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Europe votes on ‘Super Sunday’ with far-right in focus

Major EU member states vote on Sunday to elect the 751 deputies to sit in the European Parliament until 2019.

EU freezes ousted Ukraine leaders’ assets, warns Russia over Crimea

EU leaders have frozen assets belonging to deposed Ukraine leaders, and have warned Russia of sanctions if they do not pull troops out of Crimea.

EU leaders have hailed a eurozone breakthrough

EU summit works on short-term support for Spain, Italy

European finance officials are working on urgent measures to ease financial market pressure on Spain and Italy, which are too big to bail out.

Employees chat under screens showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange.

Europe’s leaders face testing month of crisis-fighting

TS Eliot said that April was the cruellest month, but for Europe’s leaders, it may prove to be June.

Angela Merkel.

Europe’s leaders meet to sort through debt chaos

Europe’s leaders will try to breathe life into their stricken economies but disagreement over plans to alleviate debt chaos has been laid bare.

‘Merkozy’ align plans to bring EU budgets under control

G20 summit fails to deliver bailout funds

The eurozone won verbal support but no new money at a G20 summit for its tortured efforts to overcome a sovereign debt crisis.

Spain downgrade weighs down eurozone leaders

A double-notch downgrade of Spain’s credit rating has piled pressure on Europe’s leaders to make progress on solving the region’s debt crisis.

Nato to hand security to Afghan forces by end of 2014

Nato says it will hand over security in Afghanistan by the end of 2014 but would not abandon the country in its fight against the Taliban.

Nato seeks missile defence agreement with Russia

Nato will invite Russia to take part in a missile defence shield, a move that would herald the closest cooperation since the end of the Cold War.

EU leaders pledge €7,3bn for climate fight

European leaders promised on Friday to provide developing countries with €7,3-billion to try to win their support for a climate-change deal.

Anger brews over UK journalist’s daring Afghan rescue

The rescue of a British journalist from the Taliban has provoked anger about the risks reporters take in war zones.

Zim economy beginning to recover, says minister

Zimbabwe’s economy has turned around in the past four months, the minister for economic planning said on Tuesday.

Britain’s law lords reject use of secret evidence

Britain’s House of Lords on Wednesday ruled against the use of secret evidence to keep terrorism suspects under surveillance without charge.

UK expenses row ‘a McCarthy-style witch-hunt’

Embarrassing disclosures about the vast expenses claims of British MPs amount to a ”McCarthy-style witch-hunt”, a lawmaker said on Friday.

UK’s BBC, Sky refuse to air Gaza charity appeal

Two of UK’s major broadcasters faced down criticism on Monday and refused to air a charity appeal for the victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

World leaders urge fast action on financial crisis

World leaders pledged rapid action on Saturday to rescue a weakening global economy from the worst financial crisis in over 70 years

Zimbabweans abroad await post-Mugabe era

Like millions of Zimbabweans living abroad, Leslie Maruziva follows the tortuous power-sharing talks going on at home.

Londoners raise alarm over youth knife crime

Twenty teenagers have been stabbed to death in the British capital so far this year, a toll that is rapidly approaching the 27 killed during 2007.

Star witness fails to show in London ‘Nazi orgy’ case

A star defence witness failed to turn up in a privacy case involving sadomasochistic sex and the head of world motor racing on Thursday.

Experts see big holes in cluster bomb ban

An agreement banning cluster bombs has cheered human rights campaigners, but powerful military states are refusing to join it and experts say the treaty is riddled with holes and…