Keith Walker

France

Paris attacks suspect Abdelslam at high-security Paris prison

Key suspect in the Paris Attacks, Salah Abdelslam, has spent his first night at Europe’s biggest prison. He will be kept in solitary confinement at

28/04/2016

Israel

Israeli forces shoot dead 16-year-old Palestinian boy and his sister

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have shot dead two Palestinians at the Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank. Police said the

27/04/2016

United Kingdom

Hillsborough inquest jury says 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed

An inquest into Britain’s worst sporting disaster has ruled that police failures were to blame for the “unlawful killing” of 96 Liverpool football

26/04/2016

World News

Japan PM slams North Korea ballistic missile engine test

The Japanese prime minister has strongly condemned North Korea’s reported testing of an engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile. Shinzo Abe

10/04/2016

World News

G7 foreign ministers meet in Hiroshima, Japan

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialised nations (G-7)are meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Sunday and Monday. Japan is

10/04/2016

India

India temple fire kills more than 100 worshipers at Hindu New Year event

A huge fire has killed more than 100 people and injured over 200 others gathered for a fireworks display in India. It happened in Kollam in the

10/04/2016

World News

Azerbaijan announces an end to fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh

Azerbaijan said on Sunday (April 3) it would end fighting with Armenian-backed troops over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region after two days of

03/04/2016

Belgium

Brussels airport cautiously reopens for a handful of flights

Brussels Airport reopened on Sunday (April 3), twelve days after suicide bombers hit its departure hall and killed sixteen people. There are far

03/04/2016

France

'Selfish' air traffic controllers disrupt travel plans for thousands

About a third of flights have been cancelled at French airports as air traffic controllers strike over caps on recruitment and lack of investment in

21/03/2016

Korea

North Korea fires five 'projectiles' into the sea

North Korea said it has fired five short-range projectiles amid heightened tension over the country’s nuclear and rocket programmes. South Korea

21/03/2016

Spain

7 Italians and 2 Germans among victims of Spanish bus crash

Seven Italians and two Germans are confirmed to have died in Sunday’s Spanish bus crash. The victims, all young female exchange students, also

21/03/2016

Turkey

Release of Turkish journalists 'a clear defeat' for Erdogan

The release of two Turkish journalists has been described by one of them as a “clear defeat” for the country’s president. Can Dundar from

02/03/2016

Russia

Syria ceasefire more likely to fail than succeed, says Russian FM

Russia’s foreign minister said a Syrian ceasefire set to start next week is more likely to fail than succeed. Sergey Lavrov was speaking at a

13/02/2016

Greece

Greek farmers camp outside parliament to protest tax reforms

Thousands of Greek farmers protested against controversial pension reform plans on Saturday (February 13). Many spent Friday night camped out in

13/02/2016

Cuba

Historic meeting of Pope Francis and Partiarch Kirill in Cuba

The leaders of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches meet in Havana on Friday. Pope Francis and Partiarch Kirill are guests of Cuba’s

12/02/2016

Greece

Greek farmers protesting pension reform plans clash with riot police

Violent clashes erupted in Greece as protesting farmers attempted to occupy the agriculture ministry in Athens on Friday (February 12). Riot police

12/02/2016

World News

Zika link to microcephaly may be weeks away, says WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) says a suspected link between the mosquito-borne Zika virus and microcephaly in newborn babies should be

12/02/2016

Mexico

49 detainees dead after Mexico Topo Chico prison riot

Angry relatives gathered outside Mexico’s Topo Chico prison, notorious for its violence, after 49 detainees died during a deadly riot inside the

12/02/2016

Ukraine

Ukraine's economy minister quits over 'corrupt vested interests'

Ukraine’s economy minister has announced his intention to resign. Aivaras Abromavicius said his ministry was being hijacked by corrupt vested

03/02/2016

Netherlands

Migrant crisis: EU ministers meet for informal talks in Amsterdam

European interior and justice ministers have been meeting in Amsterdam to discuss the migrant crisis and a common EU border force. The European

25/01/2016