Politics

Kosovo’s Special Prosecution has taken statements from the President and from the speaker of parliament for the trial of ten suspected members of the ‘People’s Eye’ organisation, accused of drawing up a list of national ‘traitors’....

Gerard Batten, the acting Ukip leader, isn’t satisfied with the speech. In a statement he said: “On many points of detail, to be fair, appears in to be going in the right direction, but not with...

A German citizen thought to be a military advisor to the Taliban in Helmand province has been detained by Afghan officials. The man appears to be part of the Taliban’s elite “Red Unit.” Police in Helmand...

Ahmad A., a 27-year-old Palestinian, has been given a life sentence for wielding a knife in an Edeka supermarket in the Hamburg district of Barmbek last July. He was convicted of murder, attempted murder and grievous bodily harm...

Twenty-seven years ago, in February 1991, Gentiana Sula was standing in a crowd of thousands of Albanians who toppled a statute of the country’s dictator Enver Hoxha in the central square of the capital Tirana. In the early...

Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and longtime aide to Donald Trump, has announced her resignation. The White House confirmed news of Hicks’ departure on Wednesday, one day after Hicks testified before the House intelligence committee...

Tony Blair has said Theresa May has no hope of delivering her negotiating aims or avoiding a hard Irish border if she takes the UK out of the single market and customs union. The former prime minister, who...

Donald Trump has repeatedly endorsed a series of gun control proposals that put the Republican president at odds with the National Rifle Association and stunned lawmakers within his own party. The president made the remarks during an...

Up to ten MPs from smaller ethnic Albanian parties could soon boost the government’s narrow majority in parliament, but settling their petty feuds so that they can all join his administration poses a challenge for Prime...

Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded, according to reports on Tuesday, leaving the senior adviser and son-in-law to Donald Trump without direct access to top secret intelligence and sensitive documents that include the president’s...