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Ex-Russian spy ‘recovering rapidly’ after poison attack

Ex-Russian spy ‘recovering rapidly’ after poison attack

-- 2018-04-07 10:08:29

Russian former spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition after being poisoned by a nerve agent, doctors have said. Salisbury District Hospital said Skripal is responding well to treatme...

Spain optimistic of Gibraltar deal by summer

Spain optimistic of Gibraltar deal by summer

-- 2018-04-06 22:27:59

Spain hopes to reach an agreement with the UK over Gibraltar by the summer, its foreign minister has said on Friday. Alfonso Dastis said Spain would "defend our position" but the two sides were "work...

London police call urgent meeting following a series of stabbings

London police call urgent meeting following a series of stabbings

-- 2018-04-06 20:44:03

London police called an emergency meeting of community leaders on Friday after six stabbings in a matter of hours, as they tried to stem a wave of knife crime that threatens to dominate the city&rsquo...

Freed ex-Catalan leader calls for immediate dialogue

Freed ex-Catalan leader calls for immediate dialogue

-- 2018-04-06 18:36:46

Catalan ex-leader Carles Puigdemont on Friday has called for immediate dialogue after being released on bail in Germany. So far, he and other separatists had received only a "repressive response" fro...

UK is ‘playing with fire’, says Russia

UK is ‘playing with fire’, says Russia

-- 2018-04-06 12:07:06

Russia has accused the UK of inventing a "fake story" and "playing with fire" over the Salisbury spy poisoning. At a UN Security Council meeting, Moscow's UN ambassador Vasily Nebenzia said Britain's...

Russia launches missile tests, triggers partial closure of Baltic Sea

Russia launches missile tests, triggers partial closure of Baltic Sea

-- 2018-04-05 19:22:37

Russia began testing missiles with live munitions in the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, alarming Latvia, a member of NATO, which says the drills have forced it partly to shut down Baltic commercial airspace...

Roof collapse kills six miners in Georgia

Roof collapse kills six miners in Georgia

-- 2018-04-05 15:59:42

Six miners have been killed and three others injured on Thursday when the roof of a coal mine in western Georgia collapsed, the country’s interior ministry said. The ministry said in a statemen...

US to sanction Russian oligarchs

US to sanction Russian oligarchs

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

The United States plans to sanction Russian oligarchs this week under a law targeting Moscow for meddling in the 2016 US election, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in what could be...

Russia blames US, UK agencies for spy poisoning

Russia blames US, UK agencies for spy poisoning

-- 2018-04-04 14:36:23

Russia’s foreign intelligence agency chief Sergei Naryshkin said on Wednesday that the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal in Britain was an act of provocation by US and British inte...

Germany removes Nazi-era swastika from church bell

Germany removes Nazi-era swastika from church bell

-- 2018-04-04 13:08:01

A controversial church bell in Schweringen, northern Germany, has had a swastika inscription removed as part of an unauthorised ‘spring cleaning’. The unknown perpetrators left a note on...

Germany moves to extradite Puigdemont

Germany moves to extradite Puigdemont

-- 2018-04-03 15:46:22

German prosecutors filed a request to a regional court on Tuesday for the extradition of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to Spain, where he faces charges of rebellion over the region’...

Girl dies after being shot in north London

Girl dies after being shot in north London

-- 2018-04-03 15:34:05

Two shootings in London in the space of an hour have left a 17-year-old girl dead and a boy, 16, critically ill. The teenage girl was found with a bullet wound in Tottenham on Monday night and pronou...

French rail workers call strike to defy Macron’s labour reforms

French rail workers call strike to defy Macron’s labour reforms

-- 2018-04-02 19:42:23

A major strike by workers at the French state railway SNCF - including train drivers - is expected to paralyse rail travel across France. Three months of train stoppages are set to begin on Monday ev...

Puigdemont remains unbowed after detention

Puigdemont remains unbowed after detention

-- 2018-04-02 10:48:33

Catalonia’s ex-leader Carles Puigdemont has urged supporters to keep up the struggle as he faces extradition from Germany over his role in the region’s independence referendum. Wanted in...

Russia warns travellers on flights to UK

Russia warns travellers on flights to UK

-- 2018-04-01 18:15:22

Russia’s embassy in London is warning that Russians travelling to the United Kingdom could face provocations, including the insertion of foreign objects into their luggage. The warning, posted o...

Russian governor quits over fatal mall fire

Russian governor quits over fatal mall fire

-- 2018-04-01 13:14:48

The governor of Russia’s Kemerovo region resigned on Sunday over a mall fire that killed more than 60 people after a litany of violations in safety procedures left shoppers and children trapped...

Britain and Russia lock horns as Moscow cuts UK diplomats

Britain and Russia lock horns as Moscow cuts UK diplomats

-- 2018-04-01 11:44:41

Moscow has told Britain it must cut just over 50 more of its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia as a standoff deepened over the poisoning of a Russian former spy and his daughter in England, the...

Russia tests new nuclear ballistic missile

Russia tests new nuclear ballistic missile

-- 2018-03-31 13:50:43

The Russian military has tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) ‘Sarmat’ which is intended to replace the Soviet-designed Voyevoda from Plesetsk in northwestern Russ...

Czechs consider national anthem update

Czechs consider national anthem update

-- 2018-03-30 20:43:40

The Czech Republic's Olympic Committee has suggested an overhaul of the country's national anthem to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. They have commissioned several new a...

Russia expels 60 US diplomats in tit for tat move

Russia expels 60 US diplomats in tit for tat move

-- 2018-03-30 17:56:10

Russia has expelled 60 US diplomats and closed the St Petersburg consulate in a tit-for-tat response to US action over a spy poisoning case in the UK. Russia's foreign minister said other countries t...

17 die as minibus carrying migrants crashes in Turkey

17 die as minibus carrying migrants crashes in Turkey

Reuters 2018-03-30 14:53:18

A minibus packed with migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran crashed and burst into flames in eastern Turkey, killing 17 people, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Friday. The bus, designed...

Russia orders out 60 US diplomats over spy poisoning affair

Russia orders out 60 US diplomats over spy poisoning affair

-- 2018-03-30 10:24:01

Russia expelled 60 US diplomats on Thursday and announced it would eject scores from other countries that have joined London and Washington in censuring Moscow over the poisoning of a spy. The US amb...

Russian spy was poisoned on door of his home: Police

Russian spy was poisoned on door of his home: Police

-- 2018-03-29 19:52:41

Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve toxin that had been left on the front door of their home in England, British counter-terrorism police said on Wed...

Britain planning to curb plastic waste

Britain planning to curb plastic waste

-- 2018-03-29 17:02:50

Britain plans this year to introduce a deposit return scheme for single-use drink containers to increase recycling rates and slash the amount of waste littering the land and sea, the government said....

Italy detains five Tunisians in anti-terrorism raid

Italy detains five Tunisians in anti-terrorism raid

-- 2018-03-29 15:44:41

Italian police on Thursday arrested five Tunisians as part of what they said was a major operation against suspected supporters of Islamist terrorism in central and southern Italy. The swoop is the l...

Turkey issues warrants for 70 army officers over Gulen ties

Turkey issues warrants for 70 army officers over Gulen ties

-- 2018-03-29 13:35:15

Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 70 serving army officers over alleged links to the US-based preacher accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016, CNN Turk said on Thursday. Police...

Germany to compete against Israel for UN seat

Germany to compete against Israel for UN seat

-- 2018-03-29 13:22:48

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas rejected on Wednesday criticism of Berlin’s decision to compete against Israel for a seat on the UN Security Council in 2019 and 2020, saying it was normal for...

May vows to keep UK united

May vows to keep UK united

-- 2018-03-29 10:55:01

Theresa May has pledged to keep the UK ‘strong and united’ after Brexit as she marks a year to go until the UK’s departure from the European Union. The PM is to visit England, Scotl...

Kremlin still open to possible Trump-Putin meeting

Kremlin still open to possible Trump-Putin meeting

-- 2018-03-29 00:38:24

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russia was still open to the possibility of a meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin despite Washington's expulsion of...

France honours policeman who gave life to save hostage

France honours policeman who gave life to save hostage

-- 2018-03-28 20:32:39

Tributes have been paid across France to the police officer who died after he offered himself in exchange for a hostage in an Islamist attack. The coffin carrying Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame was driven in...