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Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who will oversee Thursday’s election for president for the next two and a half years, says that consultations over the past week have shown “very solid support” for Tusk.

U.S. Marines were deployed to the area near Raqqa this week, and ISIS supply routes to the city have been cut off.

The attack on Tusk, made in a letter to governments of the 28-member bloc, came a day ahead of a Brussels summit where leaders were expected to rubberstamp a new two-year mandate for the former Polish premier.

Guy Verhofstadt, who is tasked with thrashing out a Brexit deal, said that he hoped to convince other European leaders to allow Britons to keep certain EU rights if they apply for them on an individual basis.

Recently, U.S. forces in Manbij in northern Syria have acted as a barrier between Kurdish and Turkish forces. With all sides pushing into terrorist-held territory, the potential for clashes between the players is rising.

Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the commander of US and coalition forces in Syria and Iraq, said last March 1 that within the previous two days Syrian regime forces had advanced to “essentially rifle-range or hand-grenade range” of USA -backed Syrian Arab Coalition...

After a death-rumour-filled 49-day vacation, President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Nigeria this morning.

Writing last week, the team said: “We expect Mario Draghi to acknowledge that the downside risks to the economic outlook have ebbed in recent weeks, but partly thanks to the upcoming elections, he will probably stress that the overall balance of risks is still tilted to the...

I would say that it takes me at least 3 to 4 days to catch up with the real world after the time change.

NOK – a disappointingly low CPI today rips NOK for further losses and sees EURNOK suddenly poking at the range high stretching back to last fall and the 200-day moving average at 9.12. But Mnuchin, who is ultimately responsible for foreign exchange policy, has yet to make...

The ballot in the northern state represents the most important electoral test that Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has faced since winning the 2014 general election.

10 March: Constitutional Court upholds Parliament’s vote to impeach Ms Park, removing her from office.

However, while the BJP is the lead, by and large polls are predicting a hung house scenario in all states. If the results on 11 March do turn out as predicted by exit polls, expect the markets to rise and possibly even breach previous historical levels. He has created a class...

Spicer concluded by saying that the government’s top priority is to assure the best deal for the American people, even when it seems that most health care related group do not think that this, in fact, is the best deal. Meanwhile, a group of health researchers calculated...

Trump on the campaign trail had referred to the unemployment rate as “a phony number”, a “joke”, and “one of the biggest hoaxes in American modern politics”, claiming the actual unemployment rate is closer to 18 to 35 percent (he’s...