Moscow / AFP Russian prosecutors on Thursday demanded a five-year jail sentence for a 21-year-old female student accused of trying to join the IS group in Syria. Varvara Karaulova is on trial in the high-profile case after she was detained last year as she tried to cross into war-torn Syria while still a philosophy undergraduate at the renowned Moscow State ...

Brussels / AFP The EU recommended on Thursday that member states resume sending asylum seekers back to Greece from March next year, after transfers were halted for five years because of poor conditions there. Brussels said it was a key step towards restoring the European Union’s migration policies and the passport-free Schengen zone, which nearly collapsed under the pressure of the ...

Athens / AFP A Greek appeals court on Thursday ruled against the extradition of two Turkish coup suspects demanded by Ankara, after electing to protect another three and send back three others. The Athens court accepted a prosecutor’s arguments that the two military officers — out of a total eight seeking asylum in Greece—would be at risk if sent back ...