Nicola Sturgeon: Election will be ‘two-horse race’
The Labour Party won’t be a threat to the Scottish National Party in June’s British election, according to Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. She will tell the Scottish Trades Union Congress on...
View ArticleScots don’t want another independence referendum: survey
Brexit hasn’t boosted pro-independence sentiment in Scotland, according to a new survey published Tuesday, Reuters reported. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for a second independence...
View ArticleSpanish police arrest four in connection with Brussels attacks
Catalan authorities arrested eight people and raided 12 properties in Barcelona on Tuesday as part of an anti-terrorist operation, Spanish daily El País reported. The detainees were all Spanish...
View ArticleTurkey targets police in latest anti-Gülen raids
Turkish authorities have issued arrest warrants for a thousand people, mostly in the police force, and taken 803 of them into custody over alleged links to cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom Ankara blames...
View ArticleFrance says Syrian government behind chemical weapons attack
An investigation by French authorities has proved Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces “undoubtedly” used sarin nerve gas in an April 4 attack in Idlib province. “We know, from a certain source,...
View ArticlePositive EU asylum cases doubled in 2016: report
More than 700,000 asylum seekers were granted protection in the European Union last year, more than double the amount in 2015, according to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office on Wednesday. The total...
View ArticleMerkel: No talks on EU-UK relations before all divorce issues settled
The U.K. “cannot and will not have the same rights” as an EU member after it leaves the bloc, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told German parliament Thursday. Setting out her list of priorities in the...
View ArticleFrance refuses to extradite Kosovo ex-PM to face war crimes charges
Former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj will not be handed over to Serbia to face allegations he committed war crimes, a French court ruled Thursday. The court in Colmar, in the northeastern...
View ArticleStockholm terror attack death toll rises to five
Swedish authorities have confirmed that a woman injured in the Stockholm truck attack earlier this month died on Friday from her injuries, bringing the number of those killed to five, Reuters reported....
View ArticleEurovision 2017: How it happened
While the European Union prizes uniformity and technical consensus, the Eurovision Song Contest celebrates difference and emotion — with brutal competition, a colossal volume of glitter and an LED...
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