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Gas leak at London hotel prompts mass evacuation

Gas leak at London hotel prompts mass evacuation

-- 2018-01-23 01:03:51

More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from a nightclub and a hotel in London's West End after a gas leak was discovered on Craven Street, just off Strand. Approximately 1,450 people were moved a...

German SPD votes in favour of coalition talks

German SPD votes in favour of coalition talks

-- 2018-01-22 12:51:23

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives start preparing for formal coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) on Monday, wasting no time after the centre-left party narrowly voted t...

Police arrest pilot for being 'drunk' on board

Police arrest pilot for being 'drunk' on board

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Armed police arrested a British Airways pilot just before take off after the cabin crew raised fears he may have been drunk. Attendants on the Boeing 777 flight 2063 called 999 after allegedly smelli...

Turkey bus crash kills 11, wounds 46

Turkey bus crash kills 11, wounds 46

-- 2018-01-21 10:58:18

Eleven people have been killed and 46 wounded after a bus carrying families on a skiing trip crashed into trees on a motorway in north-western Turkey, local officials said. The bus, which was making...

Merkel welcomes EU-Turkey meeting to improve ties

Merkel welcomes EU-Turkey meeting to improve ties

-- 2018-01-21 02:16:36

Germany’s Angela Merkel welcomed on Saturday a Bulgarian plan to host a European Union-Turkey working meeting to try to improve strained ties and clear the ground for an eventual possible summit...

May insists comprehensive trade deal with EU

May insists comprehensive trade deal with EU

-- 2018-01-20 12:45:32

Britain wants to have a comprehensive trade deal with the European Union as well as a defence pact in place once it leaves the bloc, Prime Minister Theresa May said in remarks published in a German ne...

Putin dunks in subzero water to mark Christian ritual

Putin dunks in subzero water to mark Christian ritual

-- 2018-01-20 12:00:00

Russian President Vladimir Putin stripped off to his bathing trunks and immersed himself in the freezing waters of a lake late on Thursday, observing an Orthodox Christian ritual to mark the feast of...

Legendary French chef Paul Bocuse dies

Legendary French chef Paul Bocuse dies

-- 2018-01-20 12:00:00

The top French chef Paul Bocuse has died, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has announced on Twitter. Bocuse, who had suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years, was 91. He died in hi...

Ukraine labels Russia as 'aggressor' state

Ukraine labels Russia as 'aggressor' state

-- 2018-01-19 12:06:30

Ukraine's parliament has passed a law defining areas seized by pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country as temporarily occupied by Russia. The law on the reintegration of the region was bac...

First female Muslim minister speaks in House of Commons

First female Muslim minister speaks in House of Commons

-- 2018-01-19 09:44:53

Nusrat Ghani has become the first female Muslim minister to speak at the House of Commons dispatch box. The Conservative transport minister was cheered as she rose during transport questions to give...

Turkey military plane crash kills three

Turkey military plane crash kills three

-- 2018-01-18 12:13:03

A Turkish military CASA-type cargo plane crashed in the southern Anatolian province of Isparta during training exercises, killing three Turkish crew members. Turkish Armed Forces confirmed in a state...

Romania names Viorica Dancila as first female PM

Romania names Viorica Dancila as first female PM

-- 2018-01-18 11:55:19

European lawmaker Viorica Dancila has been named as Romania's first female PM following the sudden resignation of Mihai Tudose. Dancila, a member of the European Parliament, is regarded as an ally of...

Back Brexit law or risk chaos: May's party

Back Brexit law or risk chaos: May's party

-- 2018-01-17 11:26:31

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party urged MPs to back the government’s Brexit legislation at a vote in parliament later on Wednesday, warning opponents that trying to block the...

Belgium building collapses after blast, several wounded

Belgium building collapses after blast, several wounded

-- 2018-01-16 11:24:45

A blast has brought down a residential building in the Belgian city of Antwerp, injuring several people. The origin of the explosion on the central street of Paardenmarkt is not clear, says a BBC rep...

Merkel likely to join Macron for Trump clash

Merkel likely to join Macron for Trump clash

-- 2018-01-15 12:44:39

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is considering joining French President Emmanuel Macron at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland next week in what could turn into an epic clash of competing w...

Czech presidential poll heads to run-off

Czech presidential poll heads to run-off

-- 2018-01-14 10:23:19

The Czech presidential election will go to a run-off after incumbent Milos Zeman led the first round but did not secure enough votes to win outright. With nearly all results in, Zeman had 39% ahead o...

Portugal stampede takes lives of eight

Portugal stampede takes lives of eight

-- 2018-01-14 09:42:43

At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in a fire and stampede in a local leisure association in the town of Vila Nova da Rainha in northern Portugal on Saturday night, officials sai...

Panic breaks out as Turkish jet skids off runway

Panic breaks out as Turkish jet skids off runway

FE Online 2018-01-14 08:48:01

Panic broke out on a passenger jet when it skidded off the runway at a Turkish airport and plunged down the side of a cliff overlooking the sea. The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 with 168 passenger...

Turkey prevents "terror corridor" in northern Syria

Turkey prevents "terror corridor" in northern Syria

FE Online Desk 2018-01-14 06:50:31

Turkish forces on Sunday hit PKK/PYD targets in the Afrin district of Syria's Aleppo province to prevent a "terror corridor" from forming along Turkey's borders. Anadolu Agency in Idlib says, Turkish...

UK party leader's lover suspended over racist remarks

UK party leader's lover suspended over racist remarks

-- 2018-01-14 01:35:08

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has suspended the girlfriend of party leader Henry Bolton after she apparently made racist remarks about Prince Harry's fiancee Meghan Markle. The Mail on Sunday has...

German coalition talks reach breakthrough

German coalition talks reach breakthrough

Xinhua 2018-01-12 03:40:51

Coalition talks between the Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have achieved a breakthrough, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported Friday. Progress has been made in such key issues...

Police recover all jewels from Paris Ritz heist

Police recover all jewels from Paris Ritz heist

-- 2018-01-12 02:46:57

French police have recovered all the jewels that a gang of thieves attempted to snatch from a store in the upscale Paris Ritz hotel, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. Three axe-wi...

France recovers all jewels from Paris Ritz heist

France recovers all jewels from Paris Ritz heist

Reuters 2018-01-12 01:45:07

French police have recovered all the jewels that a gang of thieves attempted to snatch from a store in the upscale Paris Ritz hotel, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. Three axe-wi...

Robbers loot millions from Paris hotel

Robbers loot millions from Paris hotel

-- 2018-01-11 01:36:48

Axe-wielding robbers looted jewelry on Wednesday possibly worth more than $5 million from a store in the famed Ritz Paris hotel, police said. Five thieves carried out the heist at the luxury hotel in...

UK’s May vows to eliminate plastic waste by 2042

UK’s May vows to eliminate plastic waste by 2042

Reuters 2018-01-11 01:09:46

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May will pledge on Thursday to eliminate avoidable plastic waste within 25 years, in an attempt to shift the focus away from her government’s divisions ove...

Poland PM reshuffles cabinet to avert possible sanctions

Poland PM reshuffles cabinet to avert possible sanctions

-- 2018-01-10 01:34:50

Poland's new prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet on Tuesday, ousting the controversial ministers of foreign affairs, defence, and the environment in a move aimed at mending relations with partners i...

UK minister quits amid cabinet reshuffle

UK minister quits amid cabinet reshuffle

-- 2018-01-09 12:05:36

Justine Greening has resigned from the government after refusing a job as work and pensions secretary in Theresa May's cabinet reshuffle. The PM was reportedly "disappointed" as the ex-education secr...

After Brigitte's panda France engages in 'horse diplomacy'

After Brigitte's panda France engages in 'horse diplomacy'

FE Online Desk 2018-01-09 07:01:48

President Emmanuel Macron of France has responded to China's "panda diplomacy" by offering counterpart Xi Jinping a horse of the elite Republic Guard. The offer of Vesuvius, an eight-year old br...

Theresa May eyes massive cabinet reshuffle

Theresa May eyes massive cabinet reshuffle

-- 2018-01-08 02:23:09

Theresa May is to reshuffle her cabinet today (Monday), with a number of new faces expected to join her top team. No 10 has described reports Education Secretary Justine Greening and Health Secretary...

Strong quake batters Russia

Strong quake batters Russia

-- 2018-01-07 11:05:15

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted 22km SW of Nikol'skoye, Russia at 02:24:06 GMT on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 35.0 km, was initially...