-- 2018-01-07 08:22:50
Russian forces have thwarted a drone attack on an airbase in Syria just days after reports that rebel shelling had damaged several planes, activists say. The attempt to bomb the Hmeimim base near the...
-- 2018-01-06 10:48:11
French President Emmanuel Macron has told his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that there is no chance of progress towards Turkey joining the European Union at present. At a joint news conf...
-- 2018-01-05 06:20:05
The United Kingdom will host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in April when leaders from all the member countries are expected to gather in London and Windsor. They will come toge...
Reuters 2018-01-05 02:49:16
The European Union’s top diplomat Federica Mogherini met Cuban President Raul Castro on Thursday as she ended a two-day visit to the Communist country aimed at strengthening engagement even as t...
-- 2018-01-04 11:43:29
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans for a new law to combat so-called fake news. He said that during elections social media would face tougher rules over the content that they put on...
-- 2018-01-04 10:55:12
Three people have died as winter storm Eleanor swept across most of northern Europe, causing widescale disruption. A skier died in the French Alps and 15 others were injured elsewhere in the country,...
-- 2018-01-03 10:37:49
A fiery motorway crash in northern Italy has taken the lives of six people, Italian news reports say. Five of the dead, including two children were travelling together in a car, said RAI state TV sai...
FE Online Desk 2018-01-03 03:31:52
Journalist and head of Russia's largest Muslim media holding Aina Gamzatova submitted registration papers to the Central Elections Committee to fight for the 2018 presidential election. She was nom...
-- 2018-01-02 12:46:44
Pope Francis is having cards printed and distributed showing a 1945 photo of victims of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki along with the words "the fruit of war." The photo captures a boy carry...
-- 2018-01-02 10:35:30
A German politician is facing a police investigation over inflammatory comments made on New Year's Eve. Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of Germany's far-right AfD party, had her Twitter account sus...
-- 2018-01-01 11:47:27
A huge fire that broke out at a car park in the northern English city of Liverpool destroyed hundreds of vehicles and prompted the evacuation of multiple buildings in the surrounding area on Sunday....
-- 2018-01-01 09:26:02
Four people have been killed in a spate of unrelated stabbings across London on New Year’s Eve. Police are appealing for information after a 17-year-old boy, 18-year-old man and two others aged...
Reuters 2018-01-01 03:07:57
Pope Francis in his year-end message said that 2017 had been marred by war, lies and injustice, and he urged people to take responsibility for their actions. At his last public event of the year, an...
-- 2017-12-31 12:21:31
Ukrainian police freed the remaining hostages being held in a post office by a man believed to be strapped with explosives, and arrested the hostage taker after an hours-long standoff in the city of K...
-- 2017-12-31 11:32:03
An earthquake with a preliminary reading of 4.6 rattled Athens and central Greece early Sunday, witnesses said, with no immediate reports of damage. The tremor was recorded west of Athens at 6.02am (...
BBC 2017-12-31 10:01:05
The Greek government says it has asked the country's judicial authorities to cancel a legal decision granting asylum to a Turkish helicopter pilot. He was one of eight servicemen who fled to Greece l...
-- 2017-12-31 10:00:10
Spain's maritime rescue service says it has saved 177 migrants from six boats attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday. The service says that the largest of the boats was carrying 55 mig...
-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00
The so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group says it was behind Wednesday's bombing of a supermarket in the Russian city of St Petersburg that injured at least 13 people. IS made the claim on its...
-- 2017-12-30 12:00:00
Violent extremists use the Internet to attract younger audiences, disseminate contents and foster direct dialogue with young people, a United Nations agency-backed study found, but more research is ne...
-- 2017-12-30 11:38:38
Turkey has finalised a deal with Moscow for the purchase of Russia's S-400 anti-missile system, Turkish defense officials announced Friday, despite concerns voiced by some of the NATO member's allies....
-- 2017-12-30 09:37:00
A man believed to be strapped with explosives has taken nine adults and two children hostage in a post office in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Regional police said on Saturday that the unidentified...
-- 2017-12-30 07:07:32
Russian Supreme Court has upheld the ban against country's opposition leader Alexei Navalny from next year’s presidential election. The court on Saturday dismissed an appeal by Alexei Navalny a...
-- 2017-12-29 05:48:40
The leader of a prominent Russian environmental group has been brutally beaten by unknown attackers, his deputy said Friday. The Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus for years has exposed illega...
-- 2017-12-28 10:13:20
At least 10 people have been injured after an explosion at a supermarket in the Russian city of St Petersburg. One person is said to be in serious condition following the detonation of an improvised...
-- 2017-12-27 03:03:14
Turkish police have detained 54 staff from a university shut down after an attempted coup last year that was blamed on US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. State-run Anadolu news agency said on...
-- 2017-12-26 12:00:00
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been formally barred from competing in next year's presidential election. The Central Electoral Commission has said Navalny was ineligible because of a co...
-- 2017-12-26 12:00:00
Pope Francis has used his Christmas message to call for a negotiated two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after US President Donald Trump stoked regional tensions with his recog...
-- 2017-12-26 11:51:30
A British ship escorted a Russian vessel as it passed near UK territorial waters over Christmas, Britain’s defence ministry said on Tuesday, adding that Russian naval activity near Britain had i...
-- 2017-12-26 07:23:19
A "smart" Brexit deal could serve as a model for the EU's future relations with other non-EU states, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel says. Turkey and Ukraine are two states which could benefit...
Reuters 2017-12-25 12:34:33
Pope Francis strongly defended immigrants at his Christmas Eve Mass on Sunday, comparing them to Mary and Joseph finding no place to stay in Bethlehem and saying faith demands that foreigners be welco...
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