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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

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

(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

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

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said on Sunday it will go further in its attempts to tackle the gender pay gap by forcing large firms to publish details about the bonuses given to men and women. In July, Prime Minister David

FRANKFURT, Germany – Frantic deal-making in the German property market has spotlighted the scarcity of housing in the country and thrown into sharp relief the influx of up to one million migrants fleeing war and poverty. Property consolidation reached new heights

NEW YORK – A former follower of radical London imam Abu Hamza al-Masri avoided prison on Friday after providing what a U.S. prosecutor said was over a decade of “unprecedented” cooperation in terrorism investigations that led to the conviction of his

LJUBLJANA/DOBOVA, Slovenia – Slovenia said it will consider all options, including fencing off its border with Croatia, if European leaders fail to agree a common approach to the migrant crisis as thousands stream into the ex-Yugoslav republic. Migrants began crossing

BORDEAUX, France, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Forty-two mostly elderly people died when a bus and a truck collided head-on and caught fire near Bordeaux early on Friday, officials said, in France’s worst road crash in decades. Another five people were

LONDON – Heard the one about the lord, the gangster and the prime minister’s wife? An old scandal from the 1960s re-emerges in lurid new detail from declassified British intelligence files featuring prominent politician Lord Boothby, his mistress, who was

LJUBLJANA/RIGONCE, Slovenia – More than 12,000 migrants have crossed into Slovenia in the past 24 hours and thousands more are expected, prompting authorities to ask the rest of the European Union for help dealing with the flood of people. Slovenia

Sweden said on Thursday it expected up to 190,000 migrants this year, putting unprecedented strain on a country famous for welcoming refugees but planning to house many in tents this winter. On the opposite pole of the angry debate on

British retail sales recorded their strongest monthly growth in almost two years last month, boosted by bumper beer sales linked to the Rugby World Cup hosted in England and Wales. Retail sales volumes surged by 1.9 per cent on the

A masked man wielding “knife-like weapons” killed one teacher and wounded another as well as two boys at a school in western Sweden on Thursday before being shot by police. Police said the suspect, a man in his 20s, was

Slovenia has asked the European Union for police to help regulate the inflow of migrants from Croatia, Interior Minister Vesna Gyorkos Znidar told TV Slovenia. Over the past 24 hours, more than 10,000 migrants, many fleeing violence in Syria, have

Chinese President Xi Jinping has sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to finance nuclear power stations in Britain, crowning a visit that Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will unleash a wave of investment from the world’s second largest economy. After a

Japan on Tuesday acknowledged the first possible casualty from radiation at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, a worker who was diagnosed with cancer after the crisis broke out in 2011.

(Reuters) – Four boatloads of migrants came ashore at a British military base on Cyprus on Wednesday, authorities said, the first time since the migrant crisis began that migrants have landed directly on what is considered British sovereign soil. Vessels

Britain will look to encourage high spending Chinese tourists to visit the country by introducing a two year multiple-entry visa, the government said on Wednesday during a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Xi’s visit, which included an audience

LYON, France, Oct 20 (Reuters) – France’s far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen said the government was using the judiciary to persecute her as she went on trial on Tuesday for comparing Muslim street prayers to Nazi occupation.

Deutsche Bank AG erroneously paid $6 billion (3.9 billion pounds) to a U.S. hedge fund client after a junior trader processed the wrong figure, the Financial Times reported. The bank recovered the amount from the client the next day and the

LJUBLJANA, Oct 20 – Slovenia’s parliament is expected to approve changes to its laws later on Tuesday to enable the army to help police guard the border, as thousands of migrants flooded into the country from Croatia after Hungary sealed off

Oct 20 – Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to call publicly for the release of their fellow laureate, Liu Xiaobo, and his wife Liu Xia during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to

LONDON, Oct 19 – Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will spell out how Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) affects the central bank’s ability to manage the economy and protect the country’s banking sector in a key speech

Canada’s Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late surge to a stunning majority election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamour, youth and charisma to Ottawa. Harper

Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives has fallen to its lowest since May 2013, a poll showed on Sunday, as her coalition partner said Germany must win over refugee skeptics or else risk “planting social explosives in our nation”.

BERKASOVO, Serbia – Thousands of migrants clamoured to enter European Union member Croatia from Serbia on Monday after a night spent in the cold and mud of no-man’s land, their passage west slowed by a Slovenian effort to impose limits on

German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Istanbul on Sunday desperate to secure Turkey’s help in stemming the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe, but without being seen to sacrifice their human rights. Dubbed a “punch-bag” for her own

Migrants camped on France’s north coast continued their bids to reach Britain on Thursday as the first autumn winds blew into their sprawl of tents and shanties and EU leaders arrived in Brussels, 200 kilometres away, to discuss the broader

The first bus full of migrants arrived at a Slovenian border crossing with Croatia on Saturday, the Slovenian police said, after Hungary shut its border with Croatia late on Friday, diverting them towards Slovenia. “The bus is on the border