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Torrential rain in England kills 1; floods streets
Torrential rain drenched parts of north and central England, swelling rivers, forcing evacuations and disrupting travel. One woman died after being swept away by surging waters.
Boy whose mother joined IS in Syria returns to dad in Italy
An 11-year-old Albanian boy whose mother took him to Syria when she joined the Islamic State group has returned to Italy to join his father.
Human Rights Watch says Croatia should not join Schengen
A leading international human rights body says Croatia should not be allowed into the European Union's border-free travel zone because of its treatment of migrants crossing into the country from neighboring Bosnia.
Anti-Semitism charges leveled at Labour Party’s Corbyn
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s election campaign was hit Thursday by renewed claims that he is not fit to lead the country because of his tolerance of anti-Semitic attitudes.
French leader laments NATO’s ‘brain death’ due to US absence
French President Emmanuel Macron claimed that a lack of U.S. leadership is causing the “brain death” of the NATO military alliance, insisting in an interview published Thursday that the European Union must step up and start acting as a strategic world power.
Pompeo meets US troops, German leaders to start 2-day visit
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with American troops in southern Germany on Thursday, starting a trip based around the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in an area where he served as an Army officer during the Cold War.
UK police ID all 39 Vietnamese victims found in truck
UK police say they have formally identified the 39 people found dead in a container truck in southeastern England and notified their families in the apparent people-smuggling tragedy.
Russia re-enacts legendary World War II parade in Moscow
Russian troops clad in World War II-era uniforms marched Thursday across Moscow’s Red Square in a reconstruction of a legendary wartime parade.
German Commerzbank reports higher profit in Q3
Thanks to higher revenues and reduced costs, Commerzbank's operating profit jumped nearly 30 percent year on year to 448 million euros (496 million U.S. dollars), and its net profit soared 35 percent to 294 million euros in the third quarter (Q3) of fiscal 2019, Germany's second largest bank announced on Thursday.
EU cuts economic growth forecast for 2019, 2020
The European Commission said on Thursday that euro area gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to expand by 1.1 percent in 2019 and by 1.2 percent in 2020 and 2021.