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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly defended his controversial plan to override sections of the Brexit deal that he negotiated with the European Union, arguing that the bloc has an 'extreme' interpretation of the treaty that could jeopardize the future of the U.K. (AP)

UK's Johnson faces rebellion over plan to break Brexit treaty

The EU has ramped up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, which would be chaotic for business, markets and nearly $1 trillion in annual trade

14 Sep 2020 3:49 PM

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP File)

Germany says French, Swedish labs confirm Navalny's Novichok poisoning

The poisoning has brought tensions between Russia and Germany to new heights, fuelling calls for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be scrapped

14 Sep 2020 3:18 PM

People enjoying the autumn sunshine on Primrose Hill, London, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. From Monday, social gatherings of more than six people will be banned in England both indoors and outdoors and Boris Johnson hinted that such restrictions will potentially remain in place until or through Christmas. (AP)

COVID infections in Europe to spike in Oct, Nov: WHO

The number of cases in Europe has risen sharply in recent weeks, especially in Spain and France

14 Sep 2020 12:14 PM

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny casting his vote at a polling station during to the Moscow city Duma election in Moscow. - Tests carried out on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny provide clear proof that he was poisoned by a chemical nerve agent, the German government said Wednesday, September 2, 2020, demanding explanations from Moscow. (AFP File)

Russians vote in local elections targeted by Kremlin critic Navalny

Navalny had hoped to undermine United Russia’s grip on regional power through the election before he fell gravely ill

13 Sep 2020 12:41 PM

A laboratory technician handles capped vials as part of filling and packaging tests for the large-scale production and supply of the University of Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222, conducted on a high-performance aseptic vial filling line on September 11, 2020 at the Italian biologics’ manufacturing facility of multinational corporation Catalent in Anagni, southeast of Rome, during the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

Oxford and AstraZeneca resume coronavirus vaccine trial

The university confirmed the restart across all of its UK trial sites after regulators gave the go-ahead following the pause on Sunday

13 Sep 2020 9:40 AM

Refugees and migrants from the Moria camp protest near Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, on September 12, 2020, a few days after a fire destroyed the Moria refugee camp. - Tension was simmering on September 12 on Greece's Lesbos island as thousands of asylum seekers remained homeless four days after Europe's largest migrant camp was destroyed by fire. Round-the-clock efforts to find temporary shelter for over 11,000 people including thousands of children were still inadequate, rights groups said as local authorities continued to oppose camp reconstruction plans. (AFP)

Teargas fired during migrant protests on Greek island of Lesbos

Thousands of asylum seekers have been sleeping rough on roads since Wednesday when the Moria camp was destroyed in apparent arson attacks

12 Sep 2020 4:38 PM

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22-year-old Slovenia woman jailed for cutting off hand for insurance payout

She left the hand behind rather than bringing it with her to the hospital, hoping to receive higher compensation for permanent disability

12 Sep 2020 3:23 PM

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a cabinet meeting in Minsk, Belarus. (AP)

Belarus' Lukashenko set to visit Russia as protests continue in capital

The post-election protests have attracted the biggest crowds on Sundays, when up to 200,000 people have flooded the streets of Minsk

12 Sep 2020 10:06 AM

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (centre). (AP File)

Russian police seek to question Navalny in Germany

Navalny's posioning case has prompted international calls for Russia to carry out a transparent investigation or risk sanctions

11 Sep 2020 2:17 PM

An activist from the Extinction Rebellion climate change group shows a message written on her hand as she is taken away in a police van after being arrested for locking herself to railings outside UK's parliament in central London on September 10, 2020 on the final day of their new series of 'mass rebellions'. - Climate change protesters have put on 10 days of demonstrations, held across the country by activist group Extinction Rebellion. (AFP)

Bare-chested women lock themselves to UK parliament in climate protest

On Saturday, protesters blockaded distribution of two newspapers they accuses of failing to accurately report on climate issues

11 Sep 2020 10:19 AM

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AFP File)

Navalny's condition improving, police guard stepped up

The Kremlin critic is being treated in Berlin’s Charite hospital after falling ill on a Russian domestic flight last month

10 Sep 2020 3:15 PM

Migrants sit inside the burnt Moria Camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on September 9, 2020, after a major fire. - Thousands of asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos fled for their lives early September 9, as a huge fire ripped through the camp of Moria, the country's largest and most notorious migrant facility. Over 12,000 men, women and children ran in panic out of containers and tents and into adjoining olive groves and fields as the fire destroyed most of the overcrowded, squalid camp. The blaze started just hours after the migration ministry said that 35 people had tested positive at the camp. (AFP)

Thousands flee as Greece's main migrant camp gutted by huge blaze

The blaze started just hours after the migration ministry said that 35 people had tested positive at the camp

09 Sep 2020 3:23 PM

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AP File)

Russia says Navalny 'disinformation campaign' being used for new sanctions

G7 foreign ministers had recenly demanded that Russia quickly find and prosecute those behind Navalny's suspected poisoning

09 Sep 2020 1:45 PM

Maria Kolesnikova, an ally of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, holds a press conference in Minsk. - Unidentified men in black on September 7, 2020 morning grabbed Maria Kolesnikova, a leading Belarusian opposition figure, and pushed her into a minibus, her campaign team reported, citing witnesses. (AFP)

Belarus opposition figure 'tore passport to pieces' to avoid expulsion

Kolesnikova, one of the last figures still in the country leading mass protests against President Lukashenko, was detained at the border

09 Sep 2020 11:23 AM

Police gather evidence near to forensics tents and evidence markers inside a cordon on Irving Street, following a major stabbing incident in the centre of Birmingham, central England, on September 6, 2020. - British police declared a "major incident" early on September 6 after multiple people were stabbed in the centre of England's second city Birmingham. Violence broke out at about 12:30 am (2330 GMT Saturday) in and around the Arcadian Centre, a popular venue filled with restaurants, nightclubs and bars. (AFP)

UK police to charge man with murder over stabbings in Birmingham

The stabbings happened in four locations over a two-hour period in the early hours of Sunday morning in the central city of Birmingham in UK

09 Sep 2020 9:23 AM

A woman shows a photo of bitten detained protesters to riot police at Independence Square during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. Women's marches and demonstrations have become a regular feature of the four weeks of protest that have shaken Belarus following a disputed election that gave Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term in office. (AP)

Scores detained as security forces crack down on mass protest in Belarus

Demonstrations have carried on throughout the four weeks since the election, gaining in size on the weekends

07 Sep 2020 1:29 PM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Britain left the now 27-nation EU on January 31, 2020, three-and-a-half years after the country narrowly voted to end more than four decades of membership.(via AFP)

UK will quit Brexit talks if no deal by October 15: Boris Johnson

The European Union, in turn, accuses Britain of failing to negotiate seriously

07 Sep 2020 9:59 AM

Police officers stand at a cordon in Hurst Street in Birmingham after a number of people were stabbed in the city centre, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020. British police say that multiple people have been injured in a series of stabbings in a busy nightlife area of the central England city of Birmingham.(AP)

Several stabbed in Birmingham, UK police declare 'major incident'

Footage aired on TV news channels showed large areas of the city centre cordoned off as officers wearing forensic suits worked at the scene

06 Sep 2020 2:20 PM

Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol, center left, opposition candidate Ilya Yashin, center right, candidate Ivan Zhdanov, right, and opposition candidate Alexei Minyalo walk during a protest in Moscow, Russia. They work with the organization of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma in a Berlin hospital after suffering what German authorities say was a poisoning with a chemical nerve agent while traveling in Siberia on Aug. 20. (AP)

German foreign minister threatens sanctions over Navalny poisoning

The Kremlin has denied responsibility for the attack and said that Germany is yet to share any findings with Moscow's prosecutors

06 Sep 2020 11:52 AM

Francisco Espaata, 60, is surrounded by members of his medical team as he looks at the Mediterranean sea from a promenade next to the "Hospital del Mar" in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. A hospital in Barcelona is studying how short trips to the beach may help COVID-19 patients recover from long and traumatic intensive hospital care. (AP)

Spanish doctors hope beach trips can help ICU virus patients

A medical team at Hospital del Mar — theHospital of the Seas — is seeing if beach trips can help COVID-19 patients after long ICU stays

05 Sep 2020 2:56 PM

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