Moscow: RUSSIA’S lower house of parliament yesterday passed a controversial bill to soften punishment for domestic violence, arguing the state has no business...
Moscow: RUSSIA’S lower house of parliament yesterday passed a controversial bill to soften punishment for domestic violence, arguing the state has no business...
Just to be clear on President Donald Trump’s agenda, he is currently jeopardizing relations with the US’s third-largest trading partner, a neighbour with...
Washington/Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are likely to discuss sanctions that Washington imposed on Russia over the conflict...
Berlin: A German right-wing populist politician was barred yesterday from a Holocaust memorial event after he sparked outrage by arguing his country should...
The Hague: Dutch Justice Minister Ard van der Steur resigned as an old scandal over €2.1m paid by prosecutors to a drug baron...
Paris: A French law condemning smacking of children has been struck down by Constitutional Council, dismaying opponents of a practice for which France...
London: The inventor behind James Bond's ingenious gadgets, codenamed "Q" in the spy films, exists in reality and is actually a woman, the...
Berlin: The mayor of Germany's long-divided capital Berlin, Michael Mueller, on Friday offered some advice to US President Donald Trump: "Don't build this...
Berlin: German security services are increasingly cracking down on "Reichsbuerger" or "Citizens of the Reich", a far-right movement long dismissed as malcontents and...
Simferopol: Russian authorities in annexed Crimea on Thursday detained a Tatar lawyer for allegedly spreading "extremist propaganda", activists said, the latest step in...
PARIS: Finance prosecutors launched Wednesday a preliminary probe over misuse of public funds following a media report that presidential favorite Francois Fillon paid...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will name his own man to run the Knights of Malta temporarily after the head of the ancient chivalric...
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s new caretaker prime minister, Ognyan Gerdzhikov, has promised political stability and calm as he leads the Balkan country towards a parliamentary...
LONDON: Iceland, ranked the world's most peaceful country, is reeling after police said a young woman whose body was found on a beach...
Paris: French presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon criticised a campaign of "mudslinging" Wednesday as he came under pressure over allegations he employed his wife...
LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet new U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday seeking to reinvigorate what London views...
FARINDOLA, Italy: Rescuers workers have pulled five more bodies from the wreck of a hotel in central Italy that was razed by an...
BERLIN: A PKK leader was jailed for three years by a German court on Tuesday, the court said in a statement. The Higher...
