Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has officially been granted more presidential powers after a constitutional referendum held throughout Turkey, these amendments offer powers that will make President Erdogan the most powerful Turkish official since former president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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An explosion between two underground train stations between the Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations, in St. Petersburg and left fourteen people dead.
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte defeated far-right populist candidate Geert Wilders in the most recent parliamentary election. Rutte is now focused on building a coalition to secure at least 76 seats of the 150 possible Dutch Parliament seats.
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French polls expect the populist Marine Le Pen, leader of her father’s National Front Party, to win the first round on April 23 and lose the May 7 runoffs to the liberal challenger and former Economy Minister for incumbent Francois Hollande Emanuel Macron, founder of the months-old En Marche! movement.
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There is discussion of the possibility that the citizens of major European democracies are gradually losing their liberties. Therefore, is there such a perpetual loss of basic freedoms?
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The Basque separatist group Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA), who have killed over 820 people, staged hundreds of shootings, and orchestrated dozens of kidnappings, promised complete disarmament by April 8.
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French officials shot and killed Ziyed Ben Belgacem after he assaulted and held a soldier hostage before being shot dead in the Paris Orly Airport.
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The Belgian Chamber of Representatives adopted an extremely controversial counter-terrorism draft law, an addition to Foreigners Law, which previously allowed the deportation of convicted criminal foreigners with the oversight of a judicial officer.
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US President Donald Trump’s recent references to a fictional terrorist attack have caused an uptick in in complaints about an out of control immigrant population within Sweden.
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French historian, Henry Rousso, was detained for more than 10 hours because of a misunderstanding of visa rules, after an 11 hour flight from Paris.
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