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France has honoured its heroic gendarme Arnaud Beltrame, who died saving hostages’ lives at a supermarket siege last week, with all the respect, gratitude and emotion the grieving country could muster. In a state ceremony that conveyed...

Themis Kalpakidis, a farmer from the small seaside town of Kavala in northeast Greece, and Agim Bendo, owner of a small plum orchard in the village of Turan in eastern Albania, share a similar agenda –...

Nikola Spasov, sole Balkan representative for the scandal-hit company, told BIRN in an interview that the company had worked professionally on two campaigns in the region. Nikola Spasov became the Balkans representative for Cambridge Analytica in...

A WWF report has named the British meals with the highest carbon footprints, with lamb cawl topping the list. So which foods are more sustainable? Hell hath no fury like a sheep farmer told that his...

Heineken has removed a commercial for its light beer after some complaints that it was racist. The ad featured a bartender sliding a bottle of Heineken Light. The bottle passes several black people before it arrives...

Steve Smith and David Warner have been banned from representing their country for a year – with nine months for Cameron Bancroft – after Cricket Australia came down hard on the three players involved in ball-tampering. The sanctions...

Nobody in Miskolc can say with certainty that they have ever seen a migrant or a refugee in the city. A few residents think they might have seen one or two people back in 2015 but...

China has confirmed that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has visited Beijing, where he met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and pledged his commitment to denuclearising the Korean peninsula. Confirming several reports over the last two...

By expelling Russian diplomats and making the Kremlin close its Seattle consulate, Donald Trump made the right choice and acted in line with Washington’s European allies. But this was a forced outlier, not the norm. On...

At least 64 people including many children were killed in Sunday’s blaze in the town of Kemerovo in central Russia. Thousands of people have been separately demonstrating against local authorities. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday...