Raffaele Sollecito has said being acquitted of the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher by Italy’s highest court was like “being born again”. Speaking for the first time since a final ruling exonerated him and former girlfriend Amanda Knox, Mr Sollecito said he had been “branded a killer”. Ms Kercher, 21, was stabbed to death […]
A top Lufthansa official has warned that the missing flight data recorder may have been too badly damaged when Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed in the French Alps. Lufthansa Board Chairman Kay Kratky said it might not be sending signals. So far only the cockpit voice recorder has been found at the crash scene, where […]
Talks have resumed in Switzerland ahead of Tuesday’s deadline for a preliminary nuclear deal with Iran. Foreign ministers from six world powers are meeting their Iranian counterpart, amid hopes of a breakthrough after almost 18 months of negotiations. They want to impose limits that would prevent Iran from producing enough fuel for a nuclear weapon […]
North Korea is prepared for a nuclear war with the US, the nation’s ambassador to the UK has said. Hyun Hak-bong said that the country is ready “anytime” to launch nuclear missiles as joint South Korean and US military exercises continue to take place on the border with the North. He said in an interview […]
The Australian Salvation Army failed to protect young boys in its care from sexual abuse, a report has found. The report, by Australia’s Royal Commission, examined four homes run by the charity in New South Wales and Queensland. It detailed brutal sexual and psychological abuse of young boys put in the care of the state […]
The outside world tends to look at Israeli politics through the prism of the peace process with the Palestinians. But over the course of a long election campaign the issue did not appear to have a high profile. The judgement of most candidates seemed to be that Israeli voters were preoccupied with cost-of-living issues. The […]
Jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group may have committed genocide and war crimes against the minority Yazidi community in Iraq, the UN says. In a new report, it says IS had “the intent… to destroy the Yazidi as a group.” Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled villages in northern Iraq amid IS advances last […]
It is, in the words of one senior EU diplomat, “the elephant in the room”. The dispute between Greece and its international creditors is not on the formal agenda of this week’s EU summit, but it is currently the most pressing issue in town. And it will be discussed at length in the margins. European […]
The Greek parliament has approved a package of social measures, despite warnings from the European Commission against “proceeding unilaterally”. In parliament, the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras defended what he called a “humanitarian crisis” law. The law – the first to be introduced since Mr Tsipras’s party won elections in January – offers food stamps […]
British military personnel have begun training members of the Ukrainian army fighting pro-Russian rebels, the BBC has learned. The 35 trainers are working in the southern city of Mykolaiv and will spend about two months in the country. They will be training forces engaged in battles in eastern Ukraine in medicine and defensive tactics, and […]