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Dozens of Britons march in southern Spain ahead of Brexit

1:56 am September 23, 2019

MALAGA, Spain: Dozens of Britons marched through the southern Spanish city of Malaga on Sunday to register their concerns about their uncertain status as Britain prepares to leave the European Union. Spain is home to around 300,000 Britons. Together with Portugal, the Iberian peninsula accounts for almost a quarter of all Britons living in Europe, […]

Swiss hold high-altitude wake for lost glacier

10:15 pm September 22, 2019

Mels: Dozens of people dressed in black went on a “funeral march” up a steep Swiss mountainside on Sunday to mark the disappearance of an Alpine glacier amid growing global alarm over climate change. Around 250 people including children joined the solemn two-hour climb up the side of Pizol mountain in northeastern Switzerland to the […]

EU’s Juncker says not too late for Brexit deal

7:56 pm September 22, 2019

Madrid: There is still time for London and Brussels to make a Brexit deal, outgoing European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said in remarks published Sunday, as the clock runs down to a October 31 deadline. Juncker also told the Spanish daily El Pais that he wished the Commission had played a more active role in […]

Thousands of Paris police deployed over ‘yellow vest’ clash fears

1:16 pm September 21, 2019

Paris: More than 7,000 police officers are to be deployed for rallies in Paris on Saturday over fears that yellow vest protesters and their radical, anarchist “black blocs” could try to infiltrate a march against climate change in the French capital. The yellow vest movement erupted 10 months ago and blindsided President Emmanuel Macron, who […]

‘I want a future’: Global youth protests urge climate action

4:47 am September 21, 2019

NEW YORK: Young people afraid for their futures protested around the globe Friday to implore leaders to tackle climate change, turning out by the hundreds of thousands to insist that the warming world can’t wait for action. Marches, rallies and demonstrations were held from Canberra to Kabul and Cape Town to New York, and German […]