. Milner Library will work with Circus World in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, to digitize 315 circus books from their collections and create a single portal to access the information.
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Milner Library at Illinois State University has received a $268,000 award to digitize a collection of circus route books dating back to the 19th century.
LONDON — Dimitri Payet is not for sale, according to West Ham manager Slaven Bilic. The France midfielder said he no longer wants to play for the Premier League club, but Bilic urged Payet to show the same “commitment and determination” West Ham did by giving him a new contract through June 2021 last year.
Italy's fifth-largest bank UBI Banca said it would launch a share issue of up to 400m euros to strengthen its capital.
