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Islamic group rescinds offer to bury French church attacker
The chair of the Danish Islamic Burial Foundation on Thursday took back an offer to bury one of the perpetrators of last month’s Normandy church terror attack made by another member of his group, local...
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US unlikely to extradite Turkish cleric: report
The U.S. is not convinced by claims that Pennsylvania-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen is responsible for a recent attempted army coup in Turkey and is unlikely to extradite him, the Wall Street...
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Nice terror attack death toll rises to 85
A man injured in the Bastille Day terror attack in Nice has died, bringing the number of those killed to 85, a local official announced late Thursday. Christian Estrosi, the former mayor of Nice and...
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Cleric denounces Turkish justice system over arrest warrant
The preacher Turkey accuses of masterminding the failed July coup slammed the country’s judicial system Thursday, after an Istanbul court issued a warrant for his arrest. “It is well-documented that...
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Kremlin: Russia and UK to ‘step up’ cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his British counterpart Prime Minister Theresa May spoke on the phone on Tuesday and “expressed dissatisfaction” about the state of their countries’ cooperation on...
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Eurostar workers to strike in August
Rail workers for the Eurostar high-speed railway service will strike for a week in August in a dispute over work-life balance, British media reported. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union...
View ArticlePeter Mandelson: UK has no choice but to preserve China relationship
The U.K. should greenlight a deal to build a nuclear plant using Chinese investment because it will be “dependent on China’s goodwill” after Brexit, Peter Mandelson, the former European commissioner...
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Sweden to interview Julian Assange ‘in coming weeks’
Officials from Sweden will be allowed to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuador embassy in London, AFP reports. In a statement released Wednesday, Ecuador’s foreign ministry said the...
View ArticleFalse terror alarm triggers stampede in French Riviera: report
Firecrackers caused a stampede in the resort town of Juan-les-Pins late Sunday as people mistook the sound for gun shots and panicked, the AFP reports. The Juan-les-Pins emergency services said a...
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Attack of the killer tomatoes
A fight over Italian tinned tomatoes is threatening to undermine relations between the EU and Australia just as the two parties are set to launch talks for a free-trade agreement. In the coming weeks,...
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Police arrest suspected Munich rampage gun supplier
A 31-year-old man who police believe supplied the gun used in the Munich rampage shooting at a shopping center in July was arrested Tuesday, local media report. A source from Bavaria’s criminal police...
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Australia’s lesson in burkini politics
SYDNEY — In Europe, the burkini is seen as a symbol of Muslim migrants’ failure to integrate into secular society. Here in Australia, where it was invented by Lebanese migrant Aheda Zanetti in 2004,...
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Matteo Renzi: No one will be left behind after earthquake
Following a powerful earthquake in central Italy that has killed more than 200 people, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Wednesday the priority of the authorities is to help recover people from the...
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Tim Cook: Apple tax ruling ‘political,’‘maddening’
Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook said the European Commission’s decision to force Ireland to claw back €13 billion plus interest in illegal tax breaks from his company “has no basis in fact or in law,”...
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Banned! Taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night
Sharing a photograph of the Eiffel Tower at night on Facebook without paying for it could land you in hot water. Even if it’s just a holiday memento. Such quirks of EU copyright law will persist even...
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Theresa May: Uncontrolled migration hurts refugees, governments
The British prime minister is expected to warn world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly that “uncontrolled mass migration” is leading to an erosion in public support for the migrant crisis, the...
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Russian planes hit Syrian aid convoy: US
U.S. officials have said two Russian aircraft were responsible for Monday’s attack on an aid convoy trying to reach the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, although Russia has denied its aircraft were...
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UN to resume Syria aid deliveries
The United Nations will resume efforts to deliver aid to besieged areas in Syria after halting all convoys at the Turkish border following an airstrike on its vehicles, heading to the...
View ArticleFrançois Hollande would tank in presidential vote
The president of France, François Hollande, has no chance of making it into the second round of voting in next year’s election, according to a poll. Hollande would not gather enough support to make it...
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New Donald Trump: ‘I’m all for NATO’
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday seemingly reversed his position on NATO, walking back earlier comments that suggested he is not in favor of the alliance. “I’m all for NATO,”...
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