A fight erupted between dozens of lawmakers in Ukraine's parliament on Friday after an MP picked up Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and hoisted him away from the podium as he was defending his embattled government's record.
Yatsenyuk had almost ended up his weekly questions session when a lawmaker from President Petro Poroshenko's faction, Oleg Barna, came up to him and handed him a bunch of red roses, an AFP correspondent reported from the scene.
Full StorySpain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Friday the attack in Kabul's diplomatic district was not targeted at the country's embassy, contradicting earlier statements by the foreign ministry and local police.
"There was no intention to attack the Spanish embassy in Afghanistan... it was an attack against some guesthouses very near the embassy," he told reporters in the southeastern city of Alicante, adding one Spanish policeman had nevertheless been slightly injured.
Full StorySome of the arms believed to be used in last month's deadly Paris attacks, were manufactured in Serbia's arms factory, including one exported to U.S. in 2013, a company official said Friday.
"A semi-automatic pistol PV M92 was produced in our factory and legally exported to the (Florida-based) company Century International Arms in May 2013," Milojko Brzakovic, head of Zastava arms factory told AFP.
Full StoryAsylum seekers in Sweden have begun moving into the first tent camp set up for them, despite wintry temperatures as the country struggles to accommodate the large number of migrants arriving, an AFP correspondent at the scene reported Friday.
"The first 12 asylum seekers have moved into the tent camp ... set up in Revinge" in southern Sweden, the Migration Agency said in a statement.
Full StoryThe chief executive of the Trump Towers building complex in Istanbul said it would review its relationship with Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump after his "discriminatory" remarks that Muslims should be banned from entering the United States.
The Istanbul Trump Towers complex, opened in 2012 at a cost of $400 million, has over 200 luxury residential apartments in the almost 40-story landmark twin towers in the Mecidiyekoy district of Istanbul.
Full StoryTurkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday said Ankara's patience with Moscow after the downing of a Russian warplane on the Syrian border was "not unlimited", urging Moscow to react calmly.
"We are calling on Russia, our major trade partner, for calm. But we also say that our patience is not unlimited," Cavusoglu told the private NTV television in an interview.
Full StoryPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday admitted Greek border controls had been overwhelmed by the mass arrival of refugees earlier this year, but insisted all migrants were now being properly documented.
His defense came after the European Commission this week launched legal procedures against Croatia, Greece and Italy for failing to register all migrants in the EU-wide fingerprint database, Eurodac, when they first arrive on the continent.
Full StoryA Finnish court was on Friday expected to remand in custody Iraqi twin brothers suspected of killing 11 people in a massacre by the Islamic State group in Iraq in 2014.
"I will ask the court to remand them in custody today," Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) chief inspector Jari Raty told Agence France Presse.
Full StoryAt least seven civilians were killed Friday in a suicide attack in Kolofata, northern Cameroon, a region where Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists are highly active, local officials said.
"We've registered eight deaths at the site, including the suicide bomber," a regional security source said without saying if the attack on a food stall was carried out by a man or a woman.
Full StoryRussian investigators on Friday charged ex-oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky with organizing the 1998 murder of a mayor in Siberia, ratcheting up their campaign against the exiled former Yukos boss.
"As a result of investigative work, we managed to obtain new information and in light of this, it was decided on December 11, 2015, to prosecute Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a defendant for... the organization of murder," Russia's powerful Investigative Committee said in a statement.
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