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New EU poll puts Brexit backers in the lead despite Obama scaremongering
THE campaign for Britain to cut ties with Brussels has edged into a two-point lead in the EU referendum battle, a dramatic opinion poll has revealed. Pollsters ICM found that 46 per cent of those quizzed want the UK to leave while 44 per cent want to stay. The result suggests that Barack Obama’s call for the UK to stay in...
TICKING TIME-BOMB: Greece set to run out of cash by MAY pushing Europe into ANOTHER crisis
DEBT-ridden Greece is dangerously close to running out of cash and plunging the eurozone into a fresh crisis. Athens desperately needs £4BILLION worth of aid from creditors but is refusing to make any further cutbacks to government spending. The payment is part of a third bailout agreed for Greece last summer as the...
Taxpayers hit with £650 MILLION in fines by EU
AT least £650million of British taxpayers’ cash has been handed to Brussels in fines for misspending European Union grants. Last night MPs warned that ministers have only just woken up to the scandal. Civil servants had made the problem worse by complicating bureaucratic EU schemes for areas like farm subsidies...
Venezuela introduces two-day week to deal with energy crisis
Venezuela's government has imposed a two-day working week for public sector workers as a temporary measure to help it overcome a serious energy crisis. Vice-President Aristobulo Isturiz announced that civil servants should turn up for work only on Mondays and Tuesdays until the crisis was over. Venezuela is facing a major...
Islamic State: Up to $800m of funds ‘destroyed by strikes’
Up to $800m (£550m) in cash held by so-called Islamic State (IS) has been destroyed in air strikes, a US military official says. Maj Gen Peter Gersten, who is based in Baghdad, said the US had repeatedly targeted stores of the group's funds. The blow to the group's financing has contributed to a 90% jump in...
Australia’s Manus Island migrant camp left in limbo
The fate of asylum seekers held in Papua New Guinea remains unclear after the country's Supreme Court ruled their detention was unconstitutional. Australia sends asylum seekers to the Manus Island detention centre under its offshore processing policy. The Australian government is still waiting for advice from Papua New...
Manchester City 0-0 Real Madrid
Joe Hart kept Manchester City's hopes of reaching their first Champions League final alive with two brilliant late saves that ensured their semi-final first leg with Real Madrid finished goalless. With star striker Cristiano Ronaldo missing because of a thigh injury, a cautious Real side offered little goal threat until the...
Eleven bodies found at Cape Verde barracks
Police in the Cape Verde islands off northwest Africa say they have found the bodies of 11 people, including eight soldiers, at a military barracks. The authorities say they believe a disgruntled missing soldier was behind the killings. A government statement said the deaths were not an attempted coup or connected to the drugs...
US election 2016: Trump sweeps all five US states
Donald Trump has won presidential primaries in all five US states that voted on Tuesday, while Hillary Clinton triumphed in four out of five. Mr Trump called himself the Republican "presumptive nominee" after victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The results bring him closer to...
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North Korea reportedly puts mid-range missile on standby for launch
North Korea is believed to have placed a new, powerful mid-range missile on standby for an impending launch, a news report said Tuesday. The reported launch plans came two days after North Korea claimed to have successfully test-fired a ballistic missile from a submarine in a continuation of its weapons tests amid ongoing South...