World / Europe

Play seeks to exorcise Austrian truck tragedy horrors 15 Jan 2017 - 03:11 am

Parndorf, Austria: The gruesome discovery of 71 dead migrants in the summer of 2015 in an abandoned truck on a motorway near Austrian...

MH17 relatives mull new search in Ukraine 15 Jan 2017 - 03:10 am

The Hague: Families of the MH17 plane disaster victims may push for a renewed search of the crash site in eastern Ukraine after...

Kardashian heist mastermind charged 15 Jan 2017 - 03:08 am

Paris: A French judge charged the alleged mastermind of spectacular Paris heist in which five masked men robbed US reality TV television star...

German AfD leader distances himself from European meet 15 Jan 2017 - 03:08 am

Berlin: DIVISIONS appeared in the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party over a planned meeting of European right-wing populist parties next week, from...

750 migrants rescued in Mediterranean: Italy coastguard 15 Jan 2017 - 03:07 am

Rome: AROUND 750 migrants making the perilous crossing to Europe were rescued from the Mediterranean, with two bodies also recovered, the Italian coastguard...

France’s Fillon tries to win over critics 15 Jan 2017 - 03:06 am

Paris: French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon tried to win over party critics at a meeting yesterday at a time when polls show...

Spain and Hungary arrest five with alleged IS links 15 Jan 2017 - 03:05 am

Madrid: Five people with suspected links to Islamic State (IS) jihadists were arrested yesterday in separate incidents in Spain and Hungary, with several...

Poles welcome US troops as Nato eyes Russia 15 Jan 2017 - 03:04 am

Zagan, Poland: Polish authorities and ordinary Poles welcomed yesterday US troops which arrived this week as part of an unprecedented deployment to Nato’s...

Five migrants die in Mediterranean, 750 rescued 14 Jan 2017 - 05:51 pm

ROME: Rescuers saved around 750 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in the central Mediterranean but recovered five dead bodies during the operations,...

EU top negotiator wants 'special' Brexit deal with UK finance sector: report 14 Jan 2017 - 09:23 am

London: The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator has told colleagues that they need to strike a "special" deal with Britain's finance sector in...

France should sell non-strategic stakes in firms: Francois Fillon 14 Jan 2017 - 09:14 am

PARIS: Francois Fillon, the conservative politician seen by opinion polls as most likely to win the French presidential election this year, says France...

Opinion: Anti-Zionism & anti-Semitism in British politics 13 Jan 2017 - 10:04 pm

There is no denying that from time to time anti-Semitism raises its ugly head in the UK, as it does in many other...

France sees 'new step' for Africa as summit opens 13 Jan 2017 - 07:20 pm

Bamako: France's top diplomat Jean-Marc Ayrault struck a defiant tone at a summit on Friday with foreign ministers from across Africa as he...

Hungary's Orban defies EU with migrant detentions 13 Jan 2017 - 06:02 pm

Budapest: Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday he has defied Brussels by reintroducing the systematic detention of migrants arriving in the...

UN chief Guterres says Cyprus talks show progress but no “quick fix” 12 Jan 2017 - 06:39 pm

GENEVA: Talks to hammer out a new security deal for Cyprus have showed encouraging results, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday,...

Robots need 'kill switches', warn Euro MPs 12 Jan 2017 - 06:13 pm

Brussels: The unstoppable rise of robots in our everyday lives requires urgent EU rules such as "kill switches", European Parliament members warned Thursday...

French court orders release of arrested former Kosovo PM 12 Jan 2017 - 03:06 pm

Colmar, France: A French court on Thursday ordered the release on bail of the former prime minister of Kosovo and rebel leader Ramush...

Germany sees nearly 70 percent drop in refugee arrivals 12 Jan 2017 - 12:32 pm

BERLIN: The number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany dropped by nearly 70 percent last year, German interior minister said on Wednesday. Speaking...