EU’s "lost generation" to be heard at polls
Police in Istanbul have clashed with protesters occupying the city's Taksim Gezi park. The activists have been camping there for three days in an attempt to stop it being demolished. Local media said...
View ArticleFrance’s Le Pen could lose immunity, may face racism charges
||RelatedFar-right beats far-left in Calais region 11/06/2012 06:57 CET France right-wing parties play election catch-up 11/06/2012 14:23 CET Judge arrested over 400 million Tapie payout 30/05/2013...
View ArticleShale gas licenses may increase UK reserves four-fold
The company said its technical studies indicate that the licenses in the region most likely contain an estimated 2.9 trillion cubic meters or 102 trillion cubic feet. According to Bloomberg, the new...
View Article‘Democratic and Islamic values clash in Turkey’
A wave of violence in Turkey has seen riot police clash with protesters for a fourth day running in different parts of the country. Security forces used tear gas and water cannons as the demonstrators...
View ArticleOne can’t join vague opposition – Kudrin
Aleksey Kudrin said in an interview with the Kommersant-Vlast weekly political magazine that it was wrong to describe the Russian protesters unanimously as “opposition”. “Currently the very notion of...
View ArticlePoll results point to ‘very exciting’ 2014 election
As Sweden's political parties react to the latest Statistics Sweden opinion poll, the results point to the possibility of new political constellations following the 2014 parliamentary elections. … Read...
View ArticleLööf slammed in parliamentary review
Enterprise Minister Annie Lööf was criticized on Tuesday in a review by the parliamentary committee on constitutional affairs for how she handled the disclosure of public documents and for providing...
View ArticleGuinea –"You journalists talk too much. You are spies, we are going to tear...
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about a decline in security for news providers in the Guinean capital of Conakry during the past two months. At least 15 journalists have been physically...
View ArticlePutin agrees to head All-Russia People’s Front
Putin, who initiated the creation of the Front, has visited the second day of the organization’s congress, which took place in central Moscow on June 11-12. On his arrival, movie director, Stanislav...
View ArticleBerisha faces strong challenge in Albanian elections
||RelatedParliamentary elections in Albania 23/06/2013 12:25 CET The parliamentary election in Albania is in full swing with Prime Minister Sali Berisha seeking a third term in office, but facing a...
View ArticleEgypt’s opposition claims to have 22 million signatures for Morsi’s...
Activists for the Tamarod, or Rebellion, campaign – who the Prosecutor General says will be investigated for trying to overthrow the regime - claim they have gathered 22.1 million signatures since...
View ArticleBulgaria – Far-right party invades state TV broadcaster
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by yesterday's forcible invasion of Bulgaria's state-owned TV broadcaster, BNT, by the leader and members of the far-right party Ataka, who occupied the station...
View ArticleFrench far-right MEP Le Pen has immunity lifted
||RelatedFunding dissent 22/03/2013 13:08 CET Hungarian MEP pushed to resign 16/08/2012 23:43 CET France’s Front National far right to sue Madonna 16/07/2012 01:43 CET The European Parliament voted on...
View ArticleMarine Le Pen loses parliamentary immunity, may face charges for inciting...
She was accused of inciting racial hatred for comparing Muslim street prayers to the occupation of France by Nazi Germany. A Lyon court requested for her immunity to be removed three years ago. A...
View ArticleWhy European nations must protect Edward Snowden
The general secretary of Reporters Without Borders Christophe Deloire, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange co-sign today an Op-Ed in Le Monde to call out the states of the European Union to protect...
View ArticleProsecutor demands 6 years in jail for opposition blogger Navalny
Also the prosecutor asked the court to fine Navalny 1 million roubles (about $30,000) and immediately put the blogger in custody together with his alleged accomplice Pyotr Ofitserov. Both Navalny and...
View ArticleEgypt to vote on new parliament by February
Follow RT's LIVE UPDATES. The decree has allowed a four-and-a-half month period for any amendments to the former constitution, which was suspended after the overthrow of the country’s former...
View ArticleProkhorov party withdraws from Moscow Region governor poll
The billionaire politician told news agencies that his party had initially been considering three candidates for the post, but did not disclose their names. He also gave no reason why Civil Platform...
View ArticleHard evidence of chemical weapons use ‘does not solve Syrian issue’
Moscow now appears to have conclusive evidence that it is the rebels who are guilty of the March chemical attack in Aleppo which killed dozens of Syrians. This comes as the United States continues to...
View ArticleMI6 warning: ‘Catastrophe’ if chemical weapons fall into Al-Qaeda hands
The head of UK spy agency MI6, Sir John Sawers, has voiced his serious concern over the escalating conflict in Syria. His words accompanied the release of an annual report by the parliamentary...
View ArticleGreece to cut thousands of public sector jobs
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View ArticleJapanese election campaigns in social media
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View ArticleParliamentary siege: Over 100 MPs, ministers trapped by Bulgaria anti-govt...
Police with shields formed a pathway through hundreds of Bulgarians to finally get all those trapped out of the building, pushing away the anti-government demonstrators. High-ranking officials were...
View ArticlePutin opposes communist initiative for government dissolution
Members of the youth political forum asked the president if he supported the initiative of the Russian Communist Party to dissolve the government that is currently in the preparatory stage, but can be...
View ArticleCalls for calm in Zimbabwe as Mugabe triumphs
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View ArticleAustralia election date announced
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View ArticleRouhani inauguration: Breaking bread at home and abroad
For the first time in 34 years since the Islamic Revolution, Tehran has invited foreigners to the presidential inauguration ceremony. The ceremony consists of two parts: the handover of power and the...
View ArticleCompetitors question Navalny’s fundraising campaign, allege foreign ties
The idea was first voiced by Vladimir Zhirinovsky – the head of the moderate nationalist parliamentary party LDPR that also has a candidate in the Moscow Mayor election. Zhirinovsky said he intended...
View ArticleLeftist legislators suggest bill on reporters’ immunity
The main sponsor of the bill, MP Mikhail Serdyuk, has told Izvestia daily that the amendments would introduce the term ‘immunity’ to the law on mass media and provide reporters with protection that is...
View ArticleProsecutors confirm foreign funding of Navalny’s mayoral campaign
Navalny received money transfers from about 300 foreign donors, both individuals and legal entities, as well as anonymous transfers from 46 foreign countries, such as the USA, UK, Switzerland and...
View ArticleLethal drug shortage has states scrambling for new execution methods
A recent court filing indicated that Ohio’s supply of the sedative pentobarbital will be gone by the end of September. The filing does not specify what drug Ohio plans to use to replace pentobarbital...
View ArticleTwo quakes hit New Zealand capital Wellington, some buildings evacuated
One quake of 6.5 magnitude hit the South Island town of Seddon at 02:31 GMT, and an aftershock of 5.7 was registered soon afterward, the BBC reported. Chris Birks, the general manager of the Hotel...
View ArticleNo public debates on Syria, please, we’re American!
On Thursday, the British subjects of Her Majesty the Queen were treated to a lively, no-holds-barred debate in the House of Commons as to whether the UK should participate in a military strike on...
View ArticleBrazilian lawmakers call for police protection of Glenn Greenwald and his...
On Tuesday, the Brazilian Senate began an official investigation into allegations that the National Security Agency (NSA) had been surveilling the country and even intercepted personal emails sent by...
View ArticleBritish Parliament sought pornographic sites 300,000 times in past year
The data includes “attempts to access websites categorized as pornography” by computers within parliament, encompassing devices linked to the parliamentary internet network. Attempted visits by 1,300...
View ArticleUS snub of Syria talks ‘proof of weakness in position’ – Duma speaker
“The unwillingness to listen to arguments on inter-parliamentary level testifies to the fact that our American partners themselves understand the weakness of their positions. In addition, this step...
View ArticleBritish parliament to discuss bringing back national service
The bill was brought to parliament by Conservative MP Philip Hollobone, who has championed the legislation as a way to inspire young people in Britain with “self-respect, personal reliance, discipline...
View ArticleKremlin admin chief urges dialogue with law-abiding opposition
“We should divide the opposition into two parts. There is a part that recognizes the laws and, so to say, rules of the game, and the dialogue with this part is not only possible, but also welcome. But...
View ArticleMoscow court rejects Navalny’s lawsuit against alleged poll violations
Aleksey Navalny filed a lawsuit soon after the Moscow Elections Commission announced the results of the poll. Sobyanin got over 51 percent of votes and won in the first round. The main complaint was...
View ArticleDuma ready to consider amnesty for Bolotnaya rioters – MPs
MP Dmitry Gudkov has promised to submit the bill as early as the week after next. The current draft deals with those involved in crimes committed during the mass rally on Bolotnaya Square on May 6,...
View ArticleRussian MPs prepare to visit Syria – speaker
The Russian Lower House speaker made the announcement during the Tuesday session of the Open Tribune discussion club. He said the State Dume passed a special statement on the situation in Syria...
View ArticleCouncil of Europe condemns ‘cruel’ execution of Ohio killer, calls for protest
Denis McGuire, 53, spent the last 15 minutes of his life gasping for breath on Thursday while being executed with an “experimental” drug cocktail. The execution that lasted 25 minutes from the lethal...
View Article£6,000 worth of Viagra, 100 bayonets stolen from UK MoD
The anti-impotence pills and nuclear submarine equipment were taken from RAF Marham in Norfolk, East Anglia, the Times reported. Some 100 bayonets, thousands of rounds of ammunition, an industrial...
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Sanctions won’t hurt Russia – veteran nationalist MP
Western nations such as the United States and the EU countries are very limited in their ability to influence Russian politics through sanctions as they themselves depend on Russia in many ways,...
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Ukraine’s Right Sector radical group to become political party, nominates...
As of today, the Ukrainian National Assembly (UNA) – which dates back to 1990 and was regarded as a far-right political organization in Ukraine – has ceased to exist, instead transforming into the...
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Dozens killed in Iraq month ahead of Parliamentary poll
Shortly after midnight gunmen attacked an army base in south of Mosul, leaving 7 soldiers dead, police confirmed. A suicide bomber in the city of Ramadi in Anbar province, killed 13 people and wounded...
View ArticleRussia dismisses Council of Europe ‘farce’ vote
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View ArticleEuropean Parliamentary Election Gerard Batten UKIP
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Duma Сhairman warns PACE against glory seeking over fate of Ukraine
To Her Excellency M-me Anne Brasseur, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe On the day you receive this letter I plan to publish it in the media. This is the first time I...
View ArticleUKIP MEP Patrick O’Flynn
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