The European Parliament voted to halt EU accession negotiations with Turkey due to the government's "disproportionate repressive measures" after a failed coup in July.
The UK Supreme Court ruled that Scotland and Wales may join a case challenging Prime Minister Theresa May’s power to leave the EU without a parliamentary vote.
Montenegro's chief prosecutor accused "nationalists in Russia" of having organized a criminal group to overthrow the government during last month's elections in the Balkan country.
With two months still to go, deaths of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean so far this year have hit a record high, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
An administrative court in Lille, France, rejected requests from almost a dozen aid groups and permitted the closure process of the "Jungle" migrant camp near Calais to continue.
Low voter turnout invalidated the referendum in which Hungarians voted to oppose any EU mandatory placement of refugees—but President Viktor Orbán remains intransigent.
Swiss voters approved a sweeping new surveillance law allowing their national intelligence services broad powers to spy on "terrorist" suspects and cyber criminals.
Residents of the Bosnian Serb Republic—decried as a "genocide creation" by Bosnia's Muslims—voted to establish an independence day, in defiance of a Bosnian court ruling.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Macedonia to end its pattern of expelling and detaining migrants in defiance of international standards.
Ukraine’s armed forces are on high alert and “full combat readiness” while Russia announced it has deployed long-range missile systems in annexed Crimea.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein expressed concern over Bulgaria's criminalization of migrants both leaving and entering the country.
Large numbers of Russian tanks are massing in Crimea along the border with government-controlled Ukraine, in the aftermath of a bomb blast that killed a separatist leader.
