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French President Emmanuel Macron said that the nominations for the European Union’s top posts were the result of efforts to build consensus between nations and political groups. Macron defended the decision to appoint German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen to head up the Commission and IMF chief Christine Lagarde as the new European Central Bank governor. On acting Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, who was elected European Council President, Macron said he valued the fact that he originated from a country that is “a member of the euro zone and of the Schengen area”. Macron added that Europe should…

“Israel is a miraculous country says Ambassador David Friedman.” LoveWorld President, Reverend (Dr.) Chris Oyakhilome, in a special “Your LoveWorld” TV episode, held an exclusive interview with the US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. Opening the discussion, Pastor Chris questions Ambassador Friedman about his impressions to the reactions and backlash experienced in the last year since the US announced it would be moving its diplomatic mission to the officially recognized capital of Jerusalem. In his response, Friedman reflected on the successful year, citing the peaceful and tranquil transition of the embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He asserted that…

Portuguese Maritime Police rescued 37 migrants including children from a dinghy in the Aegean sea and transported them to the island of Lesbos in Greece. Two babies, five children and 12 women including two pregnant women were among those rescued. They said they had come from Afghanistan and Iraq. Irregular sea arrivals from the Middle East and North Africa have dropped from over 1 million in 2015 to a little over 140,000 people last year, United Nations data shows, with fewer than 23,000 refugees and migrants crossing the sea to Europe so far this year. This week rights group the…

Mobile phone customers can now switch providers with a single free text under new rules which have come into effect. At the moment, customers have to phone their mobile provider when they want to switch to a new firm. They are then given a porting authorisation code (PAC) to give to a new provider if they want to keep the same phone number. But watchdog Ofcom says the need to speak to a provider can be one of the main factors stopping people switching.

European Union leaders were locked in negotiations all night over the bloc’s top jobs, but as day broke on Monday there was still no deal on who should lead its executive as political groups jockeyed for influence. When the leaders of the EU’s 28 member-states gathered for the emergency summit on Sunday, Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans was in pole position to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as the next European Commission president, under a deal hatched on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan last week. However, the plan encountered stiff opposition from eastern European states as well as the centre-right…

Boris Johnson, the favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister, said on Monday during a visit to a garden centre in southern England was the impact of leaving the European Union without a deal would be “very, very small”, and added that he had a very carefully costed programme of spending plans. The former foreign minister repeated his message that he did not think Britain would leave the European Union without agreement, but that there were many ways to mitigate the effect of a no-deal Brexit and its impact would be “very, very small”. Both Hunt and Johnson have said…

The European Union’s push to bring Italy into line with the bloc’s fiscal rules intensified on Thursday (June 13) as top officials called for new measures to address budget shortfalls and raised concerns for the euro zone’s stability from Rome’s high debt. Eurogroup President Mario Centeno warned Italian authorities they must clarify how they will comply with EU debt rules ahead of a meeting of the eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg, adding the stability of the euro zone is dependent on how Italy proceeds. Arriving for the same meeting, European Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said the Commission was ready to…

Greeks go to the polls next Sunday in a snap election widely viewed as a two-horse race between incumbent leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and opposition conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis, scion of a powerful political family. The conservatives are expected to ride a wave of anger over continuing austerity measures to seize power from Tsipras’s leftists. Syriza stormed to power in 2015 on the back of a popular backlash against painful economic reforms in the crisis-hit country, which has required billions in bailouts from foreign lenders since 2010, but shortly after gaining power on an anti-austerity platform, Tsipras, 44, was forced…

North Korea’s state-run television KRT broadcast video footage showing leader Kim Jong Un meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas. The video showed Trump stepping briefly across the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) on Sunday (June 30) that divides the Korean Peninsula before bringing Kim into Freedom House on the southern side for an hour-long meeting. The drama was magnified by the choice of the Panmunjom truce village as the venue for his meeting with Kim, where 66 years ago Americans and North Koreans huddled to draw up the Military Demarcation Line…

European Union leaders were locked in negotiations all night over the bloc’s top jobs, but as day broke on Monday there was still no deal on who should lead its executive as political groups jockeyed for influence. When the leaders of the EU’s 28 member-states gathered for the emergency summit on Sunday, Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans was in pole position to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as the next European Commission president, under a deal hatched on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan last week. However, the plan encountered stiff opposition from eastern European states as well as the centre-right…