It is wrong for Britain to rely on allies to protect it from Islamic State (IS) militants, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said, calling on lawmakers to consider the case for extending air strikes to Syria from Iraq. The British government
BERLIN (Reuters) – German industrial orders dropped unexpectedly in September due mainly to weaker foreign demand, in a sign that Europe’s biggest economy may lose steam at the end of this year. Contracts for ‘Made in Germany’ goods were down
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged travellers to Egypt to avoid the Sinai Peninsula and, noting suspensions to some airlines’ services to Sharm el-Sheikh, urged those affected to contact their tour operators or airlines. In an update
SARAJEVO, Nov 5 – A Bosnian Muslim cleric was jailed for seven years on Wednesday for recruiting fighters for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, under a new law aimed at stopping people joining militants in the Middle East. Husein
A Russian-built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan’s capital, killing dozens of people, witnesses said.
MADRID, Spain — The Spanish Interior Ministry says police have arrested two people of Moroccan origin on suspicion of recruiting militants and spreading propaganda for the Islamic State (IS) armed terrorist group. A ministry statement said the two, one of
ISTANBUL, Turkey – Nine alleged members of Islamic State believed to have been preparing a suicide bomb attack on a political party’s offices in Istanbul have been remanded in custody by a court in southeast Turkey, the local governor’s office said.
Greece on Wednesday carried out the first relocation of asylum seekers from its territory to Luxembourg, part of an EU-approved plan to ease the burden on border nations inundated by this year’s influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Six
Nov 3 – Police forcibly removed about 100 people from a makeshift Roma camp in Sweden’s southern city of Malmo early on Tuesday, ending a long standoff over the site that has fuelled tensions over immigration. Dozens of police arrived
GENEVA, Nov 2 – The number of migrants and refugees entering Europe by sea last month was roughly the same as for the whole of 2014, United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Monday. The monthly record of 218,394 also
ROME, Nov 2 – Italian soccer federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio (pictured above) is in trouble again, this time for apparently making disparaging comments about Jews and gays, which have led to fresh calls for his resignation. An Italian newspaper
SYDNEY, Nov 2 – Australia’s pro-republic Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Monday scrapped knights and dames from the nation’s honours system, less than a year after a furore sparked by the award of a knighthood to Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s
ISTANBUL, Nov 2 – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday the nation had voted for stability in a parliamentary election that saw the AK Party he founded win almost 50 percent of the vote, and said the world should
Airports across Britain suffered disruption on Monday as heavy fog led to delays and cancellations for a second day. Flights to and from London airports were being affected, while foggy conditions in the capital and across Europe were causing problems
ANKARA, Nov 1 (Reuters) – A senior official from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) said there was no likelihood of a coalition government after Sunday’s general election, with the AK Party apparently on its way back to single-party
PARIS (Reuters) – Far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s approval rating has risen among those voters who describe themselves as right wing, one month ahead of regional elections, a BVA institute survey showed. Le Pen, who is set to win control
Britain’s Chancellor will outline how he wants to protect London’s financial services industry in a reformed European Union (EU) when he travels to Germany next week. Prime Minister David Cameron is trying to convince other EU leaders to agree to
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper the Sun is to take down its online paywall, after the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid failed to win enough readers in the latest troubled digital experiment for a traditional publisher. The scrapping of the online
(Reuters) – A British citizen arrested for producing and possessing wine in Saudi Arabia, where alcohol is illegal, is likely to be released and returned to Britain by next week, Britain’s Foreign Minister Philip Hammond said on Wednesday. Karl Andree,
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday launched his most open defence to date of his country remaining in the European Union, telling Eurosceptics that EU outsider Norway was no model to emulate. Speaking in parliament ahead of a trip to
Britain is better off remaining inside the European Union, EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker wrote in a British newspaper on Tuesday, as he prepares to hear London’s demands for reform of the bloc. “I believe that the EU is better
BERLIN (Reuters) – Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives has dropped to its lowest level in more than three years, a poll showed on Sunday, as her allies in the state of Bavaria stepped up criticism of her handling
WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) – Poland’s eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS) claimed victory on Sunday in a watershed election that risks putting the ex-communist state on a collision course with key European Union allies. Run by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin
Britain will not hold a second “In-Out” vote on its membership of the European Union (EU) if the public opt to leave the bloc at a referendum due by the end of 2017, a senior aide to Prime Minister David
European leaders traded threats and reprimands on Saturday as thousands more migrants and refugees streamed into the Balkans on the eve of European Union talks aimed at agreeing on urgent action to tackle the crisis. Concern is growing about hundreds
