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Merkel loyalist wins German party leadership battle 07 Dec 2018 - 08:34 pm
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (L) greets delegates while she stands next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) after Kramp-Karrenbauer has been elected as new party leader during the 31st Party Congress of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at a congress
Paris on knife-edge ahead of new 'yellow vest' protests 07 Dec 2018 - 07:55 pm
Protesters wearing yellow vests occupy a traffic island near the A2 Paris-Brussels motorway as part of the
Lego teams up with Sesame Street to help refugee kids play 07 Dec 2018 - 12:18 pm
File photo of the LEGOLAND entrance is seen in Windsor, Britain May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo
O2 network restored after millions hit by glitch 07 Dec 2018 - 11:19 am
In this file photo taken on January 23, 2015 People walk past a branch of an O2 store in central London on Janurary 23, 2015.  / AFP / Justin TALLIS
Museums in Paris, Eiffel Tower fear riots, will close Saturday 06 Dec 2018 - 08:28 pm
The top of the Eiffel Tower peeks out above the roofs on December 4, 2018 in Paris. AFP / Lionel Bonaventure
'He thinks he's God': Macron's style fuels French protesters' ire 06 Dec 2018 - 08:28 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he delivers a speech on the European Union in the amphitheatre of the Sorbonne University in Paris on September 26, 2017. AFP/Ludovic Marin
Millions of UK O2 customers hit by data glitch 06 Dec 2018 - 01:51 pm
FILE PHOTO: A woman speaks on her mobile telephone outside an O2 shop in Loughborough, central England January 23, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Staples
Portuguese prison guards stage strike amid prisoner unrest 06 Dec 2018 - 01:50 pm
Peninsula
UK PM May urges lawmakers to back her Brexit deal but rebels remain unconvinced 06 Dec 2018 - 01:48 pm
Britain's Prime Minister, Theresa May, arrives at Downing Street after appearing on the BBC's 'Today' radio programme, in central London, Britain December 6, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Paris fears new protest violence despite Macron's retreat 06 Dec 2018 - 01:26 pm
French riot police face off with youth and high school students during a protest against the French government's reform plan, in Bordeaux, France, December 6, 2018. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
In the Balkans, winter cheer is darkened by a toxic smog 06 Dec 2018 - 09:03 am
A woman covers her face during a period of fog and air pollution in Skopje, Macedonia December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski
Putin vows 'support' as Venezuela's Maduro seeks financial aid 05 Dec 2018 - 08:49 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia December 5, 2018. Reuters/Maxim Shemetov
Russian court jails veteran rights activist 05 Dec 2018 - 08:49 pm
Russian human rights advocate Lev Ponomarev attends a press conference in Moscow on February 07, 2013 .AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev
NATO gives Bosnia green light to advance on membership path 05 Dec 2018 - 05:18 pm
Peninsula
Putin says he won't take Ukrainian leader's calls 05 Dec 2018 - 03:12 pm
Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the International Volunteer Forum in Moscow, Russia December 5, 2018. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin
Swiss president and two new ministers elected 05 Dec 2018 - 02:42 pm
The newly elected Federal Councillors Karin Keller-Sutter (2nd-R), and Viola Amherd (3rd-R) pose with the Federal Council (from left) the Federal President Alain Berset, Federal Councillors Ueli Maurer, Simonetta Sommaruga, Guy Parmelin, Ignazio Cassis an
France bracing for more protests despite retreat on taxes 05 Dec 2018 - 02:33 pm
High school students stand in front of blocked Laetitia Bonaparte high school on December 5, 2018, in Ajaccio on the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica. AFP / PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA
Italy prosecutor admonishes Salvini over mafia arrest tweet 05 Dec 2018 - 02:15 pm
FILE PHOTO: Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini poses with two members of the Central Security Operations Service (NOCS), a SWAT team of the Polizia di Stato, during a visit to celebrate their anniversary in Rome, Italy October 10, 2018. REUTERS/Remo