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Armenia police clash with protesters amid hostage crisis
Riot police in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, have clashed with supporters of an armed group barricaded with hostages inside a police station. Dozens of protesters were hurt. Three gunmen were wounded in earlier clashes. The group stormed the building nearly two weeks ago seeking the release of "political prisoners"...
Trump to NYT: Would Review Whether to Help NATO Allies in Crisis
Donald Trump raised doubts about whether the United States under his leadership would come to the aid of its NATO allies in Europe in the event of an attack by Russia, in an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday. When specifically asked about his views of Russia, the newly-minted Republican nominee said that if that...
Nice attack: President Hollande to chair crisis talks
French President Francois Hollande is to chair crisis talks with his inner security cabinet following Thursday's attack in Nice that killed 84 people. Mr Hollande, who says the attack was a terrorist act, has already extended a state of emergency by three months. On Thursday, a lorry driver ploughed through a crowd marking...
European migrant crisis:: Shipwrecks ‘kill up to 700 migrants’
Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says. The boats sank south of Italy on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as the migrants tried to reach Europe in unseaworthy vessels. Spring weather has led to a surge of people attempting the...
European migrant crisis: Weekly boat rescues reach 13,000
The rescue of more than 600 migrants off Libya on Saturday by a flotilla of EU ships took the weekly total to at least 13,000, Italian authorities say. The rescues were the latest by a patrol of Italian, German and Irish ships operating in the Mediterranean. Spring weather has led to a surge of people attempting the perilous...
Migrant crisis: Many feared dead in shipwreck off Libya
Up to 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea. Ships from an EU task force and Italy's coast guard raced to the scene 35 nautical miles (65km) off the coast as survivors clung to the hull or swam. The Italian navy...
Migrant crisis: UK to send second Royal Navy ship to Libya
The UK is set to send a second Royal Navy ship to the Mediterranean to help tackle people trafficking and arms smuggling in Libya, officials say. David Cameron told the G7 summit in Japan that the UK was ready to take an "active leadership role" in helping Libya deal with trafficking. The UK currently has one survey...
Migrant crisis: Greek judges tell Syrian refugee Turkey is unsafe
Greek judges have ruled that a Syrian asylum seeker should not be sent back to Turkey because it is not safe. Amnesty International campaigners say the decision throws the EU-Turkey migrant deal into doubt. They say migrants in Turkey do not have basic human rights and many are at risk of being taken to Syria. A source at the...
Venezuela crisis: Maduro threatens seizure of closed factories
The Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, has threatened the seizure of factories that have stopped production and the jailing of their owners. In a speech to supporters in the capital Caracas, he said the country had to recover the means of production, to counter its deep economic crisis. On Friday, he introduced a new,...
Migrant crisis: EU ‘to grant Turkey visa-free travel’
The European Commission will grant Turkey conditional approval for visa-free travel within the EU's Schengen area. The move is part of a deal in which Turkey has agreed to take back migrants who have crossed the Aegean to Greece. But Turkey must still meet EU criteria, BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler says, and the deal must...
The shifting sea routes of Europe’s refugee crisis, in charts and maps
Twice in the past two weeks, dozens, if not hundreds, of people have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea — but in both those cases, not one of them was Syrian. For the past year, the world has been largely focused on the rafts filled with refugees from Syria's civil war that have traveled incessantly from Turkey to the...
HISTORY REPEATING? Fears of ANOTHER financial crisis as borrowing reaches 11-year high
BRITISH households racked up debts at the fastest rate since March 2005 — the run up to the financial crisis — sparking fears of a borrowing bubble inflated by low interest rates. Consumer credit, including credit cards and personal loans, grew by 9.7 per cent to reach £1.9billion in March. The last time...
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