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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker expressed his concerns whether the European Union will remain united during Brexit negotiations, Germany's Deutschlandfunk radio reported on Saturday.
French police foiled "an imminent" terrorist plot after arresting four suspects in the southern town of Montpellier earlier on Friday, French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said.
An explosion at a nuclear plant in northwestern France on Thursday injured five people, with no potential risk of a radioactive leak, authorities said.
After Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, eyes are on France where voters will choose their next president amid public discontent and high terror alert in the European country.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will face trial over allegations of false accounting during his 2012 election campaign that allowed him to exceed spending limits, local media reported on Tuesday.
A 19-year old man told a British court on Monday that he had killed a U.S. tourist and injured five others during a knife attack last year in London.
Health situation of shot machete-wielding man, who rushed at soldiers near Louvre Museum in Paris, improved and was placed into custody on Saturday, according to local media reports.
PARIS - The Paris police chief says a man armed with a machete and shouting "God is great" in Arabic launched himself at soldiers and police officers near the Louvre Museum. One of the soldiers shot the attacker five times, gravely wounding him.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the European Union to stay united and hailed the plan to stem illegal migration from Libya to Europe endorsed by the 28 EU leaders at their informal summit in the capital of Malta on Friday.
The European Union (EU) hailed the measures of more cooperation with Libya adopted Friday at its Malta informal summit as "sensible ways" to address migration.
A French soldier on duty opened fire on Friday at a man who tried to attack him with a knife at the entry of the Louvre Museum, according to local press and witnesses.
Ukraine is considering a possibility to hold a referendum on whether to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), local media cited Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko as saying.
A policy paper spelling out the British government's plans for exiting the European Union was published Thursday.
Politicians in House of Commons gave overwhelming backing on Wednesday night to a parliamentary bill, paving the way for Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger the Article 50 mechanism for Britain to leave the European Union.
The British government is to publish a "White Paper" on Thursday detailing its strategy for leaving the European Union (EU), Prime Minister Theresa May told parliament on Wednesday.
Embattled conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Wednesday accused the left-wing party of being behind his wife's fake job scandal, which he described "an institutional coup d'etat."
European Council President Donald Tusk on Tuesday branded U.S. President Donald Trump's "worrying declarations" as an external threat, which, along with other factors, "make our future highly unpredictable."
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday criticized the U.S. decision to ban entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries as anti-Muslim bias.
MPs (members of the Parliament) in Britain's House of Commons voted unanimously after an emergency debate Monday to call on U.S. President Donald Trump to repeal his travel ban on Muslims.
French financial prosecutors Monday questioning presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon and his wife Penelope as part of an inquiry over allegations that she had been paid for fake jobs, according to local media report.
The British Prime Minister Theresa May can't trigger Britain's exit from the European Union without first getting the approval of the British Parliament, according to a Supreme Court ruling on Monday.
Dozens are feared dead after an avalanche crushed a luxury hotel in a mountainous area of central Italy hit by earthquakes on Wednesday, local media reported Thursday.
Britain would fight for free markets, free trade and globalization, British Prime Minister Theresa May said here Thursday.
Rescuers on Thursday found some 30 bodies in an avalanche-buried hotel in central Italy, local media reported.
Russia has extended its asylum for U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden for "a couple of years," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday.
Some 25,800 unaccompanied minor migrants reached Italy last year, more than double the figure of 2015, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
A swathe of high profile Australians on Saturday called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to immediately establish an anti-corruption watchdog after recent indiscretions led to the resignation of his Health Minister Sussan Ley.
Talks aimed at averting a walkout by staff on London Underground broke up Saturday without a resolution, tens of thousands of commuters could be affected.
The total number of migrants reaching Europe by sea in 2016 fell by nearly two-thirds in comparison with 2015, Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency said Friday.
French President Francois Hollande on Saturday night said he will fly to Iraq on Jan. 2 "to salute" national soldiers taking part in the international coalition offensive to eradicate Islamic State (IS) fighters in the country.
The UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously adopted a resolution supporting the Syria cease-fire arrangement brokered by Russia and Turkey as well as a new peace talks plan among Syrian conflict parties.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will not expel anyone in response to latest U.S. sanctions.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday proposed expelling 35 U.S.diplomats and block the access of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to a vacation house and a warehouse in response to a similar move by Washington.
The final batch of multipurpose Su-34 fighter bombers for this year has arrived at the Eastern Military District's air unit in the region of Khabarovsk, a military officer said on Friday.
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday that the government will not see a possible early election as a "threat."
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said Thursday it has released 15 supporters of pro-independence insurgents in a goodwill gesture aimed at reviving the stalled prisoner swap.
In his final address to a European Council meeting as president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz urged European leaders on Thursday to "have the courage to fight for Europe" as the European Union (EU) faces unprecedented existential challenges.
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's remarks questioning the one-China policy principle "is not clever," French Foreign Minister Jean Marc Ayrault said Wednesday, calling the upcoming Trump Administration "to avoid things spiralling out of control."
One woman died and five other people were lightly injured in an explosion and a subsequent fire at a fast-food restaurant in central Athens on Thursday, Greek Fire Brigade announced.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan called Monday for an end to politics of division following Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential race.
Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcomed the significant efforts by Belarus for receiving more than 160,000 Ukrainian citizens in connection with the ongoing conflict in the South East of the country.
MPs demanding a say in Britain's Brexit deal were told Monday that Theresa May's government will be in the driving seat.
Kersti Kaljulaid took office as Estonia's new President in an inauguration ceremony on Monday. The new head of stead took the oath of office before Estonia's lawmakers.
The European Union (EU) launched Monday its largest humanitarian aid program allocating a monthly electronic cash grant via the Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay) for one million Syrian refugees in Turkey.
Two people were injured on Monday when a man opened fire outside a supermarket in Yvelines, in the northern France region of Ile-de-France.
British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in this eastern Chinese city on Sunday for the 11th leaders' meeting of the G20 major economies, her major international summit debut.
The explosion, which also left 94 people injured, happened near a wedding hall in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep on Saturday night.
At least 50 people were killed and 94 wounded when a blast hit an outdoor wedding celebration in the southern Turkish province of Gaziantep on Saturday night, the Gaziantep Governor's office stated.
A final declaration of Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran summit reflected the whole range of cooperation opportunities offered by the new format, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said here on Monday.
The European Union (EU) is mulling over the choice to abolish its "non-market economy" list, on which China and 14 other countries are included, and set up a new "country-neutral" method to reform its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy legislation, it was announced Wednesday.
Turkish acting army chief says 104 coup plotters killed, 1,563 soldiers detained
A military statement on Turkish media said Friday the armed forces have fully seized power in the country but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said early Saturday the coup attempt has failed, urging people to protect democracy.
President Barack Obama on Thursday condemned the deadly attack in Nice, France, and said the United States has offered assistance to the French authorities in their investigation.
At least 73 people were killed and many others injured as a truck rammed into crowd in Nice, southern France, local TV channels reported early Friday, citing the prosecutor of Nice.
A truck rammed into crowd in Nice, southern France, killing dozens and injuring around 100, local media reported early Friday.
Former Croatian prime minister Jadranka Kosor on Wednesday said arbitration is a reasonable solution to end a dispute only if both parties agree to be a part of it.
Although the tribunal handling the South China Sea arbitration case unilaterally initiated by the former Philippine government has announced its so-called final award, the decision won't have any serious consequences, Croatia's former president Stjepan Mesic told Xinhua on Wednesday.
The Swiss Association for Promoting Peaceful Reunification of China on Tuesday condemned a tribunal ruling with regards to the case unilaterally filed by the Philippines against China on disputes over the South China Sea.
An Italian expert has urged concerted efforts from China and the Philippines to soothe regional tensions by initiating a new phase of dialogues over their South China Sea disputes.
Negotiations and goodwill are necessary to definitively solve the situation in the South China Sea, Czech expert, Prof. Oskar Krejci told Xinhua in an interview recently.
British Home Secretary Theresa May is set to be declared the new Conservative Party leader and the country's second female prime minister after her rival Andrea Leadsom quit the leadership race Monday.
The South China Sea dispute can only be settled by seeking positive and constructive methods, said former Romanian ambassador to China Romulus Ioan Budura.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law a visa free bill for foreigners visiting Russia for matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
June 24 (Xinhua) -- Sky News says official results showed that the Leave camp won Britain's Brexit referendum, pushing the country out of the the 28-nation European Union.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an hour-long exclusive interview with Xinhua President Cai Mingzhao ahead of his upcoming visit to China, elaborated his views on bilateral ties, China-Russia trade, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and international cooperation, among other issues.
Millions of Britons will vote to stay in or leave the European Union (EU) on Thursday as polling stations across the country opened to the public in the morning.
Uncertainty, division and tension continue in Britain two days ahead of a referendum on its European Union membership as campaign rallies resumed Tuesday.
French President Francois Hollande and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, vowed on Thursday to "work closely to establish as soon as possible the circumstances of the disappearance" of Egyptair MS804, the Elysee said in a press release.
An EgyptAir flight departing from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar early Thursday, French media reported.
Free flow of information on the internet is the ideal state. When the internet began connecting people and became important in people's economic and social life across the world, users realized that the internet had all things of real life, both good and bad. Many countries, including Western nations, have started internet control to protect their citizens, economies and regimes. They have begun to regulate the internet in some way, with a number of them censoring defamatory speech or monitoring copyright infringement.
Former London mayor and leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson sparked fury Sunday after he compared the European Union (EU) to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau left here Wednesday for New York for an official signing of the Paris Agreement at the UN headquarters on Friday, according to the Prime Minister's Office.
An Egyptian passenger plane en route from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and landed at Larnaka airport on the south coast of Cyprus, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation and Cyprus state radio.
Two suicide bombers who set off bombs in Brussels on Tuesday have been identified as Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui, Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported on Wednesday, citing police sources.
The terror threat level in Belgium has been raised to the maximum, level 4, after two explosions in the departures hall at Brussels airport on Tuesday morning.
Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann has called for a "plan B" in tackling the ongoing refugee crisis in order to limit the numbers entering Austria and Europe, mainly in sending back economic migrants.
The international community is still, if not more, rife with challenges in its fight against terrorism one year after the shocking newsroom massacre at the premises of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her outrage over series of sex attacks committed against women in the western German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve, demanding a hard response from the law, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Tuesday.
Creating more jobs, fighting terrorism and maintaining security at home are French government's priorities this year, French President Francois Hollande said on Monday.
Britain on Tuesday condemned the recent Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria and reiterated British support to the Nigerian government.
If 2015 was the year Britain's first state-sponsored astronaut was rocketed into space, it was also the year Prime Minister David Cameron lit the touch paper to launch Britain into its most important era for a generation, and reset Britain's international strategy on the increasingly complicated world stage.
The European leaders poured cold water on British Prime Minister David Cameron's demands on reforms for the 28-country European Union (EU), minutes ahead of a summit held here on Thursday.
Membership of the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered as "a possible indicator of extremism," but the group will not be banned altogether in Britain, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday.
The European Union (EU) leaders called for urgent actions to cope with the migrant crisis late Thursday and agreed to adopt position on a controversial border guard package in six months.
The deal reached earlier this week by an Italian famous car designer to come under control of an Indian group is the umpteenth case of a made-in-Italy famous brand passing into foreign hands. Why is this happening?
Candidates of far-right National Front (FN) enjoyed big lead in the first round of France's regional elections on Sunday after their lists snatched the first rank in six regions out of 13, a major victory for the FN as it gears up for 2017 presidential run-off.
At least 80 people taken hostage by unidentified gunmen in Radisson Hotel in the Malian capital Bamako have been freed, according to the Malian security ministry.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Moroccan-origin Belgian jihadist who was believed to be the mastermind behind Friday night's attacks, was not among the 8 people arrested Wednesday morning.
Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Tuesday announced that the Oct. 31 plane crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula was the result of terrorist attack, Tass news agency reported.
Turkey will strive to helping to achieve inclusive and robust global growth through collective action at the upcoming G20 summit, said Turkish Ambassador to China Ali Murat Ersoy.
Three suspected attackers were killed during the hostages rescue operation conducted by French security forces early Saturday at the Bataclan theater, French tv BFMTV reported early Saturday.
The president of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly (PGA), Mogens Lykketoft, on Friday said that "the whole world is outraged by the attacks in Paris" and "terrorism and murder of this kind is an outrage to humanity."
Months after Paris deadly attacks in January that left dozens of victims, calmness was broken once again in the French capital where fresh explosions and a series of shootings killed at least 140 people and wounded many.
The Western powers' continuous intervention in the Middle East, especially since the Arab uprising, or the so-called Color Revolution, has worsened the situation in the troubled region and led to the worst refugee crisis since World War II for Europe.
The Russian military has used high-precision weaponry in strikes against Islamic State (IS) positions in Syria, the Russian Armed Forces General Staff said Wednesday.
Russia's air forces will intensify airstrikes against the posts of extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria, a senior military official said Saturday.
Turbulent scenes have emerged at the Salzburg Hauptbahnhof train station in Austria following a surge in asylum seekers wishing to travel across the nearby German border on Tuesday.
European Union (EU) interior ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Sept. 22 to cope with refugee crisis, officials said Tuesday.
Hundreds marched on Saturday in downtown Lisbon to welcome refugees, with similar events taking place in other European capitals.
New emergency measures have been announced by Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, and approved by the European Parliament to confront the massive influx of migrants and refugees on the Old Continent.
Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz insisted on Friday that Spain must not allow humanitarian issues with refugees from Syria and Iraq to blind them to the threat posed by the Islamic State (IS).
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande called on Monday for a common European asylum policy in view of the current wave of refugees entering Europe.
After a landmark deal on Iran's nuclear program, Tehran has received various senior officials from the West, with the latest being French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
Barclays' freeze of the account of Russia's Rossiya Segodnya, commonly known as Russia Today (RT), once again shows the West's double standards over free press.
The finance ministers of eurozone countries will continue to discuss the Greek bailout programme on Sunday, Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said early Sunday after the group's 13-hour meeting.
The European Commission here on Wednesday said that it adopted on Tuesday a decision to initiate a process towards disbursing 600 million euros to Ukraine in the form of a loan.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis announced his resignation in an announcement Monday, after his compatriots voted No to a bailout offer in a highly controversial referendum.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office summoned the U.S. Ambassador to Germany on Thursday to discuss new allegations about National Security Agency (NSA) spying, according to German media reports.
On June 16, Russia announced that it had formed a new aerospace force, integrating its original air force and aerospace defense force.
Thousands of companies and political and commercial elites from hundreds of countries converged at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum held June 18-20.
June 20 is the 15th annual World Refugee Day. There were 59.5 million refugees in the world at the end of 2014, the highest level since World War II, according to the latest Global Trends report issued by Office of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Homelessness increased 8.3 million in 2014 alone.
Tens of thousands of people took part in anti-austerity demonstrations in cities across Britain on Saturday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday delivered a speech at the plenary session of the 19th Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Russia is not striving to become a superpower and only seeks to develop equal relations with other countries, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
Russia is not going to begin any arms race despite what it says NATO's attempts to change the global strategic balance of power, the Kremlin said Wednesday.
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was confirmed Tuesday to have claimed the first victim in Europe as a 65-year-old German patient died of complications of the virus.
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) wrapped up their two-day summit on Monday with a pledge to take actions on issues ranging from climate change, world trade to the Ukraine conflict and the fight against terrorism.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Friday led the world body in honoring peacekeepers who died in UN peacekeeping operations worldwide, while saluting those who are serving their mandates in the world's most dangerous places.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday demanded the timely repayment of all debts owed to it by Ukraine while criticized latter's move to impose moratorium on state debt repayment.
The outcome of the 2015 UK general election is not quite what many political commentators and polling companies anticipated: A Conservative-Labour tie and another coalition government had seemed inevitable before the election.
The new Conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron faces the serious challenge of handling its relations with the European Union (EU).
British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party won an overall majority in the House of Commons following the general election held on Thursday.
The Group of Seven (G7) is well-known as a club of the world’s seven major developed economies with a focus on economic issues.
The UK is preparing for its first general election in five years, scheduled to be held May 7. So how does it work? What are the major issues? And who will win?
As German airlines have decided to introduce new cockpit rules after the Germanwings plane crash, more European airlines followed suit to enhance safety of their flights.
The co-pilot, who appeared to have deliberately crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525 in the French Alps, had passed all Lufthansa tests, a Lufthansa spokesman told Xinhua on Friday.
The number of Spanish victims who died in the Germanwings flight 4U9525 crash was revised by the Spanish government on Thursday to 50.
The first officer of the crashed Germanwings' A320 appears deliberately to refuse opening the cockpit door for the captain, said Brice Robin, prosecutor of the Republic, in a press conference held in Marseille, broadcast by BFMTV.
The first officer of the crashed Germanwings' A320 was alive till the last moment before the crash, confirmed Brice Robin, prosecutor of the Republic, in a press conference held in Marseille, broadcast by BFMTV.
The first officer of the crashed Germanwings' A320 is Andreas Lubitz, 28 years of age, of German nationality, said Brice Robin, prosecutor of the Republic, in a press conference held Thursday in Marseille, broadcast by BFMTV.
The action of the first officer of the crashed Germanwings' A320 "can be analyzed as his intention to destroy the aircraft", said Brice Robin, prosecutor of the Republic, in a press conference held Thursday in Marseille, broadcast by BFMTV.
No contacts between crashed Germanwings' A320, either from the captain or the first officer, with air traffic control in its last eight minutes, confirmed Brice Robin, prosecutor of the Republic, in a press conference held Thursday in Marseille, broadcast by BFMTV.
One of the two pilots on the crashed Germanwings flight may have been lock out of the cockpit before the plane crashed in the French Alps, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
At least three British nationals died in the Germanwings disaster, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Wednesday.
Passengers of a dozen nationalities were on board of the Airbus 320 of Germanwings that crashed Tuesday in southern France, said Wednesday French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
There are no Chinese passengers onboard the crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525, "as far as we know today", said Germanwings CEO Thomas Winkelmann on Tuesday.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Tuesday that the plane crash in the French Alps was "dramatic and sad news with enormous human loss."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has canceled other appointments to keep informed on the plane crash of German budget airline Germanwings, her spokesman said Tuesday.
45 Spaniards were killed on Tuesday in a passenger plane crash in French Alps en route from Barcelona in Spain to Dusseldorf in Germany, according to Spanish TV.
BRUSSELS, March 24 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc on Tuesday said on her official Twitter account that the EU would assist in investigating the plane crash in southern France. "I have learned about the plane crash 4U9525 in France. Our thoughts are with families of passengers. EU services will assist in investigation," Bulc said. The ill-fated passenger jet A320 crashed Tuesday in southern France. German budget airline Germanwings confirmed on Tuesday that its flight 4U9525 had an "accident" over French Alps with 150 people on board. It is an Airbus A320 plane and was flying from Barcelona in Spain to Duesseldorf in Germany. There were 144 passengers and 6 crew members on board, said the company in its twitter account.
Spanish King Felipe VI, who is on state visit to France, announced after a meeting with French President Francois Hollande in Elysee, that he canceled his visit due to the plane crash on Tuesday in southern France.
German budget airline Germanwings confirmed on Tuesday that its flight 4U9525 had an "accident" over French Alps with 150 people on board.
German airline Lufthansa said on Tuesday that it would be a dark day for the company "if our fears are confirmed", referring to the crash of its flight 4U9525 in southern France.
The German Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that it had set up a crisis team to deal with the plane crash of German budget airline Germanwings.
French President Francois Hollande said there might be no survivor from the ill-fated passenger jet A320, which crashed Tuesday in southern France.
An Airbus A320 of the German airline Germanwings crashed Tuesday in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Southern France, BFMTV reported, citing a local police source.
As a round of large-scale combat readiness drills wrapped up Saturday, Russia has sent a strong and clear message to the West that the military confrontation is not a good option for regional peace and differences should be resolved peacefully.
Crimea held a referendum on March 16, 2014, according to which, Russia was determined to "recover" the Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the treaty on March 18 to allow Crimea and Sevastopol to join Russia as Federation members.
Russian Investigative Committee offered a reward of about 50,000 U.S. dollars for valuable information on the recent murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
The Greek government sent on Tuesday the list of proposed economic reforms for approval by the Eurogroup, Greek news agency AMNA reported.
The European Union (EU) should consider extending sanctions against Russia if the ceasefire in Ukraine breaks down, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Wednesday.
Two men accused of having helped the alleged perpetrator in the weekend's shootings in the Danish capital of Copenhagen were on Monday remanded in custody for 10 days by a court here.
The Copenhagen shooting incidents over the weekend appeared to come to an end with the identification of the alleged perpetrator on Sunday.
An Air France's Boeing 737 plane carrying over 300 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing Sunday in Russian city of Yekaterinburg, Tass news agency reported.
The person killed at a metro station early Sunday morning in Copenhagen is probably the suspect of two shootings occurred in the Danish capital on Saturday, which killed two civilians and injured five policemen, said local police authority.
Hostilities between government troops and pro-independence rebels in eastern Ukraine flared up with a new vigour in the past day, killing 26 people and wounding scores of others, authorities said Friday.
Leaders at the Minsk talks are keeping in touch over the lingering Ukrainian crisis, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Oulu have started building a 5G test network in Oulu, a northwestern city of Finland, in cooperation with industrial partners, VTT said in a press release issued on Thursday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to use his upcoming summit with leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine to seek an end to the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
The Munich Security Conference is regarded as a barometer and an indicator for international security trends, particularly for European security.
The just-concluded Munich Security Conference underlined international security cooperation, yet divergences over the Ukraine crisis remain -- not only between the West and Russia, but also inside the Western camp.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said leaders of Normandy quartet (Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine) have agreed to meet in Minsk next Wednesday, provided that certain positions are agreed upon by then, Interfax news agency reported Sunday.
Greece's new government will stick to its anti-austerity pre-election agenda and will not request an extension of the current bailout program which expires on February 28, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Sunday during a closely watched policy statement at the parliament.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday discussed ways to peacefully settle the crisis in his country with visiting French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the presidential press service said.
The Ukrainian cabinet on Tuesday has approved a decree, introducing tighter border-crossing policy for Russian citizens entering Ukraine.
On Jan. 26, Greece’s radical left Syriza party, which made a clean sweep in the general election, formed a coalition government with the small right-wing Independent Greeks (ANEL) party.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern with the situation in eastern Ukraine and urged the conflicting parties to end military hostilities, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
As many as 180 pro-independence fighters in eastern regions of Ukraine were killed during the fighting of the last 24 hours, while government forces lost five soldiers, local authorities said Monday.
No more sanctions against Russia because of Greece’s obstruction; Extension of the sanctions to September because of Greece’s support.
The latest round of peace talks on Ukraine crisis on Saturday ended in the Belarusian capital of Minsk without an agreement.
Greece's new government eyes a mutual acceptable solution to the Greek sovereign debt through consultations with international lenders, newly elected Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday.
European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said here on Thursday that EU foreign ministers decided to extend the targeted sanctions against Russia by six months until September.
Ukraine must maintain its neutral status so as to prevent further division of the war-torn country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
Ukrainian troops and anti-government forces were locked in fierce fighting in eastern regions, killing at least 23 people in the past day, authorities said Tuesday.
Poland solemnly commemorated the 70th anniversary of KL Auschwitz concentration camp liberation on Tuesday, with the participation of some 300 survivors and representatives from nearly 50 countries.
Alexis Tsipras, SYRIZA (the Coalition of the Radical Left) party leader was sworn in on Monday as Greece's 186th Prime Minister to head a coalition government after winning Sunday's national elections.
Russia's top leaders said on Monday that attempts to distort the history of the World War II could open the gate for revival of Nazism.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said Monday that his government has imposed a state of emergency in the restive eastern regions in the wake of intensified fighting.
French President Francois Hollande on Monday vowed to maintain close ties with Greece's new anti-austerity government in a bid to boost growth and improve financial stability in the European bloc.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras admitted defeat to Radical Left SYRIZA party on Sunday evening after the announcement of the first official results of the critical general elections.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday strongly condemned rocket attack on the city of Mariupol, Ukraine, which reportedly killed dozens of civilians and left one hundred injured.
The death toll of a rocket fire in the government-controlled port city of Mariupol in restive eastern Ukraine on Saturday has risen to 30, while almost a hundred of people were wounded, local authorities said.
The French government on Wednesday unveiled tough and 'exceptional' anti-terror measures worth 425 million euros (492 million U.S. dollars) in a bid to ensure the country's security.
Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday accused Russia of sending troops and armament into eastern Ukraine to support independence-seeking insurgents.
At least 14 people have been killed and over 100 others wounded in eastern Ukraine in the past day as hostilities between government forces and pro-independence insurgents continued, reports showed Monday.
Despite calls for a return to normalcy after the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket tragedy earlier this month, France's Muslims are bracing themselves for reprisals.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been trying to ask parties involved in Ukraine crisis to spare no effort in peacefully settling the situation.
50 percent of the respondents are in favor of 'limiting freedom of expression on the Internet and social media' against 49 percent who are not in favor and 1 percent undecided, showed Sunday a poll of French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop), cited by the newspaper Le Figaro.
A man arrested in Greece on Saturday as part of a series of anti-terror raids across Europe could be directly linked to the suspected jihadist cell broken up by Belgian police on Thursday, according to the Federal Prosecutor's office.
An armed man took two hostages on Friday noon in Colombes in the west of Paris, a local media reported.
French police on Thursday night arrested 12 people suspected of helping a gunman in last week's shootings in Paris, local media reported Friday.
At least 5,000 restaurants in Italy are managed by mafia-style criminal organizations, which have an increasing control of the country's food industry, a study said.
The bloody terrorist attacks in Paris last week marked a watershed moment, triggering political leaders to take to the street to express their resolve in fighting terrorism.
