Thousands of gold miners are to protest in Athens on Thursday amid a long-running row between a Canadian mining firm and the Greek government.
More than 2,000 miners from the Eldorado gold mines in northern Greece will rally outside the Ministry of Environment and Energy on the same day an EU-Canada free-trade deal called CETA comes into force.
They are demanding the government issue pending...
PARIS - A senior aide to French National Front chief Marine Le Pen said on Thursday he will quit the party after a row with the far-right leader.
Florian Philippot's decision, announced on French broadcaster France 2, comes a day after he was stripped of his party responsibilities for strategy and communications by Le Pen for refusing to leave the presidency of his association Les Patriotes . He...
British police made a sixth arrest early on Thursday in connection with last week’s bomb attack on a London Underground train.
"A 17-year-old male was arrested under section 41 of the Terrorism Act after officers executed a warrant at an address in Thornton Heath at around 00:05hrs," London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
Thursday's arrest brings to six the total number of...
ANKARA - Airstrikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq on Wednesday destroyed arms dumps and shelters, the military said in a statement.
The airstrikes targeted the Zap, Metina and Avasin-Basyan regions, according to Thursday’s statement on the Turkish Armed Forces’ website.
No further detail was given about the timing of the operation but all aircraft returned safely.
Airstrikes on PKK targets...
PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday became the latest voice to brand the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as “genocide”.
“France will work with its partners at the UN Security Council to take the initiative to get the UN to condemn the continuing genocide and ethnic cleansing,” Macron said in an interview with French broadcaster TMC in New York.
In his first address to...
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines - Security forces are on alert for rallies Thursday, around the country to commemorate the 45th anniversary of martial law on Sept. 21, 1972 by the late former dictator President Ferdinand Marcos.
President Rodrigo Duterte declared September 21, Thursday, a “National Day of Protest” and suspended work of government offices as well as classes in public schools....
Lagos, Nigeria - Nigerian federal high court has granted orders banning all activities or membership of the Igbo secessionist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), days after the country's military declared it a “violent terrorist organization”.
The court orders followed an application filed by the country's justice minister, Abubakar Malami, as the government moves to cripple IPOB which...
Hurricane Maria arrived in Puerto Rico early Wednesday -- bringing the most severe weather conditions the U.S. territory has seen in nearly 100 years and blacking out the entire island.
Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CNN on Wednesday night that power could be out on the island for "months."
"It depends on the damage to the infrastructure," he said. "I'm afraid it's probably going to be severe....
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Wednesday its campaign to capture Raqqa from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) was in its final stages and its fighters had seized 80 percent of the city.
The SDF said it had opened a new front against IS on the northern edge of Raqqa, describing this as “a feature of the final stages of the Euphrates Wrath campaign, which is...
A first wave of refugees will leave remote Pacific detention camps and be resettled in the US in coming weeks, Australian authorities said Wednesday, under a deal that has rankled President Donald Trump.
Canberra sends asylum-seekers who try to enter the country by boat to processing facilities on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island, with those found to be refugees barred from...
