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EU agrees on approach to Brexit talks, PM May left out in cold

European Union leaders agreed their plan for Brexit negotiations on Dec. 15, pledging to move swiftly and stick together to ensure Britain does not cherry pick a sweet deal that might inspire others to unstitch the bloc. 

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May left before the other 27 leaders met briefly to formalize their plan for how to run Brexit talks. 

Turkey condemns US court's parole for murderer of envoy

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned the parole of a convict in the U.S who murdered a Turkish diplomat in the 1980s. 

A court in Los Angeles accepted on Dec. 14 a defense attorney's demand for the conditional release of the Armenian-origin convict, Hampig Sassounian, who killed Turkish Consul General Kemal Arikan in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 1982. 

Forget about “he” and “she”! Oxford moves to introduce neutral gender pronouns!

At the risk of offending transgender people, Oxford University is urging its students to use gender-neutral pronouns, such as ‘ze.’
A student union’s leaflet being distributed around campus advises against the use of terms which imply that there are only two genders, according to the Times.

Oxford University wants to do away with pronouns ‘he’ and ‘she’

At the risk of offending transgender people, Oxford University is urging its students to use gender-neutral pronouns, such as 'ze.'

A student union's leaflet being distributed around campus advises against the use of terms which imply that there are only two genders, according to the Times.

Greek, British police smash gang supplying forged passports to migrants

Greek and British police said on Monday they had broken up a criminal network that supplied forged travel documents to hundreds of illegal migrants trying to reach Britain and northern European countries.

The gang supplied more than a thousand lost or stolen passports and travel documents that were procured from accomplices in Barcelona, Spain, in the past six months.

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