Europe

Gawain Towler denies telling anti-FGM campaigner Nimco Ali: ‘I am racist but you’re beautiful so I would do you’ A senior Ukip staff member repeatedly told a black women’s rights campaigner that, while he was racist, he would still like to have sex with her,...

Turkish parliament approves legislation allowing Turkish troops to be deployed in Qatar. Turkey's parliament has approved a legislation allowing its troops to be deployed to a Turkish military base in Qatar. The bill, first drafted in May, passed with 240 votes in favour, largely with support...

Defence minister says Ankara has no plans to review ties with Qatar, after Arab states issue demands to end Gulf crisis. Turkey has rejected a call from four Arab countries to shut down its military base in Qatar, saying the base was a guarantor of...

LONDON (Guardian- Series) - Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of two teenage girls, who are known to frequent the Walthamstow area.Yasmin Ashkir and Ikram Farah, both 16 have been missing since Wednesday, August 24.Yasmin, who is of Somali and Dutch heritage,...

No obvious "Group of Death" emerged when the 2018 FIFA World Cup draw was announced Friday morning. In the draw, the 32 countries were divided into four "pots." The top seeds were all placed in Pot 1 and were the first to be assigned to...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) spent $3 billion to topple President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the democratically elected government in Turkey, a columnist in the Turkish media claimed yesterday. Mehmet Acet, a columnist for Yeni Şafak daily, said Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu hinted at a...

PARIS—Political newcomer Emmanuel Macron will be France’s next president, pollsters projected Sunday night, delivering a resounding victory to an unabashedly pro-European former investment banker and strengthening France’s place as a central pillar of the European Union. A crowd outside the Louvre museum at a Macron...

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday embarked on a five-day tour of west Africa in a bid to ramp up Turkey’s growing influence throughout the continent. Just two months ago, Erdogan made his first trip to Sudan, where he met President Omar Al-Bashir...

It is a minor miracle that countries have kept to their borders as resentments simmer DAVID PILLING A remarkable thing about Africa is just how stable its borders have been. Unlike Europe, where frontier-altering wars raged for centuries, where Yugoslavia shattered into pieces just a generation...