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Catalan parliament speaker gets conditional bail

Catalan parliament speaker gets conditional bail

-- 2017-11-10 03:31:46

A Spanish judge on Thursday freed on bail the Catalan parliament’s speaker and four lawmakers while authorities continue to investigate their roles in Catalonia’s banned independence drive...

British minister quits over undisclosed Israeli meetings

British minister quits over undisclosed Israeli meetings

Reuters 2017-11-09 12:00:00

British aid minister Priti Patel was forced from office on Wednesday over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials after Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassert her diminished authority as sh...

Spain could allow referendums, says minister

Spain could allow referendums, says minister

-- 2017-11-09 10:09:51

Spain is considering constitutional changes that could allow its regions to hold referendums on independence in the future, the foreign minister says. Alfonso Dastis has told the BBC a nationwide vot...

Oxford Islamic scholar takes leave over rape allegations

Oxford Islamic scholar takes leave over rape allegations

-- 2017-11-08 11:45:53

Britain’s Oxford University said one of its professors, the prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan, had taken a leave of absence after two women filed complaints against him in France...

Belgium frees five Catalan leaders under conditions

Belgium frees five Catalan leaders under conditions

-- 2017-11-06 10:37:21

Ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and four close separatist allies regained their freedom at the end of a tumultuous Sunday that started when they surrendered in Brussels to face possible ext...

COP23 kicks off in Germany

COP23 kicks off in Germany

-- 2017-11-06 09:11:16

UN Climate Change Conference for 2017 kicked off in Bonn, Germany on Monday with unified calls to hold to the path of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The opening of the conference (COP23, Novembe...

Scandal surrounding UK govt officials spreads

Scandal surrounding UK govt officials spreads

-- 2017-11-05 09:26:48

The scandal surrounding Britain’s government officials deepened Sunday with more allegations of sexual harassment involving UK Prime Minister Theresa May's most senior minister. A Sunday Times...

Ousted Catalan leader surrenders to Belgian police

Ousted Catalan leader surrenders to Belgian police

-- 2017-11-05 07:58:09

Catalonia's deposed leader Carles Puigdemont and four former advisers have turned themselves in to Belgian police on Sunday. An investigating judge would decide by Monday morning whether to execute a...

Spain issues warrant for sacked Catalan leader

Spain issues warrant for sacked Catalan leader

Reuters 2017-11-04 12:00:00

Spain on Friday issued an arrest warrant on sedition and other charges against Carles Puigdemont, tightening the judicial net around the former Catalan leader who went Brussels after his government wa...

10 million people remain stateless worldwide: UNHCR

10 million people remain stateless worldwide: UNHCR

-- 2017-11-03 05:20:31

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said an estimated 10 million people worldwide are stateless, including three million officially. This 'stateless status' deprives them of...

Catalan protesters demand release of political prisoners

Catalan protesters demand release of political prisoners

-- 2017-11-03 01:17:55

Thousands of Catalans on Thursday protested against the detention of eight regional ministers sacked over Catalonia's push for independence from Spain. The officials - who appeared in Spain's high co...

UK defence minister quits over harassment claim

UK defence minister quits over harassment claim

Reuters 2017-11-02 12:01:34

British defense minister Michael Fallon quit on Wednesday saying his conduct had fallen below the high standards demanded of his position, the first resignation in a sexual harassment scandal in parli...

Spain court summons ousted Catalan president

Spain court summons ousted Catalan president

-- 2017-11-01 12:00:00

Spain's High Court on Tuesday summoned sacked Catalan leader Carles Puidgemont and 13 other members of his dismissed government to appear later this week. It also gave them three days to pay a deposi...

Turkey arrests activist for attempt to overthrow government

Turkey arrests activist for attempt to overthrow government

Reuters 2017-11-01 03:24:58

Prominent Turkish rights activist and businessman Osman Kavala has been jailed pending trial, charged with seeking to overthrow the government, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday. An...

Puigdemont not seeking asylum in Brussels

Puigdemont not seeking asylum in Brussels

-- 2017-10-31 06:52:30

Catalonia's sacked president says he has not travelled to Belgium to seek asylum but rather to talk freely. Carles Puigdemont has appeared in public in Brussels with several colleagues after declarin...

Catalan leaders flee to Brussels

Catalan leaders flee to Brussels

-- 2017-10-30 12:00:00

The former officials of Catalonia's government, including Carles Puigdemont, are now in Belgian capital. Puigdemont and other sacked of the Spain's regional government will make a declaration of Cata...

Thousands march in Barcelona opposing split

Thousands march in Barcelona opposing split

-- 2017-10-30 11:58:04

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of a unified Spain filled Barcelona’s streets on Sunday in one of the biggest shows of force yet by the so-called silent majority that has watched as regional...

Five die as storms batter central Europe

Five die as storms batter central Europe

BBC 2017-10-30 11:25:52

Powerful storms have wreaked havoc in parts of central and northern Europe, killing at least five people in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. A 63-year-old camper drowned on the German coast as...

Spain set to take control  of Catalan institutions

Spain set to take control of Catalan institutions

-- 2017-10-30 09:10:06

MADRID, Oct 30 (BBC): Spain is set to put in place measures to take direct control of Catalonia in response to the region's declaration of independence last week. On Friday, Madrid stripped Catalonia...

ISIS threatens four-year old Prince George

ISIS threatens four-year old Prince George

-- 2017-10-29 08:53:20

ISIS threatened four-year old Prince George saying, "Even the royal family will not be left alone". The extremists allegedly posted a picture of the future king on encrypted instant messaging app Tel...

Catalonia for Spanish unity, huge rally begins

Catalonia for Spanish unity, huge rally begins

-- 2017-10-29 06:36:01

In Barcelona, a huge rally started calling for Spanish unity, a day after Catalonia was stripped of its autonomy.   Many of those protesting in the region's largest city brought signs calling fo...

Puigdemont welcome to run in poll, Madrid says

Puigdemont welcome to run in poll, Madrid says

-- 2017-10-29 04:26:39

The Spanish government on Saturday said it would welcome the participation of sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont in new elections. The central government in Madrid has ordered that fresh electio...

Spain dismisses Catalan parliament

Spain dismisses Catalan parliament

Reuters 2017-10-28 12:00:00

The Madrid government sacked Catalonia’s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain’s gravest political crisis...

Catalan ex-president calls for opposition

Catalan ex-president calls for opposition

-- 2017-10-28 08:33:44

Sacked Catalan president Carles Puigdemont on Saturday called for a “democratic opposition” to Madrid’s takeover of the region following its declaration of independence, reports Reut...

Spain sacks Catalan police chief

Spain sacks Catalan police chief

-- 2017-10-28 04:22:41

Spain has sacked the chief of Catalonia’s regional police force, Josep Lluis Trapero, as the government in Madrid takes control of the autonomous region to block its push for independence, repor...

Catalan MPs clash over independence call

Catalan MPs clash over independence call

BBC 2017-10-27 12:00:00

Backers and opponents of independence in Catalonia have clashed in parliament over the way forward as the Spanish government is set to reassert control. The debate began after Catalan President Carle...

Catalonia declares independence from Spain

Catalonia declares independence from Spain

-- 2017-10-27 12:00:00

Catalonia’s parliament declared independence from Spain on Friday in defiance of the Madrid government. The declaration was made ahead of an expected vote in Spain senate which will see Madrid...

Spain parliament approves direct rule over Catalonia

Spain parliament approves direct rule over Catalonia

-- 2017-10-27 12:00:00

The upper house of Spain’s parliament authorised central government to rule Catalonia directly from Madrid. Spain's senate came up with the decision on Friday minutes after the restive region d...

EU not ready to acknowledge Catalonia

EU not ready to acknowledge Catalonia

-- 2017-10-27 09:19:34

The Catalan parliament’s declaration of independence on Friday has changed for the European Union (EU), said the group’s chief. The President of the European Council Donald Tusk also stat...

Putin takes part in Russian military drills

Putin takes part in Russian military drills

-- 2017-10-27 07:23:46

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken part in major military drills of nuclear forces of the country. Putin personally directed the test-firing of four intercontinental ballistic missiles as par...