Europe

Greece will stop processing asylum applications of people coming from North Africa, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, amid a surge in migrant arrivals. The announcement came a day ...

A man was gored and seven others lightly injured on Tuesday, the second day of Pamplona’s San Fermin festival in which thousands of people line the mediaeval city’s ...

A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts will next week begin excavating and trying to identify the remains of around 800 infants who died at an Irish church-run home ...

Early one morning this week, a dinghy motored along a vast beach in northern France, stopping every few hundred metres to pick up migrants bound for Britain. Four French police ...

Firefighters battled for a third day on Friday to put out a wildfire on the Greek island of Crete that has razed forests and olive groves and forced thousands of ...

A wildfire killed a bedridden man who was home alone in Turkey’s western Izmir province after it spread to a residential area, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Thursday, ...

French air traffic controllers began a two-day strike on Thursday to protest over staff shortages and ageing equipment, leading to hundreds of flight cancellations just as the summer season gets ...

Liverpool’s Portuguese forward Diogo Jota and his brother died in a car crash in northwestern Spain early on Thursday, when their Lamborghini veered off the road and burst into ...

Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze Thursday on Crete island, which burnt swathes of forest and olive groves and forced the evacuation of over 1,000 people, officials said, underscoring the region’...

Four people died in Spain, two in France and two in Italy as an early summer heatwave continued to grip much of Europe on Wednesday, triggering health alerts and forest ...

A significant number of Greeks are keeping financial secrets from their partners, according to a new survey conducted by fintech app Plum. The survey explored how Greek couples manage their ...

The European Union wants immediate relief from tariffs in key sectors as part of any trade deal with the United States due by a July 9 deadline, but the bloc expects ...

Italy banned outdoor work in some regions during the warmest hours, France shut schools and part of the Eiffel Tower and Spain confirmed its hottest June on record as a ...

Passengers were left stranded in train carriages and stations overnight into Tuesday morning after a power cable failure cut high-speed lines between Madrid and Andalusia. Around 20 trains were blocked on ...

Britain, France and Germany condemned on Monday what they described as threats against the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, after a hardline Iranian newspaper said IAEA boss Rafael ...

Mass tourism, impossibly high rents, worker exploitation, inequality and elitism: Venice protests in recent days against Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s high-profile wedding have highlighted growing global grievances. Local ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow planned to cut its defence spending, but that he thought a decision by NATO members to increase their own defence ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday there would be “legal consequences” for organising or attending a Budapest Pride march in violation of a police ban on the event ...

European Union leaders discussed new proposals from the United States on a trade deal at a summit in Brussels , with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen not ruling out tariff ...

Spain’s Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld core elements of a disputed amnesty law enacted by the Socialist government after Catalonia’s failed 2017 secession bid, under which more than 300 people ...

Spain’s High Court on Wednesday upheld a verdict that found former football federation president Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for an unsolicited kiss on the lips of national ...

NATO leaders on Wednesday backed the big increase in defence spending that U.S. President Donald Trump had demanded, and restated their commitment to defend each other from attack. While ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez will arrive in Venice on Wednesday, a source and local media said, for three days of lavish VIP parties to celebrate their ...

Armenian authorities on Wednesday arrested a prominent Christian cleric, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, along with 13 other people and charged them with orchestrating a plot to overthrow the government. In a statement, ...