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Doctor Strange actor Benedict Cumberbatch saves cyclist from muggers

Doctor Strange actor Benedict Cumberbatch saves cyclist from muggers

-- 2018-06-02 17:25:38

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, known for his portrayal of fictional crime-fighter Sherlock Holmes and comic book superhero Doctor Strange in the Marvel movies, has been hailed a hero for chasing...

France’s National Front renames itself

France’s National Front renames itself

-- 2018-06-02 13:33:53

Members of France’s far-right National Front party voted to change its name to the ‘National Rally’ on Friday, in a bid to shed a brand associated by many voters with racism and anti...

Macron tells Trump new tariffs illegal

Macron tells Trump new tariffs illegal

-- 2018-06-01 18:37:56

French President Emmanuel Macron has told US President Donald Trump that the new US tariffs on European, Mexican and Canadian goods are illegal and a "mistake." Macron's office said in a statement Fr...

Spain PM faces defeat in confidence vote

Spain PM faces defeat in confidence vote

-- 2018-06-01 16:24:54

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is set to be forced out of office in a motion of no confidence. On Friday he congratulated Socialist Party leader Pedro Sánchez, who will become prime mini...

Polls show most Italians want to stay in euro

Polls show most Italians want to stay in euro

-- 2018-05-31 14:17:41

Two polls show that between 60-72 per cent of Italians want the country to remain part of the euro while 23-24 per cent would choose to drop the common currency. The polls were taken by the Euromedia...

Ukraine admits to faking Russian journalist’s ‘murder’

Ukraine admits to faking Russian journalist’s ‘murder’

-- 2018-05-31 11:16:02

A dissident Russian journalist reported murdered in Kiev on Tuesday dramatically reappeared alive on Wednesday during a televised briefing by Ukrainian state security about the killing, which they the...

Belgian gunman also killed the night before attacks

Belgian gunman also killed the night before attacks

-- 2018-05-30 17:46:37

The man who shot dead two police officers and a civilian in the Belgian city of Liège had killed someone the night before the attacks, the country's interior minister says. Jan Jambon said the...

Russian journalist who criticised Putin shot dead in Ukraine

Russian journalist who criticised Putin shot dead in Ukraine

-- 2018-05-30 10:57:28

A prominent Russian journalist and critic of President Vladimir Putin was shot dead in Ukraine where he had fled into exile following threats, police said on Tuesday. Arkady Babchenko, 41, died of hi...

Portugal considers allowing euthanasia, assisted suicide

Portugal considers allowing euthanasia, assisted suicide

-- 2018-05-29 20:04:12

After legalising abortion and same-sex marriage in recent times, Portuguese lawmakers will decide on Tuesday on another issue that has brought a confrontation between faith and politics in this predom...

Gunman kills three in Belgium

Gunman kills three in Belgium

-- 2018-05-29 18:33:28

Two police officers among three were killed in a shooting in the eastern Belgian city of Liège on Tuesday. The gunman took a female cleaner as hostage at a school before being killed by police...

Gunman shoots at Belgian police in Liege, four dead

Gunman shoots at Belgian police in Liege, four dead

-- 2018-05-29 16:02:38

A gunman has killed two police officers and a passer-by on Tuesday before being himself shot dead in the centre of the eastern Belgian city of Liege, public broadcaster RTBF said on its website. Belg...

Austria plans benefit cuts for immigrants

Austria plans benefit cuts for immigrants

-- 2018-05-29 10:43:36

Austria's coalition government has unveiled plans to cut benefit payments for immigrants, including refugees, in a move aimed at deterring new arrivals. The main benefit payment will be capped at &eu...

France offers citizenship to Malian ‘spider-man’

France offers citizenship to Malian ‘spider-man’

-- 2018-05-29 10:25:24

France offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron...

Bid to form government in Italy fails

Bid to form government in Italy fails

BBC 2018-05-28 09:48:33

Italian PM-designate Giuseppe Conte has given up his bid to form a government after the country's president vetoed his choice of economy minister. President Sergio Matarella said he had agreed to all...

Spanish authorities rescue over 500 migrants in Mediterranean

Spanish authorities rescue over 500 migrants in Mediterranean

-- 2018-05-27 22:19:56

Spanish authorities rescued over 500 migrants on Saturday and Sunday from more than a dozen boats making the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Europe. Following plane and helicopter searches, Spanis...

Ireland votes in favour of legalising abortion

Ireland votes in favour of legalising abortion

-- 2018-05-27 12:15:02

Ireland’s prime minister has hailed the culmination of “a quiet revolution” in what was once one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries after a landslide referendum...

Barnier urges UK to end ‘hide and seek’ Brexit approach

Barnier urges UK to end ‘hide and seek’ Brexit approach

-- 2018-05-27 11:31:07

The EU’s Brexit negotiator urged the British government to stop playing ‘hide and seek’ over its aims for trade ties and warned that delays in agreeing on judicial oversight risk wre...

Ireland set to end abortion ban through voting

Ireland set to end abortion ban through voting

-- 2018-05-26 11:22:47

The people of Ireland are set to liberalise some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws by a landslide, two exit polls from a referendum showed on Friday, as voters demanded change in wha...

UK plans to build own satellite system: Hammond

UK plans to build own satellite system: Hammond

-- 2018-05-25 14:28:42

The United Kingdom would develop its own separate satellite navigation system if it lost access to the Galileo project, the European Union’s version of GPS, Britain’s finance minister sa...

Italy train accident leaves two dead, 18 wounded

Italy train accident leaves two dead, 18 wounded

-- 2018-05-24 14:21:27

Two people have died and 18 others suffered injured when a regional train crashed into a truck in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, emergency services said on Thursday. The five-carriage train...

Erdogan hints at banning Israeli goods over Gaza violence

Erdogan hints at banning Israeli goods over Gaza violence

-- 2018-05-22 16:06:33

President Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that Turkey might consider imposing a ban on imports of some Israeli goods over the killing of Palestinian protesters by Israeli forces on the Gaza border, media re...

104 ex-Turkish military get life in jail over coup attempt

104 ex-Turkish military get life in jail over coup attempt

-- 2018-05-22 11:12:58

A Turkish court has sentenced 104 former military officers to life in prison for their involvement in a 2016 coup attempt, state media report. They were given ‘aggravated life sentences’,...

Russian agency offers fake restaurant reviews ahead of World Cup

Russian agency offers fake restaurant reviews ahead of World Cup

-- 2018-05-21 13:19:49

A Russian marketing agency has offered to help restaurants in cities hosting the soccer World Cup use fake reviews to bump up ratings on review site TripAdvisor, the agency’s owner has confirmed...

Spain plans to maintain control of Catalonia

Spain plans to maintain control of Catalonia

-- 2018-05-20 18:39:55

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy plans to maintain central government control over Catalonia after the regional leader nominated imprisoned and exiled politicians to join his cabinet, El Pais news...

Nationalist mob beats up mayor of major Greek city

Nationalist mob beats up mayor of major Greek city

-- 2018-05-20 14:03:14

The mayor of Greece’s second-largest city Thessaloniki has been treated in hospital after being beaten up by about a dozen people, officials say. Yiannis Boutaris, 75, was kicked in the head an...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle pronounced husband and wife

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle pronounced husband and wife

-- 2018-05-19 17:23:57

Britain’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle were pronounced husband and wife on Saturday by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a glittering union that brought a measure of modern Holl...

Putin hands ministerial job to ex-bodyguard

Putin hands ministerial job to ex-bodyguard

-- 2018-05-19 11:47:09

Russian President Vladimir Putin handed ministerial jobs to a former bodyguard and the son of an ex-intelligence chief on Friday, promoting trusted lieutenants with security ties at the start of what,...

Britain will leave customs union, says May

Britain will leave customs union, says May

-- 2018-05-18 12:38:22

Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday Britain would leave the EU customs union after Brexit but a source said London was considering a backstop plan that would apply the bloc’s external ta...

UK rejects chances of staying in customs union after 2021

UK rejects chances of staying in customs union after 2021

Reuters 2018-05-17 15:01:17

A source in Theresa May’s Downing Street office has dismissed a media report saying that Britain would tell Brussels it was prepared to stay in the European Union’s customs union beyond 20...

Turkey asks Israel's envoy to Istanbul to leave temporarily

Turkey asks Israel's envoy to Istanbul to leave temporarily

-- 2018-05-16 12:54:19

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has told Israel’s consul general in Istanbul to return to Israel ‘for some time’, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday, after Israeli forces k...