German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged European leaders to work together on finding solutions to irregular migration. She told Germany’s parliament the issue could be a defining moment for the EU. The call comes ahead of an EU summit focused on how to deal with the many undocumented migrants – mainly Africans – who continue […]

The curse of the World Cup winners continues. Germany became the third straight reigning champion to be knocked out in the group stage at the next World Cup — following Italy and Spain — after it was beaten 2-0 by South Korea in Group F. In an embarrassingly poor performance Germany went behind in the […]

The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the Trump administration’s travel ban targeting people from several Muslim-majority countries. Lower courts had deemed the ban unconstitutional, but the US top court has reversed this decision in a 5-4 ruling announced on Tuesday. The ban prohibits most people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan was already modern Turkey’s longest serving ruler. Sunday’s election result is an endorsement of the President’s increasingly hardline measures that will raise alarm bells in the corridors of Western powers. Other leaders, from Russia’s Vladimir Putin to Somalia’s Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, were quick to congratulate the former footballer and Istanbul mayor on his win. […]

Turkey’s long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan says unofficial results from the presidential elections show he has won outright in the first round. Mr Erdogan has 53%, while his closest rival, Muharrem Ince, is on 31%, state media report, with most votes counted. Mr Erdogan also said the governing alliance of his AK Party had secured […]

On Wednesday morning, White House cooks were flipping steaks and unboxing popcorn machines ahead of the yearly congressional picnic. Within the hour, the picnic was scrubbed, the steaks on ice, and the popcorn machines trucked away. A day earlier, President Donald Trump enthusiastically told House Republicans in the Capitol basement he was behind them “1,000%” in their […]

Venezuelan security forces have carried out hundreds of arbitrary killings under the guise of fighting crime, the UN says in a new report. The UN’s human rights body says it has credible accounts of security forces raiding poor neighbourhoods and killing young men, often in their homes. The rule of law was “virtually absent” in […]

The top court in the US has ruled that states can force online companies to collect sales tax from their customers. Previously, companies without a physical presence in a state were exempt from sales tax collection requirements. The Supreme Court said the physical presence rule was “unsound and incorrect”. The 5-4 decision is expected to […]

US President Donald Trump has promised action to “keep families together” amid fury over separations of undocumented child migrants from adults. “I’ll be signing something in a little while that’s going to do that,” he told reporters at the White House. The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly drafted an executive order to stop the […]

Quarrels between men end when a woman throws her headscarf on the ground, according to Turkish tradition. So presidential candidate Meral Aksener is going from town to town collecting these colorful pieces of cloth, known as “yemeni,” from her supporters. The 61-year-old is leading what she calls the yemeni revolution to bring an end to […]