German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday told the European Union it must keep a united front in negotiations with Britain over its exit from the bloc. "We are absolutely in agreement that we cannot let ourselves be divided," she told a news conference after talks with Luxembourg Prime...

London's Heathrow Airport says dozens of flights have been cancelled amid forecasts of snow and strong winds in Britain. Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, said 80 out of about 1,350 flights scheduled Thursday have been cancelled pre-emptively because of the wintry weather. Britain's...

Britain's divorce terms with the European Union must be fair, but not as good as those for full EU members, the Prime Minister of Malta, which holds the rotating EU presidency, told a news conference on Wednesday. "We want a fair deal for the United Kingdom, but that fair deal needs to be...

Germany took in 280,000 asylum seekers in 2016, about one third of the previous year's record figure, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday. At the height of the huge refugee and migrant influx to Europe in 2015, a total of 890,000 people came seeking safe haven in the EU's...

Britain will be in the "front seat" to negotiate a new trade deal with the incoming administration of Donald Trump, a top Republican in the United States Senate said, the BBC reported. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said after meeting British Foreign Secretary Boris...

Industrial action brought fresh disruption for travellers in Britain Tuesday as rail workers and airline cabin crew walked off the job, the day after a major strike on the London Underground. British Airways was forced to cancel 48 flights over two days at London's Heathrow airport after...

The Turkish parliament voted on Tuesday to press on with debate about a constitutional reform package that would expand the powers of President Tayyip Erdogan, taking another step on the path towards an executive presidency. Erdogan and his supporters argue that Turkey needs the strong...

The leaders of both sides of ethnically divided Cyprus began new unification talks on Monday but sought to temper hopes of a swift breakthrough, though its U.N. envoy said a deal to resolve one of Europe's most enduring conflicts was within reach. Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci and...

A strike on the London Underground caused major disruption Monday as almost all stations in the city center shut and services were cancelled in a dispute over jobs and ticket office closures. Millions of passengers were forced to take overcrowded buses or overland trains, or work from home,...

Turkey's parliament is kicking off a debate Monday on a set of draft constitutional amendments that would hand Recep Tayyip Erdogan's largely ceremonial presidency sweeping executive powers, and the possibility of serving two more five-year terms. Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics...

Germany's domestic security chief warned Sunday that the country's radical Islamist scene is not only growing, but becoming more decentralized, posing greater challenges to surveillance operations. In an interview with national news agency DPA, Hans-Georg Maassen also defended security...

Five people were killed and 27 others injured Sunday when a bus carrying Portuguese tourists crashed off a highway in central France known locally as the "road of death", authorities said. The 40-seat bus was on its way to Switzerland when tragedy struck, the local Creusot-Info website said....

(The Telegraph)- Theresa May has revealed her vision for “the shared society” as she declares that government has a duty to intervene and correct “burning injustices” in modern Britain .  Writing exclusively for The Telegraph, Mrs May says that government should not just “get out of the...

Germany's insistence on austerity in the euro zone has left Europe more divided than ever and a break-up of the European Union is no longer inconceivable, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Der Spiegel magazine. Gabriel, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are junior partner to Chancellor...

Heavy snow fall and below-freezing temperatures continued to sweep across the European continent Saturday causing deaths, and grounding airplanes and crippling ferries in Turkey. At least 10 people have died of the cold in Poland in the past days, according to local media, and in Belgium,...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says a French investigation into accusations that members of her National Front party tricked the European Union out of hundreds of thousands of euros is a "political act" by a system she wants to break. Le Pen, a leading presidential candidate, also said...

The European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt announced Friday his candidacy to lead the assembly, vowing to be a "bridge builder" during turbulent times. The former Belgian prime minister and leader of parliament's liberal group is seeking to replace Martin Schulz, who...

Two people held in connection with Thursday's gun-and-bomb terrorist attack in western Izmir province were released on Friday, according to a police source. The two suspects were released early morning in Izmir, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said a much larger attack was apparently being planned, based on the weapons found at the scene of a car bombing in the western city of Izmir Thursday. "Based on the preparation, the weapons, bombs and ammunition seized, it is understood that a big...

French maestro Georges Pretre, who regularly conducted the renowned Vienna Symphony Orchestra, died Wednesday aged 92, the Austrian capital's Philharmonic society said. "The Vienna Philharmonic ... is mourning the passing of its honorary member, Georges Pretre," the world-famous musical...