Nato has drawn up plans to strengthen military co-operation with the former Soviet states on Russia‘s southern flank after the Kremlin’s seizure of Ukraine‘s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. Nato foreign ministers were meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the alliance’s response to the Ukraine crisis amid continued fears of Russia’s territorial ambitions and what the Americans term […]
Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that are far apart, the medical charity Médecins sans Frontières said. The warning from an organisation used to tackling Ebola in central Africa came after Guinea’s president appealed for calm as the number of deaths […]
The International Court of Justice has ordered a temporary halt to Japan’s annual slaughter of whales in the southern ocean after concluding that the hunts are not, as Japan claims, conducted for scientific research. The UN court’s decision, by a 12-4 majority among a panel of judges, casts serious doubt over the long-term future of […]
Migrants and asylum-seekers detained in Greece are being forced to endure deplorable conditions, often with devastating effects on their health, according to a report from aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Doctors who have attended internment camps, police stations and coastguard facilities around the country described “a living hell” for thousands of immigrants denied fresh air, natural […]