Europe
UKRAINE
Ukraine promises retaliation after rebel assault
Ukraine has vowed to make pro-Russian rebels pay after losing 23 servicemen in clashes across its separatist east on Friday, while Russia proposed a UN resolution demanding a cease...
FRANCE-BELGIUM
Suspect in Brussels Jewish Museum shooting drops extradition appeal
Mehdi Nemmouche, the Frenchman suspected to have carried out the deadly shooting at Brussels’ Jewish Museum in May, has dropped an appeal against his extradition to Belgium, his la...
UKRAINE
Ukrainian forces close in on Donetsk
Ukrainian government forces clashed with separatists in the country’s east on Thursday, regaining more ground as they closed in on the rebel-held city of Donetsk.
GERMANY
Germany asks US intelligence station chief to leave country
Germany’s government requested the United States’ chief intelligence official in Berlin to leave the country on Thursday in connection with an investigation into US spying activiti...
UKRAINE
Ukraine imposes new conditions on peace talks with pro-Russia rebels
Ukraine's government has taken an increasingly aggressive stance towards pro-Russian separatists, vowing to expunge them from their reduced area of control and imposing new co...
UNITED KINGDOM
UK to probe claims that political network abused children
Britain pledged on Monday to investigate allegations that several politicians may have sexually abused children that were in the care of the state in the 1970s and 1980s and then u...
GEORGIA
Georgia's former leader Shevardnadze dies aged 86
Eduard Shevardnadze became a hero in the West in the 1980s for helping to end the Cold War as the last Soviet foreign minister before suffering a dramatic fall from grace as presid...
VATICAN
Pope Francis 'begs forgiveness' from sex abuse victims
Pope Francis begged "forgiveness" for the Catholic Church's failure to "respond adequately" to allegations of sex abuse in a private service at the Vatican...
UKRAINE
Ukrainian and separatist forces converge on Donetsk
Pro-Russian separatists are regrouping in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Lugansk, the next targets of government forces that regained control of Slaviansk at the weeke...
FRANCE
France tightens security on US-bound flights
France is stepping up its security for flights headed to the United States after the US warned that the al Qaeda terror network is believed to be developing a new type of bomb that...
UKRAINE
Ukrainian forces retake rebel stronghold of Slaviansk
Ukrainian forces recaptured the separatist stronghold of Slaviansk on Saturday after a military offensive sent pro-Russian rebels fleeing overnight, the country’s president and a r...
GERMANY
Germany arrests 'double agent' suspected of spying for US
A man reported to be an employee of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States, it emerged on Friday.
RUSSIA
Tax exile Depardieu to open ‘Gérard’ restaurant in Moscow
French film star Gérard Depardieu – who quit France in a tax row and was offered Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin – is to open a Franco-Russian restaurant in Moscow...
GERMANY
German lawmakers vote to adopt minimum wage
Germany’s parliament voted on Thursday to introduce the country’s first national minimum wage, which will guarantee that most workers in the country will be paid at least 8.50 euro...
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