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Canada To Introduce Legislation To ‘Protect’ The Transgendered

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will introduce legislation to protect transgender people from discrimination, the prime minister said on Monday, as the political debate around such rights heats up in the United States. Recently elected Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said

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Hong Kong On High Alert For Chinese Visit As Independence Calls Grow

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Authorities worried about increasingly strident calls for Hong Kong independence are taking no chances ahead of a rare visit from one of China’s top ranking officials, shutting down swathes of the city and reportedly gluing down

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UN Urges Greece To Stop Detaining Migrant Children

A top United Nations official urged Greece on Monday to stop detaining refugee and migrant children, some of whom are locked up in police cells for weeks, and to develop child protection services instead. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the

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Stretched And Stressed, French Police Prepare For Euro 2016

PARIS, May 16 (Reuters) – France’s stretched police force has had to contend with two militant attacks in a year and regular street protests, and now it faces the task of keeping millions of soccer fans safe when the country

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Merkel’s Coalition Partner Praises About-Turn On Refugees

(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner accused her of doing an about-turn on her refugee policy since she opened Germany’s borders to thousands of migrants in September. German Vice Chancellor and Social Democrats (SPD) leader Sigmar Gabriel

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German Government Plans To Spend 93.6 Billion On Refugees By 2020

(Reuters) – Germany’s government expects to spend around 93.6 billion euros (74 billion pounds) by the end of 2020 on costs related to the refugee crisis, a magazine said on Saturday, citing a draft from the federal finance ministry for

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POLL: Public Trust In Cameron Plummets Over Brexit

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron is struggling to convince voters he is telling the truth about why Britain should stay in the European Union and his main “Out” rival Boris Johnson is doing a better job, an opinion

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Australia Reaffirms Hard-Line Immigration Policy

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Saturday defended its hardline immigration policy after two asylum-seeker deaths, weeks of protests and several medical evacuations from a camp in the tiny Pacific Island nation of Nauru. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Australia’s policy

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Germany ‘To Spend €93.6 Billion On Migrants By End Of 2020’

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s government expects to spend around 93.6 billion euros by the end of 2020 on costs related to the refugee crisis, a magazine said on Saturday, citing a draft from the federal finance ministry for negotiations with

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Hezbollah Blames Rebel Shelling for Death of Top Commander in Syria

Lebanon’s Shi’ite Muslim movement Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in Syria by artillery shells fired by Sunni Islamist insurgents near Damascus airport. Hezbollah announced Badreddine’s death on Friday and held a military funeral

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Top Hezbollah Commander Killed in Syria

Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in an attack in Syria, the Lebanese Shi’ite group said on Friday, the biggest blow to the Iranian-backed organization since its military chief was killed in 2008.

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Migrant Deal At Risk As Leaders In Turkey and EU Dig In Heels

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ratcheted up the pressure on Europe over a landmark migrant deal on Thursday, accusing the bloc of setting new hurdles for visa-free travel and threatening Ankara may go its own way if they failed to agree.

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EU Demands Slovakia Welcome MORE Migrants Before Taking Presidency

(Reuters) – Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said on Thursday Slovakia’s failure to admit its quota of 1,500 refugees under a European Union plan would hobble its ability to lead when it assumes the rotating EU presidency in July. Asselborn,

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UN Demands Hungary Take More Migrants

Hungary’s actions to keep out migrants, including fast-track trials to punish those who breach its border fence, may conflict with international refugee and human rights conventions, the United Nations said on Thursday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken an increasingly

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Tired Of Waiting, Greece’s Migrants Turn To Business To Survive

(Reuters) – Within sight of a razor wire fence guarded by Macedonian police, 35-year-old Iraqi migrant Saima Hodep rolls dough with an old steel water pipe outside her tent, in preparation for customers for her unleavened bread. Saima is one

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European Rights Watchdog Complains About Greek Migrant Camp Conditions

(Reuters) – Urgent measures are need to address overcrowding and poor living conditions in refugee and migrant camps in Greece, Europe’s top rights watchdog warned on Wednesday. The Council of Europe, which brings together 47 countries, said some facilities were

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Abortion Rates Hit Historic Low In Rich Countries, Steady Elsewhere

LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) – Abortion rates have dropped dramatically in the past 25 years to historic lows in wealthy countries, but dipped only slightly in poorer developing nations, according to a global study published on Wednesday. The study –

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Slovenia To Receive First Migrants From EU Forced Relocation Quotas

(Reuters) – Slovenia is due to receive the first 30 refugees and migrants from Greece under the European Union migrant relocation scheme, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. EU leaders in September approved the transfer of about 160,000 asylum seekers

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Islamic State Bombs Kill 80 in Deadliest Baghdad Attacks This Year

Three suicide bombings claimed by Islamic State across Baghdad killed at least 80 people on Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, in the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital this year. Security has gradually improved in Baghdad, which was

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Britain’s MI5 Raises Threat Level From Northern Irish Militants

Britain has raised the threat level from dissident Northern Ireland militants to “substantial,” meaning an attack on the British mainland is considered a strong possibility, Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Theresa May said on Wednesday. May said the decision by the

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Cameron Tells Queen Nigeria and Afghanistan are ‘Fantastically Corrupt’

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday that leaders of some “fantastically corrupt” countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his anti-corruption summit. Cameron will host an international anti-corruption

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Austria’s Acting Chancellor Declines To Rule Out Snap Election

SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) – Austria’s acting Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner did not rule out a snap parliamentary election after Werner Faymann quit as head of the government, but said on Tuesday he expected to reach agreement in coalition talks with the

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Erdogan Seeking Injunction Against German Media Executive

BERLIN (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) is seeking a preliminary injunction against German publisher Axel Springer’s chief executive Mathias Doepfner, German media cited Erdogan’s lawyer as saying on Monday. German media cited Ralf Hoecker, a lawyer for Erdogan,

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British Chambers Of Commerce Says Support Growing For Brexit

LONDON (Reuters) – More British businesses now want to leave the European Union than earlier this year, the British Chambers of Commerce said in a survey on Tuesday, though most of its members want to remain. The British Chambers of

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TRUMP: London’s Islamist-Sympathetic Mayor Gets A Free Pass To America

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, suggested on Monday he would make an exception for London’s newly elected Muslim mayor, the New York Times reported.

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