German police give all-clear after evacuating train due to bomb threat
German police on Friday gave the all-clear after 500 passengers were evacuated from a train due to a bomb threat.
Sudan opposition leader calls for government to quit as hundreds march
The leader of Sudan’s largest opposition party, Sadiq al-Mahdi, called on the government to bow to mass protests and resign as he addressed hundreds of supporters in a mosque across the River Nile from Khartoum on Friday.
Italy PM raps France, Germany for hypocrisy on Europe
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Friday accused France and Germany of using empty pro-European rhetoric while pursuing their national interests on areas from immigration to industry and international diplomacy.
Advocating stability abroad, Merkel must mind pitfalls at home
Addressing world leaders in Davos this week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a robust defense of multilateralism, but looming pitfalls at home risk undermining her globe-trotting advocacy for international cooperation before too long.
Turkey’s Erdogan wants Syria ‘safe zone’ in place within months
Turkey expects its allies to help set up a “safe zone” in Syria along the Turkish border within a few months, otherwise it will establish the zone alone, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Splits among French ‘yellow vests’ deepen as some eye EU elections
A decision by a small group of “yellow vest” protesters to contest May’s European Parliament elections has exposed deep splits within their amorphous anti-government movement about whether and how to become a more organized political force.
Buchenwald bans German far-right party from Holocaust commemoration
The director of the memorial at the largest Nazi concentration camp on German soil barred the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) from attending a commemoration on Friday for the 56,000 people who perished there in the Holocaust.
Exclusive: Ukraine says it sees surge in cyber attacks targeting election
Hackers likely controlled by Russia are stepping up efforts to disrupt Ukraine’s presidential election in March with cyber attacks on electoral servers and personal computers of election staff, the head of Ukraine’s cyber police said on Friday.
Greek parliament ratifies Macedonia name accord
Greece’s parliament on Friday ratified a landmark accord that changes the name of neighboring Macedonia, ending a decades-old dispute and opening the way for the ex-Yugoslav republic to join the European Union and NATO.
NATO, Russia fail to agree over missile breach, U.S. to quit treaty
NATO and Russia failed on Friday to resolve a dispute over a new Russian missile that Western allies say is a threat to Europe, bringing closer Washington’s withdrawal from a landmark arms control treaty.
