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Google has abused its market dominance by imposing a number of restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites which prevented Google's rivals from placing their search adverts on these websites. (Shutterstock)

March 21st, 2019 - 10:59 GMT

EU Fines Google for Third Time in 2 Years

The European Union's antitrust regulators on Wednesday (March 20) fined Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for abusing its dominance in the online search market by blocking rivals.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (L) and Turkish EU Affairs Minister Volkan Bozkir (R) hold a press conference. (AFP/File)

May 17th, 2016 - 09:50 GMT

Turkish FM reiterates Turkey will not revise controversial ‘anti-terror’ laws

A nun talks to a woman at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees near the village of Idomeni not far from the Greek-Macedonian border on May 4, 2016. (AFP/Tobias Schwarz)

May 5th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

New EU proposals would force states to take in refugees or pay fines

German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with refugee children at a preschool, during a visit to a refugee camp on April 23, 2016 (AFP/File)

April 24th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Refugee deal: German Chancellor Merkel visits refugee camp in Turkey

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AFP/File)

April 23rd, 2016 - 09:21 GMT

German Chancellor Merkel visits Turkey, supports EU deal

The build-up of refugees at Greece-Macedonia border has been described as a humanitarian disaster. (AFP/File)

April 19th, 2016 - 11:21 GMT

EU approves $93 million in aid for Greece’s refugee response

A Syrian man flashes a victory sign during a demonstration by in Greece stranded refugees and supporting groups in Athens on March 30, 2016. (AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)

March 31st, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Five hundred migrants to be returned to Turkey on Monday

A refugee from Syria prays after arriving on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos aboard an inflatable dinghy from Turkey. (AFP/File)

March 30th, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

Refugee numbers dramatically fall following EU-Turkey deal

People gather to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the Brussels airport and metro bombings, on the Place de la Bourse in central Brussels, on March 23, 2016, a day after the triple blasts killed some 30 people and left around 250 injured. (AFP/Aurore Belot)

March 24th, 2016 - 02:30 GMT

Belgian police launch broad investigation into militant networks in Brussels

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu arrives on the second day of the European Union summit to discuss the ongoing refugee crisis, in Brussels on March 18, 2016. (AFP/Stephane de Sakutin)

March 18th, 2016 - 09:44 GMT

Davutoglu ‘confident’ about passing contentious EU deal ahead of talks

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu addresses a press conference at the end of an EU leaders summit with Turkey centered on the the migrants crisis, at the European Council, in Brussels on March 8, 2016. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)

March 17th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Terms of Turkey, EU refugee plan remain murky

Syrian refugees walk back after a failed attempt to leave Turkey for Lesbos, Greece. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

March 8th, 2016 - 10:15 GMT

EU, Turkey draft tentative migration plan

Palestinian bedouin children from the Abu Nawar community attend a class in the West Bank town of al-Azariya near the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim (background), east of Jerusalem, on February 23, 2016. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

March 2nd, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Palestinians to receive $274 million in aid from EU