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Britain’s outgoing Foreign Secretary William Hague leaves 10 Downing Street in central London, on July 15, 2014. (Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett)

Cameron turns to women and anti-EUers in major ministerial shake-up

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 15, 2014 | World

London, Reuters—British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday pushed through his biggest government shake-up since coming to power in 2010, promoting women and Eurosceptics to senior roles ahead of a national election in May next year. In one surprise development,...

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From L to R, top to bottom, chairman of the True Finns party Timo Soini, leader of the German neo-Nazi party NPD Udo Voigt, Greece’s Golden Dawn spokesman and parliament member Ilias Kasidiaris, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, leader of right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) party Heinz-Christian Strache, Chairman of Hungarian far-right parliamentary JOBBIK (Better) party Gabor Vona, Danish Peoples Party’s Morten Messerschmidt and France’s far-right National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen. (AFP PHOTO)

Far right, Euroskeptics make sweeping gains in European Parliament election

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 26, 2014 | World

Brussels, AP—Far-right and Euroskeptic parties made sweeping gains in European Parliament elections Sunday—triggering what one prime minister called a political “earthquake” by those who want to slash the powers of the European Union or abolish it...