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Dust waves from Africa cover parts of Greece

Dust waves from Africa cover parts of Greece

-- 2018-03-26 22:57:10

Swaths of Greece have been shrouded in haze as persistent southerly winds have carried waves of dust from the African continent across the Mediterranean, reports AP. The dust cloud has reduced visibi...

Investigators conduct search at Cambridge Analytica’s London offices

Investigators conduct search at Cambridge Analytica’s London offices

-- 2018-03-26 17:51:31

Investigators from Britain's data watchdog searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm at the centre of a storm over allegations it improperly harvested Facebook data t...

Germany detains former Catalan leader Puigdemont

Germany detains former Catalan leader Puigdemont

-- 2018-03-26 10:47:10

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was detained in Germany on Sunday, five months after entering self-imposed exile from Spain, where he faces up to 25 years in prison for organising an illegal s...

Russia shopping mall fire claims 64 lives

Russia shopping mall fire claims 64 lives

-- 2018-03-26 10:08:10

At least 64 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo. Many of the victims are children, Russian officials say, an...

France to pay tribute to officer who swapped himself for hostage

France to pay tribute to officer who swapped himself for hostage

-- 2018-03-25 18:35:20

France will pay a national tribute to a security officer who died from gunshot wounds after voluntarily taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege by an ISIS terrorist, President...

Italian centre-right, populists join forces

Italian centre-right, populists join forces

-- 2018-03-25 12:56:44

Italy's centre-right bloc and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement joined forces Saturday to elect a speaker for each chamber of parliament, in what could be a test run for a possible government...

Finland receives warrant to arrest former Catalan leader

Finland receives warrant to arrest former Catalan leader

-- 2018-03-24 18:06:10

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont faces arrest in Finland after authorities there received an international warrant for his detention issued by Spain. If he returns to Spain, Puigdemont faces u...

Detention of Catalan separatist leaders prompts clashes

Detention of Catalan separatist leaders prompts clashes

-- 2018-03-24 12:09:39

Crowds of protesters in Spain’s Catalonia region have clashed with police after the Supreme Court stepped up legal action against separatists. Spain’s Supreme Court ruled 25 Catalan leade...

French police 'hero' dies of wounds

French police 'hero' dies of wounds

-- 2018-03-24 11:33:39

A French police officer who swapped himself for a hostage in a supermarket siege on Friday has died, officials say. Lt-Col Arnaud Beltrame had been hailed as a hero by French President Emmanuel Macro...

Cambridge Analytica worked for Brexit too

Cambridge Analytica worked for Brexit too

-- 2018-03-24 10:09:00

A former Cambridge Analytica political consultant said the company's management misled the British public about work the firm did for a pro-Brexit group before the vote to leave the European Union, th...

Spanish police rescue Nigerian women smuggled as sex slave

Spanish police rescue Nigerian women smuggled as sex slave

-- 2018-03-23 21:47:11

Spanish police have rescued 39 women and girls smuggled in from Nigeria and trafficked into sex work by a notorious Nigerian gang. Europol says the victims were kept in "squalid conditions in caves"...

Gunman known for petty crimes, not considered militant: French minister

Gunman known for petty crimes, not considered militant: French minister

-- 2018-03-23 21:11:20

The man who killed at least three people in attacks in southern France was a 26-year old known for petty crimes and possession of drugs, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb on Friday, adding that...

French police down supermarket gunman

French police down supermarket gunman

-- 2018-03-23 18:08:21

French police on Friday have shot a suspect who took hostages at a supermarket in the southern France town of Trèbes. The gunman, supposedly Moroccan and have killed at least three people, is...

EU recalls Russian envoy over spy attack

EU recalls Russian envoy over spy attack

-- 2018-03-23 14:14:33

European Union leaders backed Britain on Thursday in blaming Moscow over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England and recalled their envoy to Moscow in a symbolic protest. The show of...

British PM urges EU unity against Russia as Kremlin slams UK

British PM urges EU unity against Russia as Kremlin slams UK

-- 2018-03-22 21:39:57

British Prime Minister Theresa May urged European Union leaders on Thursday to unite and condemn Russia for not respecting international rules or borders, while Moscow slammed the UK as untrustworthy...

124m suffered from acute hunger in 2017: UN

124m suffered from acute hunger in 2017: UN

-- 2018-03-22 19:18:34

A UN-led report says 124 million people last year suffered such acute hunger that their lives were at risk, up from 108 million in 2016. The increase was largely attributed to new or intensified conf...

Explosion at Czech chemical plant kills six

Explosion at Czech chemical plant kills six

-- 2018-03-22 18:27:36

Six people have been killed in an explosion at chemical plant in the Czech Republic. The blast happened at a Unipetrol facility in the town of Kralupy nad Vltavou, north of the capital, Prague. "We...

Slovakia president appoints Peter Pellegrini as new PM

Slovakia president appoints Peter Pellegrini as new PM

-- 2018-03-22 15:44:51

Slovakia President Andrej Kiska appointed Peter Pellegrini as prime minister on Thursday to end a political crisis touched off by the murder of an investigative journalist that led to mass protests an...

May seeks EU condemnation of Russia over spy poisoning

May seeks EU condemnation of Russia over spy poisoning

-- 2018-03-22 11:01:08

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May will seek on Thursday to persuade EU leaders to condemn Russia over what London says was a nerve agent attack in England directed by Moscow but she must over...

Sarkozy faces second day of questioning

Sarkozy faces second day of questioning

-- 2018-03-21 14:16:50

France’s Nicolas Sarkozy faced a second day of questioning on Wednesday by investigators looking into allegations that his 2007 election campaign had received funds from late Libyan leader Muamm...

Scottish court backs anti-Brexit campaigners

Scottish court backs anti-Brexit campaigners

-- 2018-03-21 11:32:16

A legal attempt by anti-Brexit campaigners to establish that Britain could unilaterally reverse Brexit was given a boost on Tuesday by Scotland’s top court, which said it wants to examine the ca...

Cops detain former French president Sarkozy

Cops detain former French president Sarkozy

-- 2018-03-20 14:20:32

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was in police custody on Tuesday morning, where he was to be questioned as part of an investigation into suspected irregularities over his election campaign fin...

UK's Corbyn still seeks business deals with Russia

UK's Corbyn still seeks business deals with Russia

-- 2018-03-20 14:04:08

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the UK must still deal with Russia despite ‘all fingers’ pointing to it over the Salisbury spy attack. He said he would ‘do business’ with...

Petrol bombs thrown at Turkish embassy in Denmark

Petrol bombs thrown at Turkish embassy in Denmark

-- 2018-03-19 12:05:40

Petrol bombs were thrown at the Turkish embassy in the Danish capital Copenhagen early on Monday causing some minor damage to the exterior of the building but no injuries, police said. There were at...

Putin wins a landslide

Putin wins a landslide

-- 2018-03-19 10:02:35

Russian President Vladimir Putin won a landslide re-election victory on Sunday, extending his rule over the world’s largest country for another six years at a time when his ties with the West ar...

Putin seeks fourth term as Russians head to polls

Putin seeks fourth term as Russians head to polls

-- 2018-03-18 17:02:16

Polls have opened in Russia's presidential election, in which Vladimir Putin is seeking to stay in power for a fourth term in office. Voting began in the Russian far-east at 20:00 GMT on Saturday, an...

EU ‘patronising’ east on migrants, accuses German minister

EU ‘patronising’ east on migrants, accuses German minister

-- 2018-03-18 12:07:52

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has accused the European Union of adopting a patronising stance in talks with eastern European members about the distribution of migrants. Seehofer, a member o...

Putin on track for shoo-in victory as Russia goes to the polls

Putin on track for shoo-in victory as Russia goes to the polls

-- 2018-03-18 11:06:05

Russians began voting in a presidential election on Sunday set to give Vladimir Putin a commanding victory that could only be blemished if large numbers do not bother taking part because the result is...

Conmen impersonating top personalities in Monaco

Conmen impersonating top personalities in Monaco

-- 2018-03-17 21:53:59

Conmen have been impersonating famous personalities in Monaco, including Prince Albert II, to obtain money from high-profile victims, reports say. One well-known journalist was contacted via WhatsApp...

Iraqi teenager guilty of carrying out London train bombing

Iraqi teenager guilty of carrying out London train bombing

-- 2018-03-17 18:49:10

An Iraqi teenager, who had come to Britain as an asylum seeker, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder after detonating a homemade bomb on a packed rush-hour London commuter train, injuring 30...