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Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg locked horns with the leader of the country’s most anti-EU party in the first of two face-to-face debates ahead of forthcoming European Parliament elections. Clegg, leader of the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, argued…

Nottingham Forest have sacked manager Billy Davies, the English second-tier club announced Monday. The Scot’s second spell in charge of the Midlands side came following a poor run of results and a reported breakdown in his relationship with the club…

Oil prices diverged Monday as dealers digested news that Chinese manufacturing activity shrank in March to an eight-month low, stoking demand concerns in the world’s biggest energy consuming nation. In late afternoon deals, Brent North Sea crude for…

An Italian minister vowed Monday to use his country’s upcoming presidency of the European Union to pursue a campaign by southern EU producers against Britain’s “traffic light” food labels. Speaking as he went into EU farm ministers’ talks, Agriculture…

A 15-year-old boy was on Monday charged with the murder of Shereka Fab-Ann Marsh, also 15, who was shot in the neck at a house in east London, Scotland Yard announced. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will appear at Stratford Magistrates…

French voters went to the polls on Sunday in the first round of local elections set to represent a landmark for women in politics and, possibly, for the far-right National Front. The first nationwide vote since Francois Hollande’s 2012 election as president…

Adolfo Suarez, the prime minister who led post-Franco Spain to democracy, died on Sunday at a Madrid hospital, his family’s spokesman said. He was 81. “Adolfo Suarez has died,” the spokesman Fermin Urbiola told reporters at the Cemtro hospital where…

Kiev braced for a unity rally on Sunday after elite Russian forces stormed one of Ukraine’s last Crimean bases in a march that has defied both sanctions and global isolation. Saturday’s takeover involving machinegun fire into the air and stun grenades…

Ukrainian flags flutter over a gathering atop famed stairs that drop down to the Black Sea in the mainly Russian-speaking western port of Odessa, where separatist tensions have bolstered patriotism. Since Russian forces took control last month of Crimea…

Violence broke out at a mass demonstration in Madrid late Saturday when dozens of youths began throwing projectiles at police, who responded by charging at them. Tens of thousands of people marched on the Spanish capital in a mostly peaceful protest…