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Belgium

Brussels airport 'operationally ready' for partial reopening

Belgian airport police threaten strike action over airport reopening due to 'lax security'.

World News

More US troops for eastern Europe

Strategic concerns mean the Pentagon is beefing up its presence along the line of the cold war Iron Curtain.

Greece

Athens protesters chant 'open the borders' ahead of migrant returns

Hundreds of human rights activists, students and migrants have taken to the streets of Athens chanting “open the borders.” The migrants were some of

Turkey

Turkey slams Belgian and Dutch officials over release of Brussels suicice bomber

Belgian MPs have been grilling federal ministers over the failure of government and intelligence services to prevent the deadly attacks in the

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World News

The difficulties of sharing intelligence on potential jihadist fighters who may come to Europe

How many fighters from the so-called Islamic State are trained and trained to come to Europe? With each new attack that question becomes ever more

World News

Turkish officials arrive on Lesbos to oversee EU deal on migrants

At least 18 Turkish officials have arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos a day after the formal start of an agreement with the European Union aimed

Greece

Stranded refugees struggle to keep hope alive on Greek-Macedonian border

The fate of thousands of men, women and children stuck at the closed Greek-Macedonian crossing is in the balance as EU leaders again discussed the

Sport

Europa League: Liverpool put rivals Manchester United out of Europe

Liverpool qualified for the quarter-finals of the Europa League on Thursday evening after beating arch rivals Manchester United in the sides’ first

Sport

Bayern knock Juventus out of Europe in second leg thriller, Barca beat Arsenal also to progress to quarters

Five-times European champions Bayern Munich qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League on Wednesday night after overcoming Juventus in

Business Line

Migrants in Germany and Google in Russia

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her party had a ‘hard day’ after the anti-immigrant party AfD made big gains in state elections, campaigning

Europe News

Socialist MEPs call for unity ahead of EU-Turkey summit on migrants deal

Demonstrators, led by the Socialist group in the European Parliament, have called for EU member countries to stop building walls to keep out refugees

Sport

Atletico scrape through on penalties against PSV

Extra time was needed, and then penalties to decide the outcome of the Atletico Madrid – PSV Eindhoven match, which the Spaniards won eight-seven. In

Sport

Man City make first Champions league quarter finals

Manchester City have broken their champions league hoodoo and are into the quarter finals for the first time. The work was done last week when they

Sport

Wednesday Champions league ties complete quarter-final lineup

Wednesday night’s champions league matches wraps up the teams to qualify for the quarter finals, and the tie between Bayern Munich and Juventus could

Cinema

'Miracles from Heaven' arrives in US cinemas

Based on the moving memoir by Christy Beam, ‘Miracles from Heaven’ tells the remarkable story of a little girl diagnosed with a rare and incurable

Business Series

Volkswagen sales fall further

Volkswagen's sales fell further in February following the German carmaker's rigging of diesel engine emissions tests in the US. Sales in Europe did rise 3.7 percent.

World

Migrants risk all to cross the Aegean Sea

As the flow of migrants continues to flow across the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece Europe’s news crews are following the story.

Turkey

Five migrants, including baby, drown off Turkish coast

Five Afghan migrants, including two children and a six-month-old baby, have drowned after the boat they were in hit rough weather and capsized off

World News

Maria 'Drugapova': game, set and meldonium

Maria Sharapova's staged-managed announcement that she had tested positive for the drug meldonium sent shockwaves through the sporting world and begged the question "what is meldonium?"

Greece

Fighting despair in Idomeni

It is another cold night in Idomeni. People burn wood and cardboard in order to get warm. A man warms by bonfire at a makeshift camp at the