World / Europe

Opinion: Control is the new core of Germany’s refugee policy 03 Mar 2017 - 02:24 am

Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel began her two day visit to Egypt and Tunisia. Concerns about migration and refugees top the agenda of...

Northern Ireland holds snap vote in shadow of Brexit 03 Mar 2017 - 02:09 am

Belfast: Northern Ireland was voting Thursday in snap elections to resolve a political crisis fuelled by bad blood and Brexit, which is testing...

French court delays decision on extradition of ex-Kosovo PM 03 Mar 2017 - 02:08 am

PARIS: A French court on Thursday delayed its decision on whether to extradite former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to Serbia, where he's...

More cracks emerge in Fillon campaign as rivals push ahead 03 Mar 2017 - 02:01 am

PARIS: French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon’s shrinking supporter base was eroded further on Thursday, a day after news that he faces a...

Car found in French missing family mystery 03 Mar 2017 - 01:14 am

Nantes, France: Police yesterday found a car belonging to a youth at the centre of a mystery gripping France over his family’s disappearance...

Opinion: Britain faces a Brexit war on four fronts this month 03 Mar 2017 - 01:14 am

March is likely to see at least four key Brexit battles, whose outcome will frame the next two years of negotiations as Britain...

Serbia to hold presidential election on April 2 03 Mar 2017 - 01:08 am

Belgrade: SERBIA will hold a presidential election on April 2 that is seen as a litmus test of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s popularity,...

Eight dead in Ukraine coal mine explosion 03 Mar 2017 - 01:08 am

Kiev: Eight miners died yesterday when a methane gas explosion tore through a pit in western Ukraine, in the latest mine disaster in...

Sweden brings back conscription amid Russia fears 03 Mar 2017 - 01:08 am

Stockholm: Sweden is to reintroduce compulsory military service, seven years after abandoning it, to respond to global security challenges including Russia’s assertive behaviour...

Putin and Poroshenko talks fail to end stalemate 03 Mar 2017 - 01:08 am

Kiev: Kiev said yesterday that President Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held two fruitless phone talks about the war in...

At least three dead in Italian avalanche 03 Mar 2017 - 01:06 am

Rome: AT least three people were dead, two were missing and several others injured after two avalanches in off-piste sections of the Italian...

Germany to keep soldiers in Baltics as long as needed 03 Mar 2017 - 01:06 am

Rukla, Lithuania: German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel yesterday criticised Russia’s military build-up on its borders with the Baltic states as irrational and said...

Wet, windy March awaits Europe after cold weather pummeling 02 Mar 2017 - 05:27 pm

Ready your umbrellas and your galoshes. The last month of winter in Europe is forecast to bring windstorms, prolonged periods of rain and...

Sweden reintroduces military draft for first time in 7 years 02 Mar 2017 - 02:54 pm

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Sweden's left-leaning government is reintroducing a military draft for both men and women because of what Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist calls...

Canadian school receives bomb threat against Muslims 02 Mar 2017 - 12:51 pm

TRENTON, Ont.: A Canadian university was evacuated Wednesday after separate media outlets received the same letter that threatened to detonate bombs targeting Muslim...

Fillon vows to stay in French presidential election race 01 Mar 2017 - 02:53 pm

PARIS: Conservative candidate Francois Fillon said on Wednesday he would not pull out of the French presidential election campaign despite being summoned by ...

Norway court to decide if Breivik treated inhumanely in jail 01 Mar 2017 - 01:59 pm

Oslo: A Norwegian appeals court will decide Wednesday whether mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being treated inhumanely in prison by being kept...

Italy partially pardons ex-CIA agent in kidnapping case 01 Mar 2017 - 11:33 am

ROME: President Sergio Mattarella partially pardoned an ex-CIA agent convicted for her role in kidnapping Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nas in 2003...