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A British academic who was taken into custody on March 15 on suspicion of conducting propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) because of a Nevruz leaflet in his possession, has been released but still faces the prospect of deportation.

The pages of the only surviving manuscript to contain Shakespeare’s handwriting are to be digitised by the British Library giving the chance to the public to see an impassioned speech in defence of refugees in London.

Deutsche Boerse and the London Stock Exchange on March 16 agreed to press ahead with their planned merger to create one of the world's biggest exchanges, insisting the tie-up will succeed irrespective of the outcome of the looming "Brexit" vote on Britain's future in Europe.

Istanbul Modern's "Museums Talk" series is set to host Germany as the guest of this year's program following previous guests such as the United States and the United Kingdom.

According to Eurostat data, there were just over 5 million new births registered in the EU in 2014, with France recording the highest fertility rate. The data indicated the average age a woman has her first child is 29 years old. Greece had 92,000 new births in 2014, with Greek women bearing their first child at 30 years old.

Tourism representatives from the southern province of Antalya, Turkey's tourism center, have said they did not find what had expected at the ITB Berlin fair, adding they saw 2016 as a difficult year for the sector once again. 

Tourism representatives from the southern province of Antalya, Turkey's tourism center, have said they did not find what had expected at the ITB Berlin fair, adding they saw 2016 as a difficult year for the sector once again. 

Reactors at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria are considered to be among the most dangerous in Europe, a report at German daily Der Tagesspiegel [DE] reads.

It also cites a number of safety concerns raised in 2013 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global energy watchdog (even though some of the recommendations have been addressed since then). 

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk is scheduled to land in Cyprus on an official visit, Tuesday in an effort to persuade the Cypriot government to ease up on its harsh stance towards the prospect of the EU opening up EU accession chapters for Turkey.

"I am leaving Bulgaria in two weeks as I just got a new job in the UK. But what will happen to me if Britain decide to leave the EU?," a young Bulgarian asked the British ambassador to Bulgaria, Emma Hopkins, at a debate on the future of the UK in the EU in Sofia on Monday.