The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution strongly condemning increasing killings, torture and human rights violations in Burundi and threatening possible sanctions...
Clashes have broken out between riot police and youths in central Athens during the first general strike since Greece’s left-led government initially came to...
China has failed to live up to its obligations to comply with an international convention against torture, according to a report by Amnesty International.
A...
Police in Italy have issued 17 arrest warrants for Iraqi Kurds on terrorism-related charges in a Europe-wide blitz.
General Giuseppe Governale told RAI state radio...
Leone – where British nurse Pauline Cafferkey caught Ebola – is just hours from being declared free of the disease.
The World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Holidaymakers in Sharm el-Sheikh will be flown home today, but passengers will only be allowed hand luggage.
Planes are banned from carrying bags in the...
German airline Lufthansa has announced it will need to cancel numerous outgoing flights from Frankfurt and Duesseldorf airports due to a cabin crew strike.
The...
