2015-05-07

Russia

Castro meets Putin in Moscow

Gearing up for Saturday's Victory Day Parade Cuban President Raul Castro met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday.

07/05/2015

United Kingdom

[As it happened] Tories' election win triggers rivals' resignations

David Cameron’s Conservatives won an unexpectedly big victory in the UK’s general election, after nationalists took hold in Scotland. It was

07/05/2015

United Kingdom

Boris Johnson evades media scrum at polling station

Boris Johnson may have hoped to amble quietly to the polling station to cast his ballot in his Islington consitituency in north London, but it turned

07/05/2015

United Kingdom

A nail-biting finish in the UK election race, with a hung parliament expected

The incumbent British Prime Minister David Cameron put on a brave face as he turned out to vote in the UK’s most unpredictable election in decades

07/05/2015

United Arab Emirates

UAE, the first Arab country without visa in the Schengen area

07/05/2015

Yemen

Saudi Arabia proposes five-day truce in Yemen

Saudi Arabia has proposed a five-day truce in Yemen following appeals from US Secretary of State John Kerry for a pause in the fighting to allow humanitarian aid into the war-torn country.

07/05/2015

Burundi

More deaths as Burundi's President Nkurunziza fails to calm protests

Violence has escalated in Burundi amid more protests at the president’s decision to run for a third term office. In the capital Bujumbara several

07/05/2015

World

Curry's brilliance rewarded, Ma Long triumphs in China.

Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry has been named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player. The 27-year-old, who set a single-season record for

07/05/2015

France

Setback for Sarkozy presidential bid after phonetaps ruled legal

The former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has suffered a potential setback to his mission to seek election again in 2017. His team are to appeal

07/05/2015

Greece

Golden Dawn trial adjourned a second time

Organisational concerns were cited as the reason for the suspension of proceedings until the 12th of May, but the defendants also refused to appear before judges at the Athens prison once again.

07/05/2015

Ukraine

Two wars that left a 96-year-old hero to mourn for his grandson

07/05/2015

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Pope Francis made honorary Globetrotter

07/05/2015

United Kingdom

Humble, homely 10 Downing St - a modest mansion for a world leader

There can’t be many buildings known the world over by a simple number. ‘Number 10’ is synonymous with the seat of power of the UK government, the

07/05/2015

Italy

Flights resume at Rome's Fuimicino airport after fire forces shutdown

Rome’s main Fiumicino airport has re-opened after being closed for 12 hours by a fire that badly damaged the main international terminal. Despite

07/05/2015

Israel

Israel's knife-edge new coalition promises suspense for itself, opposition and Palestinians

The coalition put together in extremis by Benjamin Netanyahu has made bold headlines in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv but it is fragile and already under

07/05/2015

Culture news

Finnish punk rockers with Down's, Autism and Attitude enter Eurovision

Kari, Pertti, Sami and Toni will be representing Finland at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna. The quartet, whose members suffer from

07/05/2015

World

Last Red Army cameraman stuck his neck out all the way to Berlin

Boris Sokolov never fired a shot in WWII, he used a different kind of ammunition. He was a cameraman in the Red Army. He did participate in the heat

07/05/2015

United Kingdom

Scotland vote could prove key to Downing Street's next occupant

With just 8% of the British population the Scottish vote is proving key in an election that is too close to call.

07/05/2015

Cinema

Vincent Cassel stars as cult leader in 'Partisan'

Australian director Ariel Kleiman’s debut feature ‘Partisan’ starring Vincent Cassel is set in a claustrophobic micro-society in an unidentified

07/05/2015

United Kingdom

Record turnout on the cards for UK election

People are reporting larger queues than they have ever seen before at some of the 50,000 polling stations now open across the UK. That is on top of

07/05/2015

Spain

Podemos support plunges in poll amid party infighting

Support for Spain’s upstart leftist party Podemos (“We can”) has fallen sharply, a poll showed on Thursday, just as the anti-austerity movement

07/05/2015

United Kingdom

UK election system bodes complex outcome

UK elections used to be simple. On the whole people would vote for one of the two main parties, and newspapers would grandly state which one they

07/05/2015

Cuba

Despite Obama: Americans still face obstacles when traveling to Cuba

07/05/2015

World News

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07/05/2015

Ukraine

Ukraine adopts May 8 and poppy to remember WWII victims

Ukraine is changing the way it commemorates World War II, as euronews correspondent Maria Korenyuk reports from Kyiv. “For the first time in

07/05/2015

Cinema

Hunger Games Elizabeth Banks directs 'Pitch Perfect 2'

‘The Hunger Games’ actress Elizabeth Banks is making her directorial feature film debut with musical comedy ‘Pitch Perfect 2’. A surprise hit back in

07/05/2015

United Kingdom

Candidates go to vote in closest British election in a generation

The weeks of campaigning have ended and it’s now time to decide. Millions of UK voters go to ballot boxes today to decide who will lead the country

07/05/2015

World

Missing Soviet soldiers and the quest to lay WWII to rest

Russians who fought to rid Europe of Hitler are still rotting in the earth, somewhere on their way to Berlin. The ‘Obelisk’ search team is digging in

07/05/2015

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Hairy homage to Neymar

07/05/2015

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US: mystery lake drains in Oregon

07/05/2015