Tag: Europe

The number of migrants who have crossed the Channel in small boats this year has passed 5,000, analysis shows, as the UK government continues to pursue a “militarised” response to the growing numbers. A further five people arrived in England on Friday, risking their lives in force 8 gales, ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's controversial re-election has triggered a week of unprecedented demonstrations against his 26-year rule. The opposition and protesters accuse Lukashenko of rigging the vote, and ordering a police crackdown. Opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who escaped to Lithuania after losing the election, is calling for more peaceful ...

As he fights for his political survival, Alexander Lukashenko has taken a big gamble by cutting off the internet across most of Belarus. Belarusians seeking to protest against his government have been mostly cut off from the outside world: mobile internet has been throttled and popular messaging apps have ...

Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg Pakistan’s anti-graft court indicted former President Asif Ali Zardari on charges of corruption, as the opposition groups accused the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan of persecution.Azam Khan, a judge of an accountability court, formally framed charges against Zardari for buying assets overseas ...

The countries likely to face more severe effects from the pandemic-induced decline in remittance inflows are the ones where remittance shares to gross domestic product (GDP) and per capita remittances are high.Asia Pacific, which accounts for a third of the global migrant workforce, is likely to face remittance losses ...

Photographer: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images Photographer: Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images Early agreements to purchase Covid-19 vaccines are beginning to pay off for the likes of Britain, the U.S., Canada and the European Union, but much of the world is waiting. Although there are ambitious efforts to ensure ...

Issued on: 23/07/2020 - 14:19 The migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking was detained on Wednesday over technical irregularities, Italy's coastguard said, a move blasted as "harassment" by the charity that runs the vessel. The ship had been allowed to disembark at a Sicilian port on July 7, with 180 ...

The UK is considering tightening its security laws after an intelligence report on Russian interference.  A parliamentary committee says no one in government asked about Moscow's attempts to interfere in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and the Brexit vote two years later. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected the ...

"We are asking everybody, when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask," Trump said at a White House briefing. "Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact."A day earlier, he tweeted a photo of himself sporting one and encouraged his "patriotic" supporters to ...

Former Soviet republics Armenia and Azerbaijan have been in dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region for decades. The area is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but controlled by ethnic Armenian forces. Since a 1994 ceasefire, there have been regular battles near the border. Both countries accuse each other of triggering ...