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Sajid Javid becomes new British interior minister

Sajid Javid becomes new British interior minister

-- 2018-04-30 18:28:03

Sajid Javid has become new Home Secretary of the United Kingdom after previous interior minister Amber Rudd's exit. British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Sajid as the new home boss on Monday,...

UK home secretary quits over immigration scandal

UK home secretary quits over immigration scandal

-- 2018-04-30 10:28:21

Britain's home secretary Amber Rudd has resigned, saying she ‘inadvertently misled’ MPs over targets for removing illegal immigrants. Rudd, who was due to make a Commons statement on...

Britain, France, Germany agree to support Iran nuclear deal

Britain, France, Germany agree to support Iran nuclear deal

-- 2018-04-29 19:35:27

Britain, France and Germany have agreed to support the Iran nuclear deal as it is the best way to prevent Tehran from gaining nuclear weapons. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s office said i...

Gang-rape verdict in Spain spills on to third day

Gang-rape verdict in Spain spills on to third day

-- 2018-04-29 18:35:02

Thousands of people have marched in northern Spain for a third consecutive day to protest the acquittal of five men on gang rape charges. Local police in Pamplona estimated the size of the crowd at S...

Turkey detains 63 over Gulen links

Turkey detains 63 over Gulen links

-- 2018-04-28 15:11:04

Turkish authorities have detained 63 people suspected of links to a network accused of orchestrating a failed coup and were hunting for 40 others on Saturday, the state-run Anadolu news agency said....

UK’s Rudd resists calls to quit over immigration policy error

UK’s Rudd resists calls to quit over immigration policy error

-- 2018-04-28 12:04:17

Britain’s interior minister Amber Rudd resisted calls to quit, apologising for not being aware of the use of deportation targets in her department and vowing to implement fair and humane immigra...

UN decries Israel's excessive  use of force in Gaza

UN decries Israel's excessive use of force in Gaza

-- 2018-04-27 22:06:43

Israel must stop the excessive use of force by its security forces along the Gaza border and must hold to account those responsible for the many deaths and injuries sustained by Palestinians in the pa...

EU mulls more sanctions against Yangon

EU mulls more sanctions against Yangon

-- 2018-04-26 22:52:34

The European Union will extend its arms embargo on Myanmar for another year this week and may then move to target more Yangon generals with fresh sanctions, EU diplomats and officials said, reports Re...

Over 70 countries attend anti-terror financing confce in Paris

Over 70 countries attend anti-terror financing confce in Paris

-- 2018-04-26 16:01:27

Ministers from more than 70 countries are discussing ways to combat financing for the Islamic State group and Al-Qaida at an international conference in Paris. The initiative was launched by French P...

Turkish court sentences 13 journalists on terror charges

Turkish court sentences 13 journalists on terror charges

Agencies 2018-04-26 11:28:26

A Turkish court has sentenced 13 journalists to prison on terrorism charges, in a case that has sparked global outrage over press freedom. The journalists were employees of the opposition Cumhuriyet...

Russia to sign deal with India on S-400 missiles sale

Russia to sign deal with India on S-400 missiles sale

Reuters 2018-04-25 14:55:12

Russia said on Wednesday that it expected to sign a deal with India this year on the sale of S-400 surface-to-air missiles, the Interfax news agency reported. It cited Russia’s Federal Servic...

Magnitude 5.2 quake hits Turkey, wounds 39

Magnitude 5.2 quake hits Turkey, wounds 39

-- 2018-04-24 13:50:09

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Turkey’s southeastern province of Adiyaman early on Tuesday, leaving 39 people injured, said state-run Anadolu news agency. The US Geolog...

UK upper house hands govt another Brexit defeat

UK upper house hands govt another Brexit defeat

-- 2018-04-24 12:51:29

Britain’s upper house of parliament handed the government its third defeat over Brexit in less than a week on Monday, voting down plans not to retain EU rights in national law before Britain lea...

British royal family welcomes baby boy

British royal family welcomes baby boy

-- 2018-04-23 19:17:30

The Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Britain's Prince William, gave birth her third royal baby, a boy, on Monday at St. Mary's Hospital in London. The royal family announced made the announcement on Mon...

Paraguayans elect Mario Abdo Benítez as new president

Paraguayans elect Mario Abdo Benítez as new president

-- 2018-04-23 16:19:33

Conservative former senator Mario Abdo Benítez has been elected president of Paraguay. He beat his closest rival, Efraín Alegre from the liberal opposition alliance, by four percentage...

Belgium sentences Paris attacks suspect to 20 years in jail

Belgium sentences Paris attacks suspect to 20 years in jail

-- 2018-04-23 15:58:46

A Belgian judge on Monday sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris, to 20 years in prison over a shootout with police in Brussels in 2016. Abde...

France passes new law to tighten asylum rules

France passes new law to tighten asylum rules

-- 2018-04-23 11:50:08

The French National Assembly has passed a tough new immigration law that tightens the rules around asylum. The bill shortens asylum application deadlines, doubles the time for which illegal migrants...

Armenia anti-govt protesters to hold talks with PM

Armenia anti-govt protesters to hold talks with PM

-- 2018-04-22 11:45:41

The organiser of anti-government protests in Armenia says he will hold talks with Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan early on Sunday. Nikol Pashinyan has been leading calls for Sargsyan to resign over a c...

C'wealth leaders approve Charles to succeed Queen

C'wealth leaders approve Charles to succeed Queen

-- 2018-04-20 19:08:55

Commonwealth leaders have approved Prince Charles as the successor to Queen Elizabeth II as head of the group. The group’s heads of government took the decision at a meeting at Windsor Castle i...

Prince Charles will lead Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth hopes

Prince Charles will lead Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth hopes

-- 2018-04-20 16:32:11

Queen Elizabeth II has expressed her hope that Prince Charles will succeed her as the head of Commonwealth, the association of Britain and its former colonies. The Queen also urged Commonwealth leade...

WW2 bomb prompts mass evacuation in Berlin

WW2 bomb prompts mass evacuation in Berlin

BBC 2018-04-20 13:24:46

A large-scale evacuation is to take place in Berlin on Friday morning (local time) to allow experts to defuse a World War Two bomb. Buildings will be cleared from 09:00 (07:00 GMT) in an 800m (2,625f...

Austrian train crash injures dozens

Austrian train crash injures dozens

-- 2018-04-20 12:30:33

Two passenger trains were involved in a crash while being coupled together at the main station in the Austrian city of Salzburg early on Friday, and up to 40 people were slightly injured, police said....

Italian PM in Romania to discuss future post Brexit

Italian PM in Romania to discuss future post Brexit

-- 2018-04-19 22:14:47

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Thursday discussed the future of Europe after Britain leaves the European Union next year in talks with top Romanian leaders. Gentiloni met Romanian counterp...

Turkey declares early elections

Turkey declares early elections

-- 2018-04-18 21:59:52

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called a snap presidential and parliamentary election on June 24 this year with an aim to increase his powers. Erdogan announced on Wednesday that elections origi...

French rail workers’ strike disrupts train service again

French rail workers’ strike disrupts train service again

-- 2018-04-18 16:02:53

Striking French rail workers disrupted train services for the seventh day this month on Wednesday, spurning government calls to end the industrial action over reforms at the state-owned SNCF railway c...

UK’s Corbyn under fire for inciting anti-Semitism

UK’s Corbyn under fire for inciting anti-Semitism

-- 2018-04-18 11:34:41

Britain’s governing Conservative Party took aim at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday, blaming him for fuelling anti-Semitism in his opposition party by failing to tackle a culture that has...

Thousands rally against Sarksyan’s appointment as Armenia PM

Thousands rally against Sarksyan’s appointment as Armenia PM

-- 2018-04-18 00:00:00

Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in the centre of the Armenian capital to protest as parliament voted to allow former president Serzh Sarksyan to become prime minister in the former Soviet r...

May apologises to Caribbean countries for treatment of post-war migrants

May apologises to Caribbean countries for treatment of post-war migrants

-- 2018-04-17 22:27:57

British Prime Minister Theresa May apologized to 12 Caribbean nations on Tuesday for immigration officials’ recent harsh treatment of people from those countries who migrated to Britain as child...

EU in 'civil war' over democracy: Macron

EU in 'civil war' over democracy: Macron

-- 2018-04-17 20:14:45

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that "there seems to be a European civil war" between liberal democracy and rising authoritarianism. He urged the EU to renew its commitment to democracy,...

Turkey ruling party to discuss call for early polls

Turkey ruling party to discuss call for early polls

-- 2018-04-17 17:46:44

Turkish deputy prime minister said the ruling AK Party will discuss a suggestion by the nationalist MHP party to hold the presidential election in August this year, more than a year before the Novembe...