Europe
Italian judge keeps migrant disaster ship skipper behind bars
The Tunisian captain of a migrant boat in which at least 700 people drowned is to remain behind bars as an Italian ...14 migrants killed by train in Macedonia
Fourteen migrants were hit by a train and killed in central Macedonia late on Thursday as they walked through a canyon along ...Chechnya leader gives `shoot to kill` orders on Russian forces
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Thursday ordered his troops to "shoot to kill" if they encountered any unauthorised Russian forces on the ...Armenians mark 100 years since Ottoman massacre
Armenians worldwide will mark the centenary of an Ottoman massacre of up to 1.5 million of their people on Friday, as tensions ...Russia boosts energy ties with Argentina
Russia and Argentina on Thursday signed a slew of deals furthering energy ties as Moscow reaches out to allies amid its standoff ...Russian TV channel admits reporter dropped cigarette at wildfire
A Russian state television reporter dropped a lit cigarette butt at the scene of raging wildfires in Siberia, sparking a fire in ...EU leaders hold emergency summit on migrant crisis
EU leaders sat down for crisis talks Thursday on possible military action against human traffickers in Libya, in a desperate bid to ...Greek PM meets Merkel, urges speeded up reform-for-cash deal
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for a speeding up of work to conclude a reform-for-cash deal with euro zone creditors to ...Italy urges EU, UN to tackle migrant crisis in Africa
The European Union must take a collective stand to tackle migrant trafficking at its source in African countries, Italy\'s Prime Minister Matteo ...France detains armed suspect allegedly planning church attack
French police have detained a man they suspect of planning an imminent armed attack on one or two churches, the interior minister ...