Copenhagen / AFP Copenhagen police said on Thursday they had detained four people on suspicion of joining the IS group in Syria and seized weapons and ammunition in a search linked to the arrests. All four were suspected of breaking Denmark’s terrorism law while in Syria, and were arrested in the Copenhagen area, police said in a statement without giving ...

Dublin / AFP Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny held talks on Thursday with opposition leader Micheal Martin to end the impasse over a new government following inconclusive elections in February. After an initial meeting on Wednesday, Kenny’s Fine Gael party said in a statement it had offered a “full and equal partnership” in a future administration to Martin’s Fianna Fail—its ...

Skopje / AFP Macedonia’s main opposition party said it will boycott a “sham” election in June, as parliament dissolved ahead of the vote which is supposed to end a political crisis. The June 5 election is part of a European Union-backed deal reached last year between the government and the opposition to end months of turmoil. But Zoran Zaev, leader ...