Asylum Seekers Launch Hunger Strike Over UK-France Removal Scheme
By Cicero’s Home Affairs correspondent Dozens detained in Britain refuse food ahead of forced returns to FranceAround 30 asylum seekers held in UK immigration detention centres have begun a hunger strike in protest at plans to deport them to France under the government’s contentious “one-in, one-out” arrangement with Paris. Sources Continue Reading
Sarkozy Jailed for Five Years Over Gaddafi Funding Case
Paris — Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France, has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a long-running case over alleged campaign funds from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The ruling, handed down on Thursday by the Paris criminal court, Continue Reading
G20 To Tackle Tax Avoidance
The finance ministers meeting today at the G20 held in Moscow have today pledged to ensure that multinational companies will no longer be able shifting profits from a home country to pay less tax elsewhere – the aim is to prevent tax avoidance by large companies. France, Britain and Germany have been the Continue Reading
E3+3 Talks on Iran
The major E3+3 countries of the world (including the UK, US, China, France, Germany and Russia) will be meeting today in Instanbul with the Iranian Government once again to discuss and have an offer of an assurance over any proposed nuclear programme that Iran may be conducting. This follows a Continue Reading
A Movie! Sweetie, Darling …
CRACK open the Bolly sweetie darlings, Jennifer Saunders has confirmed she is going to make Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. The comedy was one of the biggest successes on the BBC this Christmas, pulling in nine million viewers with another episode to come on New Year’s Day. Asked about the prospect Continue Reading
