LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party is considering allowing its lawmakers to vote as they wish on whether to approve Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to extend airstrikes to Syria, its finance spokesman said on Thursday. Britain is already
WARSAW (Reuters) – The West may be considering a thaw with Moscow, but Poland’s new conservative government could further strain relations with the country’s former Soviet overlord by reopening an investigation into the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a
Pope Francis said on Thursday in Kenya, a country that has seen a spate of attacks by Islamist militants, that dialogue between religions in Africa was essential to teach young people that violence in God’s name was unjustified. Bridging divisions
It will be hard for officials renegotiating Britain’s EU membership to meet a goal of having a framework ready for discussion at a regional summit next month, a senior EU official involved in the talks said on Wednesday. Prime Minister
European countries are stretched to their limits in the refugee crisis and cannot take in any more new arrivals, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was quoted as saying in a German newspaper on Wednesday. Europe is grappling with its worst
A Pakistani man was sentenced by a U.S. judge to 40 years in prison on Tuesday for plotting to bomb a shopping center in England, as part of an al Qaeda plan to carry out attacks in Europe and the United States.
BERLIN – The French and German economy ministers have proposed setting up a 10 billion euro ($10.65 billion) fund to pay for tighter security, external border controls and care of refugees, French minister Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday. Speaking in
SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday called for greater intelligence sharing in Southeast Asia to stop a Paris-style terror attack and ordered local law enforcement officials to test their readiness to handle a mass casualty attack. Citing
BELFAST – A British exit from the European Union (EU) would not wreck Northern Ireland’s economy, the minister widely expected to be named the province’s next leader said on Monday, urging London to be bolder in its renegotiation with Brussels.
More than half of Britons now want to leave the European Union, according to an opinion poll carried out after the Paris attacks for the Independent newspaper. The ORB survey of 2,000 people showed 52 percent of British voters wanted
Soldiers patrolled the streets of Brussels on the third day of a security lockdown on Monday and the tenth day of a manhunt for the suspected mastermind of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. Belgian national Salah Abdeslam has not
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s “woefully inadequate” anti-money laundering system has left the country wide open to corrupt money and terrorism funds and needs radical overhaul, a leading anti-corruption group said on Monday. Each year billions of pounds of dirty money
PARIS (Reuters) – There were multiple chances to stop the men who attacked Paris. In January, Turkish authorities detained one of the suicide bombers at Turkey’s border and deported him to Belgium. Brahim Abdeslam, Turkish authorities told Belgian police at
France calls itself “the homeland of human rights” but has focussed in the past week on limiting them as the government pushed through sweeping curbs on basic freedoms in the wake of the Paris massacre. In the edgy days since
LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) – – The British government is too confident that it can predict national security threats, parliament’s defence committee said on Saturday, setting out a list of vulnerabilities and risks that need to be addressed at an
ISTANBUL, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Turkish police have arrested a Belgian man of Moroccan origin on suspicion he scouted out the target sites for Islamic State in attacks that killed 129 people in Paris a week ago, a Turkish government
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden, a favourite destination for refugees flooding into Europe, can no longer house all those arriving and many will have to find their own accommodation, the country’s migration agency said on Thursday. Sweden has already imposed temporary border
(Reuters) A new case of Ebola has been found in Liberia, a country declared free of the disease on Sept. 3, a senior United Nations official said on Friday.
The United States said on Thursday it was “disappointed” that an Israeli riot policeman was sentenced to community service, and not prison, for beating an American teenager of Palestinian descent last year, claiming there was clear evidence excessive force was used.
LONDON – British public finances recorded the worst deficit for any October since 2009, leaving Chancellor George Osborne (pictured above) a challenge to meet his borrowing goals as he prepares a major review of government spending. Britain’s headline public borrowing rose
PARIS, Nov 19 – France’s lower house of parliament extended a state of emergency imposed after attacks in Paris for three months on Thursday and toughened a series of security measures which date back to 1955. France imposed the state
BERLIN – Germany on Thursday strongly criticized Israel’s plans to push ahead with the building of hundreds of new settlements in East Jerusalem, saying it would undermine efforts to peacefully resolve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister
PARIS, Nov 19 – Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of the attacks that killed 129 in Paris was among those killed in a police raid in a suburb of the French capital on Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor said in a
BERLIN, Nov 19 – A group of several attackers planned to set off multiple explosives in Hanover soccer stadium at Tuesday night’s friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands, which was called off, daily Bild reported on Thursday. Bild said
BELGRADE/SKOPJE Nov 19 (Reuters) – Serbia and Macedonia have begun limiting the passage of migrants across their borders to Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, turning back Africans and Asians, the United Nations said on Thursday. A senior police source in Macedonia,
