Turkey detained on Friday the head of the board of opposition daily Cumhuriyet, said the newspaper, which has been the target of an intensifying crackdown since July’s failed coup. Akin Atalay was taken into custody at Istanbul’s airport after arriving from Germany, said Cumhuriyet, which also saw nine of its staff arrested last week. The paper has in recent years… Read more »
Hungary’s parliament on Tuesday narrowly rejected a plan by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to ban the resettlement of migrants in the country, a setback for the maverick leader that could weaken him in his fight against EU migration policies.
Prosecutors were questioning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadoran embassy in London on Monday, the latest twist in the long-running legal battle over a rape allegation against him. Swedish prosecutor Ingrid Isgren, due to be present while Assange faced a grilling by an Ecuadoranprosecutor, entered the embassy behind the famous Harrods department store shortly before 1000 GMT, an AFP… Read more »
Britain’s Supreme Court has set aside four days starting on December 5 for the government’s appeal against a ruling that it cannot start the Brexit process without parliament’s approval.
Isabelle Roberts, the head of French news website lesjours.fr, said journalist Olivier Bertrand was arrested while reporting in the town of Gaziantep, just north of Turkey’s border with Syria. Roberts told Reuters that Bertrand had been arrested along with a photographer but that while the photographer had been released, Bertrand had been kept in custody. “No reason has been given… Read more »
Germany’s Interior Ministry appears willing to change the country’s open-door policy toward migrants in favor of seeing refugee boats intercepted at sea and returned to northern Africa. The Interior Ministry said Monday it wants to discourage migrants from making the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea and to encourage people to apply for European Union asylum from northern African countries. Thousands of people relying on… Read more »
Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has urged Europe to “step up to the plate” and meet Nato defence spending targets in an apparent attempt to further court the incoming administration of Donald Trump. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads A day after declining an invitation to a “crisis” dinner of EU foreign minister to discuss Mr Trump, Mr Johnson arrived in… Read more »
Russia strikes again, but this time in Bulgaria. Allegedly Putin is attempting to divide Europe by making primarily Eastern Europe dependent on Russia. With Bulgaria having already been victim of an intense cyber attack last October, with Russia being the main suspect, there is already uneasiness about future dependence. Recently Russia has become famous for influencing elections, which is partially the… Read more »
MOSCOW — Voters in Europe’s poorest country, Moldova, and the European Union’s poorest member, Bulgaria, elected Russia-leaning presidents Sunday. In Bulgaria, Socialist-backed General Rumen Radev, a former air force commander who wants to lift EU sanctions against Russia, won by a wide margin against the ruling center-right GERB Party candidate Tsetska Tsacheva, securing 59 percent of the vote compared to… Read more »
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump agreed to “normalize” the increasingly tense relationship between Russia and the U.S. through trade and the “principles of equality,” the Kremlin said in a statement Monday. The Russian president and the American president-elect spoke by phone, the statement said, adding that Putin called to again congratulate Trump and wish him “success in implementing the election… Read more »