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A rescue crew emerges from an immense cloud of fine grey dust carrying two stretchers that hold bodies recovered from houses engulfed by blistering lava from the nearby erupting Fuego volcano. The recovered bodies are tightly...

President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic said she supports the holding of a referendum advocated by conservative campaigners who want to change the country’s electoral law and restrict ethnic minority MPs’ voting rights. Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic has said...

Pro-European candidate Andrei Nastase won the second-round run-off for the Chisinau mayoralty in polls seen as an important test ahead of parliamentary elections in Moldova later this year. Dignity and Truth Platform, PPDA, candidate Andrei Nastase won...

Security and human rights ministers from the region will meet in Sarajevo on June 7 to agree on new measures to tackle the ongoing migrant crisis affecting mostly Bosnia, trading blame on who is responsible for...

As Serbia inches forward towards EU membership, its pro-Russian outlook has become more of headache for the country’s ambitious President, Aleksandar Vucic. On the one hand, Vucic shares the pro-Russian sentiment felt by most Serbs entirely....

Britain’s manufacturing sector has shrunk in the past decade by almost 600,000 jobs to leave fewer than 3 million workers employed in the sector. A study by the GMB union found that every region in the UK has...

The owner of Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks has improved its £1.6bn offer for Virgin Money in an attempt to create Britain’s sixth-largest bank, with 6 million customers. Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank Group (CYBG) is offering Virgin shareholders a...

Keito Kobayashi has swapped his usual work clothes for the uniform of his second job as a volunteer firefighter. He is, the caption in the calendar says, only doing what comes naturally – keeping his family...

Chinese citizens around the world are remembering the lone man, armed with nothing more than two shopping bags, who stepped in front of a row of tanks moving down the streets of Beijing in 1989. Better...

North Korea’s top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior US official said on Sunday, a shakeup that could signal the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is working to silence dissent ahead of...