Europe

Protesters blocking the Georgian parliament building in the center of Tbilisi have been doused with water on Monday as police wearing riot gear were deployed to clear the area and raise the blockade. Massive protests gripped the Georgian capital earlier this week as people took to the streets demanding a …

German authorities have arrested a German citizen accused of being a member of Islamic State upon her return to Germany, federal prosecutors said on Saturday. The woman, identified only as Nasim A., was arrested on Friday evening. A court will determine on Saturday whether she will remain in custody, prosecutors …

French riot police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the country’s capital Paris on the first anniversary of anti-government “yellow vests” demonstrations. Violence erupted on Saturday when police intervened to prevent hundreds of protesters form preparing to march in northwestern Paris and block the city’s ring road. Paris …

Traffic on the main highway between Spain and France remained at a standstill on Wednesday morning, as the unrest at the La Jonquera border point near Girona entered its third day. Footage on the Spanish side of the border shows protesters burning tires and blocking the road with trees, tires, …

Venice residents woke up to find more than 70 percent of the city underwater for the second day in a row on Wednesday, after being hit by record tides and strong winds on Tuesday. Residents and tourists are struggling to make their way through the flooded St. Mark’s Square, while …

European Union governments gave the green light on Tuesday for 13 new defence projects in a step to develop more firepower independently of the United States. Under plans agreed by EU defence ministers in Brussels, work will begin on a new patrol vessel, an electronic jamming weapon for aircraft and …

The Labour Party says it has successfully defeated a cyber-attack targeted at its digital platforms. Labour said the attack “failed” because of the party’s “robust” security system and no data breach had occurred. The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack floods a computer server with traffic to try to take …

Boris Johnson is set to chair a meeting of the government’s emergency committee following widespread flooding in northern England. The Prime Minister has come under pressure to do more to address the severe flooding, which three days ago claimed the life of the former High Sheriff of Derbyshire, Annie Hall. …

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said on Monday that his party would not contest 317 Conservative Party seats in the Dec. 12 election but would contest nearly all other seats, a significant boost for Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Farage said he did not want anti-Brexit parties to win the election …

Germany on Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that separated East and West Germany, with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier thanking Eastern European neighbors for enabling a peaceful revolution. The toppling of the wall, which had divided the Communist-ruled East and the capitalist West in Berlin …

Fifteen men found in the back of a truck in southwest England were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of entering the country illegally. The driver, an Irish man in his 50s, has also been arrested on suspicion of assisting the men, local Wiltshire Police said in a statement. The men …

French police cleared two huge migrant tent camps in northern Paris on Thursday and authorities vowed to clear other camps, a day after the government announced tighter immigration policies. Buses took away more than 1,600 people in the Porte de la Chapelle and Seine-Saint-Denis area, where illegal refugees lived in …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged voters to back his Conservatives in a Dec. 12 election or face the “horror show” of two referendums next year if Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn was elected. Officially launching the start of campaign from outside his Downing Street residence, Johnson said that if he was …

The veteran Labour party MP, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has replaced John Bercow as the Speaker of the House of Commons. Hoyle, who has been an MP for the Chorley constituency since 1997, becomes the 158th speaker of the House of Commons after beating six other contenders in a secret ballot …

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has just ruled out a second Scottish independence referendum. Speaking on Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday program, the Prime Minister said that his government will not authorize another legally-binding Scottish independence referendum. “We had one in 2014, the British people, the people of Scotland, …

Spanish authorities are preparing for protests by supporters of Catalan independence on the eve of Spain’s Nov. 10 general election that could turn violent, government and Socialist Party sources said. The comments from two senior sources echoed a report in El Mundo newspaper that quoted police sources as saying plans …

The fate of Britain’s departure from the European Union could be decided in a Dec. 12 election after Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally won parliamentary approval for a gamble that he hopes will break the deadlock over Brexit. Johnson, who has failed to deliver on his “do or die” promise …

Belgian police found 12 migrants alive in a refrigerated truck at a motorway parking area in northern Belgium on Wednesday after the driver alerted authorities, a federal police spokeswoman said. The driver, who was transporting fruit and vegetables, called the police who found 12 adult men of Syrian and Sudanese …

Ukraine’s military said the withdrawal of government and Russian-backed rebel troops started at 12.00 local time (10.00 GMT) on Tuesday in Zolote, a town in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk. Ukrainian forces have fought rebels in the Donbas region in a conflict that has killed more than 13,000 people. …

British police said on Tuesday they were hunting for two brothers from Northern Ireland over the deaths of 39 people discovered in the back of a truck near London last week. The discovery of the bodies in a refrigerated truck on an industrial estate near London has shone a spotlight …