Europe
EU agrees to get tough on deportations
European Union governments agreed on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants and discussed creating an border guard force among measures ...Britain urges EU to speed migrant deportation
Britain is urging the European Union to speed the deportation of people who do not qualify for asylum as the EU struggles ...NATO rejects Russia explanation on Turkish air space
NATO on Tuesday rejected Moscow\'s explanation that its warplanes violated the air space of alliance member Turkey at the weekend by mistake ...EU offers Turkey help with refugees in return for action
The EU has offered Turkey a plan under which it would resettle more refugees, but only if Ankara establishes new camps and ...EU court rules against Facebook over transatlantic data deal
The EU\'s top court on Tuesday ruled that a key transatlantic data deal relied on by companies such as Facebook was invalid ...EU high court rules against prisoner seeking voting rights
The European Union\'s highest court has ruled that a member state can ban prisoners guilty of serious offenses from voting in EU ...3 scientists share Nobel Prize for medicine for work on parasitic diseases
The Nobel prize in medicine went Monday to three scientists hailed as "heroes in the truest sense of the word" for saving ...630,000 migrants enter EU illegally this year: Frontex
About 630,000 people have entered the European Union illegally so far this year, the head of the bloc\'s border agency said in ...Deadly flash floods hit French Riviera
Flash floods caused by torrential rain along part of the French Riviera killed at least 16 people and left several others missing, ...Portugal votes in test for austerity policies
Portuguese voters cast ballots Sunday to give their verdict on four years of austerity by either re-electing the centre-right coalition that steered ...