guardian.co.uk reported that around 12,000 UK pensioners in Cyprus have had their pension payments into a local bank temporarily paused while the British government assesses the situation (as I reported at 3.42pm)
The UK Department of Work and Pensions has said tonight that British pensioners in Cyprus should not panic over the move: Associated Press’s Menelaos Hadjicostis reports:
Cyprus banks will remain closed until Thursday as lawmakers try to amend a measure to raid bank accounts in the country. Read Article
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Dailymail.co.uk reported that a British woman was brutally gang-raped just meters from the holiday apartment she was sharing with her boyfriend in Spain’s Costa del Sol, it has been claimed. The 31-year-old was attacked by three men in the early hours of Sunday morning as she walked, alone, back from a night out in the […]
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thelocal.es reported that a German couple face up to three years in jail and a massive bill after camping out in a Catalonian hotel for 14 months without paying. Hans W., 63, and his 31-year-old girlfriend Monika U. took up residence in the four-star hotel in the popular tourist town of Pals, supposedly with the […]
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A bomb threat halted rail traffic for six hours through the Simplon tunnel on Wednesday, police and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) said. Media in the southern Swiss canton of Valais received an anonymous threat at 11:15am stating that there were explosives on a train carrying out maintenance in the tunnel linking Switzerland and Italy, local […]
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Hundreds of German police officers raided suspected Islamist extremists in several states on Wednesday, aiming to confiscate possessions and funds belonging to three now banned groups. The country’s Interior Ministry confirmed that in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse alone, officers targeted 20 houses thought to belong to people connected to Salafist groups – a radical branch […]
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thelocal.fr reported………Concern over rampant gang violence in Marseille resurfaced on Wednesday after a daytime shooting witnessed by children left two 21-year-olds dead and another fighting for his life. Numerous shots were fired in an alley next to a supermarket and close to the entrance of a residential tower block in the rundown Bleuets estate at […]
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USAtoday.com reported that the Dutch government raised its terror threat level Wednesday from “limited” to “substantial,”… The warning comes just two months before hundreds of thousands of people are expected to descend on Amsterdam for mass celebrations around the abdication of Queen Beatrix and investiture of her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, as the country’s new […]
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Plane Services return to normal A total of 19 departments remained on orange alert for snow and ice on Wednesday morning, with temperatures falling to as low as -13°C in the north. Cross-Channel Eurostar services have resumed however. We will provide regular updates throughout the day. Read Article
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Three suspected Islamist militants arrested in southern France appeared to be planning an attack in the days ahead, the Paris prosecutor said on Monday, the anniversary of an al Qaeda-inspired shooting that rocked France. Police found weapons and explosives at the home of one of the suspects in the town of Marignane, near Marseille, and […]
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France24.com reported that unseasonably severe weather struck much of France on Tuesday, leaving tens of thousands of homes temporarily without electricity and paralysing travel across Europe. Just when many in France allowed themselves hope that spring may be around the corner, a fresh flurry of heavy snowfall struck much of the country, leaving tens of […]
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