BERLIN, (APP/AFP): Germany on Thursday proposed limiting access to welfare benefits for EU immigrants, after Britain won the right to impose such curbs in controversial reforms to its ties with the bloc. Under a draft law drawn up by Labour Minister Andrea Nahles, unemployed European citizens living in Germany would qualify for social assistance only […]
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Germany calls for welfare curbs for EU immigrants
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Ukraine at UN seeks to shore up ceasefire
UNITED NATIONS, United States, (APP/AFP): Ukraine told the UN Security Council on Thursday that a fragile ceasefire must be strengthened before progress can be achieved in political talks on solving the two-year conflict in the country’s east. Deputy Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said the Orthodox Easter holiday on Sunday would provide an opportunity to shore […]
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Mexico’s chief investigator probed over missing case
MEXICO CITY, (APP/AFP): The Mexican attorney general’s office has launched a probe of its own chief investigator over his handling of a key crime scene in the much-criticized case of 43 students who disappeared in 2014. The inspector general opened an investigation on Wednesday into officials present at a river in southern Guerrero state on […]
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British foreign minister visits Cuba in first such trip since 1959
LONDON, (APP/AFP): Britain’s foreign minister arrived in Cuba on Thursday in the first such visit since 1959, to hold talks on cooperation in “financial services, energy, culture and education”, London announced. “As the first British Foreign Secretary to visit Cuba since before the Cuban Revolution in 1959, this is an opportunity to hear for myself […]
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Gambia prosecutors file new charge against opposition leader
BANJUL, Gambia, (APP/AFP): Gambian prosecutors Thursday charged opposition leader Ousaniou Darboe and 19 other activists arrested for unlawful assembly and rioting with a new charge of conspiracy to commit a felony. Darboe, leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), and his 19 co-defendants, including a new accused Masanneh Lalo Jawla, all pleaded not guilty to […]
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Venezuela opposition claims million signatures against president
CARACAS, (APP/AFP): Venezuela’s opposition tried to sack the food minister Thursday for shortages in the crisis-hit country and claimed a million people backed its call for a referendum to remove the president. President Nicolas Maduro promptly rejected the demand, the latest offensive in the battle to replace the government over a crisis that has families […]