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Why an Iran nuclear deal could have unintended consequences
A deal on Iran’s nuclear programme would be a historic event – but it could come at the expense of angering some of the US’s staunchest allies.
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The German army and scores of volunteers are helping to build homes for the mass flux of migrants that have descended to the country in the last few months.
The government says it wants most hospital doctors on seven-day contracts by the end of this parliament, claiming thousands of patients are dying unnecessarily thanks to lack of weekend cover. The British Medical Association says its members welcome a seven-day NHS, but it wants to know how ministers propose to pay for the extra hours. The…
The 94-year-old “accountant of Auschwitz” is sentenced to four years in prison. But for the Nazi hunters trying to bring more war criminals to justice, time is running out.
A deal on Iran’s nuclear programme would be a historic event – but it could come at the expense of angering some of the US’s staunchest allies.
Juncker and Merkel saying early today they are confident Athens will do as it is told and as its own leader has negotiated, but the scale of the Greek PM’s U-turn remains breath-taking.
The Greeks arrived with a set of proposals widely scorned as “more austere than the ones they rejected”. The internet burst forth with catcalls – “they’ve caved in”.
It is remembered as Britain’s finest hour. But what really happened in those fateful months in 1940, and how did the famous ‘Few’ change the course of history?
If Angela Merkel has her way, the euphoria in Athens about Sunday’s referendum result will prove short lived. There is a discernible hardening of attitudes in Berlin.
Berlin had calculated that the Greek people would come to their senses and vote yes. The opposite happened – and Chancellor Merkel must now untangle a Gordian knot of a problem.
Politicians with Greece’s ruling Syriza party, including Prime Minister Tsipras, say the country should vote no in Sunday’s referendum, as the Bank of England warns of a “very dangerous” situation.
While the far left government will pose the referendum as a vote for or against austerity, the right will say it’s an in-out vote for the single currency and the EU itself.
With hundreds of migrants being rescued daily from overloaded boats in the Mediterranean, the EU is struggling to agree on an adequate response to the new arrivals.
The IMF like their emergency economic plans from debtor countries pretty heavy on the spending cuts, light on the tax rises. The Tsipras plan was the very opposite.
Uefa President Michel Platini is in Berlin for Saturday’s Champions League final. Will the Frenchman decide to stand to replace Sepp Platter at the head of Fifa?
New bribery claims have been levelled against former Fifa executive Jack Warner. Meanwhile, the Irish FA says it received £3.6m to avoid legal action over Ireland’s failure to make the 2010 World Cup.