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Germany gives nod to $8b tunnel link to Denmark

Germany gives nod to $8b tunnel link to Denmark

-- 2018-12-29 13:56:05

German authorities have given their approval to an $8 billion (6.30 billion pounds) rail and road tunnel linking Denmark and Germany, despite environmental objections. The 19 km (11.8 mile) Fehmarnbe...

Italy plans to halt arms sales to Saudi

Italy plans to halt arms sales to Saudi

-- 2018-12-28 17:42:17

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said his government is going to take a formal position on the halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Giuseppe Conte gave the information while addressing his tr...

New Istanbul airport will be fully open March 3

New Istanbul airport will be fully open March 3

-- 2018-12-28 12:02:42

The newly build airport in Istanbul will be fully operational on March 3, Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper has reported, after the $12 billion project was twice hit by delays. The airport, which off...

Explosive device wounds police officer in Athens, Greek TV says

Explosive device wounds police officer in Athens, Greek TV says

-- 2018-12-27 13:21:46

An explosive device wounded a police officer when it went off outside a church in central Athens in Greece early on Thursday, state TV ERT said. The blast occurred outside the Saint Dionysios church...

Russia ready to deploy its first hypersonic missile

Russia ready to deploy its first hypersonic missile

-- 2018-12-26 19:11:10

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Russia would deploy its first regiment of hypersonic nuclear-capable missiles next year, saying the move meant his country now had a new type of strategic we...

Martial law expires in Ukraine

Martial law expires in Ukraine

-- 2018-12-26 18:54:52

Martial law, imposed on Nov 25 in some Ukrainian areas after Russia captured three Ukrainian ships, expired on Wednesday, President Petro Poroshenko told the country’s security council. Poroshe...

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Sicily

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Sicily

-- 2018-12-26 18:03:37

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 hit an area north of Catania on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily early on Wednesday, damaging buildings and injuring about 30 people, officials said. It occurr...

UK’s Jeremy Hunt orders review into persecuted Christians’ plight

UK’s Jeremy Hunt orders review into persecuted Christians’ plight

-- 2018-12-26 16:15:50

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review into the plight of persecuted Christians around the world and how much help they get from the UK. The review, led by the Bishop of Truro, will look...

Media freedom in Macedonia unimproved in 2018

Media freedom in Macedonia unimproved in 2018

-- 2018-12-26 14:15:03

Media freedom and journalists' safety in Macedonia has seen no major changes during 2018, the Association of Journalists in Macedonia declared during its annual report presentation on Tuesday. Dragan...

Pope urges people to see differences as asset

Pope urges people to see differences as asset

-- 2018-12-25 19:34:48

Pope Francis has urged the people of the world to see differences as a source of richness instead of danger and called for reconciliation in places torn apart by conflict. Francis made the call on Tu...

Prince Philip misses Christmas Day church service

Prince Philip misses Christmas Day church service

-- 2018-12-25 19:10:19

Britain’s Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband, missed a traditional Christmas Day church service on Tuesday, though a royal source said that the 97-year old was in good health and jus...

Italy’s Mount Edna erupts for first time since 1992

Italy’s Mount Edna erupts for first time since 1992

-- 2018-12-24 20:54:45

Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s highest and most active volcano, erupted on Monday, sending a huge column of ash into the sky and causing the closure of Catania airport on Sicily’s east...

UK police release two people arrested in Gatwick drone probe

UK police release two people arrested in Gatwick drone probe

-- 2018-12-24 11:48:06

British police have released without charge two people arrested in an inquiry into the illegal use of drones at London’s Gatwick Airport that crippled operations for three days last week. Susse...

Yellow Vest protesters, police clash in Paris

Yellow Vest protesters, police clash in Paris

-- 2018-12-23 19:49:26

"Yellow Vest" protesters and police clashed in the French capital Paris on Saturday night. The protesters hurled objects at police and chased after them when they tried to get away, reports Reuters....

Turkey sending reinforcements to Syrian border

Turkey sending reinforcements to Syrian border

-- 2018-12-23 15:12:37

Turkey is sending reinforcements to its border with Syria, Demiroren News Agency (DHA) reported on Sunday, adding that some 100 vehicles including mounted pickup trucks and weaponry had made their way...

Five die as train crashes into school bus in Serbia

Five die as train crashes into school bus in Serbia

-- 2018-12-22 18:18:24

Police say a train has collided with a school bus in Southern Serbia killing five people, BBC reports.  According to reports, two adults and a child were killed instantly while two more adults...

Global conflict likely if nuclear pact falls apart, warns Russia

Global conflict likely if nuclear pact falls apart, warns Russia

-- 2018-12-22 17:18:48

Russia said on Saturday that the scrapping of a Cold War era nuclear pact may lead to an arms race and direct confrontation between several global regions, after a proposal by Moscow was rejected in a...

UK police arrest two over Gatwick drone disruption

UK police arrest two over Gatwick drone disruption

-- 2018-12-22 15:59:05

Police have arrested a man and a woman after rogue drone operators crippled London’s Gatwick Airport for three days by repeatedly flying onto the airfield, sparking a major security response. B...

Yellow vest protesters to march in France’s Versailles

Yellow vest protesters to march in France’s Versailles

-- 2018-12-22 10:56:22

Yellow vest protesters, who have blocked roads across France and fought running battles with police since mid-November, will march in the former royal city of Versailles on Saturday in their fight aga...

London’s Gatwick Airport resumes flights after drone chaos

London’s Gatwick Airport resumes flights after drone chaos

-- 2018-12-21 19:22:43

Flights resumed at London’s Gatwick Airport on Friday after drones sparked about 36 hours of travel chaos including the shutdown of the airfield, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded...

Catalonia protesters block roads for PM's visit

Catalonia protesters block roads for PM's visit

-- 2018-12-21 17:01:54

Police dragged Catalan separatist protesters off highways on Friday as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez began a cabinet meeting in the regional capital Barcelona in an attempt at reconciliation....

Media regulator in Russia starts checking legality of BBC's operations

Media regulator in Russia starts checking legality of BBC's operations

-- 2018-12-21 15:05:10

Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said on Friday it would carry out checks to determine if the BBC World News channel and BBC internet sites complied with Russian law. The regulator descr...

Putin issues chilling warning on rising nuclear war threat

Putin issues chilling warning on rising nuclear war threat

-- 2018-12-20 17:09:47

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a chilling warning Thursday about the rising threat of a nuclear war, saying “it could lead to the destruction of civilization as a whole and maybe even o...

EU takes step to boost monitoring of money laundering at banks

EU takes step to boost monitoring of money laundering at banks

-- 2018-12-20 14:57:34

European Union governments have reached a preliminary deal to clamp down on money laundering by strengthening bank supervision through the European Banking Authority (EBA), the EU said on Wednesday....

Britain’s Corbyn accused of calling May 'stupid woman'

Britain’s Corbyn accused of calling May 'stupid woman'

-- 2018-12-19 21:06:45

Britain’s House of Commons erupted in anger on Wednesday when Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn appeared to mouth the words “stupid woman” after a lively exchange with Prime Min...

Belgian PM offers to resign amid row over migration

Belgian PM offers to resign amid row over migration

-- 2018-12-19 14:26:44

Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel offered to resign on Tuesday after opponents tabled a no confidence vote in a political crisis triggered by differences over immigration. In office since 2014, M...

'Journalists faced unprecedented hostility this year'

'Journalists faced unprecedented hostility this year'

-- 2018-12-18 18:21:49

More journalists were killed, abused and subjected to violence in 2018 than in any other year on record, with those in the profession facing an "unprecedented level of hostility," a new report has fou...

Jeremy Corbyn tables Theresa May no-confidence motion

Jeremy Corbyn tables Theresa May no-confidence motion

BBC 2018-12-18 11:24:43

Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no confidence in Theresa May, after she said MPs would not vote on her Brexit deal until the week of 14 January. The PM had delayed the vote from last week, admit...

Russia ‘used social media for widespread meddling in US politics’

Russia ‘used social media for widespread meddling in US politics’

-- 2018-12-18 11:23:32

Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election on social media was more widespread than previously thought and included attempts to divide Americans by race and extreme ideology, said repor...

Turkey may start new Syria operation at any moment

Turkey may start new Syria operation at any moment

-- 2018-12-17 19:17:32

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country may start a new military operation in Syria at any moment. Erdogan made the comments during a speech in the central province of Konya on Mo...