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German investor confidence back on rise in January

  • FRANKFURT AM MAIN, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Confidence among investors in Europe’s largest economy, Germany, picked up in January, a closely-watched survey showed Tuesday, defying political uncertainty across the eurozone. After plateauing in December, the ZEW institute’s investor confidence index increased 2.8 points to 16.6 points in January. But analysts surveyed by Factset had predicted an even […]

  • Italy’s Tajani wins support to head European Parliament

    STRASBOURG, France, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Italy’s Antonio Tajani was a step closer to becoming the new head of the European Parliament Tuesday after winning the backing of the assembly’s fourth-biggest group. The head of the parliament’s Liberal group, former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt, pulled out of the race and threw his support behind Tajani in […]

  • Fukushima ‘voluntary’ evacuees to lose housing support

    TOKYO, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Thousands of Japanese evacuees from Fukushima should keep getting free housing, supporters said Tuesday, as the local government readies to yank support offered after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Some 27,000 so-called voluntary evacuees — people who chose to leave their homes in the region after the 2011 accident due to […]

  • Germany’s top court rejects bid to ban far-right NPD

    KARLSRUHE, Germany, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Germany’s highest court Tuesday rejected a bid to ban the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), arguing that the xenophobic fringe party does not pose a real threat to the democratic order. “The request has been rejected,” said Constitutional Court top judge Andreas Vosskuhle about the bid to ban the […]

  • May to rule out ‘half-in’ EU deal in Brexit speech

    LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday is expected to say she favours a clean break from the European Union, dismissing a “half-in, half-out” Brexit deal with Brussels. In a highly-anticipated speech, May is likely to give further signals that Britain is heading to what analysts call a “hard” Brexit. “Not partial […]

  • Syria peace talks in Astana meant to ‘consolidate’ ceasefire: Lavrov

    MOSCOW, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that one of the goals of upcoming Syria peace talks in the Kazakh capital was to consolidate the frail truce in the war-torn country. “One of the objectives of the meeting in Astana is first of all to consolidate the ceasefire,” Lavrov said at his […]