MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for March 24th 2019
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Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 08:15 UTC
Italy joins China's Silk Road project: Europe Union, Nato and G7 rattled
Italy has become the first developed economy to sign up to China's global investment program which has raised concerns among Italy's Western allies. A total of 29 deals amounting to €2.5bn were signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Rome.
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Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 06:11 UTC
Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon joins the march and tells PM May “put it back to the people”
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has joined hundreds of thousands of people on a march in London to demand a second Brexit referendum. She spoke to crowds gathered at the end of a rally organizer of the “Put It To The People” campaign say more than a million people attended.
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Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 05:50 UTC
London flooded by anti-Brexit protestors demanding a new referendum
Anti-Brexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands on Saturday, demanding that Britain's Conservative-led government hold a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union. The “People's Vote March” snaked from Park Lane and other locations to converge on the U.K. Parliament, where the fate of Brexit will be decided in the coming weeks.
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Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 05:36 UTC
Helicopters rescuing passengers from cruise with failed engine off Norway
Helicopters have rescued more than 150 people from a cruise ship that suffered an engine failure in windy weather off the coast of Norway on Saturday, said police and rescue services.The Viking Sky, with 1,373 passengers and crew on board, had sent out a mayday signal as it drifted towards land, said the country's maritime rescue service.
