Europe

Paris: French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon called on Wednesday for a nationwide day of protest next week against government plans for spending cuts...

London: Britain said on Wednesday it was sending in a task force to help run the local authority struggling to cope with the aftermath of a deadly London...

Kiev: The Ukrainian software firm at the centre of a cyber attack that spread around the world last week said on Wednesday that computers which use its...

Sofia: Thousands of Bulgarian policemen, firefighters and other interior ministry workers gathered in the capital Sofia on Wednesday to demand higher wages,...

London: It's lonely at the top for British Prime Minister Theresa May but she's holding on -- for now. May faced calls to quit from inside and...

Vienna/Rome: Austria is planning to impose border controls and possibly deploy troops to cut the number of migrants crossing from Italy, defence officials...

Brussels: The European Union and Japan expect to commit to signing a free trade deal on Thursday, the EU said, in what both see as a push back against a...

Berlin: Germany is expecting Russia to try to influence its general election on September 24, but there are no indications of which party it would seek to...

Geneva/Beijing: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has met Chinese officials regarding Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu...

Berlin: When President Xi Jinping took the stage in Davos in January and painted China as a champion of free markets ready to fill the global leadership...