Katya Adler Europe editor @BBCkatyaadleron Twitter EU-UK post-Brexit trade talks The mood music has suddenly changed again. There’s oh so much Brexit speculation in the air. Will an EU-UK trade deal be announced early next week? The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier is expected to brief the 27 member states early Friday about the state […]
Police have carried out a series of raids and made 14 arrests in the hours since a gunman murdered four people in the heart of Vienna. The man blamed for carrying out the attack was a 20-year-old “Islamist terrorist” who was released early from jail in December 2019. Security has been tight in the Austrian […]
By Imogen Foulkes BBC News, Geneva Geneva is a very wealthy place. Home to a huge private banking sector, the United Nations, and auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s, which regularly sell enormous gemstones for eye-watering prices. And this month it is introducing the highest minimum monthly salary in the world, in response to a referendum […]
By Murad Sezer IZMIR (Reuters) – Turkish rescue workers searched through rubble for survivors on Saturday, as the death toll from a powerful earthquake that hit the Aegean Sea the previous afternoon rose to 27. Officials in the city of Izmir said 25 people were killed in coastal areas in Turkey’s west, while two teenagers – […]
A powerful earthquake has struck off Turkey’s Aegean coast and north of the Greek island of Samos, destroying homes and killing at least 22 people. The 7.0 magnitude tremor was centred off Turkey’s Izmir province, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. Turkey put the magnitude lower, at 6.6, saying 20 people had died and 786 […]
Knife attack in Nice The Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church only recently arrived in Europe, officials say. The suspect, 21, had an Italian Red Cross document, issued after he arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa by migrant boat last month. He was shot by police and is in a […]
By Christian Lowe, Tuvan Gumrukcu PARIS/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad, which some Muslims consider blasphemous. In Bangladesh on Monday, protesters unfurled placards with a […]
By Grigor Atanesian & Benjamin Strick BBC News Nagorno-Karabakh conflict IMAGE COPYRIGHTEPAimage captionSeveral thousand people are thought to have died since the Karabakh war reignited in late September Videos of a potential war crime have emerged as fighting rages around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians. One video posted on a […]
Coronavirus pandemic French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will be fighting the virus until at least the middle of next year as cases there surged past a million. On Friday France recorded more than 40,000 new cases and 298 deaths. Other nations including Russia, Poland, Italy and Switzerland also saw new highs. The World […]
Thousands have attended rallies across France in honour of Samuel Paty, the teacher beheaded after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils. People in the Place de la République in Paris carried the slogan “Je suis enseignant” (I am a teacher), with PM Jean Castex saying: “We are France!” A man named as […]
