Sunday, January 29, 2017

Hard Brexit fears crunch sterling ahead of PM May speech and other top stories.

  • Hard Brexit fears crunch sterling ahead of PM May speech

    LONDON Britain's pound fell sharply on Monday as concern mounted that the country was heading for a "hard" Brexit from the European Union and its single market, a day before a speech by Prime Minister Theresa May on the government's plans.Some British newspapers have billed May's speech on Tuesday as laying out potential major changes to its preferential single market access and hardening its stance towards an economic bloc that accounts for roughly half its exports and imports.A spokeswomen f..
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  • SKorea's Samsung in rough patch with arrest request, recalls

    SKorea's Samsung in rough patch with arrest request, recalls
    SEOUL, South Korea –  A request by South Korean prosecutors to arrest Lee Jae-yong, the 48-year-old vice chairman and de facto leader of Samsung Electronics, has added to the troubles for the country's most valuable company after a spate of recalls last year. Lee faces allegations he offered $36 million in bribes to a friend of President Park Geun-hye, who has been impeached. Prosecutors say they also suspect him of embezzlement and lying under oath. A Seoul court will review the request for hi..
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  • 'Anne Frank link' unearthed at Sobibor camp

    'Anne Frank link' unearthed at Sobibor camp
    Image copyright IAA Image caption The pendant bears a date of birth and the city of Frankfurt Researchers excavating the site of the Nazi death camp at Sobibor have discovered a pendant nearly identical to one owned by Anne Frank.Experts from Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial team believe the pendant belonged to Karoline Cohn, who may have known the famous diarist.Like Frank, Cohn was born in Frankfurt in 1929. Yad Vashem traced her via a date of..
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  • Europe leaders shocked as Trump slams NATO, EU raising fears of transatlantic split

    Europe leaders shocked as Trump slams NATO, EU raising fears of transatlantic split
    BRUSSELS — European leaders on Monday took a tough line on President-elect Donald Trump’s comments that the European Union is bound for breakup and NATO is obsolete, raising the prospect of an unprecedented breach of transatlantic relations once Trump comes to office. Trump said in a weekend interview with the Times of London and Germany’s Bild newspaper that the 28-nation European Union was a vehicle for German interests and said that he was indifferent to its fate. He also said he was commit..
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  • Tumult surrounds Trump days ahead of his presidency

    Tumult surrounds Trump days ahead of his presidency
    For any other incoming president, such a pile of controversies and crises would suggest an early political disaster is imminent for the new White House. But Trump broke the mold in his outsider campaign and has repeatedly shrugged off scandals and controversies that would have downed normal politicians. He appears determined to shake up conventions that have built up around the presidency for two centuries and has little time for those who say he lacks presidential demeanor.In fact, many of the ..
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