2017-02-07

Markets

BP's spending spree means a need for higher crude prices

British oil and gas company BP has said it needs crude oil to be selling for $60 a barrel by the end of the year for it to break even.

07/02/2017

Syria

Airstrikes kill dozens in Syrian rebel-held Idlib

Dozens dead in Idlib airstrikes

07/02/2017

Russia

Euroviews. Is it all going swimmingly for Vladimir Putin?

07/02/2017

Romania

Romanian Social Democrat MPs walk out on president in protest

Social Democrat lawmakers walked out of the Romanian parliament on February 7 as President Klaus Iohannis was addressing the room.

07/02/2017

Markets

Italy's UniCredit selling 13 billion euros of new shares

Italy's biggest bank UniCredit is selling 13 billion euros of new shares to rebuild its capital reserves following writedowns on bad loans.

07/02/2017

USA

Euroviews. The UN needs a new generation of leaders: view

At a time of when countries are becoming more inward-looking, when other priorities dominate political discourse, additional funds may not be forthcoming for development cooperation.

07/02/2017

Romania

Romania's president slams government over transparency and corruption

President Klaus Iohannis has told parliament the government should act for the whole country, not just for 'politicians with problems'.

07/02/2017

USA

Monkey trial raises hopes of new male contraceptive gel

After a successful trial on monkeys, a gel called Vasalgel is raising hopes that men will have another option when it comes to contraceptives.

07/02/2017

China

Watch: Six-year-old caught driving parents' car on garage CCTV

When Li found scratches on her car on February 4, little did she know that her youngest son was to blame.

07/02/2017

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Japan's annual snow festival

The annual Sapporo snow festival kicked off on Monday (February 6) featuring ice sculptures of iconic locations, movie characters, celebrities, and even the U.

07/02/2017

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Protesters confront ministers at Athens migrant camp

Greece’s migration minister Yannis Mouzalas was confronted by an angry crowd at the entrance of a sprawling migrant camp in the south of Athens on Monday, trying to block his entrance to the…

07/02/2017

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UK: Gun salute for Queen's 65th jubilee

Guns are fired during the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery Royal 41-gun salute to mark the start of Queen Elizabeth’s Blue Sapphire Jubilee year at Green Park in central…

07/02/2017

USA

Paris and Brussels attacks on Trump list of 'under-reported' terrorism

These are the ISIL-inspired terrorist attacks that the Trump administration believes have been under-reported by the media.

07/02/2017

Cult

Fleet of foot in the Georgian National Ballet "Sukhishvili"

The Georgian National Ballet “Sukhishvili” began as a family enterprise, has survived communist oppression, the Cold War, the break-up of the Soviet Union and has grown into an internationally renowne

07/02/2017

World News

Two dozen held amid riots near Paris over alleged police rape

Anger over the alleged rape by police of a young man in a Paris suburb has erupted into violence for a third successive night.

07/02/2017

Romania

Euroviews. Is Rwanda really better than Romania?

Denmark remains the least corrupt country in the world (tied with New Zealand) and Somalia (176) the most, and yet Romania (57), which has indicted eighteen ministers, plus two former prime ministers and a former president in the last five years alone, is still behind Namibia (53) and Malaysia (55)

07/02/2017

France

Former French President Sarkozy to 'stand trial' over illegal campaign financing

Nicolas Sarkozy stands accused of fraudulently funding his failed presidential bid in 2012 in the so-called Bygmalion affair.

07/02/2017

Colombia

Colombia ELN rebels release hostage on the eve of peace talks

National Liberation Army of Colombia are sitting down with the goverment in Ecuador to begin peace talks to end more than 50 years of conflict.

07/02/2017

USA

Trump's on-off travel ban faces next step in legal battle

Later on Tuesday, an appeals court in San Francisco will be deciding whether or not to allow the travel ban.

07/02/2017

Japan

Chocolate sushi for your Valentine!

Nestle presents sushi-shaped KitKat chocolate in a light-hearted bid to attract more Valentine's Day shoppers

07/02/2017

Romania

Euroviews. A battle for Romania's soul: view

07/02/2017

Mexico

Mexico's bus tour of "corrupt hot-spots"

It is a bus tour with a difference.

07/02/2017

USA

Goodbye Granddad - a long-living lungfish

The longest-living fish in captivity has been put down due to ill health.

07/02/2017

Denmark

World's biggest yacht is shipshape and 'nearly' ready to sail

A Russian tycoon is about to take delivery of the world’s biggest yacht.

07/02/2017

Syria

'Human Slaughterhouse' - Amnesty report on a Syrian jail

As many as 13,000 people most of them opposition supporters have been executed at a military prison near Damascus.

07/02/2017

France

Paris anti-police protests following 'rape' charge

Outraged protesters have marched through the centre of the ethnically diverse Parisian suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois demanding, “Justice for Theo”.

07/02/2017

Romania

Romania: PM 'may fire' Justice Minister over corruption decree 'mishandling'

As Romanians call for the government to go and with a vote of no confidence on the cards, the prime minister says he may sack his justice minister.

07/02/2017