Europe

On International Roma Day, April 8, Amnesty International strongly advised the EU to deal with the discrimination against the Roma. The international human rights organization stressed that the European Commission should now take necessary steps to ensure that the...

The Greek government plans to build a wall along its 206-km-long land border with Turkey to help keep out unwanted migrants based on the model of the U.S. border with Mexico. " If the European Union supports this plan,...

Amnesty International published a report on April 8 with the title “Europe: “We ask for justice”: Europe’s failure to protect Roma from racist violence.” The report pinpoints the violent racist attacks against Roma all over Europe and particularly in...

The UK's High Court gave reprieve to the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by ruling that the US must give assurances that he will not face the death penalty if extradited. According to the ruling on Tuesday, US authorities have three...

Russia's most significant opposition leader to Vladimir Putin for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in a Siberian prison, Russian officials announced on Friday. Navalny was serving a 19-year jail term for offenses widely considered politically motivated. He was...

Greece launched a formal protest with Albania on Friday following the arrest of an ethnic Greek politician in Himara, located in southern Albania. Fredi Beleri, a Greek minority candidate running for mayor in Himara, was arrested on charges of vote-buying...

Eva Kaili, a Vice-President of the European Parliament from Greece, has been placed in detention by Belgian authorities; suspected to be involved in a bribe scandal related to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. “Following the latest developments and the...

Philanthropist and human rights activist Osman Kavala was sentenced to life in prison by a court in Turkey on Monday. The decision was condemned by the US, Germany, and a host of international human rights organizations. The conviction, which found...

The Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) acquired the Premier League's Newcastle United football club on Thursday. The sale has ushered in an unprecedented new era for one of England's foremost football clubs. While the sale marks the end of...

Canada is canceling its export permits for drone technology to Turkey after drones were used in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Great Britain's The Guardian newspaper has identified the two men beheaded in Armenia's Nagorno-Karabakh region in an exclusive report published on Tuesday. The elderly ethnic Armenian men had refused to leave their villages when the Azerbaijani forces who took control of...

Senior EU figures have criticised Turkey's government for "undermining the rule of law" over the re-arrest of the head of the Turkish chapter of Amnesty International and the recent detention of leading members of the Turkish Medical Association. In a...

On Monday, the European Union and Greece are scheduled to begin sending migrants, including Syrians, from the Greek Isles to Turkey under a deal reached two weeks ago between the Turkish government and the EU. The agreement aims to ease...

The European Union -- in an effort to ease the burden on Greece and eastern European countries caused by the influx of migrants --says it will set up 100,000 places in reception centers in Greece and along the migrants'...

The European Union will use submarines, warships, drones and helicopters in an operation to gather intelligence on gangs who smuggle thousands of asylum-seekers to Europe from Libya, officials said on Monday. EU foreign ministers agreed at a meeting in Luxembourg...