LONDON, (APP/AFP) – Gold prices surged Friday to the highest level in more than two years following Britain’s shock decision to leave the European Union. The precious metal spiked as high as $1,359.08 per ounce — the highest level since March 19, 2014 — before settling at $1,318.80 around 0650 GMT. Investors flocked to the […]
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Gold strikes two-year high on Brexit vote
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Obama expected to speak to Cameron after Brexit vote
WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP) – US President Barack Obama is expected to speak to British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, the White House said. “The President has been briefed on the incoming returns in the UK referendum, and he will continue to be updated by his team as […]
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Marine Le Pen hails Brexit, calls for French referendum
PARIS, (APP/AFP) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Friday hailed Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and called for a similar referendum in France. “Victory for Freedom! As I have been asking for years we must now have the same referendum in France and EU countries,” the National Front (FN) leader tweeted.
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Missile test could give N. Korea ICBM by 2020: US think-tank
SEOUL, (APP/AFP) – North Korea’s test of a new medium-range missile could help the nuclear-armed state develop an operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of striking the US mainland by 2020, a US think-tank said Friday. The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University said Wednesday’s test of a so-called Musudan missile was a “partial success” […]
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Cameron’s luck runs out as EU vote puts future on line
LONDON, (APP/AFP) – Prime Minister David Cameron may go down in history as the man who led Britain out of the European Union, with a strong chance that he will not survive the country’s political earthquake. As Britain voted to become the first state ever to withdraw from the bloc on Thursday, according to national […]
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Gunman killed by police after storming German cinema
VIERNHEIM, Germany, (APP/AFP) – A masked gunman barricaded himself in a German multiplex cinema with dozens of people Thursday before being killed by police on high security alert following a string of attacks around Europe, officials said. No-one else was injured at the complex in the western town of Viernheim, 75 kilometres (50 miles) south […]