Europe
Turkish media slammed for poor riot coverage
ISTANBUL — Dense clouds of acrid, choking tear gas may have been blanketing the central square of Turkey’s largest city, but it was penguins that dominated the evening on one of...
Britain may replace GCSEs with I-levels
LONDON — Secondary schools could be in for sweeping reforms with the General Certificate of Secondary Education exams (GCSEs) being replaced by “I-levels” and an end to...
Istanbul’s lady in red rallies female protesters
ISTANBUL — In her red cotton summer dress, necklace and white bag slung over her shoulder she might have been floating across the lawn at a garden party; but before her crouches...
Czech floods force evacuation of thousands, Prague threatened
PRAGUE — The worst floods to hit the Czech Republic in a decade forced the evacuation of almost 2,700 people from low-lying areas while the rising water threatened Prague’s...
UK may hold talks to discuss Assange’s fate
LONDON — Britain is considering holding talks with Ecuador over the future of Julian Assange, its Foreign Office said today (June 3), in the first sign of a possible solution to...
Turkey protests turn violent
ISTANBUL — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Turkey’s four biggest cities on Sunday and clashed with riot police firing tear gas on the third day of the...
Central Europe hit by floods
BERLIN — The authorities in parts of central Europe issued disaster warnings and scrambled to reinforce flood defences yesterday as rivers swollen by days of heavy rain...
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LONDON — Unplanned, ungainly, unfriendly to the unadventurous, London the conurbation has grown to the point to where it is hard to tell where the city ends and the suburbs begin.


