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BELI MANASTIR, Croatia (Reuters) – Croatia said on Saturday it had “forced” Hungary to take in thousands of migrants and would continue sending them to its northern neighbour, amid deepening discord and disarray in Europe over the biggest westwards migration

ZURICH (Reuters) – The European Central Bank’s chief economist reiterated the bank’s “readiness and decisiveness” to modify its trillion-euro bond-buying programme should economic turbulence merit decisive action, according to an interview in a Swiss newspaper. Interviewed by the Neue Zuercher

How Europe is dealing with its refugee influx is emblematic of a deeper crisis on a continent that has forgotten its core values, Alexis Tspiras, seeking a second term as Greek prime minister, said last night. Tspiras, whose country has

A few years ago, Thomas de Maiziere was seen as a leading candidate to succeed Angela Merkel one day. What he lacked in charisma, he made up for in competence and reliability, the same traits that had vaulted his boss

The head of Germany’s refugee office, which has been criticised for its handling of record numbers of asylum seekers, has resigned, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. Manfred Schmidt’s departure, which was for personal reasons, came as the number of

SID, Serbia/ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatia has closed seven of eight road border crossings with Serbia after complaining of being overwhelmed by an influx of more than 11,000 migrants who evaded police, trekked through fields and tried to sneak into Slovenia

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, taking the offensive after an election campaign marred by setbacks and missteps, told a televised debate on Thursday that his rivals’ plans for increased taxes and deficits would badly damage the economy. With polls showing

The Greek election campaign ends on Friday with opinion polls giving no clear winner, setting the stage for a cliffhanger vote on Sunday between the political left and right, and the near-certainty the next government will be a coalition. Five

About 330 Islamic State fighters have been killed in British air strikes since the Royal Air Force began carrying out raids against the group in September last year, Britain’s Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said. “This figure is highly approximate,

An appeals court rejected the Canadian government’s ban on face veil worn by some Muslims during citizenship ceremonies, the Canadian Press reported on Tuesday. In response, the ruling Conservative party said the government was considering all legal options following the

No fan of Britain’s “special relationship” with the United States, the new left-wing leader of the country’s main opposition party is against Prime Minister David Cameron’s drive to join Washington’s air strikes on Syria. But Jeremy Corbyn’s position is out

British annual inflation fell back to zero in August after oil prices recorded their biggest fall since the start of the year, ensuring price growth remained far slower than the Bank of England’s target. Consumer prices rose 0.2 percent on

BERLIN (Reuters) – The interior minister of the southern German state of Bavaria said on Monday that temporary border controls could remain in place “for weeks at least” as the country grapples with an unprecedented influx of refugees. Europe’s largest

Among the sand dunes of Calais’ makeshift “Jungle” camp of migrants on the northern coast of France a large screen playing a Bollywood film offers a few hours of escape from the harsh realities of daily life. The audience are

Record temperatures and changes to climate patterns in the world’s oceans are among signs that a global warming pause is coming to an end, Britain’s Met Office said in a report on Monday. The report comes just over two months

Britain and Ireland will try to resume crisis talks with Northern Ireland’s Protestant unionist and Catholic nationalist parties on Monday in a bid to save a power-sharing government that ended decades of sectarian violence. The British province’s devolved administration is

LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party must unite behind new leader Jeremy Corbyn, his deputy said on Sunday as he revealed his own differences with his new boss over issues such as defence and foreign policy. Left-wing

BUDAPEST/GENEVA (Reuters) – Hungary’s prime minister angrily accused illegal migrants on Friday of “rebelling” against the rule of law in his country as security forces across Europe struggled to control record flows of hungry, scared refugees. The United Nations called

YALTA, Crimea (Reuters) – Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi became the most prominent Western politician to visit Russian-annexed Crimea when he strolled beside the Black Sea on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Western visitors have been rare since

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s government on Thursday proposed increasing capital gains tax and income tax on high earners to help pay for a 10-fold increase in refugees expected to arrive this year, its finance minister said. The EU migrant crisis proposes

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Facebook to do more against racist comments and hate posts, in comments due to be published in a regional newspaper on Friday. Germany is expecting a record-breaking influx of refugees this year.