EU divided over Balkan accession

The European Union is divided over whether to allow membership talks with Albania and Macedonia as anti-immigration sentiment
25 June 2018, 18:00 PM

WORLD REACTION TO ERDOGAN'S VICTORY

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a decisive victory in an election that will give him five more years in office with sweeping
25 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Turkey on the road to autocracy

With more than 90 percent of the votes counted Sunday night, one could predict with a great deal of certainty that Recep Tayyip
25 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Expanded powers for poll winner

Under the new constitution, the president has strengthened executive powers to directly appoint top public officials including
24 June 2018, 18:00 PM

A jogger’s ordeal at US-Canada border

A French teenager who spent two weeks in US detention after inadvertently crossing the border from Canada while jogging on the
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Johnson warns against 'bog-roll Brexit'

Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson, who campaigned to leave the European Union, yesterday warned Prime Minister Theresa May
23 June 2018, 18:00 PM

EU migrant row deepens

Italy yesterday doubled down on its new tough stance against migrants, calling for a German NGO's rescue boat to be impounded and its crew arrested as the EU prepares for a tense weekend mini-summit on the issue dividing the bloc.
22 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Germany foils bio attack with Tunisian arrest

A Tunisian man arrested in Germany in possession of the deadly poison ricin and bomb-making material was planning a biological
20 June 2018, 18:00 PM

A life at high altitude shapes body: study

Living the high life -- growing up, in other words, at extreme altitude -- forces a developing human body to conserve energy, and that
20 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Regime, allied forces committed war crimes

Syrian government troops and affiliated forces committed war crimes and a crime against humanity in their long siege of eastern
20 June 2018, 18:00 PM

UK PM defeats pro-EU rebels

British Prime Minister Theresa May's government saw off a rebellion by her pro-European MPs yesterday after making further concessions
20 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Macedonian MPs ratify name deal

The Macedonian parliament yesterday ratified a historic accord with Greece to rename the small Balkan nation the Republic of North
19 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Marriage is good for the heart: study

Even if marriage is sometimes more a bed of nails than roses, living into old age with a partner may help ward off heart disease and
19 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Italian minister's plan sparks outrage

Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini yesterday defended his plans to count the Roma community living in the country and
19 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Van kills one at Dutch music festival

A van slammed into pedestrians near a Dutch campsite at a huge music festival early yesterday, killing one person and seriously injuring
18 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Three killed in London after being hit by train

Three people died in south London after being hit by a train, police said yesterday, amid reports they may have been graffiti artists.
18 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Video gaming can be addictive: WHO

Video gaming can be addictive in the same way as cocaine or gambling, the World Health Organization said yesterday in a much anticipated update of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
18 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Number of conflicts doubles since 2001

The number of civil conflicts worldwide has more than doubled since the start of the century, posing new challenges for curbing atrocities, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday.
18 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Merkel gets ultimatum from ally over migrants

Hardliners in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc yesterday gave her a two-week ultimatum to tighten asylum rules or risk pitching Germany into a political crisis that would also rattle Europe.
18 June 2018, 18:00 PM

Russian opposition leader Navalny freed

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he had been freed yesterday, the same day the World Cup kicks off in the country, after
14 June 2018, 18:00 PM