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May postpones vote on Brexit to avoid defeat

Yesterday afternoon Theresa May announced that the House of Commons vote on Brexit that was supposed to take place today will be postponed. Hours later the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk,...

Spain breaks promise to driving instructors

RUSSIA

Activist Liudmila Alekséieva, dead in Russia at 91

Russia’s longest serving and best known defender of human rights, Soviet ex-dissident, Liudmila Alekséiva, died yesterday, in Moscow, at age 91, according to the Presidential Council of Russia for Civil...

CHINA

Huawei affair creating a diplomatic storm

The extradition order for the Huawei VP and daughter of the founder, Meng Wanzhou, has created a diplomatic shockwave between the USA and China. The Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs summoned the American...

Leo Messi against Espanyol: “The Sniper”

Leo Messi is back to demonstrating why he is football’s number one, scoring from a free-kick not once but twice in Saturday’s derby match in Cornella de Llobregat. With four such goals this season,...

EUROPE

Flemish party leaves Belgian government

The government of Belgium is left having to find replacements for three cabinet minsters and two secretaries of state, as the Flemish Nationalist party NV-A has left the executive in protest over Belgium’s...

POINT MADE

Macron’s souflé collapses

Emmanuel Macron got into the Elysée Palace thanks to a crisis of credibility in the traditional French parties. Young and telegenic, he was presented to the public as a regenerator of politics, who eschewed...

Tories on the brink of a party split over May’s Brexit deal

“I don’t expect a fair trial”

art

Yuri Rodekin through the looking-glass