It’s assemblage of polite, contemporary pop would make an ideal dinner party backdrop. But the playlist, featuring Tom Odell and Alt-J, was a gift given by David Cameron to his fellow G8 leaders as a “Best of British” soundtrack to their Northern Ireland gathering.
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Germany should honour its debt and offer NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum
Sunday 21 July 2013
World View: When such figures as Albert Einstein fled the Nazis, the US provided a haven. Now it’s time for Berlin to offer asylum to the persecuted
Police deployed on to the streets of Athens as German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble visits Greece
Thursday 18 July 2013
Wolfgang Schaeuble is visiting the austerity-ridden country today to offer a further €100m euros of funding, however many blame Germany for the country's economic woes
Egypt investigates complaints against ousted Morsi including inciting killing of protesters
Saturday 13 July 2013
US joins Germany in calling for release of former president as demonstrations continue in Cairo
BBC One's Andrew Marr will return to full-time television in September
Saturday 13 July 2013
Broadcaster has already conducted a political interview which will be broadcast on Sunday
NSA 'in bed' with German intelligence says US whistleblower Edward Snowden - and GCHQ operates a 'full take' data monitoring system
Sunday 07 July 2013
The fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden alleged on Sunday that the National Security Agency was “in bed together” with German intelligence despite claims by politicians in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition that they were shocked by the extent of American spying in Germany.
President Obama to hold crisis talks with Germany to settle claims that US spied of EU allies
Thursday 04 July 2013
The American President spoke with Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday
Scheißesturm! Why foreign swearing is best (as Angela Merkel knows)
Wednesday 03 July 2013
Despite the fact that German is a better language than English for compound nouns, the latest addition to German dictionaries has a particularly British ring to it.
'S***storm' adopted into German equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary
Tuesday 02 July 2013
2012 'Anglicanism of the Year' has been integrated throughout German society and was recently used in public address by Angela Merkel
David Cameron hits out at 'frustrating EU'
Friday 28 June 2013
David Cameron has lashed out at the “immensely frustrating” way the European Union works, complaining that he had to “lock and load” every time he came to summits.
A lost generation: Europe's unemployed youths face years trapped in a downward spiral of poverty and exclusion
Thursday 27 June 2013
EU heads of state have put the issue at the top of their agenda
G8 summit: President Barack Obama tells Northern Ireland - 'You set the example for those who are seeking peace'
Monday 17 June 2013
The President also promised America would support the Stormont political system
Syrian civil war: Tony Blair calls for intervention after use of chemical weapons by President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah involvement
Saturday 15 June 2013
Former PM: 'We should be taking a more interventionist line. That’s where I come from in politics'
West considers action on Syria as America says it will arm rebels after nerve-gas attacks
Saturday 15 June 2013
Britain and US spell out catalogue of chemical weapons atrocities as the threat to supply arms to Assad’s enemies risks rift with Russians
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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