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Setback for May government in key Brexit vote

Setback for May government in key Brexit vote

-- 2017-12-14 11:12:10

The UK government has been narrowly defeated in a key vote on its Brexit bill after a rebellion by 11 Tory MPs. In a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May, MPs voted to give Parliament a legal guarantee...

Turkey for East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

Turkey for East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

-- 2017-12-13 12:00:00

Turkey appealed on Wednesday for the world to recognise East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, as it opened an Islamic summit called in response to a US decision to recognise the city a...

Artwork seizure from Catalan museum sparks rage

Artwork seizure from Catalan museum sparks rage

-- 2017-12-12 01:00:03

Police in Spain's Catalonia region have begun transferring medieval artefacts on Madrid's orders in an ownership battle with neighbouring Aragon. The operation, which started before dawn on Monday, i...

Germany accuses China of cyber spying

Germany accuses China of cyber spying

-- 2017-12-11 10:35:55

China is using fake LinkedIn profiles to gather information on German officials and politicians, the German intelligence agency (BfV) has said. The agency alleges that Chinese intelligence used the n...

Israeli PM visiting EU after Trump’s move on Jerusalem

Israeli PM visiting EU after Trump’s move on Jerusalem

Reuters 2017-12-11 02:50:19

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the European Union, praised US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as his country's capital on Monday and said he expected Europeans t...

Merkel’s party rejects 'US of Europe' proposal

Merkel’s party rejects 'US of Europe' proposal

-- 2017-12-10 11:14:09

Senior members of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on Saturday rejected the vision for a “United States of Europe” put forward by the Social Democrats (SPD), with whom...

Man dies climbing Greek mountain

Man dies climbing Greek mountain

-- 2017-12-10 10:45:06

A man died and another sustained injury while they were trying to climb Mount Olympus, Greece's highest mountain, according to Police. The accident occurred on Saturday afternoon about 2,000 meters (...

Trump-Kim’s ego impending nuclear crisis, warns ICAN

Trump-Kim’s ego impending nuclear crisis, warns ICAN

-- 2017-12-10 10:06:32

The world faces a ‘nuclear crisis’ from a ‘bruised ego’, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has warned in an apparent reference to US-North Korea tens...

Police detain ex-Georgia leader in Ukraine

Police detain ex-Georgia leader in Ukraine

BBC 2017-12-09 12:00:21

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has been detained in Ukraine's capital Kiev, days after his supporters freed him from a police van. His detention, first reported on his Facebook page, w...

New border draft to end Brexit deadlock

New border draft to end Brexit deadlock

BBC 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Brexit negotiations are continuing into the night in a fresh push to reach agreement over the Irish border. The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg has been told there are "serious ideas" on the table that the di...

Britain, EU seal 'breakthrough' deal to advance Brexit talks

Britain, EU seal 'breakthrough' deal to advance Brexit talks

BBC 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Prime Minister Theresa May has struck a last minute deal with the EU to move Brexit talks on to the next phase. There will be no "hard border" in Ireland and EU citizens in the UK, and UK citizens in...

HR values must be shielded: Zeid

HR values must be shielded: Zeid

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Values enshrined in Universal Declaration of Human Rights under attack, must be protected, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. “We see a backlash against man...

‘US decision on Jerusalem will have negative impact’

‘US decision on Jerusalem will have negative impact’

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in a phone call on Thursday that the U.S. decision on Jerusalem will negatively impact the region’s peace and stabili...

Polish finance chief to be new PM

Polish finance chief to be new PM

-- 2017-12-08 11:54:09

Poland's conservative ruling party named Finance Minister Mateusz Morawiecki the country's new prime minister, replacing Beata Szydlo, who resigned Thursday. The conservative party took the risk of t...

Putin to run again for Russian president

Putin to run again for Russian president

BBC 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Russia's Vladimir Putin has said he will seek another term as president in next year's election. He made the announcement in a speech to workers at a car factory in the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod....

British-Bangladeshi man remanded over UK PM killing plot

British-Bangladeshi man remanded over UK PM killing plot

-- 2017-12-07 01:21:35

A man, introducing himself as a British-Bangladeshi, has been remanded in custody after appearing in court accused of a plot to bomb Downing Street’s security gates and then kill Theresa May. W...

German train crash wounds six

German train crash wounds six

-- 2017-12-06 12:03:37

Six people have been injured in a train crash near the German city of Düsseldorf, emergency services say. A passenger train collided with a freight train in the town of Meerbusch, according to r...

Police foil plot to assassinate British PM; two detained

Police foil plot to assassinate British PM; two detained

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

The Metropolitan Police said that two men arrested last week had been charged with terrorism offenses and would appear in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police sa...

France issues warning to US over Jerusalem

France issues warning to US over Jerusalem

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

French President Emmanuel Macron has told Donald Trump he is "concerned" the US leader could unilaterally recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Any decision on the contested city's status must be...

Spanish court withdraws ex-Catalan leader’s arrest warrant

Spanish court withdraws ex-Catalan leader’s arrest warrant

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

A Spanish judge has withdrawn a European arrest warrant for ousted Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and four other ministers. They fled to Belgium a month ago after declaring unilateral independen...

Trump can’t cross ‘red line’ on Jerusalem: Turkey

Trump can’t cross ‘red line’ on Jerusalem: Turkey

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

Turkey's president has warned Monday it could dissolve ties with Israel if the US recognises Jerusalem as its capital. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said such a move would cross a ‘red line’ for M...

Spanish court refuses to free top Catalan separatists

Spanish court refuses to free top Catalan separatists

-- 2017-12-05 11:14:41

Spain’s Supreme Court refused bail for two Catalan pro-independence leaders accused of sedition ahead of regional elections that Madrid hopes will defuse the nation’s worst political crisi...

Turkey bus crash kills 10 Syrian migrants

Turkey bus crash kills 10 Syrian migrants

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

10 Syrian migrants were killed and 9 others injured when the minibus smuggling them illegally from Syria to Turkey, hit a truck on the Turkish side of the border, according to state-run Anadolu Agency...

German police detain woman on arson charges

German police detain woman on arson charges

-- 2017-12-04 12:00:00

Police have detained a woman on suspicion of arson after a fire at an apartment block in a western German city killed four people. Police said Monday the 37-year-old was a resident of the building. T...

Jerusalem as capital will be catastrophic: Turkey

Jerusalem as capital will be catastrophic: Turkey

-- 2017-12-04 09:35:45

A formal US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel would cause catastrophe and lead to new conflict in the Middle East, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Monday. Speaking...

German far-right elects nationalist leader amid protests

German far-right elects nationalist leader amid protests

-- 2017-12-03 12:00:00

Members of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party elected a right-wing nationalist to be their co-leader, signalling a possible toughening of tone before regional votes next year. A p...

Social mobility board quits over lack of progress

Social mobility board quits over lack of progress

-- 2017-12-03 11:58:45

All four members of the board of the government's Social Mobility Commission have stood down in protest at the lack of progress towards a "fairer Britain". Ex-Labour minister Alan Milburn, who chairs...

Erdogan insists US courts cannot put Turkey on trial

Erdogan insists US courts cannot put Turkey on trial

-- 2017-12-02 08:39:54

Courts in the United States cannot put Turkey on trial, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, in reference to the case of a Turkish bank executive who has been charged with evading US san...

Russian parliament to discuss ban on access for US media

Russian parliament to discuss ban on access for US media

-- 2017-12-02 01:05:07

Russian lawmakers are to discuss a proposal to bar representatives of US media organisations from accessing the lower house of parliament, RIA news agency quoted the chair of one of the chamber’...

Net migration to UK plunges after Brexit vote

Net migration to UK plunges after Brexit vote

-- 2017-11-30 04:03:20

Net migration to UK fell by nearly a third to 230,000 in the year to June, new figures show. It is the first time that a full year of data has been available since the UK voted to leave the EU last J...