The European Union’s foreign policy chief Monday described U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision not to re-certify Iran's compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal as an "internal U.S. process". European countries, along with Russia and China - the other signatories - say Tehran is keeping its end of the bargain. Henry Ridgwell looks at how other parties to the deal will likely respond should the U.S. withdraw from the agreement.
EU, Russia and China say Iran is complying with deal; US Disagrees
Top-placed parties both campaigned on anti-migrant platform
Europe looks set to have its youngest leader with Austria's 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz scoring a clear victory in Sunday's election. With most results in, the conservative foreign minister appears to have won over 31% of the vote – still well short of a majority, meaning complex coalition talks lie ahead. As Henry Ridgwell explains, Kurz’s victory was built largely on an anti-immigrant platform.
US and Turkey suspended visa services this week
Human rights group Amnesty International has held events to mark 100 days since several of its Turkish staff were detained in Istanbul. Prosecutors filed terror charges against the activists this week, the latest trials in a widespread crackdown that has soured relations between Ankara and its Western allies, culminating this week in the mutual suspension of visa services between the United States and Turkey. Henry Ridgwell reports from London.
Four Syrian children have offered a glimpse into the hardship and heartbreak of life as a refugee, by filming their everyday lives over six months. The charity ‘Theirworld’, which commissioned the films, hopes to remind world leaders of their promise of an education for all Syrian children, as Henry Ridgwell reports.
Charity Theirworld commissioned films to remind world leaders of promise of an education for all Syrian children
A new study shows there has been a huge increase in the number of obese and overweight children around the world in just a couple of generations. In one of the biggest epidemiological studies ever undertaken, scientists found dramatic transformations in many parts of the world. Henry Ridgwell has more from London.
Study says world will have more obese than underweight children by 2022
The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN. The group consists of close to 500 organizations in over 100 countries working toward global nuclear disarmament. As Henry Ridgwell reports, the award is widely seen as a political statement at a time of high geopolitical uncertainty.
$1.1 million prize awarded amid uncertainty over Iran, North Korea
European countries are forcibly returning tens of thousands of Afghan asylum seekers, knowing they are at serious risk of torture, kidnapping, death and other human rights abuses, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group says the deportations are a brazen violation of international law. Henry Ridgwell reports from London.
Return numbers tripled from 2015-2016
Activists say fears over the economy in a post-Brexit world are stalling efforts to clamp down on global corruption, an industry with the British capital at its core
Anti-corruption activists hoping to shine a light on the hundreds of millions of dollars funneled through London every year are organizing tours of properties allegedly bought with suspect money. The latest tour focuses on corrupt money coming from Nigeria. Henry Ridgwell reports from London.
Further violence feared as Madrid could order Catalan police under its control
The influx of more than a million asylum-seekers into Germany in 2015 is widely seen as driving the upsurge of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany or AfD party, which gained 13 percent of the vote in Sunday's election. The government hopes to stem that rise by integrating the refugees as quickly as possible. Henry Ridgwell visited Berlin and spoke to some of the newcomers about their experience settling in Germany and their feelings over the success of the AfD.
Anti-immigrant ‘Alternative for Germany’ party gained 13 percent of vote
Powerful sense of smell remains unexploited, say scientists
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