Europe

Greece’s parliament approved a bill allowing same-sex civil marriage on Thursday night, a landmark victory for supporters of LGBT rights that was greeted with cheers by onlookers in parliament ...

Google is preparing to launch an anti-misinformation campaign across five countries in the European Union (EU), the company told Reuters ahead of the bloc’s parliamentary elections and tougher new ...

The European Union sees no need to extend an agreement to transport Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine, ahead of the contract’s planned expiry at the end of the ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged parliament on Thursday to “say yes to equality” and approve a bill allowing same sex marriage, which if passed would be a landmark victory ...

Greece-headquartered Star Bulk will halt sailings through the Red Sea after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked two of its ships in recent days, the group’s CEO said. The Houthis ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday dismissed European warnings about “Russian propaganda”, saying that anything which countered the mainstream narrative was now labelled as propaganda by the West. Peskov was ...

Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, will be in Budapest today Tuesday to discuss cooperation with the upcoming Presidency of the Council of the EU on key health ...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell made a thinly veiled call on Monday for the United States to rethink its military aid to Israel due to the high number ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview published on Sunday that his country was not Russia’ ally in its war against Ukraine, but stressed its military cooperation projects ...

Four people were killed when a disgruntled employee opened fire at a Greek shipping company in Athens on Monday, a police spokesperson said. The owner of the company was among ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Monday that politics “has a duty to try the impossible” as he evaluated the Cyprus problem. Steinmeier is in Cyprus on an official visit ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Europeans have struggled to form a coherent response to the Israel-Hamas conflict that erupted after Hamas’ brutal attacks on October 7th. As the death toll has risen, ...

Swiss police said a 32-year-old Iranian asylum seeker armed with an axe and a knife held 15 hostages on a train between Baulmes and Yverdon-les-Bains for almost four hours, until police ...

Germany’s Economy Ministry informed Rosneft earlier this week that it was considering expropriating shares in the company’s German assets, the Russian oil giant’s law firm in Germany ...

Guinness World Records on Thursday told Frenchman Richard Plaud that his 7.2-metre (23.6 ft) matchstick Eiffel Tower was a record height, a day after initially rejecting it for using the wrong ...

A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted on Thursday for the third time since December, spraying streams of lava up to 80 metres (260 feet) into the air and triggering an emergency warning ...

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev was on course for a landslide re-election win, initial results showed on Wednesday, in a vote he called early after recapturing the breakaway region of ...

Greece will allow its top league football matches to be played with fans from Feb. 13, two months after top clubs were ordered to play behind closed doors following the severe ...

The European Parliament stripped its former vice-president Eva Kaili of her immunity, clearing the way for an investigation of Kaili’s alleged involvement in a 150,000 euro ($161,355) EU budget fraud case ...

A Spanish court on Monday rejected ex-Brazil footballer Dani Alves’ argument that he had suffered trial by media and should be given more time to prepare for his criminal prosecution ...

An explosive device went off outside Greece’s labour ministry in central Athens early on Saturday but caused no injuries, Greek police said. A Greek newspaper received a phone call ...

By Maria Demertzis Brussels has entered pre-election mode, and over the next few months, there will be a lot of talk about the priorities and objectives the new EU leadership ...

Farmers blocked the Dutch-Belgian border on Friday and occupied roads in Greece while their Polish peers announced plans to shut border crossings with Ukraine as protests for fairer prices and ...

Armenia can no longer rely on Russia as its main defence and military partner because Moscow has repeatedly let it down so Yerevan must think about forging closer ties with ...