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France holds state funeral for police hero of Trèbes siege
Mar 28, 2018France 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... -
Greek, Albanian Farmers Unite Against Adriatic Pipeline
Mar 28, 2018Themis 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 –... -
Cambridge Analytica’s Balkan Work Was ‘Not Illegal’
Mar 28, 2018Nikola 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... -
Off the lamb: how to eat with a low carbon footprint
Mar 28, 2018A 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 removes ad after Chance the Rapper calls it ‘terribly racist’
Mar 28, 2018Heineken 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... -
Smith and Warner banned for a year by Cricket Australia for ball tampering
Mar 28, 2018Steve 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... -
‘Ghettos and no-go zones’: Hungary’s far right fuels migrant fears ahead of vote
Mar 28, 2018Nobody 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... -
Kim Jong-un paid ‘unofficial’ visit to Beijing, Chinese state media confirms
Mar 28, 2018China 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... -
Opinion: Against his own instincts, Trump does the right thing on Russia
Mar 27, 2018By 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... -
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits memorial to victims of shopping mall fire
Mar 27, 2018At 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...