News of prime minister

BREXIT AND BORIS JOHNSON

UK PM Johnson ignores pleas to tone down charged rhetoric

28-09-2019 03:07 Another disastrous week for the British leader in Parliament ends with a referral to police, as he brushes off requests from MPs and his sister that he alter his language amid threats against lawmakers.

OBITUARY

Former French president Jacques Chirac Chirac dies at 86

26-09-2019 09:16 No cause of death given for late two-term French president, who was the first leader to acknowledge his country's role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

BREXIT

UK election threat looms as Johnson fights Tory Brexit rebels

02-09-2019 12:32 Allies of Prime Minister Boris Johnson are considering a snap poll as he battles his opponents in Parliament who are trying to stop him taking the UK out of the EU without a deal on October 31.

MERCOSUR

Norway says timing of EFTA-Mercosur pact 'awful'

27-08-2019 12:45 Norway, which is part of European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA) grouping four non-EU members, on Tuesday regretted the "awful timing" of a trade pact with Mercosur, as fires rage in the Amazon.

BRITISH POLITICS

UK Prime Minister Theresa May announces she will resign on June 7

24-05-2019 08:55 Decision ends a dramatic three-year tenure of near-constant crisis over Brexit and increases likelihood of Britain crashing out of the EU later this year.