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Venezuela

Venezuelan opposition triumphs, economy needing urgent action

Confirmed as the winners of a two-thirds super majority in Venezuela’s parliament, the victorious opposition draws a line under 16 years of

09/12/2015

Germany

Merkel's struggle to defend million refugee 'moral duty'

Asylum-seekers continue to arrive in Germany even though the numbers have eased. In the autumn, they reached around 8,000 per day. The authorities

09/12/2015

World News

Where does ISIL get its weapons?

Amnesty International has published a scathing analysis of the weapons in the hands of the radical Islamic State movement (ISIL). According to the

08/12/2015

Italy

Roman Catholic Jubilee Year balances security with forgiveness

Vatican City is braced for the arrival of millions of pilgrims for the Roman Catholic Jubilee Holy Year. Pope Francis announced it by surprise in

07/12/2015

World News

German military action abroad not taken lightly

The Bundeswehr German armed forces’ backseat role in international conflicts may become increasingly outmoded. The army of today’s Germany was only

04/12/2015

France

France's far right revs up for roaring performance in regional votes

The forecasts for the regional elections to take place in France this Sunday Dec. 6th are fraught with uncertainty. With the country on security

04/12/2015

World News

Head of Chechen republic vows to revenge national beheaded by ISIL

Chechnya’s president has promised a one-way ticket to eternity for the killers of a Chechen murdered on video by the radical Islamic State movement

04/12/2015

World News

Brazil thrown even further off-balance by pressure to oust Rousseff

The bid to impeach Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is expected to slow efforts to reboot Latin America’s biggest economy. The acceptance by the

03/12/2015

World News

Putin slams Turkey in speech, demands international solidarity against terrorism

President Vladimir Putin has again condemned the leadership in Ankara for the downing of a Russian plane last week near the Syrian-Turkish border

03/12/2015

World News

Turkey will regret it, Putin threatens

‘Turkey will regret it’, said Vladimir Putin. In his annual Presidential Address to the Russian Federal Assembly in Moscow, he expressed surprise at

03/12/2015

World

Cities must make key contributions toward climate change solutions

At the climate talks in Paris, the mayors of cities around the world are meeting to brainstorm how they can reduce the carbon impact on our

02/12/2015

World

LISA Pathfinder to seek out Einstein's gravity waves, reveal true universe

From the Guiana spaceport near Kourou, just five degrees north of the equator, our correspondent Claudio Rosmino waited with baited breath for

02/12/2015

France

Hunting the migrant smugglers

On the lookout for trouble, the French navy frigate Courbet is plying the Mediterranean with a crew of almost 200 on board, with a helicopter ready

01/12/2015

France

World leaders as never before kick-start climate talks at Paris COP21

The United Nations climate conference in Le Bourget, Paris has brought together 150 of the world’s heads of state and government and more than 40,000

30/11/2015

France

COP21: The Heat is On, Leaders Due Monday, Protests Banned

The United Nations summit to address climate change is on track to open on Monday at Le Bourget in Paris with more than 130 heads of state and

27/11/2015

France

France's flag reminds shaken country what it stands for

Across France, people responded to President François Hollande’s call to show the flag to symbolise national unity, commemorating the Friday 13th

27/11/2015

World News

Muslims in Russian Federation, under police pressure (some) enlist with ISIL

Indigenous Muslims living in the Russian Federation — native citizens — say their families suffer sustained harassment from the authorities, who are

26/11/2015

World

EU goals for COP21 'very ambitious, to save the planet'

Our Spanish Brussels correspondent talked to Europe’s top energy and climate official about Europe’s defence of humanity’y future. Marta Vivas

26/11/2015

World News

Refugee numbers drop while obstacles multiply for some nationalities

The number of refugees arriving in Greece has dropped dramatically, prompting some observers to suggest Turkey may have clamped down on people

25/11/2015

Tunisia

Tunisia tourists, presidential guards... safety of nation threatened

Immediately after the deadly bombing of his presidential guard in the heart of the capital on Tuesday (Nov. 24th), Tunisian President Beji Caid

25/11/2015