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France has violated the Vienna Convention - Lavrov

The Russian Foreign Minister says he has written to his French counterpart after Russian fans were detained following violence in Marseille.

15/06/2016

USA

Hillary Clinton's 'birthday gift' to Donald Trump...

He turned 70 on Tuesday but the only thing Donald Trump got from Hillary Clinton was a harsh rebuke for his response to the Orlando shooting tragedy – notably the property mogul’s comments on US TV th

14/06/2016

Italy

Italy: alleged people smuggler could be the wrong man

An Eritrean man extradited to Italy from Sudan is denying he is the boss of a massive human-trafficking gang and claims he is victim of mistaken identity.

10/06/2016

Germany

German-Turkish war of words intensifies after 'genocide' vote

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been rebuked by Germany’s lower house of parliament for his harsh condemnation of members of Turkish origin who voted to declare the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ott

10/06/2016

Turkey

Turkey: Muslim families should forget birth control says Erdogan

He has already condemned abortion, called birth control “treason”, and told women they should have at least three children.

30/05/2016

Pakistan

US drone strike against Taliban leader angers Pakistan

Pakistan says US drone strike violated its airspace US says Islamabad was informed Body still to be formally identified The apparent death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone stri

23/05/2016

World News

San Francisco police chief forced to quit

San Francisco’s police chief has been forced to step down just hours after one of his police officers shot and killed a young black woman.

20/05/2016

Turkey

Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition to fight move to strip MPs of immunity

Turkey’s parliament has voted to strip its members of immunity from prosecution; a move likely to see the pro-Kurdish opposition sidelined.

20/05/2016

Turkey

Turkey's AKP wins initial support over controversial immunity bill

Turkey’s ruling AK Party has won initial support in the first round of a controversial ballot to strip politicians of their immunity from…

18/05/2016

China

The fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution ignored in China

The fiftieth anniversary of the start of Cultural Revolution is being remembered, but not in China. There are no official events planned by the

16/05/2016

Armenia

Armenia faces Eurovision ban for flag-waving

Organiser the Geneva-based EBU says the incident was a "serious breach" of its ban on political messages.

12/05/2016

Business Series

Further mileage test irregularities by Mitsubishi - report

Mitsubishi has not responded to a report in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun that it had used improper mileage tests on almost all its vehicles sold in Japan since 1991.

11/05/2016

France

French cabinet votes to force through controversial labour reforms

The French cabinet has agreed to allow controversial labour reforms to be forced through. They invoked a little-used Article (49.3) in the

10/05/2016

France

Vice President of French National Assembly resigns amid sexual harassment allegations

In a day of resignations across Europe, Denis Baupin has stepped down as Vice President of the French National Assembly. The move follows accusations

09/05/2016

Turkey

Turkish journalists sentenced for revealing state secrets

Prominent Turkish opposition journalists Can Dundar and Erdem Gul have been sentenced to five years and ten months and five years respectively for

06/05/2016

United Kingdom

Former London Mayor suspended from party

Ken Livingstone embroiled in UK anti-semitism row

28/04/2016

Armenia

Armenians march to remember 1915 massacres

Tens of thousands of Armenians marched through the capital Yerevan on Saturday carrying torches to commemorate the victims of the 1915 massacres

24/04/2016

Germany

Beyond a joke: seven countries where it's a criminal offence to insult a head of state

Did you hear the one about the King and the pony? Probably not in some countries where insulting a head of state is a crime

15/04/2016

Germany

No joking matter: legal row brews between Ankara and Berlin over German comedian

Germany's Chancellor has underlined the importance of freedom of expression after the Turkish president called for a comedian to be prosecuted over reciting a satirical poem on German channel ZDF.

12/04/2016

Germany

Questions raised about German secret service links in neo-Nazi murder case

What did the secret service know? That is the shock question raised by the German press on Thursday as the trial of the lone surviving suspect in a

07/04/2016