IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – Greek police started removing hundreds of migrants stranded on the Greece Macedonia border and blocking rail traffic on Wednesday, a police official and a Reuters eyewitness said. Some 1,200 people mostly from Pakistan, Morocco and Iran,
BERLIN (Reuters) – In past years, Angela Merkel has been feted like a superstar at annual meetings of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, earning thunderous ovations for defending German interests in the euro crisis and facing down Vladimir Putin
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s lower house of parliament voted on Tuesday against cutting the voting age for a referendum on EU membership, potentially blocking any further moves to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote. Members of parliament voted 303 to
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named his top national security adviser Yossi Cohen on Monday to head the Mossad intelligence agency. Cohen, a former Mossad operative, has been Netanyahu’s top security adviser for the past two years. He will replace
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The man running negotiations with Britain to keep it in the European Union said leaders could seal a deal in February but warned David Cameron that a central demand to curb immigration may be asking too much.
BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Union is at risk of falling apart and supporters must fight to keep it, the head of the European Parliament said in a German newspaper interview. Martin Schulz (pictured above, centre) told Die Welt’s Tuesday
LONDON – Lord Janner (pictured left), an 87-year-old member of the House of Lords, is too ill to face trial on charges of serious child sex crimes, a judge ruled on Monday, after months of legal argument over the peer’s
France’s Socialist Party on Monday said it would pull its candidates out of a third regional poll, that of eastern France, adding to its efforts to create an electoral “barricade” against Marine Le Pen, the party’s chief said on Monday.
LONDON (Reuters) – British detectives have charged a man with attempted murder after a knife attack at an east London Underground station on Saturday night which was described by police as a terrorist incident. Police said 29-year-old Muhaydin Mire of east
ROME (Reuters) – Italy has no intention of joining a U.S.-led coalition that is attacking Islamic State targets in Syria, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (pictured) said on Sunday, warning that the air campaign would only add to chaos in
Relations between Sweden and Israel hit a fresh low on Sunday after Israel said Sweden’s foreign minister had accused it of unlawful killings and Stockholm responded by saying that the comments had been “blown out of reasonable proportion”. Relations between
France’s National Front pulled off a historic win on Sunday, topping the vote in the first round of regional elections, in a breakthrough that shakes up the country’s political landscape before 2017 presidential elections. Boosted by fears over the Islamic
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel (pictured) urged Saudi Arabia on Sunday to stop supporting religious radicals amid growing concern among some lawmakers in Berlin about the funding of militant mosques by the world’s biggest oil exporter. The unusual
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland should take unilateral action to restrict immigration from the European Union (EU), the billionaire and leading right winger Christoph Blocher was quoted as telling a Swiss newspaper on Sunday. Blocher, 75, is a lead figure in
LONDON (Reuters) – British air strikes on Islamic State will fail to defeat the militant group, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, mocking Prime Minister David Cameron’s strategy in the region. British lawmakers
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron has privately conceded he may have to campaign for Britain to leave the European Union if he continues to be “completely ignored” by EU partners, The Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday. Citing an
British bombers made their second round of strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria late on Friday, again hitting oil fields, British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said on Saturday. “Last night we saw the Typhoons in action for the first
Specialist British police teams that guard against attacks on planes by militants armed with surface-to-air missiles are at risk of being disbanded because of cost-saving measures, according to sources close to the units. Global aviation experts have warned that a
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – European Union leaders could clinch a deal with British Prime Minister David Cameron in February to prevent the bloc’s second largest economy leaving, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday. Cameron is seeking to renegotiate Britain’s
BRUSSELS/IDOMENI – Greece asked for European help on Thursday to secure its borders and care for crowds of migrants, defusing threats from EU allies to bar it from the passport-free Schengen zone if it failed to get a grip. Hours
British Prime Minister David Cameron told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday he did not expect to reach a deal on his planned EU reforms at December’s European Council meeting, his spokeswoman said. Cameron has promised to renegotiate Britain’s EU
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police said on Thursday that suspects wanted in connection with a bomb that ripped through a Bangkok shrine, killing 20 people, have been arrested abroad and that Thailand was in the process of requesting their extradition.
AKROTIRI, Cyprus (Reuters) – British fighter jets took off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus early on Thursday shortly after parliament voted to bomb Islamic State targets in Syria, a Reuters witness said. Four jets left in pairs within about an
LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Britain’s parliament voted on Wednesday to launch bombing raids against Islamic State in Syria, supporting Prime Minister David Cameron’s case that the country needs to help destroy militants who are “plotting to kill us”. After
PARIS – Police shut a mosque east of Paris and arrested the owner of a revolver found in related raids on Wednesday as part of a crackdown called after the Nov. 13 attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve
