Europe

Brussels: The European Union's executive on Wednesday proposed strengthening the bloc's common asylum rules in response to the chaotic arrival of...

Vatican City: A five-year-old American girl who does not know she is gradually going blind met Pope Francis on Wednesday as part of her parents'...

Reykjavik: Iceland's government sought to avoid early elections on Wednesday by picking a replacement for the prime minister who stepped aside as the...

Oslo: Industrial activity such as mining and logging threatens almost half of the world's natural World Heritage sites, from Australia's Great...

Athens/Dikili (Turkey): Turkey and Germany said on Wednesday a deal between Ankara and the EU meant to stem the flow of migrants to the Greek islands was...

Talysh (Azerbaijan): Elmira Bagiryan, a resident of a village at the epicentre of four days of fierce fighting between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian...

Amsterdam: Dutch voters cast ballots in a referendum on Wednesday on the European Union's treaty with Ukraine, providing a gauge of anti-EU sentiment...

London/Reykjavik: Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is to step down after leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed his...

Baku/Yerevan: Azerbaijan and its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh said they had halted hostilities on Tuesday after four days of intense fighting that...

Diyarbakir: Turkey bombed Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday and declared a curfew in a southeastern town after a rocket attack, as Prime...