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A city council’s decision to scrap names that sound Turkish or Arabic has drawn complaints from ethnic Turkish parties and the country’s Grand Mufti – who called it racist and intolerant. Bulgaria’s nationalist United Patriots coalition,...

They might look like slums or homes for garden gnomes. Those peculiar settlements of tiny little houses with allotment gardens, known as the “Schrebergarten,” are a typically German phenomenon. While “urban gardening” recently turned into every...

Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko is the man who returned from the other side. At least, that was how it seemed for startled journalists who had gathered to hear about a “murder” probe. DW’s Nicholas Connolly was...

The City watchdog has ordered banks to do more to help the 19 million people who regularly use their overdrafts but has dismayed campaigners seeking a cap on the £2.3bn fees made when customers go into...

Two migrant children were injured when Croatian police opened fire on a van driven by people smugglers that refused to stop near the border with Bosnia. Two migrant children suffered gunshot wounds while others were injured...

As Belgrade and Pristina trade accusations about the lack of progress in the investigation into Oliver Ivanovic’s murder, the slain Kosovo Serb politician’s allies say they’re being kept in the dark by both countries. Murdered Kosovo...

Macedonia and Greece on Monday said they had finally reached a framework for a possible solution to their long-standing dispute over Macedonia’s name, to which Greece objects. News of the much awaited breakthrough, whose details are...

The European Court for Human Rights has found Romania and Lithuania guilty of violating the European ban on torture for hosting secret CIA prisons where terrorism suspects were tortured. The European Court of Human Rights in...

Zinedine Zidane has stepped down as Real Madrid head coach five days after celebrating three consecutive Champions League titles with victory over Liverpool in Kiev. Zidane announced his decision in Madrid on Thursday morning. Sat alongside Real...

Denmark has joined several other European countries in banning garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, in a move condemned by human rights campaigners as “neither necessary nor proportionate”. In...