Outcry as the UK opts out of migrant rescue ��� as it happened
Rolling coverage of all the days political developments, including reaction to the UK cutting migrant rescue efforts and a Commons debate on whether Lord Freud should keep his job as welfare minister.. Mark Harper, the minister for disabled people, is now answering for the government (yes, hes returned to the frontbench already after resigning over the immigration status of his cleaner in February). He says Labour is being ���cynical��� in its attack on Lord Freud and��.
Retired garda denies witness was made to disappear in Bailey investigation
Retired garda Kevin Kelleher told the court there was no problem during the interviewing of Ms Thomas after her arrest in February 1997. He said there was no banging on tables or raised voices. It was a question and answer session, he said. He also.
RBS chief insists he doesnt want to offload Ulster Bank
No sale is expected to commence this year and European stress tests, whose results are due on October 26, could yet force PTSB to seek more Government aid - which remains a big hurdle to selling the bank, analysts have warned.. My preference has.
Sick man of Europe no more as Ireland bounced back
To replace it, the minister announced a so-called Knowledge Development Box allowing for tax breaks around patents. The Government has been wise to wait for the outcome of an examination of similar schemes in other European countries before .
Former PM Singh summoned in Indian coal fields scandal
Singh, whose Congress party conservatives lost office in last years federal election, was in charge of Indias coal ministry during his term as prime minister from 2004. Singh was questioned in January by Indias Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI.
Gates of Vienna: The ���Camp of the Saints��� Crisis
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said they estimate around 300 were aboard the boat after its staff spoke to the 51 survivors picked up in the Channel of Sicily, although some survivors put the figure as high as 370... Libya and North Africa, European commissioner for internal affairs Cecilia Malmstrom set up an action plan and asked for the solidarity of the 27 member States ahead of the Council of EU ministers of the Interior that will meet on Monday��.
Iraq and Iran: A plague on both their houses
Be that as it may, the crisis in Iraq, and indeed the ongoing violence in Syria, are not the sort of civil wars the Middle East has known for ages, nor just a religious bloodbath between Shiites and Sunnis ��� but a ���to the death��� struggle between two.
Ukraine crisis: deal signed in effort to end Kiev standoff.
EU ministers says Maidan council agrees truce as president Viktor Yanukovych offers early elections.. Hagel finally reaches Ukraines defense minister today after days of no one answering, sr official says. Updated at 10.31pm GMT... Concerned with the tragic loss of life in Ukraine, seeking an immediate end of bloodshed and determined to pave the way for a political resolution of the crisis, We, the signing parties, have agreed upon the following: 1. Within 48��.
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: The Invasion
Alternatively, the ���migration��� of large groups of people can be likened to that of pastoral nomads who move around without paying much attention to national borders as they seek pasturage for their flocks.. Asylum seekers: For those who wish to take advantage of the EUs human rights laws, this is the most useful term, since arrivals who are putatively seeking asylum gain preferential treatment and are much harder to deport than economic immigrants. 5. Boat��.
Islamic fundamentalism, the permanent threat
His matter-of-fact assessment offers cause for alarm, as does his warning that Israels leadership must carefully examine every step it takes in the direction of peace with the Arab world, and the PLO in particular, in order to avoid possible disaster.
Share plunge knocks ���2.8bn off Tesco after accounting scandal
. crisis risk. Saleha Mohsin The worlds biggest wealth manager has warned that the risks of a financial crisis are at an all time high as cheap money continues to be pumped out by central banks. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Photo.
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Few of Italys Rescued Migrants Wish to Stay. With fracking, the break-even oil price is much higher ��� above $50 a barrel for almost every U.S. shale-oil project, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (the price on the New York Mercantile Exchange for West. After OPEC succeeds in shutting down a lot of frackers (if it succeeds), the Saudis and friends would then presumably cut production and return global oil markets to a state of order and higher prices.
Britain exit from EU: Economist Colm McCarthy addressing Oireachtas.
Mr Cameron, seeking to put an end to decades of public and political division over Britains EU membership, has pledged to fight for reform in Europe and to put the changes to voters in a 2017 referendum, assuming he wins an election due in 2015.
Outcry as the UK opts out of migrant rescue ��� as it happened
Home Office ministers seem to be saying that European countries should deliberately turn our backs on those whose lives and safety are at risk in order to set an example for others... MPs are now tackling the Calais mayor about her comments blaming.
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Financial Crisis. �� Bailout Austerity Hurts the Most Vulnerable, Charity Says. �� EU Urges Common Ground In Greece Debt Battle. �� Italy: QE Only Tool Left For ECB, Bank Minutes Reveal. USA. �� A Complete Warrior: Navy Releases Chris Kyles Combat Records.. Britain Warned to Expect Boats Full of Terrorists As ISIS Tightens Grip on Libya and 2,000 Migrants Are Rescued From the Mediterranean. Pope Meets Coast Guard After Massive Immigrant Rescue.
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Also in the montage photo are pictures of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and ECB President Mario Draghi, who is depicted trying frenetically to bail water out of a boat made of a 20-euro bank. Italys seven biggest banks are seeking to borrow as much as 30.3 billion euros ($40 billion) in the European Central Banks first auction of cheap cash designed to boost loans to companies and individuals, according to people with��.
In Plain Language: En passant
One fall day, after a long trip abroad, Rabbi Shimon returned home late at night to find his wife sitting on the floor in a corner of their home, her eyes black with exhaustion and red from incessant crying. With one look, he knew some horrendous.
Germanwings investigators find torn-up sicknote in co-pilots.
Multiple European airlines have announced the immediate introduction of new rules for the cockpit that require requirement there to be two authorised people in the cockpit at all times.. The German Aviation Association (BDL), which represents the airline industry, released a statement saying that the airlines had voluntarily agreed to introduce the rule ���following the tragic accident in France.���.. Italian navy takes control of fishing boat seized by armed men. 9��.
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Financial Crisis. �� 16 Signs That Most Americans Are Not Prepared for the Coming Economic Collapse. �� Change EU Rules After Italy Reforms Says Renzi. �� More Americans Go Hungry Than All But 2 European Nations. �� Recession-Hit. Europe and the EU. �� British Minister Resigns in Expenses Scandal. �� Denmark: Shipworms Threaten Thousands of Underwater Archaeological Finds. �� EU States Lose Up to One-Third of Honeybees Per Year. �� Italy: Stand Firm��.
Breaking World News Latest Real-Time Updates
LONDON (Reuters) ��� The prospect of Scottish Nationalists holding sway over a minority Labour government is ���frightening���, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday, as polls suggested deadlock 18 days before an election.. PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) ��� As many as 700 people were feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, in what may be one of the worst disasters of the Mediterranean migrant crisis,��.
Rouble falls again despite Putins impassioned state of the union
Disappointing the hopes of many investors, he produced no grand plan to pull the economy out of a crisis aggravated by falling oil prices and Western sanctions over his policies toward Ukraine. Instead, he shifted blame for Russias problems onto the.
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All three countries plus Italy have advised their citizens to stay away from Yemen, due to the ongoing political crisis. The situation in the.. Hundreds of Migrants Feared Dead in Latest Mediterranean Tragedy: They Were Swallowed by the Waves. (Bloomberg) ��� Denmark, struggling to defend its currency peg against speculators, became the latest European nation to experience deflation as consumer prices fell on an annual basis for the first time since 1954.
Let private volunteers host asylum seekers, German MP urges
With other interested parties, I would like to write a letter to the state interior ministers with a request to add to their administrative regulations on refugee housing an extra option for private households to take in asylum-seekers.. Your.
Should Turkey be thrown out of NATO?
The Kurds of Turkey, Syria and Iraq have been seeking an independent state far longer than the Palestinians, and with a much stronger basis in law, diplomacy, morality and ethnic identity. Historically, the Turks have always had an answer to those who.
EU Ministers Seek Answers to Migrant Crisis After Boat Tragedy
European Union foreign ministers meet on Monday as Europe races to address a growing humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean Sea that critics say their governments helped to create. The emergency meeting follows the sinking late Saturday off the.
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: A Strategy for Surrender
Up until now the European establishment has tried to contain the crisis in Italy, with other nations of the EU ��� particularly France ��� insisting that despite the ���borderless��� nature of the Schengen Area, no migrants must cross the border. In his statements after the Meeting, the Cypriot Minister said that the EU Mediterranean states faced with disproportionate mass immigration flows should not and cannot be left alone in dealing with the challenges caused by the recent��.
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: Letting Diplomacy Work
Theres no suggestion of what caused the ���truce��� ��� whether the Tunisian government was somehow persuaded to prevent the boats from leaving, and somehow managed to succeed in doing so. But in any case, the flow has started again. During the lull, the European migration crisis moved up to the diplomatic level, as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and French President Nicolas Sarkozy met in a summit to discuss the tensions between the two countries over��.
CONFESSIONS OF AN ERRATIC MARXIST IN THE MIDST.
Thousands of anti-austerity demonstrators in Athens Syntagma Square, staff at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Green Parliamentarians in the European Parliament, Bloomberg analysts in London and New York, schoolchildren in. If my prognosis is correct, and the European crisis is not just another cyclical slump soon to be overcome as the rate of profit picks up following the inevitable wage squeeze, the question that arises for radicals is this: Should we��.
German Finance Minister Tells EU Leaders: Free Money.
Hot on the heels of Mario Draghis demands that EU leaders undertake structural reforms to boost competitiveness and overcome the legacy of Europes debt crisis, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble unleashed perhaps the most worrisome. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Schaeuble blasted Europe needs to find ways to foster growth, adding that the ECB has reached the limit in helping the Euro Area.. As WSJ notes, the French are seeking aid.
CMO: Chipotles Successful Because Its Been Very Consistent
Chipotle, the food industrys fastest-rising star, reported earnings Monday that far exceeded Wall Streets expectations. Despite higher menu prices because of some food supply shortages, Chipotles burritos (from the bowl-sheathed varieties to the .
Gates of Vienna: Camp of the Saints: The Blame Game
The rescue boats did not have the capacity to rescue all of the migrants from the stranded migrant boat and some people jumped into the water and others moved to one side of the migrant boat causing it to capsize. Media pictures show the.. Ms May, after holding talks with her French counterpart, the interior minister, Claude Gu��ant, said joint operations between Britain and France had cut the number of people trying to get to this country from Calais. ���Continued��.
A mere $25 buys an illegal crossing on Turkish border with Syria
That boundary, marked in places only by waist-high barbed wire and empty watch towers, has for almost three years been a key conduit for weapons and foreign fighters seeking to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad. The biggest users were members of the .