Europe

Government hopes two-year social experiment will cut red tape, reduce poverty and boost employment Finland has become the first country in Europe to pay its unemployed citizens a basic monthly income, amounting to €560 (£477/US$587), in a unique social experiment that is hoped to cut...

By: Anadolu agency Thousands of people gathered on Monday for an event titled "Mercy for our martyrs, support for Palestine, curse on Israel” in mosques during the morning prayers to join a procession organized by Türkiye’s NGO TUGVA...

BRITISH Olympic champion Mo Farah could find himself caught up in Donald Trump’s Muslim ban after it emerged the policy applies to people with dual citizenship. The runner, who has a training base in the US, is a British passport holder but was born in...

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) welcomed its longest-serving chairman, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, back to his post on Sunday with an emergency congress today to mark the beginning of a new era for the party and the whole country. President Erdoğan has been...

By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless | AP June 4 at 1:02 AM LONDON — Terror struck at the heart of London on Saturday night as attackers killed six people in a series of vehicle and knife attacks before police shot them dead. The assault began when a...

Farah remains Britain’s most popular athlete by a mile but at the Great Edinburgh International XCountry there were the first stirrings of a changing of the guard. Even after defeat they chanted Mo Farah’s name like a mantra, the cries of “Mo! Mo!” growing more...

Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu met High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Vice President of the EU Commission, H.E. Federica Mogherini today(February 9). The two sides discussed on a plethora of issues of regional peace and security,...

  Sir Mo Farah has insisted he is "a clean athlete" following a newspaper report alleging the athlete's American coach Alberto Salazar may have broken anti-doping rules. A leaked US Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) report, dated March 2016, and obtained by the Sunday Times alleges Mr Salazar...

A Swedish appeals court on Friday upheld an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over a 2010 rape accusation, rejecting his request to have it lifted. The court announced in a statement that Assange “is still detained in absentia”, adding that it “shares the...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces questioning by prosecutors Monday at the Ecuadoran embassy in London in a twist in the long-running legal battle over a rape allegation against him. An Ecuadoran prosecutor will quiz the founder of the secret-spilling website at the red-brick building where...