World / Europe

UN warns Italy over tough law on migrant rescue boats 06 Aug 2019 - 04:21 pm

Geneva: The UN voiced concern Tuesday over a law approved by Italy's parliament that imposes stiffer penalties on NGO migrant rescue boats in...

German cancer researcher first woman to win 4,000km cycling race 06 Aug 2019 - 02:58 pm

Brest, France: German cancer researcher Fiona Kolbinger won the mixed annual 4,000km (2,485 miles) cycling Transcontinental Race on Monday, becoming the first woman...

12 injured, 1 missing in Russia's military depot fire 06 Aug 2019 - 02:42 pm

MOSCOW: Powerful explosions at a military depot in Siberia have injured 12 people and left one missing, and forced over 16,500 people to...

British Airways flight evacuated after filling with smoke 06 Aug 2019 - 01:02 pm

MADRID, Spanish emergency services say that they have responded to a British Airways flight that filled with smoke while landing and had to...

Russia arms depot fire leaves one missing, thousands evacuated 06 Aug 2019 - 12:25 pm

Moscow, One person was missing Tuesday and several more were injured after a fire and huge explosions at a Siberian ammunition depot, as...

Heathrow Airport staff suspend tuesday strike on new pay offer 05 Aug 2019 - 07:33 pm

Heathrow management made an eleventh-hour offer to a union representing thousands of ground staff, leading to the suspension of a planned strike on...

Puffins fill up nesting islands this year despite challenges 05 Aug 2019 - 01:07 pm

PORTLAND, Maine: One of the most beloved birds in Maine is having one of its most productive seasons for mating pairs in years...

Six-year-old boy critical after being thrown off London's Tate Modern 05 Aug 2019 - 12:29 pm

LONDON, A six-year-old boy who was thrown from a 10th floor viewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in central London is...

40 migrants on rescue ship off to Malta; 123 others in limbo 04 Aug 2019 - 03:45 pm

MILAN: Forty migrants rescued off the coast of Libya were successfully transferred Sunday to Maltese military boats and brought to port, the German...

Nearly 90 protesters reported held in Moscow 03 Aug 2019 - 03:44 pm

MOSCOW: Moscow police on Saturday detained nearly 90 people protesting the exclusion of some independent and opposition candidates from the city council ballot,...

US exempts aviation, space exports from new Russia sanctions 03 Aug 2019 - 03:39 pm

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is exempting aviation safety and space exploration technology from new sanctions it has levied against Russia in connection with...

Spain rescues over 50 underage migrants from boat 03 Aug 2019 - 03:37 pm

MADRID: Spain's maritime rescue service says it has saved 59 migrants, nearly all minors, trying to make the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean...

New earthquake rattles Greece 03 Aug 2019 - 03:29 pm

Athens: Another earthquake shook Greece on Saturday, this time off the Aegean island of Karpathos, the Greek Geodynamic Institute said, although there were...

Pro-EU party wins, cuts Johnson's UK Parliament margin to 1 02 Aug 2019 - 08:21 pm

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit-backing Conservative Party lost a special election Friday to a pro-EU opposition candidate, leaving Johnson with only...

Boris Johnson's government faces test in special election 01 Aug 2019 - 03:16 pm

LONDON: After the first week in office that saw him booed in Scotland and berated in Belfast, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was...

Two migrants found dead in Bosnia, one crushed by train: police 01 Aug 2019 - 02:13 pm

Sarajevo: Two men believed to be migrants were found dead, including one who was hit by a train, in northwest Bosnia where thousands...

Italy bars McDonald's fast-food amidst monuments of ancient Rome 31 Jul 2019 - 06:25 pm

ROME: Italy's Culture ministry on Wednesday barred the construction of a McDonald's fast-food restaurant next to the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome,...