After what appears to be a shady palace coup in the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry, senior diplomat Wang Yi again takes charge and is likely to use his positive relationships with EU leaders to improve tense relations between Europe and Beijing.

Sweden’s Cardinal Anders Arborelius dedicated the country’s first shrine Saturday specifically for prayer for persecuted Christians. The Archbishop of Stockholm

The BBC have apologised to the former UKIP leader for inaccurate reporting, but Natwest has come under a lot of pressure for bringing politics into banking.

The move highlights Algeria’s geopolitical and economic reorientation toward Russia and China and away from the collective West.

Irish police confirmed that no criminal proceedings were underway as speculation mounted that the right-wing ‘The National Party’ had undergone an internal coup.

The French president chose a conciliatory tone in his communication during a difficult time, but that tone had all the appearances of inertia.

A mob of hundreds attempted to storm Baghdad’s Green Zone, where many embassies are located, after a burning of the Quran in Copenhagen on Friday, with those behind the burning repeating their actions on Monday as well.

One of Britain’s most notorious Islamic hate preachers, Anjem Choudary, faces new terror-related charges after being convicted of terror offences in 2016 and serving just two years in prison.

The Italian prime minister has softened her anti-immigration rhetoric considerably in recent months, even stating that “both Europe and Italy need immigration.”

Besides mass protests to contend with, Israel faces the risk of its public sector being crippled. The head of Israel’s main public sector union said he would meet with other union officials to discuss the possibility of declaring a “general labor dispute in the economy,” which they would activate “if necessary until a complete shutdown is achieved.”

Russian authorities claimed to have downed the drones with “electronic warfare systems.”

With Spain in the EU presidency and European elections coming up next year, the shortfall of the Right in Spain is having repercussions in Brussels as well.