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EU’s political disputes set to increase says Hungarian official

Published: January 18, 2020, 8:30 am

BudapestThe Hungarian government fully expects the upcoming period in European politics to be teeming with disputes, an official of the Prime Minister’s Office told public radio.

No 20/20 vision, but the South African picture is getting clearer

Published: January 18, 2020, 8:24 am

The notion of 20/20 vision refers to a clear vision over a distance of twenty feet. Now, I certainly do not have a clear vision of what can be expected for 2020, but slowly a picture is emerging, and it is not a pretty one. I want to ease into the bad news, so let’s start with a thin silver lining.

Marine Le Pen announces her candidacy for 2022

Published: January 17, 2020, 6:40 am

Nanterre The president of the National Rally will try her luck to enter the Élysée palace as the resident for the third consecutive time.

Finland: Human trafficking at record high

Published: January 17, 2020, 6:00 am

HelsinkiFinland's Migration Board has released data showing that the number of human trafficking victims has risen more than six times in only five years. Migrants are involved in most of these cases.

France: 41 percent ‘ignore’ news

Published: January 17, 2020, 5:45 am

A survey carried out for a newspaper shows a growing distrust of the French towards the media.

Thunberg’s messages are written by her father bug reveals

Published: January 16, 2020, 2:53 pm

A Facebook bug revealed that messages posted by Greta Thunberg were in fact written by her father and not herself as she has claimed.

US lured Soleimani into Irak ‘to discuss peace’ — regional media

Published: January 16, 2020, 1:41 pm

On January 3, the United States killed Iran's most important commander, Qassem Soleimani. According to Kuwaiti media, which cite Iraq's prime minister as a source, Soleimani was invited by the prime minister at the request of the United States to mediate with Iran. When Soleimani left Baghdad's airport, he was bombed by a US drone along with the entire receiving Iraqi delegation. The United States then announced that it would stop fighting the Islamic State and focus instead on the forces with which it had been allied in the fight against IS. Iraq's parliament has voted to expel the US from Iraq, something the US refuses to obey.

Is Brussels preparing to ‘poison’ rice?

Published: January 16, 2020, 8:34 am

RomeBrussels proposes halving the cadmium limits in rice, with the risk of increasing the concentration of arsenic.

Matzneff affair in France exposes opportunism of leftists

Published: January 16, 2020, 8:13 am

ParisShe was very critical in 1990 when some had expressed outrage over Gabriel Matzneff's ideas on his relationships with young adolescents, but the leftist author Christine Angot has since done an about-face, fearing a backlash in public opinion.

Gang rapes: Number of foreign suspects in Germany increasing

Published: January 16, 2020, 7:47 am

BerlinThe proportion of foreign suspects in gang rapes in Germany has increased significantly in the past five years. This is despite the fact that the total number of suspects decreased between 2015 and 2017.