Europe

A cyberattack on a provider of check-in and boarding systems has disrupted operations at several major European airports including London’s Heathrow, the continent’s busiest, causing flight delays and ...

Britain has returned the first migrant to France under a ‘one in, one out’ agreement to remove people who arrive on small boats, the interior ministry said on Thursday. British ...

Greece has suspended the extradition to Moldova of business magnate and former politicianGreece has suspended the extradition to Moldova of business magnate and former politician Vladimir Plahotniuc who is sought ...

Teachers, train drivers, pharmacists and hospital staff went on strike and teenagers blocked their high schools in France on Thursday, part of a day of protests against looming budget cuts. ...

The main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann was released from a German prison on Wednesday after serving a seven-year sentence for an unrelated sex crime. German ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin of murder and trying to destabilise the West by testing its limits and sabotage, speaking at a parliamentary debate ...

Farmers in Greece face the risk of a nationwide ban on the movement of goat and sheep if veterinarians and stockbreeders don’t step up health checks and hygiene measures ...

Spanish state broadcaster RTVE’s board voted on Tuesday to withdraw from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in May in Vienna if Israel takes part in the event. ...

Football players are lining up for a fiery kick – not on the pitch, but in the form of a searing shot of olive oil from Cyprus. The peppery, throat-burning liquid ...

Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is allowed to participate, Irish broadcaster RTE said on Thursday, arguing that doing so would be “...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday that this week’s drone incursions into his country’s airspace were not a mistake by Russia, despite U.S. President Donald ...

Poland said on Thursday the U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss drone incursions into its airspace which its president portrayed as an attempt by Russia ...

The United States wants to expand its energy ties with Greece, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during a visit to Athens on Thursday, as the Trump administration works ...

Poland has banned drone flights and introduced restrictions affecting mostly small, non-commercial air traffic along its eastern borders with Belarus and Ukraine following this week’s drone incursions into its ...

Spain’s lower house has shelved a bill that would have shortened the work week by 2-1/2 hours, dealing yet another blow to the fragile Socialist-led minority government which is ...

US oil major Chevron (CVX.N) has submitted a bid to explore for natural gas in four blocks offshore Greece in a consortium with Greece’s Hellenic Energy (HEPr.AT), ...

Tony Blair has said that the best way to understand a country’s development and prosperity is to calculate how many people want to leave it, but also how many ...

After pro-Palestinian protesters forced a premature end to yet another stage of the Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday, race director Javier Guillen said the intention is to finish the race ...

Protesters across France obstructed highways, burned barricades and clashed sporadically with police on Wednesday in a show of anger against President Emmanuel Macron, the political elite and planned spending cuts. ...

Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace on Wednesday with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies, the first time a member of the Western military alliance ...

French President Emmanuel Macron named loyalist Sebastien Lecornu, a one-time conservative protege who rallied behind his 2017 presidential run, as prime minister on Tuesday, defying expectations he might tack towards the ...

International Criminal Court judges on Tuesday began hearings to finalise charges against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. Legal experts say the proceedings could act as a blueprint for other high-profile ...

Pig heads appeared outside several mosques around Paris on Tuesday, authorities said, decrying the insult to Muslims. France has Europe’s largest population of Muslims, over 6 million, for whom pigs ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking his fifth prime minister in less than two years after opposition parties united to kick out centre-right Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his unpopular ...