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South Africa issues arrest warrant for Grace Mugabe

Bloomberg South African authorities issued a warrant of arrest for Grace Mugabe, the wife of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, civil rights organisation AfriForum said. A charge of assault was laid against Grace Mugabe in South Africa last year, after local media including the Star newspaper reported that she assaulted a woman at a hotel in Johannesburg. While she agreed ...

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The EU plays Trump as it played the Brexiters

The Trump administration has pulled out all the stops to attack the European Union (EU). Realising its relative weakness, the EU hasn’t tried a muscular response. Instead, it has used the same tactic as it did with Britain’s Brexiters. On December 11, the US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, accused Europe of disregarding all the goodwill built up since ...

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May’s immigration ‘obsession’

Cracking down on immigration is how Theresa May has chosen to interpret the Brexit campaign’s promise to “take back control.” As a result, the UK prime minister has ruled out one of the more plausible alternatives to her own EU withdrawal deal: The so-called “Norway-Plus” idea, which would keep Britain in the European single market and force it to accept ...

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