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22 October 2025, 02:41 AM
Sarkozy begins 5-yr prison sentence
21 October 2025, 18:00 PM
France's ex-leader Sarkozy jailed, proclaiming his innocence
21 October 2025, 17:44 PM
EU seeks ways to step up checks on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
20 October 2025, 18:21 PM
Amazon’s outage disrupts internet services
20 October 2025, 18:19 PM
Italian coastguard rescues dozens of migrants, 2 dead
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Louvre denies tapping Israeli firm in theft probe
20 October 2025, 15:44 PM
Louvre’s prized jewels stolen in daring heist
19 October 2025, 18:17 PM
Ex-French President Sarkozy says 'not afraid' ahead of jail term
19 October 2025, 14:15 PM
Protest hits Rome over Libya migrant deal after boat wreck
19 October 2025, 02:45 AM
Will flood EU with refugees
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday warned the EU on that Ankara would allow millions of refugees to head to Europe if the bloc criticised Turkey’s military offensive in Syria.
10 October 2019, 18:45 PM
British, Irish PMs say could see ‘pathway’ to Brexit deal
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar said they could see a route towards striking a possible Brexit divorce deal, following a crunch meeting yesterday.
10 October 2019, 18:41 PM
Romania govt collapses in no-confidence vote
Romania’s beleaguered left-wing government collapsed in a no-confidence vote yesterday, paving the way for the president to appoint a new prime minister.
10 October 2019, 18:33 PM
EU removes Swiss, UAE from tax-haven list
The EU removed Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates from its list of tax havens yesterday, giving two global hubs for multinational tax schemes the all clear.
10 October 2019, 18:24 PM
Kremlin critic’s group declared ‘foreign agent’
Russian authorities yesterday declared the organisation run by opposition leader Alexei Navalny a “foreign agent”, the justice ministry said on its website.
9 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Ecuador protesters break into Congress
Ecuadoran protesters broke into the country’s Congress building on Monday as demonstrations over a fuel hike introduced by President Lenin Moreno’s government intensified.
9 October 2019, 18:00 PM
At least 2 killed in Germany
At least two people were shot dead on a street in the German city of Halle yesterday, police said, with witnesses saying that a synagogue was among the gunmen’s targets as Jews marked the holy day of Yom Kippur.
9 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Odds favour Thunberg for Peace Prize
Bookmakers seem confident that Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is a shoo-in for the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced this week, but some experts are more cautious.
9 October 2019, 18:00 PM
UK court delays key Brexit ruling until after EU summit
Scottish judges will not rule on a bid to compel UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to obey a law designed to block a “no-deal” Brexit until after a key European Union summit.
9 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Turkey launches Syria offensive
Defying world pressure, Turkey yesterday launched an assault on Kurdish forces in northern Syria with air strikes and artillery fire reported along the border.
9 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Brexit ball is in your court now
Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday told the European Union that the Brexit ball was in its court and that the bloc should now urgently discuss in detail his proposal for breaking the deadlock ahead of Britain’s scheduled departure on October 31.
7 October 2019, 19:00 PM
Amazon feathers same as Vatican hats: Pope
Pope Francis yesterday hit out at “offensive words” spoken against the Amazon’s indigenous people, noting that a feather headdress is no more ridiculous than hats worn at the Vatican. “I was pained to hear, right here, a sarcastic comment about a pious man with feathers on his
7 October 2019, 18:54 PM
Portugal’s Socialists win re-election
Portugal’s incumbent Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s Socialists won a general election marked by low turnout on Sunday after presiding over a period of solid economic growth following years of austerity. The Socialist Party (PS) took 36.65 percent of the vote, followed by
7 October 2019, 18:54 PM
13 dead as migrant boat sinks off Italy
Italian coastguards recovered the bodies of 13 women who died after a crowded migrant boat capsized in heavy weather as rescue boats approached it off the coast of Lampedusa, an island south of Sicily, local authorities said yesterday. The coastguard said rescue vessels had
7 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Paris kicks off global climate protests
Hundreds of climate activists barricaded themselves into a Paris shopping centre for hours ahead of a planned series of protests around the world by the Extinction Rebellion movement.
6 October 2019, 18:00 PM
UK signals it could soften stances
Britain hinted yesterday that it could be open to changes to its latest Brexit proposals for Northern Ireland, as European leaders piled pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to revise the plans.
6 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Outsiders battle political elite as Tunisia votes
Outsider candidates challenged Tunisia’s political elite yesterday as voters returned to the polls weeks after a presidential election that reshaped the country’s post-Arab Spring political landscape.
6 October 2019, 18:00 PM
‘Fire of interests’ burning Amazon
Pope Francis opened a synod yesterday to champion the Amazon’s poverty-stricken and isolated indigenous communities by condemning the destructive “interests” he blamed for the fires that devastated the region.
6 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Long-term plan needed to stop violent extremism, Speakers say at Brussels conference
Stressing the necessity to stop violent extremism with long-term integrated plan, speakers at a conference in Belgium say that the threat is no longer limited in South Asia, rather Europe and the US are also affected by its destructive impacts.
6 October 2019, 04:32 AM
New EU president to sleep in her office
The EU’s incoming president Ursula von der Leyen plans to live in a tiny flat attached to her Brussels office rather than rent an apartment, her staff told AFP yesterday. The president of the European Commission has no official residence -- a fact that irked von der Leyen’s
3 October 2019, 18:00 PM