Category: Europe
Too many bright children from disadvantaged backgrounds fall by the wayside at secondary school despite achieving top results at primary level, according to analysis commissioned by the Sutton Trust. The trust said it identified the ...
Five people died in the northern Swiss town of Wuerenlingen after residents heard shots fired late Saturday, federal police said. Responding officers from Aargau County Police found their bodies lying outdoors and inside a residence. ...
Fifteen people, including a 16-year-old boy, were arrested following clashes with police during an anti-austerity protest close to Downing Street. Officers in riot gear clashed with a « minority » of protesters who threw objects during the ...
Around 40 migrants died when an inflatable boat carrying more than 100 people sank off the coast of Italy, Save the Children quoted survivors as saying on Tuesday. « They said there were 137 people aboard ...
A secondary school in northeastern France has sent a 15-year-old student home twice in the last two weeks for wearing a long skirt that the principal judged was “an ostentatious sign” of the girl’s Muslim ...
A smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya’s coast as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally ...
The European Union (EU)’s top human rights watchdog warned that torture at the hands of European police and prison officers is feeding the threat of terrorism across the continent, demanding an end to such ill-treatment. ...
A boat capsized off Sicily when the migrants aboard rushed to meet rescuers, killing at least 10 people, the Italian coastguard said Wednesday. « The migrants, as they frequently do, all rushed to one side of ...
According to the study, recently published by Caritas Europa, one in four people in Italy is at the risk of poverty or social exclusion. Caritas Europa, an umbrella group for the national Catholic Caritas charities ...
Two commercial ships and an Italian coastguard vessel rescued about 700 migrants from overcrowded boats near the Libyan coast on Friday, days after more than 300 people died trying to make the crossing to Europe. ...
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