Europe
71 feared dead in Russian passenger plane crash
A Russian passenger plane carrying 71 people crashed outside Moscow on Sunday after taking off from the capital\'s Domodedovo airport, officials and ...Merkel clinches German coalition govt deal, hurdle remains
Chancellor Angela Merkel finally reached a deal Wednesday to form a new German coalition government, handing the powerful finance ministry to the ...Iceland closes gender gap but violence against women remains
For nine years in a row, the World Economic Forum has ranked Iceland as having the world\'s smallest gender-equality gap, and for ...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 ...




