November the 5th – for anyone unfamiliar with British customs – is the day each year when children across the UK gather around a bonfire, burn an ef
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Turkey – a de facto NATO-EuroMed member – moved a step closer in its bid to join the European Union after its government announced fresh talks with
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The exact location in Paris where France’s Middle East peace conference took place on June 3 was not announced in advance to the world’s media. The
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The name of the game is power politics. France was a major presence in the Middle East following the First World War, but has been on the retreat ev
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed rejection of a French peace initiative, telling the visiting French prime minister that peace
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On 16 February 2016 France formally endorsed the plan, originally outlined in December 2014 by its former foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, for an i
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“Nature abhors a vacuum”, observed the Greek philosopher Aristotle – a remark that, demonstrably valid, has entered into common parlance. Given US P
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Stadia have re-emerged as a preferred jihadist target in the wake of last weekend’s Islamic State (IS) bombing of the Stade de France stadium, a sho
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Zouhair, a security guard of immigrant background, was one of several security officers, who on Friday prevented three of the Paris suicide bombers
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[ezcol_1fifth][/ezcol_1fifth] [ezcol_3fifth] The Netherlands is set to impose new rules that would see asylum seekers cut off from food a
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