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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has won another term, securing an outright majority according to official results. The elections are the first held under a new system which gives the president expansive powers. Turkish President Recep...

Turkey’s election authority has confirmed Turkey’s strongman for 16 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections, with 99.7 per cent of the votes counted. Democracy was the winner of Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary...

As Hungary adopts bills penalising organisations that help migrants and refugees, the Hungarian Foreign Minister from the ruling Fidesz party, told BIRN that Hungary is an “anti-migration” country. Szijjarto, 39, says the issue of migrants and...

On the sidelines of a rancorous EU meeting in Brussels on the migration crisis, politicians’ talk of opening processing centres in Albania continues to fuel political tensions there. The European Union faces a fresh crisis over...

Opponents of Romania’s ruling Social Democratic Party are preparing for more street protests after its leader received a second corruption sentence last week. Romanian anti-corruption activists and opposition supporters prepared for more protests on Monday after...

The “Irish giant”, a centrepiece of the Hunterian anatomical museum in London, could be released to allow the remains to be given a respectful burial after more than two centuries on display. The skeleton is that...

A tweet by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders about her ejection from a Virginia restaurant on Friday broke federal ethics rules, a leading expert said. On Saturday, Sanders posted: “Last night I was told by the owner of...

LGBT community and activists gathered on Saturday to march for their rights in the Croatian city of Split and the Serbian capital, Belgrade. The event in Split was organised by a union of local LGBT associations...

Moldova’s capital, Chisinau, is bracing for renewed protests this weekend, after several opposition parties called on supporters to take to the streets and demonstrate against the court ruling invalidating the result of the June 3 mayoral...

Turks are voting on Sunday in parliamentary and presidential elections which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes will boost his strength and that of his ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP. More than 56.3 million Turkish citizens...