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EU agrees on looser fiscal rules to cut debt, boost investments

BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - EU member states and MEPs struck a preliminary deal on Saturday to ease the bloc's stringent fiscal rules, giving governments more time to reduce debt as well as incentives to boost public investments in climate, ...

Hamas had command tunnel under UN Gaza headquarters, Israeli military says

GAZA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Israeli forces have discovered a tunnel network hundreds of metres (yards) long and running partly under UNRWA's Gaza headquarters, the military says, calling it new evidence of Hamas exploitation of the main relief agency for ...

Brexit border checks and badly planned farm subsidies could plunge the UK into a food crisis

According to Marco Forgione, director general of the Institute of Export and International Trade, the confused way in which the border checks have been introduced seriously risks limiting food supplies. "Many EU businesses may decide it's ...

700 more family physicians in BC since payment revamp: doctors

Dr. Robin Craven, a family physician in Oliver, B.C., told CBC News that changes to the payment model have alleviated some of the longstanding pressures on the province's health-care system, including a shortage of family doctors.

'They're drowning us in regulations': how Europe's furious farmers took on Brussels and won

On the outskirts of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, a green, red and blue stream of New Holland, John Deere, Massey Ferguson, Fendt and Deutz-Fahr tractors trundled forwards, horns honking and orange lights flashing.

EU agrees long-delayed reform of fiscal rules

After weeks of haggling, EU negotiators on behalf of governments and the European parliament on Saturday agreed to set annual targets for cutting public debt and limits for public spending — a key German demand.

Why are young people deserting conservatism in Britain but nowhere else?

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The extent to which young people tend to vote more for leftwing parties and older people ...

'God help me, please': Woman speaks out after off-leash dogs attack her, police search for owner

A Toronto woman says she is grateful to be alive after she was attacked by two unleashed dogs in Etobicoke on Wednesday evening. Anita Browne, 54, said she was bitten on her face and her arm as she stood waiting for a TTC bus in the area of Martin ...

Nova Scotia man charged with threatening snowplow driver

A 66-year-old man from New Glasgow, N.S., has been charged by the Pictou County District RCMP for allegedly uttering threats and firearms offences. According to an RCMP news release on Friday, RCMP officers and New Glasgow Regional Police responded to ...

Winnipeg streets being salted, sanded after snowfall, maintenance manager says

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Although Winnipeg didn't get as much snow overnight as some parts of the province, city workers are out in full force to tackle the job of clearing the snowfall from city streets. Michael Cantor, the city's manager of street maintenance, ...