Huge clear up after Storm Gorm hits Sweden

Some schools remain closed and tens of thousands of people are still without electricity after a storm ripped through southern and western Sweden on Sunday night.

A massive clear up operation is underway in parts of the country hit by Storm Gorm, one of the most powerful weather systems to hit Sweden in years.                                                                                                         

                                                                            Helsingborg home destroyed by the storm 

EU to help Sweden relocate refugees

Some of the refugees that have come to Sweden may soon be relocated to other member states within the European Union, according to the European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, who visited Sweden Monday.

                                                     

Psychologist: “Our culture produces traumatized men”

Job loss and divorce are traumatic life events for anyone, but many men don’t have the tools to deal with their feelings and are left alone with their problems.

Psychologist and psychotherapist Lauri Mannermaa speaks about the phenomenon of “male shame” - that overwhelming feeling some men are plagued by that says they have failed to be the man that society and other men expect.

More people infected with HIV in Turkey this year

The number of patients infected with the HIV virus has increased in Turkey over the past year, according to Hayati Demiraslan, an academic at the Medical Faculty of Erciyes University in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri.

                                              

Turkey releases audio of alleged warning,Russian pilot denies authenticity

The Turkish military says it has briefed Moscow on the reason behind downing Russian bomber aircraft over Syria; Russia remains unconvinced.

ECB Puts New EUR 20 Note into Circulation

A new EUR 20 bank note entered into circulation since Wednesday according to the European Central Bank.

                          

Bulgarian Police Bust Crime Group Making Fake Passports for Migrants 

Bulgarian police have arrested five people on charges of making fake identity documents, including passports for illegal migrants crossing the country, BGNES reported on Saturday.

The five suspects, aged between 22 and 57 years, were detained in Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo earlier this week.

                                   

Russia suspends visa-free travel with Turkey

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Moscow will suspend the visa-free regime with Turkey starting January 1, 2016.

                             

 Asylum seekers a security threat to Finland:Minister

Justice Minister Jari Lindström says that asylum seekers pose a security threat to Finland. The minister was responding Friday to news that police are investigating about ten reported rape cases in which asylum seekers are suspects.       
                                                               

Two journalists arrested for story on intelligence trucks bound for Syria

Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and the daily’s Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gül, were arrested due to stories published about Turkish intelligence trucks bound for Syria in early 2014, on Nov. 26 in Istanbul.

                                     

                   Daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar is seen being transferred to Istanbul's Silivri prison