Europe
Deadly explosion at major European gas hub in Austria
A large explosion rocked one of Europe\'s main gas pipeline hubs on Tuesday, leaving one person dead and stoking concerns about the ...Bosnian war criminal Slobodan Praljak dies after drinking poison in UN court
A convicted war criminal from Croatia swallowed what he said was poison and died Wednesday after a United Nations court in the ...2,500 job losses as UK cigarette supplier collapses
Britain\'s biggest cigarette wholesaler, Palmer & Harvey (P&H), collapsed into administration on Tuesday, with around 2,500 staff facing redundancy, its administrator PwC ...Norway reveals rape and sexual assault scandal in Lapland
Norwegian police said Tuesday they had uncovered 151 alleged sexual assau lts, including child rape, in a small community in Lapland, sending ...Greece in mourning as several still missing after deadly flood
Greece was in mourning Thursday as rescue crews tried to locate several people missing in a flood that killed 16 people near ...EU readies sanctions on Venezuela, approves arms embargo
European Union foreign ministers approved economic sanctions including an arms embargo on Venezuela on Monday, blaming regional elections last month for deepening ...EU pushes for tax blacklist after Paradise Papers leak
The EU pushed on Tuesday for Europe to draw up a blacklist of tax havens after the "Paradise Papers" revealed loopholes used ...Thousands march against coal ahead of climate conference in Bonn
Thousands of people took to the streets of Bonn on Saturday to call for the phasing out of coal as a source ...Spanish PM dissolves Catalan parliament and calls fresh elections
The Madrid government sacked Catalonia\'s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation, in ...Spanish parliament approves direct rule over Catalonia
The upper house of Spain\'s parliament on Friday authorized the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to rule Catalonia directly from Madrid, ...




