LONDON (AP) – Former British Treasury chief George Osborne has been appointed editor of the Evening Standard newspaper, touching off a torrent of criticism about whether a sitting lawmaker should be able to run a London-based daily.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister has suggested directing tens of thousands of migrants to the European Union (EU) as a form of retaliation for European leaders blocking his government holding Islamism rallies in their countries.
There is “no evidence or reasonable grounds for suspicion” to believe Russia or any other another foreign power interfered in the “operational delivery” of Britain’s referendum on European Union (EU) membership, according to a leaked Cabinet Office letter.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany plans to test software that can automatically recognize a person’s dialect to help determine whether asylum-seekers are really where they claim they’re from.
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors are shelving their investigation into an alleged plan by Islamic extremists to attack a Germany-Netherlands football match in 2015.
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The trial of an Australian man charged with terrorism offenses in Bulgaria has been put on hold for three weeks after the court decided to hear testimony from additional witnesses.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag says his German counterpart has requested the release of German daily Die Welt’s jailed correspondent and described the demand as “unacceptable.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has promised continued resistance against the “unholy alliance of Brussels bureaucrats, the liberal world media and insatiable international capitalists” in a landmark speech.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s main opposition party said Friday it is seeking a parliamentary vote of no-confidence against the conservative government which, it said, is “demolishing” the country and wants to bring it out of the European Union.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday urged Turks resident in Europe to have five children, telling the millions strong diaspora community “you are Europe’s future.”
Two men were found dead in the courtyard of a Paris apartment building Friday, their throats slit. French police have launched an investigation into the slayings and have arrested one individual in connection with the killings.
More than a quarter of marriages transcribed into French law in 2015 were between foreigners and French nationals, the latest data shows.
Eurostat has released figures revealing that just 28 per cent of asylum claimants in the European Union, plus Norway and Switzerland, are from Syria.
The Turkish outlet Hurriyet has published a photo of a copy of a Dutch election ballot with the name “Recep Tayyip Erdogan” written in as a candidate, an apparent protest against the Netherlands’ decision to prevent high-ranking Turkish officials from campaigning for Erdogan’s constitutional referendum on Dutch soil.
Fearing terror attacks, the majority of people in France are pessimistic about the nation’s security situation, with six in 10 saying they no longer feel safe anywhere according to an IFOP-FIDUCIAL poll.
Police were scrambled to an area of Bradford Thursday night after local Muslims reacted hysterically to copies of the Quran being found in a skip.
Climate change denial is a “crime against humanity” which should be punishable by trial in a world court says Monty Python’s Eric Idle.
An asylum seeker from Afghanistan who is the main suspect in a murder in Sweden was allegedly promised marriage in exchange for killing the victim.
In addition to his customary invective against European governments for refusing to allow his ministers to rally Turkish expatriates behind him, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that the EU’s new ban on headscarves in the workplace would launch “a struggle between the cross and the crescent.”
Three people have been injured in Österåker, north of Stockholm, after a suspect stabbed and pepper sprayed them in what is believed to be a conflict between rival criminal gangs.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister has said Europe is being ‘dragged into the abyss’, warning that religious conflict will soon erupt on the continent’s soil.
LONDON (AFP) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will seek to rally her party faithful Friday after a week in which her political honeymoon abruptly ended, laying bare her weaknesses over Brexit.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Donald Trump hosts Germany’s Angela Merkel at the White House Friday, a meeting delayed by a snowstorm and still clouded by a storm of words between the two ostensible allies.
BERLIN (AP) — French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron pledged strong commitment to European unity and said that France needs to restore its economic credibility as he presented his plans to German leaders on Thursday.
MILAN (AP) — A Sicilian archbishop is taking on the Mafia in its heartland.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The European Union’s enlargement commissioner urged Balkan leaders Thursday to stop stoking regional tensions and fully embrace their European future.
PARIS (AP) — Prince William and his wife Kate are coming to Paris to meet the French president as Britain readies to launch divorce proceedings from the European Union.
Senior diplomats in Brussels say it is “critical” that Theresa May activates Article 50 by next week.
Britain will not ban the Islamic veil in work or public places, the prime minister has said.
A political party founded to serve the interests of immigrants in the Netherlands which has been accused of acting as apologists for the Turkish government has won seats for the first time, a major breakthrough that may set precedents for other such movements across Europe.
Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused the EU of starting a “crusade” against Islam and said his country was no longer friends with The Netherlands, further souring relations.
According to the most recent data, the employment field where immigrants—both legal and illegal—make up the largest percentage of the U.S. workforce is the area of domestic help, the Pew Research Center revealed Thursday.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Thursday to scrap a deal with the European Union to readmit migrants who have crossed illegally into Europe, amid a standoff with European nations over their reluctance to allow Turkish ministers to hold campaign rallies in their countries.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is inviting applications to be its candidate in a South Thanet by-election, anticipating the Conservative party will be stripped of its 2015 victory in the constituency.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Newcastle University says its scientists have received a license to create babies using DNA from three people to prevent women from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases to their children — the first time such approval has been granted.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday rejected a call for a referendum on Scottish independence before Britain leaves the European Union — a move condemned as a “democratic outrage” by Scotland’s nationalist leader.
Senior officers blocked witnesses from giving evidence which would have exposed the shambolic state of affairs on the frontlines of Afghanistan during the trial of Sergeant Alexander Blackman, known as ‘Marine A’.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany’s finance minister is denouncing trade protectionism ahead of a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and a summit where global finance officials are expected to tussle over how strongly to support free trade.
French populist and Front National leader Marine Le Pen spoke out against claims the European Union has eyed France and Britain’s nuclear arsenals with a view to take them over for the common use of EU nations.
Despite coming second and increasing his number of MPs by a third, much of the media Thursday morning claimed Geert Wilders and his brand of populism had been “crushed” in the Netherlands.
