Europe

China and Hungary will embark on a “golden voyage” in bilateral relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping said after meeting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on the third and final stop ...

Former Spanish soccer federation chief Luis Rubiales will stand trial for his unsolicited kiss of national team player Jenni Hermoso after a High Court judge admitted the case, the court ...

Scottish National Party (SNP) veteran John Swinney was elected as its new leader on Monday and is set to replace Humza Yousaf as Scotland‘s first minister after he emerged ...

Five human skeletons – all missing their hands and feet – have been discovered at Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s eastern front military headquarters in present-day Poland, buried inside the villa of ...

France and Japan agreed on Thursday to start formal talks on a reciprocal troop access deal, strengthening military cooperation in amid rising maritime tensions in the Indo-Pacific region and the ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favour of Italy’s long-standing demand that the Getty Villa Museum in the United States return an ancient Greek ...

The global economy is growing faster than expected only a few months ago thanks to resilient US activity while inflation is converging more quickly than expected with central banks’ targets, ...

When firefighters arrived at a blaze in a pine forest on the Greek island of Rhodes last July, flames were already leaping above the trees into the night sky. The ...

Former leader of the banned far-right ‘Golden Dawn’ Party Nikos Michaloliakos will be released from prison in Greece, it emerged on Thursday, as he was found to meet the conduct ...

The German economy skirted a recession at the start of the year, growing more than expected thanks to the construction sector and exports, preliminary data showed on Tuesday. The economy ...

England rugby international Billy Vunipola was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment and fined 240 euros for assault and battery after being arrested by police in Mallorca, Spain, following an incident at ...

A man was convicted of involuntary arson on Monday for his role in Greece‘s deadliest wildfire in memory, and five former fire officials found guilty of misdemeanours linked to ...

UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres’ personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Holguin will meet President of the European Council Charles Michel and the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa Ferreira, ...

By Ioannis Tirkides These are unprecedented times. We are simultaneously on the cusp of a technological revolution and the promise of unparalleled economic prospects, and on the brink of total ...

The threat of deportation to Rwanda is causing migrants to head for Ireland instead of staying in Britain, Ireland’s deputy prime minister told a British newspaper on Friday. British ...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece can not offer air defence systems like ‘Patriots’ or S-300 to Ukraine responding to pressure from EU and NATO allies to send more military ...

President Emmanuel Macron appealed on Thursday for stronger, more integrated European defences and said the continent must not become a vassal of the United States, as he outlined his vision ...

The sails of the landmark red windmill atop the Moulin Rouge, the most celebrated cabaret club in Paris, fell to the ground overnight in the early hours of Thursday, much ...

Venice became the first city in the world on Thursday to introduce a payment system for tourists in an effort to thin the crowds that throng the canals during the ...

Delays and flight cancellations were set to impact swathes of Europe on Thursday, after authorities failed to reach a deal with some French air traffic control workers to avert a ...

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would step back from public duties “for a few days” to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a ...

A Belgian man was acquitted of drunk driving on Monday because he suffers from auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a rare condition whereby the body produces alcohol, his lawyer said. Anse Ghesquiere ...

Greece‘s Supreme Court banned on Wednesday the far-right Spartans party from running in this year’s elections for the European Parliament, the Athens News Agency reported. A legal source ...

Attacks against migrants, refugees and LGBT people in Greece surged to their highest level in nearly a decade last year, a report by the Athens-based Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) ...