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Irish border being exploited to stop Brexit: Boris

Irish border being exploited to stop Brexit: Boris

-- 2018-03-01 12:40:37

Boris Johnson has said the row over the border in Northern Ireland is being used to frustrate Brexit. The foreign secretary insisted there were "very good solutions" to avoid the need for a hard bord...

Germany launches probe into ‘Russian’ cyber attack

Germany launches probe into ‘Russian’ cyber attack

-- 2018-03-01 10:18:20

Germany is investigating a security breach to its defence and interior ministries' private networks, a government spokesman has confirmed. A notorious Russian hacking group known as Fancy Bear, or AP...

Slovak PM offers reward for information on journalist murder

Slovak PM offers reward for information on journalist murder

-- 2018-02-28 12:43:17

The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico has offered one million euro reward for anyone who comes forward with information about the murder of an investigative journalist. Jan Kuciak, 27, and his...

Heavy snow paralyses UK

Heavy snow paralyses UK

-- 2018-02-27 20:35:18

Four people have been killed in car crashes as heavy snow has forced hundreds of schools to close and brought major travel disruption to the UK. Scores of trains and flights have been cancelled, whil...

Scotland to introduce own Brexit bill on Tuesday

Scotland to introduce own Brexit bill on Tuesday

-- 2018-02-27 20:13:48

Scotland’s government is set to introduce its own, alternative Brexit bill, increasing pressure on the UK government over legislation needed to pass in Britain’s national parliament, accor...

Germany bans old diesel cars to cut pollution

Germany bans old diesel cars to cut pollution

-- 2018-02-27 18:47:09

German cities will be allowed to ban older diesel vehicles from some areas following a landmark court ruling. The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig said the cities of Stuttgart and Duesseldorf...

Cold wave bites Brussels, mayor forces homeless into shelters

Cold wave bites Brussels, mayor forces homeless into shelters

-- 2018-02-27 14:12:11

The mayor of the Belgian capital, Brussels has ordered the police to force homeless people into shelters as extremely low temperatures gripped the city. The people sleeping in parts of the city could...

Carbon emissions on the rise in UK

Carbon emissions on the rise in UK

-- 2018-02-27 12:21:55

Carbon dioxide emissions are on the rise in the United Kingdom (UK) and drivers shunning diesel cars are partly to be blamed. The statistic comprises extraction from new vehicles, car industry trade b...

Russia hotel fire claims six lives

Russia hotel fire claims six lives

-- 2018-02-27 10:18:34

A fierce fire that broke out at a hotel in Russia's western Perm Region on Tuesday, has killed six people including three children. Local investigative committee said in a statement that a criminal p...

Putin orders 'humanitarian pause' on Syria

Putin orders 'humanitarian pause' on Syria

-- 2018-02-26 23:25:38

Russia's President Vladimir Putin Monday has ordered a daily pause in the assault by its ally, the Syrian government, on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area. It will start on Tuesday, and include the...

Turkey requests Kurd leader’s deportation from Czech Republic

Turkey requests Kurd leader’s deportation from Czech Republic

-- 2018-02-26 15:21:47

Turkey has officially requested the extradition of former Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Saleh Muslim from the Czech Republic, Ankara’s government spokesman said on Monday....

Four die as explosion wrecks UK shop, home

Four die as explosion wrecks UK shop, home

-- 2018-02-26 13:34:29

A blast destroyed a convenience store and a home in the central English city of Leicester on Sunday, killing at least four people and leaving four more wounded, British police said. “There are...

Labour puts May under pressure over customs union

Labour puts May under pressure over customs union

-- 2018-02-26 12:38:09

Britain's main opposition Labour party is poised for a significant policy change that could increase pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May to deliver a ‘soft’ Brexit that maintains some f...

Turkey welcomes UN ceasefire resolution on Syria

Turkey welcomes UN ceasefire resolution on Syria

-- 2018-02-25 14:27:18

Turkey welcomed on Sunday a UN resolution demanding a 30-day truce across Syria to allow aid access and medical evacuation, the foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement. The UN Security Council...

Merkel to give outspoken critic a cabinet job

Merkel to give outspoken critic a cabinet job

-- 2018-02-25 12:14:29

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will promote one of the most prominent critics from within her conservative party, Jens Spahn, to the cabinet, handing him the post of health minister, Bild am Sonntag...

Italy polls: Police, rival protesters clash in campaign rallies

Italy polls: Police, rival protesters clash in campaign rallies

-- 2018-02-25 12:14:27

Rival demonstrations by far-right and anti-fascist groups a week before Italy's general election have led to scuffles with police. Police in Milan used batons as left-wing demonstrators tried to brea...

21 Red Cross staff paid for sexual services

21 Red Cross staff paid for sexual services

-- 2018-02-24 18:34:37

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says 21 members of staff have left their jobs for sexual misconduct in the last three years. The ICRC's director-general, Yves Daccord, said the in...

Switzerland city centre shooting leaves two dead

Switzerland city centre shooting leaves two dead

-- 2018-02-24 14:56:44

Two people died in a shooting in Zurich's city centre on Friday that police said did not appear to have any link to terrorism. Police responding to reports of shots fired near the Swiss financial cap...

EU leader says UK Brexit plans ‘illusion’

EU leader says UK Brexit plans ‘illusion’

-- 2018-02-24 11:50:50

The UK's approach to the next stage of Brexit negotiations seems to be based on "pure illusion", Donald Tusk says. The European Council president told a news conference in Brussels that the UK was st...

May to set out 'way forward' on Brexit

May to set out 'way forward' on Brexit

-- 2018-02-23 15:00:50

British Prime Minister Theresa May will set out “the way forward” for Brexit next week after a meeting with top aides on Thursday intended to resolve differences over strategy that are div...

London police investigating package sent to Harry and Meghan

London police investigating package sent to Harry and Meghan

-- 2018-02-22 19:30:07

London police say they are investigating a suspicious package that was sent to Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle. The Metropolitan Police force says "a package containing a substance" was de...

Russia to consider ceasefire in Syria amid UN plea

Russia to consider ceasefire in Syria amid UN plea

-- 2018-02-22 19:22:08

Russia has said it will consider supporting the UN-proposed ceasefire in Syria as long as it does not cover Isis and al Qaeda-linked groups. The UN security council is due to meet later on Thursday t...

Police arrests Russian opposition leader ahead of election

Police arrests Russian opposition leader ahead of election

-- 2018-02-22 18:29:05

Russia's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, said he had been detained by police weeks ahead of a presidential election in which he has been barred from running. Mr Navalny, who is Vladimir Putin's mo...

Man throws explosive device at US embassy in Montenegro

Man throws explosive device at US embassy in Montenegro

-- 2018-02-22 13:02:06

An unknown person threw an explosive device, probably a hand grenade, at the United States embassy building in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, before blowing himself up, the government said on T...

Jailed Catalan leader calls for unity

Jailed Catalan leader calls for unity

-- 2018-02-22 11:43:13

Catalonia's jailed former vice-president has called for an end to the deadlock in parliament over the region's next president. Oriol Junqueras said there is life in the pro-independence movement beyo...

Europe sees soaring rates of measles

Europe sees soaring rates of measles

-- 2018-02-20 19:37:22

Europe has seen a big surge in measles cases in 2017, which the World Health Organization says is a tragedy after a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016. Cases increased four-fold, with more than 20,000...

Massive Russian money laundering trial begins in Spain

Massive Russian money laundering trial begins in Spain

-- 2018-02-20 11:35:32

A Russian Member of Parliament, Vladislav Reznik, and 17 other suspects have gone on trial in Madrid accused of massive money-laundering for a Russian mafia gang. The alleged gang bosses Gennady Petr...

French Alps avalanche kills father, daughter

French Alps avalanche kills father, daughter

-- 2018-02-19 14:32:23

An avalanche in the French Alps has taken the lives of a father and his daughter while they were skiing, say rescue officials. The man, 43, and his 11-year-old daughter were from the Paris region and...

'IS attack' on Russia churchgoers leaves five women dead

'IS attack' on Russia churchgoers leaves five women dead

BBC 2018-02-19 09:47:33

Five women have been killed in a shooting at a Christian church in Russia's volatile republic of Dagestan. Five others, including a police officer and a national guardsman, were injured, Russian offi...

Russia shrugs off US election tampering charges

Russia shrugs off US election tampering charges

-- 2018-02-18 11:25:11

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has dismissed as ‘blather’ the charges levelled by the FBI special counsel against 13 Russians for election tampering. He said at a major security c...