Britain's main political parties struck what they said was a historic deal to grant Scotland tax-raising powers and greater autonomy to try to satisfy disappointed separatists who lost an independence vote two months ago. The deal, which was unveiled Thursday but will not be implemented ...
Let us curb welfare for migrants or risk British EU exit: U.K.'s Cameron
Britain's continued membership in the European Union is contingent upon it being allowed to stop migrants from the bloc tapping into its relatively generous welfare system, Prime Minister David Cameron will warn on Friday. In a speech designed to breathe new life into his campaign ...
Shadowy Chinese agency woos Taiwanese to win island back
Ever since a civil war split the two sides more than 60 years ago, China has viewed Taiwan as a renegade province that needs to be absorbed into the mainland. To that end, the Taiwanese businessmen working in China form a beachhead in a ...
Municipal staffing of annual events suddenly in conflict with snap election needs
The Dec. 14 Lower House snap election is posing a headache for municipalities nationwide planning to organize annual festivals and sports events. They are being dealt with a double punch — while they need to secure staff enough to manage those events, the municipalities are ...
Baffled by snap election, voters may stay home and erode the mandate Abe seeks
Voters, puzzled as to why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is calling an election now and unimpressed by opposition alternatives, may shun the Dec. 14 election in record numbers. That could help Abe's ruling coalition win the Lower House election but also erode any claim of ...
Landmark Tunisian presidential election seen heading for runoff
Tunisians have voted to pick their first directly elected president, with the two major parties expecting a run-off as the final step in the North African state's transition to full democracy following a 2011 revolution that ousted longtime ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Official results ...
Abe's 'risky' election gambit may backfire, U.S. expert claims
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made a risky move in deciding to call a snap general election and delay a planned consumption tax hike, according to a U.S.-based expert on Japan. Sheila Smith, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, said in ...
Poland's ruling Civic Platform (PO) party has secured the highest number of provincial assembly seats in the Nov. 16 vote, the state election commission said, a surprising result seen as likely to further aggravate tensions over the already contentious vote. The official results, published after ...
'White van' man tweet hits a nerve in class-obsessed Britain
Posting a picture on Twitter of a two-story house, displaying three English flags of St. George and a white tradesman's van outside, might seem innocuous to a foreign eye. When a British politician appeared to sneer at the modest Rochester home of a 'white van' ...
Some 16,867 voters in southeast England ushered in a season of European political tumult that in an extreme scenario could lead to Britain exiting the European Union, Greece quitting the euro or Catalonia seceding from Spain. Victory by the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party in a ...
