Europe

Former Austria goalkeeper Alex Manninger, who played for Arsenal and a string of Italian clubs, died in a road accident on Thursday aged 48, the Austrian Football Association (OEFB) said. The ...

The EU’s age verification app for online platforms is ready and will soon be available to use, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday, as member ...

Hungary’s election winner Peter Magyar said on Wednesday his cabinet could be sworn in by mid-May and take quick steps to release billions of suspended European Union funding, while ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent a message congratulating Hungary’s newly elected prime minister, Peter Magyar, for having evicted long-serving populist leader Viktor Orban (aka ‘The Viktator’) from power. ...

U.S. President Donald Trump told an Italian newspaper on Tuesday he was “shocked” by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and had expected her to be more courageous, delivering a blunt ...

Pope Leo paid homage to his spiritual roots on Tuesday, travelling to the ancient birthplace in Algeria of St. Augustine of Hippo, who inspired him to become a priest. The ...

Europe’s far right has lost one of its biggest champions with the defeat of Hungary’s nationalist leader Viktor Orban in Sunday’s election. Orban’s government provided a ...

Germany and Ukraine agreed defence cooperation plans on Tuesday including a deal on drone production that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said could become one of the largest of its kind ...

Europe and China must forge closer ties to counter threats to multilateralism, Spanish Premier Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping, who said the international order ...

Hungarian election winner Peter Magyar vowed on Monday to change the constitution in a drive to restore democratic standards, following a landslide victory he said showed that Hungary wanted to ...

A Paris court on Monday found cement maker Holcim’s Lafarge unit guilty of charges that its Syrian subsidiary financed terrorism and breached European sanctions to keep a plant operating ...

Hungary’s veteran nationalist leader Viktor Orban lost power to the upstart centre-right Tisza party in Sunday’s national election after 16 years in office, marking a setback for his allies ...

Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Sunday of breaching the 32-hour ceasefire in their four-year war, reporting more than a thousand drone and shelling attacks just hours after the ...

As soon as Johannes Hahn left his post as the European Commission’s envoy for the Cyprus problem, Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis was at pains to stress that processes ...

British Cypriot singer Isin Karaca said she was denied entry to Greece and deported from Athens airport after having attempted to go on holiday to the country. She posted a ...

Hungarians vote on Sunday in an election that could end Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year hold on power, rattle Russia and send shockwaves through right-wing circles across the West, ...

Viktor Orban, uniquely endorsed by both U.S. President Donald Trump and the Kremlin, could lose his 16-year iron grip on power on Sunday, opinion polls indicate, in an election ...

Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, citing rising anxiety, sleep problems and the addictive ...

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight” as Iran showed no sign of accepting his ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance lashed out on Tuesday at what he called “disgraceful” interference from the European Union in an election in Hungary, as he lauded Prime Minister ...

The eurozone’s private sector expansion weakened sharply in March as the Middle East war drove up energy costs and disrupted supply chains, with overall demand – ​a key gauge for ...

A French high-speed train crashed on Tuesday morning into a truck carrying military equipment at a level crossing near Calais, killing the train driver, a spokesperson for the local prefecture ...

By Joshua McElwee Pope Leo urged global leaders in his Easter message on Sunday to end the conflicts raging across the world and abandon any schemes for power, conquest or ...

Explosives of “devastating power” were found near the Turkstream pipeline in Serbia that carries Russian natural gas to Hungary and beyond, leaders from the two countries said on Sunday. Hungarian ...