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France Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot. (Photo: AP)

France could close a third of nuclear reactors: minister

The country earns around EUR3 billion ($3.4 billion) per year from exports to neighbouring countries.

10 July 2017 4:48 PM IST

European Unions chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier. (Photo: AFP)

EU parliament condemns UK Brexit proposals on citizen rights

The EU parliament wants citizens from both sides to receive 'fair treatment' and their rights 'given full priority in...

10 July 2017 3:02 PM IST

Donald Trumps secretary of state pick Rex Tillerson. (Photo: AP)

Russia must ease tension with Ukraine: Rex Tillerson

Tillerson's tough talk clearly pleased Poroshenko, who has long complained about Russian interference in his country's...

10 July 2017 2:45 PM IST

River Billy, front, celebrating her fifth birthday, sits with her parents Krista Billy, right, and Kris Billy, left, as her sister Remmi, 1, plays behind them after being evacuated from their home in Hat Creek due to a wildfire burning near Cache Creek, while waiting to register at an evacuation centre in Kamloops, British Columbia. (Photo: AP)

Western Canada wildfires may spread with more hot, dry weather

Canada's military agreed to supply airplanes,helicopters and other jurisdictions agreed to send some 260 personnel to...

10 July 2017 12:12 PM IST

The report said that ISIS is struggling financially in Afghanistan, where it has resorted to extortion of the local population and has had to stop paying its fighters at times. (Photo: Representational Image)

EU says Mosul victory decisive' step against terror

The recovery of Mosul from the hands of ISIS marks a decisive step in the campaign to eliminate terrorist control in...

10 July 2017 11:33 AM IST

There were no reports of any casualties. (Photo: London Fire Brigade

After Grenfell horror, fire engulfs London's Camden Lock Market

The emergency service said it had also sent 10 fire engines to the scene, near a nightclub and a covered market.

10 July 2017 7:51 AM IST

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Migrants once again drawn to deadly Spanish route to Europe

The United Nations Refugee Agency called it â€œthe worst tragedy in the last decade in the Spanish...

10 July 2017 6:51 AM IST

Flames and smoke rise from a fire at Camden Lock Market. (Photo: Yusof Abdul-Rahman/Associated Press)

Massive fire breaks out in London's Camden Lock Market

The fire service says eight fire engines were sent after the blaze broke out early Monday.

10 July 2017 6:07 AM IST

Airports may also have to pay for the security staff and their families to live in UK, with costs likely to be passed on to airlines and passengers.

UK airports may get US guards

Heathrow, the UK's busiest airport, believes the system would not be practical because it would require large parts of a...

10 July 2017 12:50 AM IST

The queen, at an occasion shorn of its usual pageantry, read out the watered-down list of proposed legislation and lawmakers will then spend the next few days debating before bringing it to a vote. (Photo: AP)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II appoints 1st black equerry to assist...

Ghanaian-born Major Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah from the Household Cavalry will take on a role that requires immense...

9 July 2017 6:41 PM IST

Hitler is estimated to have created between 2,000 and 3,000 drawings, watercolours and oil paintings in his lifetime. (Photo: AP)

UK: 4 paintings by Germany's Adolf Hitler auctioned for 7,500 pounds

The works of art all bear the signature 'A Hitler', and are dated in the early 1900s, according to the Mullocks auction...

9 July 2017 5:18 PM IST

He said former French president Francois Hollande had promised him that Turkey would be classed as a developing and not an industrialised economy -- meaning Ankara would receive money from a global climate fund rather than have to pay into it. (Photo: AP)

Won't ratify Paris climate deal till promises are delivered: Turkey PM

President Erdogan also suggested some other, unidentified, nations had a problem' with the agreement and were not...

9 July 2017 11:42 AM IST