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Italy closes ports to NGO boats with migrants

Italy closes ports to NGO boats with migrants

-- 2018-06-30 18:42:09

Migrants saved by non-governmental organisations (NGO) boats will not be allowed into Italy, said rightwing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Mr Salvini has often accused the NGOs of encouraging the...

German parliament approves Greece aid package

German parliament approves Greece aid package

-- 2018-06-30 16:56:42

Germany’s parliament on Friday approved a financial aid package for Greece that is designed to ensure Athens can stand on its own feet after it exits a third bailout programme in August. The pa...

EU leaders plan closed migrant centres amid crisis

EU leaders plan closed migrant centres amid crisis

-- 2018-06-29 16:33:22

Closed migrant centres are to be set up in EU states to process asylum claims under a deal reached after marathon talks at a leaders summit in Brussels. The centres, hosted on a voluntary basis, woul...

EU agrees migration deal after marathon talks

EU agrees migration deal after marathon talks

-- 2018-06-29 11:35:01

European Union leaders have reached an agreement on migration after nearly 10 hours of talks at a summit in Brussels. Italy - the entry point of thousands of migrants, mainly from Africa - had threat...

12 year-old French boy crosses English Channel

12 year-old French boy crosses English Channel

-- 2018-06-28 19:32:23

A 12-year-old French boy has broken the record for crossing the English Channel in a small children's sailing dinghy. Tom Goron set sail from the Isle of Wight at 05:00 local time on Wednesday and ar...

Top US, Russian diplomats to meet before Trump-Putin summit

Top US, Russian diplomats to meet before Trump-Putin summit

-- 2018-06-28 17:51:34

Moscow says the top Russian and US diplomats are likely to meet to set the stage for a summit between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, reports AP. Russia’s Deputy Foreig...

Two die in migrant smuggling car crash

Two die in migrant smuggling car crash

-- 2018-06-27 14:54:43

At least two migrants were killed and eight others injured as a vehicle carrying them has crashed in rainfall on a highway in northern Greece, authorities said. Police said the ten, including two c...

Britain gives nod to Brexit law, ends EU membership

Britain gives nod to Brexit law, ends EU membership

-- 2018-06-26 21:09:35

Britain's Queen Elizabeth granted royal assent to Prime Minister Theresa May's flagship Brexit legislation on Tuesday, ending months of debate over the legislation that will formally end the country's...

Four found dead at Germany apartment, one seriously injured

Four found dead at Germany apartment, one seriously injured

-- 2018-06-26 14:32:50

Police say a woman and three children have been found dead at an apartment in southern Germany, as well as a man lying outside the building with life-threatening injuries from a fall. In a statement,...

Prince William starts Israel visit paying homage to Holocaust victims

Prince William starts Israel visit paying homage to Holocaust victims

-- 2018-06-26 13:44:14

Britain’s Prince William will pay homage on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, in a solemn start to the first official visit by a British royal to Israel and the Pales...

Strong earthquake strikes Greece

Strong earthquake strikes Greece

-- 2018-06-25 13:17:02

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook the southwestern area of the Peloponnese in Greece in the early hours of Monday. Its epicentre was offshore, 26 km (16 miles) west of the town of Methoni at a depth o...

Erdogan wins presidential election

Erdogan wins presidential election

-- 2018-06-25 10:11:41

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine Erdogan greet supporters gathered in front of the AKP headquarters in Ankara, Turkey Jun 25, 2018. Reuters Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey's presidential...

Turkey votes for president in crucial test for Erdogan

Turkey votes for president in crucial test for Erdogan

-- 2018-06-24 11:36:27

Turks vote for a new president and parliament on Sunday in elections that pose the biggest challenge to Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party since they swept to power more than a decade and...

Ex-Vatican diplomat gets five-year jail term over child porn

Ex-Vatican diplomat gets five-year jail term over child porn

-- 2018-06-24 11:22:29

A former Vatican diplomat has been sentenced to five years in prison for child pornography offences. Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella pleaded guilty at a Vatican court, which heard that dozens of porn...

Greece hails 'historic' Eurozone debt relief deal

Greece hails 'historic' Eurozone debt relief deal

-- 2018-06-22 21:13:41

Eurozone countries have agreed a long-awaited debt relief deal for Greece, which has been hailed as "historic". The deal gives Athens more time to repay €96.9 billion (£85b) worth of loans...

Italy moves to seize migrant rescue ships

Italy moves to seize migrant rescue ships

-- 2018-06-22 16:45:45

Italy says it will seize two migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean, citing doubts over their legal status. Italian authorities said the Lifeline and Seefuchs, operated by the German migrant rescu...

Female reporter faces sexual abuse at World Cup

Female reporter faces sexual abuse at World Cup

-- 2018-06-21 18:27:48

A female reporter groped live on air at the World Cup has spoken out about harassment by sports fans. Colombian correspondent Julieth Gonzalez Theran was working for DW Espanol in Moscow when a man g...

European human rights court rejects mass murderer Breivik’s appeal

European human rights court rejects mass murderer Breivik’s appeal

-- 2018-06-21 14:40:13

The European Court of Human Rights rejected an appeal by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik who says his prison condition amount to inhuman or degrading treatment, the court said on Thursday...

UK to publish post-Brexit immigration plans for EU citizens

UK to publish post-Brexit immigration plans for EU citizens

-- 2018-06-21 13:47:09

Britain will outline its plans on Thursday for new immigration rules for European Union citizens living in the United Kingdom after Brexit as it calls on the bloc to give more details about its own pr...

Pope slams Trump's policy on migrant family separation

Pope slams Trump's policy on migrant family separation

-- 2018-06-20 19:59:52

Pope Francis has criticised the US President Donald Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border. "Populism is not the answer to the world’s immigrat...

Russia criticises US exit from UN human rights council

Russia criticises US exit from UN human rights council

-- 2018-06-20 16:08:52

Russia says that the US exit from the United Nations’ Human Rights Council reflects Washington’s unilateralist approach to global affairs. The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, announ...

Cafe shooting in Sweden kills three

Cafe shooting in Sweden kills three

-- 2018-06-19 18:20:48

A shooting at an internet cafe in the southern Swedish city of Malmo has claimed the lives of three men. Several others were wounded in the centre of the city late on Monday, when at least one attack...

Italian populist for deporting migrants from Roma

Italian populist for deporting migrants from Roma

-- 2018-06-19 18:13:09

Italy's right-wing populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, on Tuesday, has prompted a new outcry by saying he wants a census of the Roma community that would lead to non-Italians being deported. A...

Turkish air strikes kill 26 militants

Turkish air strikes kill 26 militants

-- 2018-06-19 12:20:18

Turkish air strikes killed 26 militants and destroyed their gun positions, shelters and ammunition stores in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq this week, Turkey’s armed forces said on Tuesday....

Three die after being hit by train in south London

Three die after being hit by train in south London

-- 2018-06-18 16:13:38

Three people have died after they were hit by a train in south London on Monday, with police treating the deaths as unexplained. British Transport Police said they were called to Loughborough Junctio...

Meghan Markle’s father regrets missing daughter’s wedding

Meghan Markle’s father regrets missing daughter’s wedding

-- 2018-06-18 13:33:09

Thomas Markle, the father of Britain’s newest royal Meghan, has spoken of his regret that he wasn’t well enough to walk his daughter down the aisle as she married Prince Harry, but said he...

Bus strikes Dutch concert-goers, killing one

Bus strikes Dutch concert-goers, killing one

-- 2018-06-18 11:38:14

A bus struck four people at a Dutch concert in the early hours of Monday morning, killing one and wounding three, said police. A police statement said the bus drove away from the scene and is being s...

'Historic' deal :Macedonia gets new name

'Historic' deal :Macedonia gets new name

-- 2018-06-17 20:18:10

Greece and Macedonia have signed a deal that aims to settle a decades-long dispute over Macedonia's name. Under the agreement, Greece's neighbour will be known as North Macedonia, reports BBC. Greek...

Migrant boat turned away by Italy arrives in Spain

Migrant boat turned away by Italy arrives in Spain

-- 2018-06-17 19:33:55

VALENCIA, Spain : A migrant rescue boat turned away by Italy and Malta arrived at the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday, ending a grueling voyage which has made it a symbol of Europe’s failure...

Greece, Macedonia sign historic deal to end name row

Greece, Macedonia sign historic deal to end name row

-- 2018-06-17 17:45:01

Greece and Macedonia have signed a deal that aims to settle a decades-long dispute over Macedonia's name. Under the agreement, Greece's neighbour will be known as North Macedonia. Greek PM Alexis Ts...