Europe

Britain legalises gay marriage on July 17, 2013. Her majesty the Queen Elizabeth II gave it Royal Assent.

Britain has issued more than 3,000 licenses allowing the export of weapons to countries where the UK has human rights concerns, according to a parliamentary report.

French President Francois Hollande will not allow shale gas exploration during his presidency. France currently has a ban on shale gas exploration using hydraulic fracturing, the only current commercially viable technique.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has ditched plans to arm the Syrian militant groups after being warned by military chiefs that any small arms and missiles sent to Syria could fall into the hands of extremists. Defence chiefs told the prime minister that sending small arms or ground to air missiles is ‘hardly worth it’ since it would make little difference to the outcome of the conflict because Assad is winning and has the upper hand on the ground regardless of what Zionist mainstream media says on their propaganda.

NSA-leaker Edward Snowden will leave Russia as soon as he gets such opportunity, but for now the situation is unclear. America scared other countries that is why no one wants to accept him says Russian President Vladimir Putin.

After dragging Amazon, Google and Starbucks over the tax coals, MPs will question the Prince of Wales’ most senior aide over controversial tax arrangements in connection with the royal heir’s 19-million-pound (US$28.6 million) annual income.

In her first reference to whistleblower Edward Snowden’s case, UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay has called on all countries to protect the rights of those who uncover abuses and stressed the need to respect the right for people to seek asylum.

Two human rights groups have filed a lawsuit in Paris targeting the U.S. National Security Agency, the FBI and seven technology companies (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Paltalk, Facebook, AOL and Apple) who violated French privacy laws by secretly collecting massive amounts of personal data.

The people applying to stay in the United Kingdom, could fill Wembley Stadium to capacity six times over and will take 37 years to clear. The figure includes immigrants applying to stay in the country, asylum seekers and 4,102 foreign offenders waiting to be deported.

German defense technology group Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann is about to lose a contract worth $6.5 billion from Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are losing patience over Berlin's foot-dragging on a deal.

The economic and financial affairs council of the European Union (Ecofin) passed on July 9 a decision allowing Latvia to adopt the euro as its currency as of January 1 2014.

Russian experts have found that militants in Syria made sarin nerve gas and used it in a deadly attack outside northern city of Aleppo in March. Russia had informed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the Russian findings. The evidence slams US-Israel fabricated 'evidence' President Obama claimed this year.