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Twenty people have died in a shooting spree at the Kerch technical college in Crimea. An 18-year-old ran through the college shooting at people and set off at least one explosive. Commentators in Russian and Ukraine discuss how Russian media are covering the incident.

Whereas Trump has sided with Saudi Arabia in the Khashoggi case, Turkish media have published details on the journalist's disappearance according to which Khashoggi was tortured and then dismembered by a team of 15 special commando agents. Will Riyadh go unpunished?

The EU heads of state and government failed to reach an agreement in the Brexit row with the UK at the summit in Brussels. They have now proposed a prolongation of the post-Brexit transition phase starting March 2019, which Prime Minister May rejected. Observers argue that she should accept the offer.

Romania's government has issued an emergency ordinance that amends the already approved judicial reforms. The required number of years of professional experience for prosecutors in the in the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA), the general prosecutors' office and the anti-organised crime agency has been raised retroactively. This means that around 50 prosecutors will have to suspend their activities. A bitter blow for the country's fight against corruption, commentators criticise.

Greece's foreign minister Nikos Kotzias has resigned after a row in cabinet over how to solve the name dispute with Macedonia. Apparently he felt that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wasn't giving him enough backing against Panos Kammenos, the minister of national defence from Syriza's right-wing populist coalition partner who rejects the compromise reached on the name. Was he right to resign?